Wisconsin from Civic Media.
This is Up North News Radio.
Now, live from our late Minnesota studio, here's the founding editor of Up North News, Pat Breidler.
Well, hey there, Wisconsin.
Good morning.
It is 6 0 6 on this Wednesday morning, March 5th, 2025, 3 5 25 in the checkbooks.
And it's a no, no, I'm not going to do it today.
It's not a beautiful day.
I mean, on the inside, it's always a beautiful day to have you here up north live from Lake Rosetta.
But no, it's it's gross out there.
It's ishy.
It's wet.
It's cold.
It's snowy.
And it's also dangerous, quite frankly.
Please be careful if you're not just driving outside, walking outside, anything that you might have to do.
Look, this is all going to get past us.
Spring is right around the corner.
It's just not today.
So take it easy out there.
I'll give you more about the Wisconsin forecast coming up in just a bit, but we are happy to have you here across the Civic Media Radio Network or listening on the app, watching us on Facebook or YouTube or catching us later by podcast.
It's nice to have you along to get the day started here on Upkorn News Radio.
My question for you is pretty simple.
Can this country get through another 1,417 days with this guy as president?
Probably can.
Probably.
Not that there won't be pain.
Not that there won't be pain.
But I'm going to try to put in perspective as briefly as possible.
President Trump's so-called address to a joint session of Congress yesterday.
So that's coming up in just a bit.
Coming up on the program, Congressman Mark Polkhan will be here around 7.30 with his own take.
I saw that he was in the chamber there last night.
and he'll give us a reaction to Trump's promise of continued carnage for the American economy.
We have our climate check coming up this hour with Melissa Baldoff.
We'll be talking about cuts at NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, the parent company of the National Weather Service, and I think I'm able to encapsulate what it is that Trump is doing with the cuts there.
It's basically somebody who's putting his fingers in his ears and saying la la la la about the harm that is going to be done to the climate if he reverses a lot of the progress that we've made over the past several years.
In our second hour, we will also have three guests from two different school districts talking to us about all the many referendums that will be on the ballot again across Wisconsin on April 1st.
And we will remind you yet again that the reason we are in this position is that Republicans have led the legislature for 15 years now, just about.
And each year, each budget cycle, the increase that they provide in state aid doesn't keep up with inflation.
So that's 16 years of falling farther and farther behind and asking
property taxpayers to make up the difference.
And so each time these school districts have to make the case to voters saying the legislature is not doing their share.
Would you please do that?
Would you make up what these politicians aren't doing and try to get the voters not to punish the school district for the shortcomings and the laziness of the legislature?
So we'll talk to folks from Prentice and Marinette coming up in our second hour.
We'll talk to Todd Alba.
We should be visiting with Melissa Kay from WFHR radio in today's history lesson and of course We'll have Greg Bach right after I tell you a bit about the the weather for today Brittany statewide forecast says windy with whiteout conditions today Take that seriously temperatures will fall below freezing through the day Anything that is simply wet right now will turn to ice
today highs will be in the mid 20s up north mid 30s in the south a north wind today at sustained 20 to 30 miles an hour with gusts to 45 miles an hour tonight blustery some flurries early out east and then clearing skies still cold all around the state tonight one more time
Lowes near 10 up north, 20 in the south.
Northwest wind tonight at 20 to 30 miles an hour with gusts to 40 miles an hour.
And then come Thursday begins the warmup.
So there will be some good news and meteorologist Brittany Merlot will tell us all about that coming up about one hour from now.
This morning it's 30 right now in Chippewa Falls.
Hayward's at 26, Amory 28, Wausau 34.
Wisconsin Rapids reporting 36 right now.
It's 34 in La Crosse, 38 in Green Bay, 41 in Madison, 41 in Milwaukee, and it's 42 degrees at Radio Park in Racine, where Mr. Bach joins us now from what I assume is just a, yes, again, tropical, wet and tropical before things freeze later on.
Mr. Bach, how are you?
I'm doing okay, Pat.
Just grand.
This is, this is, this is where we are, folks.
And
I'm going to say over and over again that we're not going to shelter you from, you know, the news and the weather and everything else.
We'll, we'll get, but we will give you moments of, uh, what do we call it?
Lightness.
Levity,
levity, comradery, all the, all the good things.
that we could use, then that we can give to one another.
I've heard other show hosts say this.
It's like, look, we're all going through this.
I know as much as I try to be above the national malaise out there, that when Friday hit last week, and we were going to go visit Sherry's parents on the farm out in Manitowoc County.
And I thought, well, I could stay behind to get, you know, get some work done, get caught up on things.
No, no, no, no.
I, I went out there and while Sherry played sheep's head with her parents and her siblings at the dining table, I collapsed into a recliner and did absolutely nothing.
I went on a full news blackout, which is exactly what you need to, you need to take a break now and then.
And although I will again say conversely.
It's also wrong to tune it all out entirely.
Permanently.
You can't just be, oh, I'm never going to watch the news ever again.
Can't do that either.
Find your balance.
Yeah, that's the thing that, you know, we talk about a matinee around there, money through Friday to 10 a.m., no new non-specific media radio network.
We talk about a matinee around there is that in the last half hour of the show, we changed the tone.
because if we just did two hours of everything that's in the news, that would just not be, and we've had people say to us, no, you gotta report all the news, like, nope.
Because no matter how bad we think it may get in the next four years, you will laugh in the next four years.
You
will
have fun, you will connect, you will have moments of levity.
So
if we can provide that for...
two segments on our show where you're going to laugh a little.
That's great for us.
Yes.
I mean, that and it's the thing that we enjoy doing.
We really do.
And so we'll we'll keep that up.
We'll keep reminding you of some of the better parts of living in Wisconsin.
You know, Christina Laurie does that through our morning newsletter at UpNorthNewsWI.com, for example.
And so we we just
Let everybody know just
ride
with us go on the ride with us.
It's
it's it's not the ride We necessarily wanted and it's not a ride that won't have its hazards, but come along with us.
Yeah
Speaking of said newsletter Christina put together this morning's edition again.
You can sign up at up earth news wi.com She's noting women's history month and is celebrating Wisconsin Trail Blazers all throughout the month Today stories all about Shirley Abramson
Wisconsin's 25th Chief Justice and the first woman to serve on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
So look for that.
There is also a new nine foot sculpture in La Crosse called The Hatched Baby.
It's a big blue baby emerging from an egg.
Not exactly the giant musky and hayward, but you know, unique in its own way.
And then again, one more story from her.
She talks about
you know, the air traffic controllers and sometimes a very thankless job, but she reminds us of just how safe air travel is when our air traffic controllers are allowed to do their job and to do it well.
So again, sign up for that over at UpNorthNewsWI.com.
We also have a weekend newsletter edition.
It comes out on Sunday mornings that we just got started and it includes a
Question of the week that I put together the Sunday morning one is is strictly political news So we we try not to overdo it on political news in the weekday newsletter, but the weekends we kind of give a little wrap up and I see the the responses are still coming into our question of the week of what should be done with the the cuts the wrecking ball that Donald Trump and Elon Musk are taking to government right now
And I really appreciate that.
I mean, most folks don't have to take the time to send in an email.
Now, granted, some of the emails that come in, you know, will say you're a socialist and other nasty things, but so many other folks.
put some real thought into sending a note back saying, I choose option C, you know, that there should be a bipartisan commission on spending cuts because of X, Y, and Z. Or they'll send in, you know, I choose A, keep rolling because I support Trump and this is what I wanted to see happen.
Granted, a lot of this week's answers have been D, Trump needs to stop and pull back.
He's doing tremendous damage and needs to reinstate some folks.
That's not a big surprise to me, putting together the newsletter that I do.
But again, I get the well-rounded range of answers from folks.
And that part is, again, greatly appreciated.
So sign up for that newsletter and give us your feedback on it as well.
Let's do a little sports at 617 from the Packers Front.
Kicker Brandon McManus is going to be staying with the team, a three-year deal, $15 million.
That's right Greg.
I did the math five million dollars a year for three years 15 million total to be a kicker Yeah, good work if you can get it.
Yeah, right
New York Jets have released Devonte Adams after just 11 games Let the speculation begin for the box.
Yannis had his seventh triple double
of the season against the Atlanta Hawks last night.
They had 26 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists as the Bucks beat the Atlanta Hawks 127-121.
Damian Lillard scored 23.
The Bucks have won three in a row, seven of their last eight.
They remain in fourth place in the Eastern Conference behind Cleveland and Boston and the New York Knicks.
There is basketball tonight on the Civic Media Radio Network as the Badger Men's basketball team takes on the Minnesota Golden Gophers in the Twin Cities.
Coverage begins at 630.
on stations in Amory, Rapids, Racine, Kenosha and Richland Center and on the Civic Media app as well.
The Marquette men's basketball team is at Yukon tonight.
Then both men's basketball teams have one more game to play this weekend before they begin their respective conference tournaments in the Big East and in the Big Ten.
The Badger women's hockey team continues their conference tournament Friday up in Duluth and the Badger men's hockey team heads to Ohio State Friday, Saturday.
potentially Sunday for the Big Ten tournament there.
We'll get into the Donald Trump speech and the real significance behind it right after this.
You're up north.
All right, first things first.
Before I apologize for this earworm, let me apologize for yesterday's earworm, because from time to time yesterday, that Martika song, Toy Soldiers, that we played 24 hours ago right now.
It's just like, I made it, but I got to apologize to the listeners.
That thing just gets in there.
It's like, ugh.
So how do I show my apology?
I play Andy Gibb.
Don't need to apologize to me.
He's part of today's history lesson coming up in about 30 minutes here on Up North News Radio on this Wednesday morning, March the 5th.
We have a live event coming up one week from today down in Madison.
We will be talking about the state Supreme Court race with three different panel discussions, each one a little, you know, 20 minutes or so, 20 to 30 minutes about the economy.
about reproductive rights, about education.
Because in all three areas, the outcome of the April 1st election will have tremendous implications in all three areas, because this is an open seat.
And if Judge Susan Crawford wins, then progressives will maintain control.
If Brad Schimmel wins, conservatives will retake control.
And we'll pull the court in a much different direction in those areas.
And so, oh, we've got some great panelists on each of those topic areas who are going to be joining us.
And we'd love to have you do the same.
If you want to catch it in person at the Overture Center there in downtown Madison next week, the 12th from five to seven p.m.
Head over to UpNorthNewsWI.com slash Supreme.
and register to join us there.
But I'm also happy to tell you that there will be a live stream option and the good folks at the Civic Media Radio Network will be providing coverage of it as well.
So details on that all to come for a big event one week from today for the Wisconsin Supreme Court forum brought to you by Up North News and carried by our friends at Civic Media.
While we are talking about the Wisconsin Supreme Court, I'm, I'm just going to take a little bit of, I don't know, of delight is the right answer.
Um, Michael, the former Supreme Court justice, uh, big time conservative to the point where.
When he was asked to quote-unquote investigate the 2020 presidential election He got nothing done.
He found nothing and he cost you the wisconsin taxpayers millions of dollars and Made all kinds of mistakes to the point where he has been hauled before a state disciplinary board Well now cableman is refusing to testify
before that state disciplinary board, a legend that he violated rules governing attorney behavior.
As first reported by WIS Politics and also by the Journal Sentinel, the Office of Lawyer Regulation filed a motion Friday compelling Gabelman to sit for a deposition in two weeks after Gabelman canceled with short notice on a previously agreed upon meeting in February.
instead of seeking some kind of an order to limit or stop it, Gabelman simply had his attorney send an email saying he wouldn't attend because of Fifth Amendment concerns.
That's not how it works, although that's not the first time Michael Gabelman has ever heard that line when it comes to his legal career.
So again, a former state Supreme Court justice who threatened to jail
local officials who would refuse and come talk to him during his investigation, quote unquote, into the election, is now refusing to give a deposition himself.
Never change, Michael Gableman.
Well, history was made at the U.S.
Capitol Tuesday night, the first address to a joint session of Congress by a convicted criminal.
President Trump returned to the scene of the January 6th crime, triumphant.
at having won an election by promising lower prices and stability.
In his speech, he outlined his plans for higher prices and even more instability.
I'm not going to go through point by point everything that he got wrong, the falsehoods, the baseless bragging, taking credit,
for things that got done under Joe Biden, the endless insults, ducking of any responsibility for the harm that he's causing others, the gratuitous use of violence for cheap applause lines so that J.D.
Vance and Mike Johnson, who were much more reminiscent of Beavis and Butthead, could giggle in the background.
How things have changed from how it once looked when the vice president sitting back there was Kamala Harris and the Speaker of the House was Nancy Pelosi and now we've got these two jokers sitting back there Rather than focus on the speech because it was a speech everybody has heard snippets of before There were the you know the false claims about having a mandate when it was actually one of the closest elections ever Again you can look at
more than one fact-checker out there.
I want to just focus for a moment here on what Democrats did or were supposed to do.
Because there's been a lot of discussion about that.
Should they attend?
Should they not attend?
Should they disrupt?
Or should they just sit there silently but still represent the people?
Should there be signs?
Some of them had little signs along with them.
Should they skip it entirely and engage in some counter-programming?
There isn't any one right answer and people did what they thought they had to do.
One Democratic member quite purposely got himself thrown out while others, you know, left part way through.
The thing is, the more I thought about it and the more it seemed like this was just a standard Trump campaign address to all the frat boys that were applauding him in Congress and it's a real comment on the state of Congress today that it's got this frat boy feel to it these days.
But it occurs to me that the one takeaway from all of this is that it's now part of American political theater and it's almost like it's the final chapter in the campaign.
In a presidential campaign, you've got these big rallies and you've got these long speeches and you're giving these speeches to your own supporters by and large.
And it seems like somebody wrote a rule and the rule says, well, if you win,
the winner gets to give his campaign speech or her gives to give their campaign speech one more time in front of America and the losing party has to just sit there.
And that's the way that I choose to look at it.
There are plenty of other opportunities to protest and to oppose and to obstruct.
But in this case, it was all right, you won the election, you get to deliver your campaign speech in front of the people that you beat.
And nobody's going to remember anything after that.
This day will be forgotten.
There are much more substantive things in which this nation has to carry on.
Melissa Baldoff is next.
You're up north.
And welcome back.
This is a climate check on this Wednesday morning here on Up North News Radio.
Melissa Baldoff is with us as she is every week.
Melissa, hello.
How are you?
dear.
You know, I'm I'm just going to assume you.
You watched nearly none of the president's speech last night.
So I'm assuming that's kind of a rhetorical question based on other actions.
And we're going to talk a bit about that throughout the course of the next few minutes here.
But yeah, how are we is definitely a fair question pretty much every day now, isn't it?
We are.
So let's start with the not so nice news, but then we've got at least one nice development in Wisconsin to talk about in a bit.
But let's start with a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article from Caitlin Luby from last week, simple headline, 800 federal workers fired at NOAA, which impacts weather forecasts.
and Great Lakes Science.
Now, NOAA is the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration.
It's the parent agency of the National Weather Service.
NOAA conducts research and monitoring.
It informs forecasts.
They study the Great Lakes.
They manage the National Marine Sanctuary System, including three in the Great Lakes that protect biodiversity and shipwrecks.
Gosh, Melissa, what a complete fraudulent waste of money that is, right?
forecasting the weather and studying the Great Lakes?
And you know, this is one of those things where your listeners might recall us talking about this as a potential disaster in waiting.
Something that the Trump administration might do.
This is something that was in
project 2025, the very project 2025 that definitely wasn't going to happen and definitely wasn't Trump's plan.
Yeah, no idea what it
was.
No idea what it was.
And yet here we are that this is this is what we're faced with with this, you know, very important agency that does work that keeps people safe.
really touches and benefits everybody is going to have these drastic cuts that are going to really impact a lot of folks and leave us with a lot less time to prepare for disasters.
Isn't it kind of a shoot the messenger thing that obviously this is a guy who does not care about the climate, certainly does not care about the future.
He is very much in the extraction business.
In other words, get everything you can and hope that your kids and grandkids just figure it out.
And so if you don't want to be warned about hazards to the climate, well, then get rid of some of the people who, as Caitlin notes in her story, keep track of the sky, the oceans,
the fisheries, the atmosphere, and she notes that deep cuts could slow the long-term weather and climate monitoring and leave Americans with less time to prepare for extreme weather, natural disasters, and put cultural resources and biodiversity at risk.
I don't have a better potential explanation for it because it's clear that this isn't something where people were sitting around playing part cheesy all day.
and wasting taxpayer resources.
a shoot the messenger on climate explanation is the only one that seems to make sense for me.
Well, I mean, it's, you know, it's the kind of thing where when you've got these guys who for one, for whatever reason, don't believe the science and don't want to accept the reality of the fact that these natural disasters are being made
significantly worse by climate change.
And then you've got rich, these out of touch billionaires who don't feel the harm the same way that working class families do.
Do you think that Elon Musk is gonna suffer if a hurricane wipes out his home or if a tornado wipes out his home?
He's not.
He's gonna be fine.
because he's probably got 20 more houses he could live in.
It's not the same as somebody who has worked their whole life to have a place to live and who loses it to a tornado or is unable to work for three weeks because...
there's a flood in their small business and they're not able to keep the doors open.
So when it doesn't impact these guys because they don't understand the reality that most Americans are facing, you know, they just can't, they just can't relate.
Well, that's what gets us back to this notion that we talked about during the Biden administration of something called environmental justice.
Now, I get it.
just that that phrase alone seems to be triggering to the far right that it's some kind of you know woke term.
It's very easy to understand and Melissa you set it up so well.
Elon Musk can can
buy another house on the spot and pay cash all the way and What you had instead was a growing awareness that when you plan for things Anything that could have an impact on the climate your infrastructure power plants, whatever the case might be you make sure that it's not going to harm
the populations that always seem to get harmed first when there is some kind of weather or environmental disaster.
But again, in the notion of we must defeat wokeism in the same way that we must defeat the scientists that tell us about the climate, there isn't any rational explanation that would be behind this.
And along with everything else that we've talked about already, it also tracks geomagnetic storms that interfere with telecommunications and the power grid.
Melissa, for a guy that I often liken to, well, both Trump and Musk, I liken to, you know, movie supervillains.
I mean, we're literally setting up the prospect that we have all this
interference in the internet and in the power grid and everything.
And when Trump says, well, where's this coming from?
People are gonna say, well, you fired the people that could have told us this was coming.
That's absolutely correct.
And, you know, when this first happened, I remembered back to being a kid growing up in Florida and in elementary school.
during hurricane season, so probably like September, October, we would have a lesson in science class where we would get, there would always be something in the newspaper, and like the meteorologists, they would do, they would have a map, right, when there was about to be hurricane coming, and we would learn how to plot on a map the different possible paths.
And all the people in Florida,
And Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas, and Mississippi, and Louisiana, they're going to have to learn how to do that again.
So I hope they remembered.
It's terrifying to think that folks who are going to have a hurricane headed their way aren't going to know exactly where it's come in and how they're going to get out safely.
And to think about the communications not being
secure and safe and accurate when we have other disasters coming through.
So, um, yeah, this is, uh, this one's a real, um, just, I really don't get it.
It is, is truly a headscratcher here.
And again, not a waste of money.
We can give you plenty of examples of actual wasted money.
tax cuts for billionaires kind of come to mind.
So let's pivot here into some better news.
We have the latest example of how a school district in Wisconsin has done a major energy upgrade thanks to Focus on Energy.
They're going to save a lot of money and that means that the taxpayers are going to save a lot of money.
Melissa Oscio Fairchild is just the latest instance where
focus on energy makes a real tangible difference in Wisconsin.
I love seeing reports about our schools making these investments in, you know, clean energy technology.
They are finding out that these projects are not only achievable
and accessible, but they are going to save money and be incredibly efficient.
And this is really cool.
It's a game changer for these school districts.
So like you said, the Osio Fairchild School District, working with Focus on Energy, they replaced the Chiller.
in the middle and high school with a high efficiency model.
And their outdoor lighting, including a parking lot fixtures, they all upgraded to LED lights, which save energy.
So said that they have saved about $27,000 or they got $27,000 in energy efficiency incentives.
And they're going to save a whole lot of money on
their energy costs as well.
Yeah I mean just in in August alone when this was getting going the monthly bill for the middle and high school fell by more than $3,000 another $1,100 at the elementary school that's money that could then be reinvested in maintenance and other facilities advancements which again create more value for the district and if you're saving money for the school district that's those are costs that then don't
have to get passed along to the taxpayers through the levy.
So when we talk about the Trump administration's, you know, war on green energy and trying to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act and all the tax credits that go along with it, make no mistake, this can do some real harm or prevent a lot of good, but focus on energy was around
well before, you know, the the Trumpers came around and there are still going to be state and local incentives or progress made on embracing green energy.
And, you know, it's just important for for folks to remember that, you know, as much as, you know, we know that the Trump administration is, you know, trying to, you know, take an axe to a lot of the
Inflation Reduction Act and the Biden era progress that we made there are still programs there in place You know some at the state level at the local level even some of the Inflation Reduction Act programming like direct pay which allows for tax rebates That program very much still intact.
You know, there are still a lot of great ways that people can take and you know
individuals, businesses, nonprofit entities can still take advantage of incentives from state and federal and local government, from philanthropy, to make some of these projects more affordable.
And, you know, these projects are going to save money.
in the long run, too.
So it's going to be a good investment no matter what.
And there are still ways to make some of these projects more affordable.
So I would definitely encourage anyone who's listening to check out Focus on Energy.
We have an incredible resource in Focus on Energy in Wisconsin.
We have, I would say, we always want to brag on our Wisconsin programs, but we really do have
the best program out of all of the energy programs across the country.
That is how we were able to get our home energy rebates up and running first in the country when they launched last year is because we have such a well-run program here in Wisconsin.
And anyone who is interested in how they can get rebates for their home, for projects that they're thinking about for their business.
they should really check out Focus on Energy and see what's available because there are still programs that are available.
And finally, just very quickly a note again that Melissa's part of the panel event that we're having next week about the Wisconsin Supreme Court race.
And yes, climate and jobs will be a part of it.
Melissa, I sense you and I are going to have a lot to talk about next week on the whole notion of what if the Wisconsin Supreme Court once again becomes a subsidiary of Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce.
That would have a real impact on our clean energy progress in the state.
state.
We're going to have to talk all about that at the Overture Center next Wednesday evening, starting in the five o'clock hour.
Melissa will be there along with a whole bunch of other panelists to discuss the ramifications.
Love getting out to vote for that state Supreme Court race on April 1st.
Melissa Baldoff.
Thank you for this week's climate check.
Have a great day.
We will have today's history lesson up next.
You're up
So
one of the more unusual songs of the 1980s from Murray Head who was born 79 years ago with One Night in Bangkok never thought you'd hear a top 40 hit about a chess tournament.
But now you have.
This is such a good song.?
I know, I love it.
I love this song.
I
love it too.
It's just so different.
All right, I'm going to make the most of this song in the world today.
I'm going to play synthesize on.
See, he knows the secret formula for success.
Melissa K is here from WFHR in beautiful Wisconsin Rapids and also from 1055 WIRI.
How are you, Melissa?
Good morning.?
I am fabulous.?
She is lying.
Wow.
A scarf wouldn't do it today, guys.?
I had to go full hoodie.?
Oh, you do have a hoodie on, don't
you??
I?
do.
Look at that.
Rocking it.
That Jedi look almost like she just...
Melissa's under the weather is what we're trying to say folks.
And she is, she is being a gamer.
She is pushing right through.
So
American?
of me.
We appreciate it.
Uh, so we did ask Melissa.
Well, as, as always, when you're here each week to talk about the fine programming at 97.5 W F H R and one of five, five W I R I, uh, anything to talk about at the stations.
And in one word it is sports, sports and snow.
Okay, two words.
Two words in snow.
That's words.?
That's three words.
A lot of high school sports
action.?
And actually, it's state powerlifting this weekend coming up this weekend.?
And one of our reporters, Laura Berg, has been following powerlifting.?
She's had a number of wonderful articles like outlining and explaining what powerlifting is.?
And for sports, I don't know what you would call me, idiot.?
that really is very helpful.?
Well, I don't, I can play sports.?
I don't follow sports.?
I don't watch sports.?
I play that.?
We?
understand.
Yeah, but sports, idiot, just as a little, that's a little harsh on yourself.
I don't enjoy that.
So, sports.
Okay.
You're not as adept at sports as others.
You're on this.?
How about that??
No,?
no, no,
no.
All right.
Not any better.
Moving on to today's history lesson.
Another birthday today from another 80s artist.
Eddie Grant is 77 years old today.
A lot of unusual songs in the 80s.
Yeah.?
You get?
me pumped up.
Yep.
On this day in 1946, Winston Churchill coined the phrase Iron Curtain in a speech in Missouri about the Soviet Union.
The Boston Massacre was held this day in 1775.
Americans shot and killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War five years later.
Let's see, that's enough 80s.
Let's get a little bit of a 70s in here.
Barbara Streisand had a song that went number one this day in 1977 from a movie she starred in.
Why'd you put me to sleep, Pat??
This is so the opposite of Electric Avenue.
For?
those folks who saw a star as born with
Uh, lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper.
Yeah.
Uh, there were other versions and this was the 1976 version with Barbara Streisand and Chris Christofferson.
That
was the fourth version, by the way.
Yes.
Yeah.
I did not know that.?
Yes.
There's been multiple versions of this going way back.
Yeah.
Check your encyclopedia Britannica kids.
Uh,
ask your me mom about encyclopedia Britannica kids.
Yep.
Now we've reached the sad part of the segment with artists who were gone much too soon Tina Marie was born this day in 1956
And I believe it when she says it
Yes, she had lover girl and passed away in 2010 at the age of 54 Patsy Klein was killed in an airplane crash this day in 1963.
She was just 30 years old
And we played Andy Gibb earlier.
He was born this day in 1958.
So on what should have been his 27th birthday, we have to note that he passed away in 1988, also at the age of 30.
And one more.
John Belushi was found dead of a drug overdose in his
bungalow.
What are you doing to me?
This day in 1982 at the age of 33.
Nice.
Yeah.
Let me know
if you're just 30s.?
Oh, did I say one more?
I was wrong.
There's one more after this.
First, we have to tell you that on this day in 1983, Michael Jackson had the number one hit in the country.
And here comes hat
to DeBrasio.
To tell you, this was 1983, but on this day in 2009, Michael Jackson announced a series of concerts to be held in London.
This is it series.
The show's quickly sold out, but Michael Jackson would die before the tour could begin.
This is, okay, this is Ash Wednesday.
Oh, that's right.
That's very serious.
But this is also, who made this up?
You're familiar with Cinco de Mayo.
Today's the fifth of March.
It's also Cinco de Marcho.
No, no, you don't get to do it twice.
You wait till May.
First of all, it's some guy named Ted in accounting who's just like, I wasn't trying to be funny.
It got way out of hand, and I don't know how it happened.
Well, it's got to be a holiday.
Everybody
jumped on it.?
I don't
know.?
This is a national absinthe day.
And if you haven't had the worst hangover of your life from it, don't start now, kids.
This is equal payday.
This is national cheese doodles day.
This is real film day, R E E L, like when film was on reels and not all digitized like it is now.
And this is Information Architecture Day, which is all about the people who take all the data on our computers and in our databases on the interwebs and make it easy to find.
which we need an appreciation day like that because there are plenty of other places where information is not set up very properly in our computers and our databases.
So folks who do a good job at it, thank you.
Thank you.
Melissa Kay, you do a good job.
So, so well, so often forced in Wisconsin Rapids.
Thank you for soldiering on.
We appreciate
it.?
Thanks,?
Pat.