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Now, live from our Lake Wissota studio, here's the founding editor of Up North News, Pat Breitler.
Well, hey there, Wisconsin.
Good morning.
It is 6.06 on this Thursday morning, March 6, 2025.
It's another beautiful day to have you here up north.
Live from Lake Wissota, from wherever you're listening across the Civic Media Radio Network or listening on the app or by podcast or on social media, we appreciate you getting your day started right here.
I've got a question for you.
Would it surprise you to learn that Elon Musk, the guy who single-handedly turned Twitter from a mainstream information source into a Nazi-friendly dumpster fire, is now pouring money into deceptive ads for Wisconsin's Supreme Court elections?
We'll give you an update on that coming up ahead on the program today.
Also, we'll talk to Joseph Peckie.
Here is a useful little tool we never thought we would need in the United States, something called a health care sabotage tracker.
That tracker is the growing list of ways that the new administration has already started having negative impacts on health care for every American.
Joe will tell us how the group protect our care as keeping politicians accountable for sacrificing your health to pay for billionaires tax cuts.
We'll have details on how veterans in Wisconsin and across the country are peoed at the president about the mass firings and that there are many more firings of veterans still to come at the veterans administration and throughout the government.
In our second hour, imagine growing up in Hudson, Wisconsin, starting a financial career and rising to become one of Wall Street's trusted voices.
on fraud and money laundering and compliance with international banking rules.
His name is Sean O'Malley.
He has an experienced insider's view of how the dots are connected between global finance and the White House.
And he tells us about the real impact of moves like imposing tariffs, ending aid to Ukraine, coddling Russian oligarchs, and how that plays on Wall Street.
We'll also get updates from State Senator Latanya Johnson of the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee and first term Assembly Representative Russell Goodwin.
We'll have meteorologist Brittany Merlot in here as well and Luke Mathers before things are all done so just a busy, busy show that we have for you on this Thursday morning and I appreciate you being here to be a part of it.
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Well, after a foot of snow hit Baldwin yesterday, temperatures are going to rebound today warm enough across the state to melt a lot of it.
but the snow is also keeping us rather cool this morning for one more day.
Another system will swipe a little part of the state yet before the big warm-up begins.
The state forecast for today, mostly sunny and breezy, highs in the low 30s up north to the mid 30s in the south, still breezy, like I said, west winds at 10 to 20 miles an hour.
partly cloudy tonight, and then there is that slight chance of snow late tonight in the southwestern part of the state as the storm system passes well to the south of us.
Lowes tonight, around 10 up north, 20 in the southwest wind at 5 to 15 miles an hour.
And then we get into the 30s, the 40s, and the 50s next week.
But it's colder this morning here on Lake Wissota.
It's 17 degrees right now.
Hayward's down to four degrees above zero.
Amory at 12, Wausau 18.
La Crosse is at 22.
Green Bay 27.
Madison 23.
It's 26 in Milwaukee and it's 27 degrees right now at Radio Park in Racine where we bring in one.
Greg Bach wearing his Roy Kent whistle.
Whistle!
T-shirt today.
I gotta get that sound.
I just gotta get that sound.
You should.
You
should
absolutely, yeah.
Although yours is pretty good.
You do it.
Whistle!
Whistle!
Yeah, see, that works.
Is that
too loud?
Did that hurt your ears?
Nope.
Sorry if that hurt anyone's
ears.
Nope.
That was good.
All right.
You got it.
Got it nailed down.
How are things way down there?
Uh, I gotta say, uh, yesterday it was very chilly at night.
And then I got like, it's, I know, I know it's very early March, but I feel like we got a few days in the fifties.
So I'm like, well, I guess it's hoodie weather.
And now I'm like, Oh, it's so cold outside.
What happened?
What did we do?
How did we make the gods mad?
We always have these adjustments to make for the season.
And well, we'll do that.
We'll get through it.
But yeah, there's those days where it's like, well, last week when I was in Arizona, I was 50 degrees, and I'm wearing shorts and on a t-shirt.
But in August, it was 50, you'd be like.
Uh, what's, what's happening?
What's going on?
Isn't it the best being in a place where they're not used to cold and you're like, I was in, I was in Seattle in December of 2017.
It was 49 degrees and I was wearing a hoodie and just a hoodie and jeans and people are in down parkas.
I'm like, you will never survive the apocalypse.
No, no, no, no.
Uh, the whole wind hell freezes over thing.
Nope.
Nope.
Nope.
Nope.
Nope.
Nope.
Yeah, I also have a new project that I can't show you because it's on the floor here just off to the side of the but I've told you about this once before and yesterday was the delivery of six very heavy flat boxes and some other accessory equipment.
So the new bookshelves for for this back wall of my home office are here.
And I have looked, turns out there are multiple videos on YouTube about how to assemble, you know, various pieces of IKEA furniture, including this particular shelf model.
And I'll just say thank you to whoever made those videos because I've tried to follow those little pictograph instructions that are included where the drawing is never quite right.
So is it this piece with the groove on the left or is it this piece with the holes on the right?
I don't know.
Is that a groove or what?
So thank you to the guy making the video, especially the one in the one video where he says, he points out to the instructions and says,
Now, I don't know if they sent me the wrong piece or if this drawing is wrong, but I got it to work and here's how you'll make it work too.
And I'm thinking, what would I have done without this video?
So this is going to be an adventure.
I'm not going to get around to I've got, I've got, you know, other things going on.
It may be a couple of weeks.
And so the big thing for me is when I, when I do this, probably in a couple of weekends here, when I've got more open time is some morning, are you going to see a finished product behind me?
Or is it, are we going to sign on with nothing on the walls?
No furniture behind me.
Nothing.
Maybe just some remnants of cardboard boxes.
I don't know.
Maybe a whole punched in the wall.
Who knows?
It's going to be an adventure.
Pat shirtless covered in dust.
dirt holding a screwdriver.
How did I do this?
How did I
make this happen?
Looking like somebody that just crawled off the island on Survivor.
Me versus Ikea.
Wish me luck, folks.
We'll keep you updated.
We are doing our first ever live event here at Up North News all about the state Supreme Court race and it's taking place next Wednesday, March 12th at the Overshore Center.
in Madison.
We would love to have you come join us.
Register tickets are free up north news wi.com slash supreme is how you come join us in person.
We will have options for live streaming as well that we'll tell you about next week.
But we will have three different panel discussions a little over 20 25 minutes each or so.
on the impact of this state Supreme Court race on reproductive health care rights in Wisconsin, the economy and jobs, and education.
Because this is an open seat that will decide control of the court, these three issues are going to see significant changes one way or the other.
And there's going to be impact on every Wisconsin family business.
You name it.
So we'd love to have you join us either in person or stream the event.
Learn more at UpNorthNewsWI.com slash Supreme.
Quarter past six right now.
So let's take a little look at sports here.
Well, there was a milestone set by Yanis Anatacumpo last night that admittedly pales in comparison to what LeBron James did the other night, but still.
It is a big deal to join the 20,000 point club.
Yana scored 32 against Dallas in a 137 to 107 win last night.
It's the Bucks eighth win in their last nine games.
And Scupo is 30 years old now, and he's now scored 20,010 career points, making him only the 52nd player to reach 20,000.
But of all of them, the only players to get to the 20,000 point mark at a younger age
were Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant, Wilt Chamberlain, Michael Jordan, and LeBron James.
So he's in that kind of company.
And as for King James, if you missed it a couple of nights ago, he became the first ever player in NBA history to reach 50,000 points at the age of 40.
The Bucks will host Orlando coming up on Saturday.
College men's basketball, the 12th ranked Badger men beat Minnesota last night, 74 to 67.
They will wrap up the regular season on Saturday hosting Penn State.
You'll be able to hear that game on several civic media radio stations and through the Civic Media app.
The Marquette men's basketball team lost at UConn last night, 72 to 66.
They wrap up their regular season on Saturday hosting St.
John's before they get ready for the Big East Conference Tournament there.
The latest on the Brewers pitching injury woes DL Hall has now officially been placed on the 60-day injured list with a left lat strain, so he will not be available until late May.
But that did open up a roster spot for left-hander Jose Quintana, picked up by the Brewers on a one-year contract for just over $4 million.
If the name is a little familiar in a heartbreaking way, it was because Quintana was the starting pitcher for the Mets.
In that wild card series matchup with the Brewers and he shut out the Brewers over six innings in the Mets 4-2 victory, but he's on our side now.
As long as he doesn't get injured here.
I'll tell you that there was a new Marquette pole that's out.
I'm not gonna drag you down into all the details here.
We'll say that 51% of the voters surveyed, told pollsters that new tariffs imposed by President Trump on China, Canada, and Mexico will hurt the US economy.
while 32% believe it will help Americans.
53% of voters disapprove of cuts by Elon Musk's and his fake department of I get to do whatever I want, while 47% believe the cuts are properly carrying out Trump's agenda.
60% say Trump's actions to freeze federal spending and close down agencies go beyond his power as president, but 40% say it's within the bounds of office.
In terms of overall job approval,
Republicans love them.
Democrats hate them.
How about the independents?
60% of self-described independents surveyed disapprove of the job Trump is doing, while 39% approve.
We'll talk a little bit about the state Supreme Court race with the Marquette poll and Elon Musk running fake ads as part of it, and veterans very angry at Donald Trump over all these layoffs.
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Eric Clapton is in today's history lesson connected with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
We'll tell you about that in about 30 minutes here on Up North News Radio.
And yes, Tony.
Tony called us out rightly to say, hey, nothing about the women's hockey tournament.
Your number one team in the country, the Wisconsin Badger women, number one seed in the tournament this weekend.
I got you.
I got you, buddy.
The conference tournament, the final face off, the Badger women.
are playing tomorrow afternoon at one o'clock in Duluth against Minnesota Duluth.
And if they win, then they advanced to the conference championship there.
So
I just want to say, Tony, Tony, stop, stop.
As you know, I don't care about 95% percent of sports.
So yes, college hockey was not going to be on my brain.
Oh college, college hockey's on my brain.
I know
very much.
I love how great the Badgers are, especially the women's team.
Women's hockey being amazing is amazing.
I love it.
But also I was looking for a Roy Ken clip.
So you found just the right excuse for it.
Yep.
And, and, you know, while we're on the subject then of.
college hockey,
which I
was at.
You have to spell it C-A-W-L-I-D-G-E college hockey.
I've mentioned, but I haven't mentioned it for a while here, but I have a son-in-law who works for the hockey team at Western Michigan University.
the number three or number four ranked team in the country, but he says so myself.
So, uh, uh, so yes, well, there, there's a lot of following of college hockey in this home and, uh, very excited about it, uh, including that particular conference, but we'll follow the Badger men as they take on Ohio state this weekend in the big 10 tournament as well.
All right.
I mentioned that Elon Musk is, uh, running fake ads, which, uh, I know surprise is nobody, but let me give you a quick little detail on it.
Dan Bison,
has the details in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
He begins a story saying Elon Musk and his pals have found a new way to try to influence the Wisconsin State Supreme Court race through a bogus front group.
It's a group that calls itself Progress 2028, running ads on Facebook and other social media platforms.
And it basically is meant to look like it's friendly to Susan Crawford.
by saying she supports all of these far left things that she has not necessarily talked about.
So again, they're trying to make her sound soft on crime, catch and release, all of those things.
You know, call Susan Crawford and tell her thank you.
Those are not Susan Crawford ads.
Those are not fact based ads.
It's how Elon Musk is playing in the state Supreme Court race.
surprising nobody.
As far as that Marquette poll goes, they did not do a head to head matchup in part because a lot of people still say they don't know Judge Susan Crawford or former Attorney General Brad Schimmel well enough to have formed an opinion.
They've got Schimmel viewed favorably by 29%, unfavorably by 32%, but about two out of every five people said they had no opinion of him.
And about three out of five said they didn't really have an opinion yet about Susan Crawford, but interestingly enough, 83% of the voter surveyed did realize the election could tip the balance of power on the Supreme Court, even if they didn't know the candidate very well.
So people know about the importance of it, but they also know they've got a couple of more weeks yet to look at ads and learn more about the candidates, Crawford and Schimmel, and then come up with...
a determination about who they're going to run for.
So you should study upon those candidates and you should vote.
Let's talk for a second about veterans in Wisconsin and elsewhere.
An Associated Press story captures just some of the anger by veterans out there, including James Stansel, a 62-year-old Army veteran fired last month from his job as a supply technician at the VA hospital in Milwaukee.
He told the AP it felt like he'd been shot and dumped out of a helicopter.
I'm not dead weight, he said.
You're tossing off the wrong stuff.
And he has the same view as a lot of folks who work in the government and say there are places where cuts could be made, but this whole-scale widespread random firings of people isn't the way to do it.
The mass firing of federal employees since Trump took office in January is pushing out veterans who make up 30% of the nation's federal workforce.
I'm gonna say that again.
Veterans make up 30% of the nation's federal workforce and many more firings are on the way.
The Associated Press got hold of an internal memo from the VA that says there's a reorganization coming that will cut more than 80,000 jobs.
from the agency.
Veterans represent more than 25% of the VA's workforce.
In interviews, several veterans who supported candidates of either party described their recent job losses as a betrayal of their military service.
They're particularly angered by how it happened in an email that cited inadequate job performance, despite positive reviews in their role.
In other words, again, Elon Musk making stuff up.
Stancil for one believes that Trump
owes those fired veterans an apology.
Are we going to get one?
I don't know.
Listen to this soundbite.
This is Alina Habba.
Remember her?
She was Trump's lawyer when he lost and was convicted on all those felony counts.
But of course, she's now a White House counselor.
Then listen to her being asked about the veterans' firings.
Listen carefully, especially to the end of her answer.
Well as
you know we care about veterans tremendously I mean that's something the president has always cared about anybody in blue anybody that serves this country but at the same time we have a taxpayer dollars we have a fiscal responsibility to use taxpayer dollars to pay people that actually work that doesn't mean that we forget our veterans by any means we are going to care for them in the right way but perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment are not willing to come to work and we can't
You know, I wouldn't take money from you and pay somebody and say, sorry, you know, they're not going to come to work.
It's just not acceptable.
There's the message from Donald Trump.
You lazy bums, you veterans, suckling on, you know, the federal government.
She's a terrible lawyer to begin with.
And is that really the message?
that, um, you know, we have a responsibility to pay people that actually work.
Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment or not willing to come to work.
And as if that weren't enough, Greg, there's also that note.
Oh, we support all our veterans and anybody in blue.
Anybody in blue?
Anybody?
Really?
How many people did you pardon for beating up on Capitol Police?
Oh, God, this I can't even look.
No, no, keep talking about.
If I had time, I would play that again, but we're going to keep that.
We're going to, we're going to edit that bite down and we're going to keep that line handy because she is speaking for Donald Trump when she says, perhaps veterans are not fit to have a job at this moment, not willing to come into work.
We have to use taxpayer dollars to pay people that actually want to work.
Have a great day, veterans, from your president, Joseph Peck, he's up
next.
Hey, this is the part of the program where we normally talk to Joe Zipecki about headlines in the news, usually about politics, but we are going to talk about sports first.
Mr. Zipecki, if I tell you the Brewer's season opener is three weeks from today, how does that make you feel?
It honestly makes me a little more nervous than it used to because the pitching staff is so bad.
We might want another week or two of spring training at this rate.
No, no, no, no.
See, it's the we're getting this out of the way now.
So we're all healed in time,
you
know, the end of the season.
We can go with that.
I also, is that what we say
about the bucks all the time too?
You know, you just want to be good down the stretch the way the bucks have been lately.
You know, that's right.
That's right.
And we got to note that it's also going to be an unusual start to the year.
You know, Euker was such a pivotal part of the club and opening day and that it wasn't just the return of spring that was being marked.
It was, we still got Bob.
That's right.
And so it's going to be a little different, but Hope Springs Eternal, maybe this is our year.
I'm not going to say that I didn't get a little catch in my throat when I was at that spring training game last week.
And they've got Euker's signature behind home plate, you know, painted into the grass.
Folks are going to see that at American Family Field.
And you know, it'll it'll be a moment.
But fitting tribute.
We will we will be okay.
All right, let's get let's get into we're going to do a lot of health care this week, which
It makes sense because that is what Donald Trump and Elon Musk have been cutting so much to pay for billionaire tax cuts.
So I want to start actually with Wisconsin Republicans in the legislature because last week while I was away in Arizona, they held a news conference, if I'm not mistaken, where they bragged they went on about
What a good thing it was that for over a decade they have blocked Medicaid expansion because now you see how Medicaid's getting cut and they always said, you know, this stuff could get cut so we shouldn't expand Medicaid because you never know when somebody might cut it.
I mean, if that wasn't a self-fulfilling prophecy and a confession, it was the Republicans saying, you know what, you can't trust us.
So you shouldn't try to make your health care better.
It's just so stupid.
And it and it tells me the fact that they did this press conference and are beating their chest just tells me that we are winning on this issue We being Democrats because there is no explanation for over the last 14 almost 15 years leaving billions with a bee of dollars on the table Just in case that one day we elected a president
that was so opposed to people having healthcare as Donald Trump, and accidentally at the same time, managed to elect a Congress that is controlled by Republicans and is equally hell bent on taking people's healthcare away.
Just in case that might ever come true 15 years later, after we've subsidized healthcare in 40 other states for more than a decade.
I mean, give me a break.
Clearly,
We are scoring points on them when it comes to healthcare.
This was just nonsense.
Nobody with a brain takes this argument seriously because they are correct on only one point.
Medicaid expansion is no longer the pressing concern.
The pressing concern, if you are a state Republican, or that should be your concern if you're a state Republican lawmaker, is what Donald Trump and Elon Musk and the MAGA majority in Congress
have signed off on is a budget framework that would cut between 800 billion and 2.2 trillion from Medicaid.
That will impact the state of Wisconsin.
That's got nothing to do with Medicaid expansion.
It's got to do with how state dollars are used to support health care.
And that degree of cut to Medicaid would blow a hole in the state budget, even though we didn't take the expansion.
And what that means, listeners, is less money for tax cuts for the middle class and working families, less money to fix the dam roads, less money to invest in education and technical colleges so people can find a career if college isn't right for that.
This is going to be a problem.
And rather than lobby their mega majority to say, hold on a second, this Medicaid stuff is going to kill our state budget.
They're out there
patting themselves on the back for having the foresight to go, well, let's find that we wasted a couple billion dollars we could have had.
This is nonsense.
But that's kind of the defining theme of the Republican Party today.
It's just nonsense.
There's no actually squaring the logic circle when it comes to these guys.
And here's the important part here.
If somebody were to hear the numbers that you had just thrown out and said 800 million to or to 800 billion to two
.2 trillion dollars.
Wow, I didn't know Medicaid cost that much.
Yeah, we should cut some of that out of there.
And then they think, well, so that's savings?
That's money that's going to somehow go to them?
No, this is a transfer.
You're not going to save a dime.
You're going to lose health care.
And that $800 billion to $2 trillion is going to go to tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.
So the option of putting it in your pocket
was never actually
an
option.
No, it
was
never there.
And the other part of it that they're not going to tell you is that and I don't have the numbers right in front of me.
I think it's like out of every $3 that the state of Wisconsin spends on Medicaid.
I think two of them are federal dollars that are transferred down and one are state dollars.
But what they what they're not telling you is just because the money goes away doesn't mean that the needs go away.
Right.
And so what that means is there's going to be more people more reliant on the most expensive kinds of health care.
And we're talking about 1.4 million Wisconsinites, almost one in four Wisconsinites gets some type of Medicaid assistance.
I want to tell one example, because I think this program gets a bad rap.
And there are a lot of people and a lot of parts of the state who go, you know what?
We should cut Medicaid.
It's just those lazy black people in Milwaukee who are, you know, getting their government welfare.
That's not what Medicaid is, folks.
There are more Medicaid dollars proportionally going to rural communities, going to smaller communities.
And what we're talking about is not just like, hey, here's your free healthcare.
What we're talking about is I met a woman in January, Jessica.
When she was born, she was a Medicaid baby because her mom didn't make enough.
to afford health care on her own.
Thank goodness she had Medicaid coverage for she and her child.
In part thanks to that, Jessica's mom was able to go to school, become a nurse, served on the front lines of the pandemic as a registered nurse before retiring once we got through the pandemic.
Jessica went to college, got a degree, has a job, married.
Her husband also has a job.
They have employer-sponsored health care coverage.
But their nine-year-old son has special needs, pretty involved special needs.
and their employer sponsored healthcare coverage doesn't cover everything every month.
So they need a little help from something called the Katie Beckett Medicaid Program.
If that goes away, if that's what Republicans chop to get to their $800 billion minimum cut, it means that Jessica or her husband probably gonna have to leave their job.
Now that business is out a worker, now their household income is lower,
because they need to provide more care for their son.
There's an economic cost to this.
There's a pocketbook cost for all of us.
On top of the fact, it's just plain cruel when you consider the needs of their nine-year-old son versus whether Elon Musk needs another tax cut, because that's what it's going to pay for.
The cruelty is the point, though, and that gets us to the work that you're doing with Protect Our Care and how the debut was made this week of their
healthcare sabotage tracker.
And I thought it was very aptly named because I didn't count it all here.
It's, it's at least.
Oh, it's
astonishing.
It's a couple dozen bullet points in here of all the many different ways that Americans healthcare has already been cut.
We keep talking about, you know, the cuts to Medicaid.
There have been so many things that already impact Americans health that Protect Our Care had to create a healthcare sabotage tracker
Just
to keep it all
straight.
Just to keep all straight.
Everything that's been done.
I don't know that we have time to go through all these, but you
want to hit some of the highlights.
We'd be here all morning.
But day one, withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization.
That means Americans are more at risk.
The cuts to USAID mean things like overseas programs that help stop diseases in their tracks that stop, you know, viruses that pop up all the time.
from mushrooming into a COVID pandemic means we're no longer on the front lines stopping those diseases where they are before they get to us.
They cut by 90% the marketing and outreach budget, which tells people how and where to sign up for affordable health care coverage through Obamacare.
We talked about the up to $2 trillion in cuts to Medicaid.
They've increased the prices on prescription drugs.
This is part of the tariff.
problem.
And so it is literally dozens of things from grants to NIH, long-term research that is saving lives, disruption of research, firing people who work on infectious diseases, canceling meetings of committees who decide what strains of influenza will be in the flu shot next year.
All of this stuff is part of how, in addition to becoming the richest
wealthiest, most powerful nation in the world, we're also one of the healthiest.
And I'm not here to suggest that everything is great on the healthcare front, but we have it pretty good compared to a lot of places in the world.
And we want to be the place where if you want to practice medicine, if you want to research a disease and come up with a cure for cancer, we want you to come here.
That's the American way.
And on all of these issues across the board, not just on like, how much you pay for your healthcare that they don't tend to care much about, they're also saying, we don't want you.
We don't want to be the global leader in healthcare research anymore.
We don't want to be a leader in this field.
What the hell kind of sense does that make?
And it is just totally inconsistent and puts the lie to this nonsense, Bobby K.
slogan of making America healthy again.
No, no.
They're making America sicker and they're making us pay more for it at the same time.
We lost a child to measles since Donald Trump took office.
The first death in America from measles in 10 years.
And there are currently nine states in this country where there are measles cases.
Why?
Because the Magaloons on the right have been for years.
Stoking conspiracies about vaccines whether that microchip isn't real.
Yeah, the chickens come home to roost and here they are Look if we just pick on one thing if we just pick on flu shots that as you mentioned They they canceled the product advisory committee which would discuss exactly what the next cycle flu shot would look like and
terminated the CDC's flu vaccine campaign, which aims to raise vaccination rates among high-risk groups like seniors and children.
Just those two things alone are going to cause the number of deaths next flu season to go crazy.
People are going to die, whether they voted for Trump or didn't vote at all or young or old.
People are going to die because of stupid decisions like this.
And that is the health care reality.
The risk is up.
And on the economic front, the risk is way up, folks.
Jobs are down.
The stock market is down.
Consumer confidence is down.
Tariffs are up.
But that's part of why the first three things I just mentioned on the economy are down.
Exactly.
So we've got economic risk.
We've got nothing going on inflation.
In fact, Trump is gonna make inflation worse with this tariff war.
It is, this is the level of chaos and disorder that we warned folks about.
And to anybody who got hoodwinked by the con man, an Elon Musk, come on over to our side.
We're not perfect, but we are going to work to make sure more Americans have more affordable, better healthcare.
And you cannot say that about the Trump administration.
Six weeks in or whatever we are.
No and look another one if you want it not from a health standpoint but from a pocketbook standpoint Delaying implementation of a Biden rule that would bar medical debt from showing up on credit reports Your credit reports should not be impacted by medical debt That doesn't say whether you're a bum and you pay your bills or not And yet it's all there and you can follow these and so many more at the protect our care
healthcare sabotage tracker.
The full web address is protectourcare.org slash sabotage hyphen tracker.
But just go to protectourcare.org and learn all about what the group does and the many ways that they are looking out for the damage being done so that when the time is right, we can rebuild this again.
I think the Beastie Boys said it best, the TLDR version of this.
Attention all y'all.
It's a sabotage.
That's what they're doing to healthcare.
I can't top that for an ending.
Joseph Pecky, thank you so much.
Have a good start to the weekend.
See ya.
We'll get today's history lesson right after this.
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Hey, Pat, would you stop talking?
Just, just let the song play.
You know, Pat, people really don't want you to talk over the song.
When you're talking over the song, they find it rude.
Yeah, my girl by the Temptations hit number one this day in 1965, part of today's history lesson.
On this Thursday morning, on this day in 1836, the Alamo fell with all the Texas defenders killed.
On this day in 1857, the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in the Dred Scott decision that the U.S.
Constitution does not confer citizenship on black people.
If that doesn't remind you that you just keep fighting, you just keep swimming.
and you just keep making better things happen because some folks don't get it right the first time.
On this day in 1976, the Miracles, still together, a few years after Smokey Robinson left the group and had a solo career, the Miracles was still together in 1976 when they hit the top of the
charts.
One of my favorite guest cameos on Friends was Bruce Willis.
Singing this to himself in the mirror was always funny.
I hope he's doing well.
Me too.
David Gilmore of Pink Floyd, 79 years old today.
Kiki Dee is 77 years old today.
KPD was born Pauline Matthews and is also well known, of course, for Don't Go Breaking My Heart with Dalton John.
Happy 77th birthday, Meathead.
Rob Reiner, the film director.
Other folks remember him from All in the Family.
But after All in the Family, he did pretty all right for himself for a film director.
Spinal Tap, Princess Bride.
When Harry met Sally, Stand By Me, A Few Good Men.
Heard of him?
Heard of him, you know?
And you sure his dad Carl Reiner's going, oh yeah, that wasn't bad, you know?
Nice little show biz family there.
Hey, we mentioned a couple of basketball legends earlier.
Shaquille O'Neal is one of them, and today he turns 53 years old.
Oh, God.
Yeah, feeling it, right?
Yeah.
On this day in 1982, the Go-Go's became the first all-female band to have a number one album.
This is one of the tracks, Off Beauty and the Beat.
On this day in 1964, Cassius Clay, the boxing champion, changed his name to Muhammad Ali.
On this day in 2000, Eric Clapton was inducted as a solo artist into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
On the text line, Tom and Jackson sends in just very briefly.
More Eric Clapton please.
More
Clapton.
So there
you go.
More Clapton.
First one to be inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three different times.
He had previously been inducted as part of the Yardbirds and as part of Cream and in 2000 he was inducted a third time for his solo career.
I can't think of that.
I'm trying to think of who else Eric Clapton.
He's the only one.
Think so I thought so.
No, he is I thought that Paul I thought Paul McCartney was but he's not for wings for wings No, well, you know, you know, he's Paul they're like, yeah, you go ahead.
Let the side project in
Your little side hustle Here's the part of the program where I tell you who's the national day calendar
and
everything
Yeah, I forgot to set that up ahead of time.
It's
National Tap Dance Shoes Day.
Oh, no, no.
It's just calling it up right now.
So we're learning this all together, folks.
Today is National Dentist Day.
Oh, OK.
OK.
Didn't we?
didn't we have national frozen food dairy or was it frozen food week?
That must have been it because today is national frozen food day.
Pat,
I love how you asked me that.
Like I'm like, well, Pat, you know,
if you would have been a rehearsal, yeah, we would have known that today is national dress day.
It is, but by the way, just to
prove to, uh, to our female friends.
We have learned.
We understand where you're coming from on this.
We say happy national dress day, but only to the dresses with pockets.
That's right.
That's
right.
There you go.
Deep pockets too.
None of these, none of these jeans for women with pockets to the size of like, you know, a digital finger.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, it's got to fit the iPad in there.
Yeah.
Uh, today is national Oreo day.
I do not eat Oreos the way that I used to, but that's because as a kid, I mean, I would, I was like,
A machine.
My mom would be like, you only get so many Oreos, but I could dunk them all day.
Sometimes it felt like I would dunk them all day.
Give her a spirit with a fork and dunk it that way, and you're like a fine piece of desertery.
Spirit with a fork?
No, wouldn't it all crumble and everything?
No, you, you, you, you, you spirit in the, in the, in the, in the middle section.
Okay.
Oh, oh, I see.
I see.
Wow, Pat.
Okay.
I'm just imagining.
It's just
crumbling.
Bam, bam, bam.
The Oreo bread.
I also have to say though that I, I won't eat regular Oreos anymore ever since they invented double stuff.
That's, that's the real Oreo right there
as far as
I'm coming.
The other one was a, was a starter, kind of like a starter marriage, a training marriage.
This is a starter Oreo.
Well, then they came out with the fins.
I'm like, what are you people doing?
I know.
Come on.
I can do like two double stops.
And I'm like, Oh God, too much creamery.
today is National Hospitalist Day.
And I know I know a lot of good hospitals out there.
What you do is extremely important.
And thank you for all that you do.
And coming up in our next hour, we're going to start with a friend of mine, Sean O'Malley, who has worked on Wall Street for many, many years and really has a great insider view on how the recent decisions by the Trump Trump administration are going to impact Wall Street and consumers and the economy and global stability.
And we'll talk to State Senator Latanya Johnson from the Joint Finance Committee and
New State Assembly rep Russell Goodwin, Luke Mathers and meteorologist Brittany Merlot all ahead on Up North News Radio for this Thursday morning, March 6th live from Lake Wissota on the Civic Media Radio Network.
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