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and Gordy in the morning.

That's John Peterson.

I'm Gordy Young.

Dom Lee is our producer, and we're continuing our visit here with Tom and Christie Manus.

Six minutes past the hour.

It's going to be gorgeous all day long.

Beautiful sunshine highs in the mid-60s.

So you're going to be here all day.

You're going to take some pictures, right?

Right.

For your next book.

Right, we turned our manuscript in Tuesday.

We've

lost treasures of Wisconsin, which is about things that aren't here anymore, but we all remember.

So we have some photos we need to get.

And then you're going to join us tonight as we fill in for Pete Schwabba Night Lights.

That's at six this evening.

Yeah, so you'll come right back to this studio.

Well,

almost everybody in this town has at least lived in a bar or two.

Any bars or...

Anything like that is

in

Lost Madison or whatever it is in your next book.

Lost Treasures of Wisconsin.

The whole state.

But it is Madison heavy since, you know, Christmas

for Madison.

She has

tons of memories.

Okay,

so that's kind of where you know a lot of people hung out there and we've lost a lot of them We actually featured a whole bunch of them here on the show a few days ago when the church key Said they were gonna close down then change their mind after the outpouring of angry angry people here in Madison Who have you know passed through there and had some fun there?

So

well, there's there's a lot of them.

I'm amazed at the music history

from Madison

when

we were

writing this

next

book,

you know, the

headliners, the people that played at these places.

Well,

Hendricks played here.

I know.

You two, before they were big, they

were in here.

I mean, the list is huge, actually.

I was growing up in the

80s, and I remember with the drinking age being 18, we were able, even if we weren't 18, we could get in all these clubs.

And it really made me think of who did I see

back in that time.

Because they weren't popular.

We have a bar that's kind of interesting.

Oh,

really?

It's up in Spooner.

And go ahead.

So when JFK was touring, not touring.

Touring.

Yeah, touring for

president.

Yeah,

touring for

president.

Yeah,

1860.

He

was campaigning.

He stopped at a bar in Spooner, which is now called Big Dix but corned.

And you know of course has a neon sign and so that that drew our attention, but

okay

But you can you can how can I say this other than you can pee where JFK Pete?

Oh, yes,

and nothing has changed.

Yeah, it's nothing has changed since 1961 Yes,

and the bathroom is I mean and it's I don't need it might have been clean since then

Maybe.

Is there a plaque there?

There is.

Of course.

There is a plaque.

On the door.

Yes.

On the door and... That is so Wisconsin.

Yeah.

He took a break from campaigning,

went in,

took care of business and someone bought him a beer and they have a little case that has memorabilia, including the...

the glass that he used, that he drank out

of and

newspaper articles stuck on the walls.

And it's a dive bar.

I mean, it's a serious dive bar, but it is an experience because it literally don't think it's changed.

And, you know, when you're taking care of business, you're like, wow.

He probably stood here on the same

tile.

I mean, it's worth a drive to Spooner just to do that,

right?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Definitely.

Wow.

That's true.

That's truly amazing.

And I was just noticing how you laid out the book, Historic Wisconsin Roadside.

And the amazing thing is you have towns and cities listed.

And then in each section, you list the places that you went that you were interested in, and it's a where to go list of places in these towns.

This would

be a great book if you're just doing staycations in Wisconsin.

You just pick this, pick a city, and then go to each one of these places that you've selected here and probably talked about.

Well, that's why we

did it.

We wanted to take, you know, the drama and the fear out of getting out and going.

Yeah,

we did it for you.

You just have to look at the book and say, Oh, well, let's stop here.

Let's stop here.

You don't have to do them all.

You can do them all, but you can pick and choose.

And they lean toward what we love.

I mean, because we handpicked every single one, there's there's over 1200 locations.

And we handpicked everyone because it has a tight history.

And also, you know, we love pop culture, so it leans heavy into pop culture and neon sign and the road trip era.

And we wanted to make sure that it's going to be around for a little while because so many places pop up and they close within

a

year.

And we wanted the book to last.

We want people to do things.

Yeah.

So you have two books, really, Secret, Secret, Wisconsin, right?

And the other one, historic Wisconsin road sides.

Right.

Looking in here, you've got Otis Redding's last flight here in Madison, the Black that's at

the

Minona Terrace.

Right.

You've got a story on that.

I kind of do.

Supposedly he traveled with a suitcase full of money.

Because he didn't really believe in

banks.

Right.

And his wife showed up after he died and was more concerned about where that suitcase was.

Well, no kidding.

Wow.

And all the research we've done, nobody ever figured out where it went.

So that's kind of interesting.

Yeah.

And also he was he was, you know, obviously he didn't show up to the concert.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And.

Oh, yeah.

But that, you know, the Grum Reapers were opening for him that night.

Oh,

that's

something.

Which was cheap trick eventually.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Right.

unbelievable.

I

think it'd be neat to go back in time and see all these things that

have happened.

No kidding.

Well, you got two great books here and your website is smalltownplussize.com.

Right, right, right.

Any any other way for people to get to find you?

Oh, definitely.

These books are available on Amazon and everywhere else.

They are.

And

they're also from our publisher, Reedy Press.

And I think they do free shipping.

So that's always a bonus.

And down here in town on the State Street, little luxuries.

And

also Lakeside Books, a couple in town right here for sure.

But you can really get anywhere.

I mean, big bookstores, but we always want you to check out your independent bookstore first.

Yeah.

Because they're our tie to our local community.

Definitely.

Good deal.

Well, thanks for joining us.

We'll see you again tonight, right here.

Same place.

Looking forward to it.

Right.

Same studio.

For Nightlight, as we fill in for Pete Schwab, Tom and Christy Manus.

Thanks for joining us today.

Thanks for having us.

And we'll talk to you again this evening.

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Dom, go right to the phones.

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And let's see who we've got on the line.

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Who's here?

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Hello?

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Hi, you're on with John and Gordy.

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Hi, who's

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Hello listener, can you hear me on your phone?

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tell you why why don't we just why don't you take the calls

all right?

We can't and we'll continue troubleshoot this right now I'm gonna get to the stories or we had a lot of stories man.

Okay.

Oh, okay How about this seven hundred and forty four thousand three hundred job cuts were announced?

by companies in the first half of this year, 744,000 job cuts.

Are you kidding me?

The highest layoffs since the pandemic.

Now that's, you know, a lot of people were off during the pandemic.

Wow.

That's crazy.

And Doge cut 287,000 jobs, add to that.

Microsoft announced 9,000 cuts to jobs.

Eastern and southeastern states saw layoffs of 220% compared to last year.

And get this, and after all of what I've just mentioned here, despite all of that, unemployment is still at a low 4.2%.

How is it?

I

am just...

Those

numbers don't add up.

No, it doesn't add up at all.

I can't believe this.

And not only that, but we have tariffs in place.

Uh-huh.

Yeah,

and prices have not gone through the roof yet.

And not only

that.

Well,

they've edged up.

Now, you would think, yeah, they've edged up and there are some very expensive items out there that are affected by tariffs.

But here's the thing, it hasn't really taken off.

Yeah, we haven't seen inflation take off, right?

And I am stumped by that.

First of all, we got the tariffs to make that leap to become more expensive.

But then,

where the companies, you know, they jumped on the bandwagon of greed-flation when they had a chance to do it.

They have a chance to do it now, but no one is doing it.

They're not doing it.

They're not raising prices or downsizing the boxes of a product that they're putting out.

I don't understand.

I mean, everything is there.

Everything is ripe for these people to make a lot of money and raise the prices and increase inflation.

But it ain't happening.

And I'm a little suspicious.

I'm stumped by this.

I don't get it.

I'm glad.

Don't get me wrong.

I'm glad that this is happening.

But all right, let's get to something so surreal and so ridiculous.

It's just hard to believe.

NASA's acting administrator, Sean Duffy, I can't believe I'm even saying that, says the agency will step back from climate science to focus on space exploration, raising concerns about gaps in climate monitoring and weather forecast.

Duffy posted this under my leadership, which is just mind boggling, we'll restore

NASA's primary mission as space exploration.

We're getting rid of the discriminatory DEI in NASA and the nonsense of climate change, Duffy said.

Now, here's the thing.

How much space exploration are we really doing at this point?

How busy

are we going to

be with space exploration?

We don't have the ships going out to Mars at the end of the universe.

We don't have the spaceships not exploring.

It's all science fiction.

It's a movie.

You might want to go to the theaters and experience space exploration, but you ain't going to get it here on earth because we don't have the technology yet.

Oh my God.

Anyway, you know, NASA has always said that they are there to understand and protect the home planet.

But not according to Duffy.

He's not even familiar with it.

Let's hear cut 187.

This is Sean Duffy.

Okay.

187.

All right.

Listen.

We explore, we explore space.

And so we're going to go to the moon.

We're going to go to Mars.

We're going to look at what do we do with our next low earth orbit space station, right?

Cause the international space station has another several years of life before it comes down.

That's important to us.

But all of the.

All the climate science and all of the other priorities that the last administration had at NASA, we're going to move aside in all of the science that we do is going to be directed towards exploration, which is the mission of NASA.

That's why we have NASA is to explore, not to do all of these earth sciences.

And the mission

was to understand and predict the home planet.

I don't know.

All

right.

They had more of a mission.

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All right, let's check out what's going on in the

weather with Brittany Merleau.

Brittany, what do you got for us?

Brittany, good morning.

And did you like that?

That crisp, cool feel?

I loved it so much yesterday.

It was unbelievable.

It really was.

Yes.

I know.

I was out there, I was hiking.

It felt like fall, you know, windows open in the house,

fresh

breeze.

I

feel like the first time I did that all summer long.

How about you?

I'd same here.

I think we've been breathing the same hot house air for like, you know, three months.

Yeah.

So finally, yes.

We've got a beautiful day going today too.

Yeah.

Oh, sure do.

Right.

Beautiful sunny skies temperatures right now sitting about 50 degrees or so.

Today's highs 67.

So yeah, still about 10 degrees below average breezy still today.

Those winds will start to calm down tomorrow.

We'll still sit about 70 degrees tomorrow.

Nice.

Then we get a little boost up slightly mid 70s on Wednesday.

rain rolls in at night.

Looks like it could be damp on Thursday, which cools us down to about 70 or so again.

So Thursday, Friday, dropping a little cooler, clouds clear again for the weekend.

And we start to warm things up as we cruise into the weekend.

And I mean, we'll be at 80 degrees again by next week.

Oh, cool.

Cool.

We still have time to go out and buy some more brats and grill out.

Right.

Right.

I know it's so weird.

You guys are in short sleeves still and I'm in long sleeves

up here

up north

Well, it's warm in the studio, but you know, we were wore a just a flannel shirt, right?

That's it into work and it was just perfect really really nice outside even though it's kind of cool You know the temperature.

Yeah, but it felt warm.

You know, it's it's it's perfect out there I can't yeah, it's amazing after this summer anything is better than what we've had.

Okay

Agreed.

Oh, great.

All

right.

Brittany, thank you so much.

You're welcome, guys.

Talk to you tomorrow.

That's Brittany Merleau, our WMDX chief meteorologist.

Okay.

Why don't we get to something

that I thought was rather interesting.

This is great news for Desi Lydic.

She's a host on The Daily Show.

Yeah, what's going on with

her?

She does a thing called Fox Splains.

And her...

success with Foxplains is unbelievable.

I mean, she gets about 2 million views on YouTube.

Really?

On Foxplains.

Plus, she's up for two Emmys for the project itself.

My gosh.

So that's how popular Foxplains is by Desi Lydic.

Now, who knew this?

Seth Meyers has corrections.

Jimmy Kimmel has the rabbit hole.

and the Tonight Show has during commercial break.

Every one of them has something like Foxplains.

I did not know that

anyway.

They all got something going on on the

side.

Why don't we listen to Desi Lydic, Foxplains in this particular episode.

Let's check it out.

All right.

Finally, Donald Trump is going to release the F-steam files.

He is the only president with the courage to... Hello?

President said what?

It's like I've always said enough with the Epstein files.

All right, just move on already I've been watching Fox News for 253 hours straight and I'm ready to Foxplain why the Epstein files are a massive scandal that mega patriots everywhere must stand up and stop being interested in.

I know what you're thinking.

A secret of Billionaire's private sex island sounds kind of intriguing.

Wrong.

Are you still talking

about Jeffrey Epstein?

This guy's been talked about for years.

This is old news and not in the fun Benghazi sort of way.

Biden tripped on this

as recently as two years ago.

And what about this salacious scandal?

The auto pen, which is, by the way, I think the biggest scandal.

That's the scandal they should be talking about.

Trump is right.

The auto pen is way more serious than Jeffrey Epstein.

This could be the biggest presidential scandal in modern American history.

In auto

pen, what?

How do we know we can even trust these Epstein files?

These files were made up by Comey.

They were made up by Obama.

They were made up by the Biden.

This nothing burger that you shouldn't be talking about was all concocted by Obama, Biden, Malala.

I think the Queer Eye guys even wrote a chapter.

It's pretty boring stuff.

It's shorted, but it's boring.

Totally shorted, but boring, obscene, but mundane, scandalous, and a total snooze fest, like White Lotus season three.

It's simple, folks.

This has every element of a perfect conspiracy theory.

And starting now, I do not care about it.

Starting now.

See?

I totally couldn't care less.

I don't care.

I don't care.

Shut

up, Devon!

I just want to know who's on the list to show me who's on the list.

Who's on the list!

The files were on Pam Bondi's desk.

And that is fine.

Look, the bottom line is it's over.

And as of now, I'm done talking about Jeffrey Epstein.

Honestly, I'm done talking about Epstein for the time being.

It is in fact time to move on.

They have closed the case.

I'm going to trust my friends in the administration.

I'm going to trust my friends in the government.

The government is our closest friend, much like Jeffrey Epstein's closest friend.

Listen, when someone says case closed, you can't talk about it anymore.

It's like calling shotgun.

It is sacred.

And that is why as of now.

I am forever done talking about Jeffrey Epstein.

Forever.

Done.

Okay, that's it.

That's Desi Lydic from the Daily Show.

Great stuff, funny.

Foxplaining.

After we check in on the Midwest Food and Farm Report, we'll talk to former Madison Mayor Paul Soglin.

Nobody

went BX.

It's John and Gordy in the morning and it is a fantastic day out there right

now.

Yeah, beautiful sunshine all across the area.

Downtown State Street looking bright and sunny.

We'll see sunshine through the day highs in the mid sixties.

Right now 52 degrees.

Time for us to welcome into the show former Madison Mayor Paul Soglin.

Good morning, Paul.

Hi, Paul.

Paul, are you there?

Hello, Paul.

Stand by for Paul Suggland.

Let me call him back.

We'll have

any other problems with the phones.

All right, we'll give him

another call.

In the meantime, we'll give you a chance to call

him back.

I just want to remind everybody we'll be on tonight.

Fill in for Pete Schwabba and

we've

got a whole list of guests and man, a lot of topics that we usually try to slide in here on the program.

Trump always wedges everything out, but we have technology and we have software and we have Hollywood news and movie news.

We're also going to be talking to Todd Alba.

He's going to.

Todd's going to be in tonight.

He's going to be talking about the Brewers and the, and the day for Bob Uker over the weekend.

That was really something.

That's right.

Salute to Uker at AMFAM.

Do we have Paul yet?

We got him, huh?

All right.

Let's go ahead.

Good morning, Paul Soglin.

Are you there?

Good morning.

We're there.

Hey, all right.

There we got you.

Excellent.

Sorry about that.

So last time we were on.

Yeah.

I made a mistake.

Uh-oh.

Oh.

Would

you like to make a correction?

Yeah.

We're talking about the band that Steve Miller and Boss Gags and Ben Sidren played in.

Yes.

Before those other, they all went national.

And I said it was the imitations.

The imitations was a band that played around campus.

A lot of great blues.

And that was later in the 60s.

The

band that we should have named, or I should have identified, was the fabulous Ardells.

So we got to set the record straight.

Yeah, absolutely.

Fabulous Ardells.

I can see why that didn't take off, exactly.

But they played a lot, I'm sure, with Steve Miller Bossgags and Ben Sidrin in the band.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I still like it big.

I really love the first Steve Miller band.

Yeah, I know the early stuff.

Yeah, it's really great.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Brave New World.

Oh, I know.

Fantastic.

Excellent.

My children's children's children.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was another one.

Yeah.

Good.

I'm here.

I got a question for because, you know, we've been kind of following what's going on in D.C.

Trump's takeover of D.C.

And now the big threat of taking over Chicago, Paul, I

wonder, because you've been mayor, you probably know what each and every city can do to prevent something like this from happening.

Please tell me there is a way to prevent this from happening.

Well, the first thing I'd start out with, and I don't know why this hasn't been raised, is nationally, except for the FBI,

law enforcement is to be left to the locals.

And this is something that both conservatives and liberals, progressives have maintained in this country for years, that there was no national police force coming from the federal government.

And I haven't done the research on case law or anything, but that's certainly one thing that

I'd hope an organization like the US Conference of Mayors of the National League of Cities would start working on in collaboration with municipalities like Chicago, Los Angeles.

The other thing that I'd do is I would in effect station my own police officers in places that and take up the space that

Wasn't that that Trump intends to send in these these troops.

Yeah And and and basically make them stand down.

Yep Well, I don't know if you've heard this but the Trump administration in DC officials have reached a settlement a halting the DEA director Terry Cole from taking immediate control of the Metropolitan Police Department there

so DC is always going to be a separate and distinct

situation.

Because of the statutory authority that the federal government has

in

terms of controlling DC.

And the interesting thing is, the founding fathers when they established the District of Columbia did so, so that where the US capital was located, that it would be politically independent.

It's like the great irony of what's happening.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Now it's been taken over by Trump.

Um, you know, why don't we should just make it a state?

Why didn't that happen?

The only reason they don't want to make it a state is because they don't want two senators to be added to the Senate, uh, Democratic senators.

That's it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And just for political purposes.

And they shouldn't be able to get away with that.

It's just for political purposes instead of representation.

They're doing it just for politics.

Yeah.

If I'm not mistaken, I just recently read that DC's population is greater than both Wyoming and Vermont.

Wow.

Okay.

Yeah.

That's a lot of people not being counted.

Let's get back to Chicago for a minute because it sounds like there's some, there's some stories out there that the Pentagon has been helping to plan this.

takeover of Chicago or to bring in the troops for maybe several weeks.

And, you know, why, why Chicago?

Is that because of Governor JB Pritzker possibly being a presidential candidate?

Or is it just that Trump wants to go in there and show he's a tough guy and start going through the streets and rounding up people?

Yeah, his point is to take

over liberal cities.

Yeah.

You know, and that's the whole point is he wants a poster child for a democratic city in a democratic state that he can use to build political sympathy anywhere elsewhere.

He's not going to pick up political sympathy and support in Chicago or in the state of Illinois.

So yeah, my guess is that's why he sees Chicago.

Again, you know, if you look at the data in terms of crime, just as the situation is in DC, Chicago significantly improved.

Right.

Well, you know, the thing is now they're touting the fact that crime is way down, you know, with the Humvees and the soldiers at the National Guard and the police force, all of those things have really kept crime way down.

How nice it is to see all of these law enforcement agents out there.

Business

is way

down now in DC, I understand.

Well,

tourism is way down.

Yeah, no one's walking around the monuments anymore.

Yeah, and that's the challenge.

Do you want to make that kind of a commitment permanent?

Where are you going to get the money?

Commain that number of law enforcement on the streets at any given time plus you combine that with the potential Problem which which is going to happen.

Yeah,

namely If you don't have property properly turned to officers Something's gonna go wrong.

It's just a question of time.

Yeah So turning to local

politics here in Wisconsin.

How do you think this governor's race is shaping up?

Who else is throwing red getting ready to throw their hat in the ring?

Next, you know, I am so far out of it these days in terms of the inside game.

Yeah,

yeah.

You know, I would think that that Josh call will determine general.

All right, we got the

Secretary of State, we got Lieutenant Governor.

I really don't know the players on the

Republican side,

Republican side.

Exactly.

Yeah.

So that, those all offer up a challenge.

My big concern about this is how are they going to launch a campaign?

that gets them through a primary and at least on the Democratic side, which is where I planned, obviously, is get them through the general election.

And here's how I think is the challenge.

To get through the primary, I believe most of these candidates are going to run on an anti-Trump platform and how they're going to

protect us from Trump's follies, his stupidity, his danger.

But they can't do it in just the way I described it.

Because I don't think an anti-Trump campaign is going to win the general election.

Not when the key swing voters are the people who move back and forth.

between Republican and the Democratic column.

And in the last election here in the state, the presidential election, there's that key five, six, seven percent.

They voted for Trump.

They invoked for Harris.

And so that's going to be the big challenge.

Well, you know, we got to figure in healthcare too, because at the end of the year, the ACA,

Obamacare is going to lose some of the subsidies that were put in place during COVID and a lot of people's premiums are going to go right through the roof.

And there'll be a lot of people who are going to be very angry at the tax cuts that Trump put in place and allowed something like this to happen.

Even though they've delayed the Medicaid cuts till after the next election.

So it doesn't impact a lot of people, but people I think

what you

yeah.

The way you've described it is the way it has to be approached.

In other words, I'm not here to bash Trump.

What I'm here to do is to protect your health care.

I'm the candidate who's going to protect your health care and then describe it in those terms and juxtapose it as to what the impact is and will be of the Trump assault on our, again, don't describe it the way I am.

but describe it as how you would positively fix this problem.

And the same thing is true in terms of agricultural policy.

Between the tariffs and the ice raids, those are real dangers to Wisconsin agriculture and to a considerable part of our state's population that voted for Trump.

Well, I know, you know, I've been trying to get the Democrats to pick up the mantle of health care for all.

I wish they would do it.

So at least, you know, we're ahead of the game here instead of waiting to react to the health care premium increases.

See, that's that's the problem.

We should be out there on the offense instead of playing defense all the time.

I just saw a chart comparing life expectancy.

Going back 50 years ago and to the present time and where 50 years ago the US had one of the 10 best ratings in terms of life expectancy I don't think we've been in the top 50 anymore.

Yeah, that's scary stuff.

I'm

pretty

sure

we aren't

Paul, we got to leave it there.

Thank you for joining us.

We'll talk to you again soon.

All

right.

Take care,

guys.

That's former Madison Mayor Paul Soglin, 748, back to wrap things up in just a moment.

John and Gordy.

A little Bob Uker.

Oh, yeah.

Coming

up.

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WMDX is John and Gordy and we've got a little story here on Bob Uker because yesterday the Brewers celebrated and dedicated that day to Bob

Uker.

Yeah, they had big ceremonies and they had Bob Costas was there talking to Robin Yount and some of the other Brewer Faithful were there.

It was quite a day, quite a day remembering Bob Uker.

And

my my mega friend in Milwaukee.

Yeah, he's a hairstylist and he used to cut the hair of the Brewers way back in yonks day.

Really?

Yeah.

I noticed Robin Yonks let it grow out a little bit.

Yeah, he was a little hairy wasn't he?

Well, now he's a lot airier.

A

lot airier.

The Brewers released this this post on X. I thought I played for everybody here.

Let's listen.

All right.

To

me Bob Euker just symbolizes the joy of summer.

Sitting on our front porch and bringing up a little transistor radio and dialing up the old AM station.

83 beautiful degrees of game time going.

Here it is.

Strike called and we are underway.

Cookin' out brought some hamburgers with family and friends, just always on in the background and became a familiar part of the family.

Swingin' a line here, Bayes set them off the Neuronauts!

Summer's out fishing and there's my dad and there's Bob on the radio callin' the

game.

Hey, strike him out!

His

old side stories that he would go on that's where the magic was

if you didn't enjoy baseball then you didn't like sliced bread either Brewer's head for Arizona on their up-and-coming trip out there You can hold a hot dog out your car when doing cooking can't hit a curve ball with four baseball bats in the tennis racket, too

All you got to do is turn the dial on you curve was always there through the radio I felt I was literally there throw it out motion to passion excitement in the

cold

Listen everybody Thanks for being Brewer fans And we'll get together again

There it is little Brewer tribute there and a couple of nights ago and it wriggly feel they also Tribute had a tribute to

Bob Euker.

Yeah, they had him singing the seventh inning, seventh inning stretch along there at Wrigley.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was, you know, if you ever want to go down the rabbit hole with Bob Euker, just go to YouTube and go, you know, to the Johnny Carson, Johnny Carson and Bob Euker.

Yeah.

I mean, it was a regular guest.

You loved him.

Yeah.

Carson was a big fan and I think he had him on the Tonight Show more than any other guest over the years.

Amazing stuff.

And quite a day at Ampham Field.

Great stuff.

Yeah.

We're going to have more Brewer tickets to give away tomorrow too.

In fact, all this week we've got Brewer tickets to the Phillies game coming up and yeah.

So

I want to kind of couple of minutes left.

Continue here.

You know, we talked about how NASA is going to get rid of put on the back burner climate science so they can explore space.

Again, you know, we don't have the rocket ships to do that.

But OK, I just want to get into what NASA is all about.

It says here, NASA's Earth observation satellites aren't optional.

They provide weather data the military needs for operations, farmers need for crops, and emergency responders need for disasters.

Shutting down climate monitoring could cripple national infrastructure and national security.

The 1958 Space Act explicitly mandates NASA study Earth's

atmosphere.

It's been a core mission for the last 67 years.

Earth science is less than 10% of NASA's budget and the technology directly supports Mars and lunar missions as well.

So there you go.

Put that on the back burner, huh?

Boy.

That's what they want to do.

It's Sean Duffy

from

Wisconsin.

Why are we a participant in this again?

Oh my God, please.

How many jobs does he have now?

with the administration.

Well, I don't know, but you know what?

Scott NASA.

No one made a

big deal about Sean Duffy not making it over to the railroad disasters.

Yeah.

Right?

The derailments that went on across Texas, and I can't remember the Missouri or wherever.

There were derailments.

No one ever said, well, he never showed up like they did to our

friend

Pete Buttigieg.

Right.

Yeah, they were all over his case.

Yeah, and he didn't make it there in time.

He didn't make it in time.

Yeah.

But Sean Duffy's done none of

that.

He's done none of that and no one's ever said anything about it.

So it really wasn't a big deal.

It

was just another gotcha by the right wing.

Oh my god.

Yeah.

Okay.

What?

A couple of minutes left here.

When I mention again, we're going to be on Pete Schwab's show tonight.

We're going to be hosting for Pete.

Pete is away on vacation or somewhere.

We know where Pete went.

I have no idea what he's doing.

I have no idea where Pete went.

I don't know.

He just disappeared.

We'll try to find out.

That's fine.

That's fine.