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Now, live from our Lake Mesota studio, here's the founding editor of Up North News, Pat Breidler.
Good morning, welcome back to Up North News Radio on a passionately Wisconsin brought to you by Courier Newsroom and carried by our friends here on the Civic Media Radio Network.
at 706 on this Thursday morning, March 20th.
Nice to have you along.
Meteorologist Brittany Merlot is here along with Greg Bakdown and Racine and folks watching on social media might have noticed that our little ID slide is no longer the one of a snow-covered lake with soda but is instead the one with some open water on it to mark the first day of spring and to mark that we didn't get a snowflake.
up here in Chippewa Falls.
Things slid a little bit to the south.
I was like, did this thing peer out entirely?
The answer is no, it did not.
And Brittany had just an adorable, delightful video of her reveling in the snow yesterday and so happy that it didn't miss her in the Wasaw area.
What'd you get out there?
Oh, I got seven inches here into the Wasaw area.
I love every flake of it.
I was so excited out there playing around.
Like you said, I've got videos up.
You know, it's just exciting.
I love snow.
It paints the landscape pretty, you guys.
Now there's things to do in the colder weather, at least for now, because this is going to melt eventually.
Greg, can you hear the people that are swearing at her through the radio?
Can you hear it?
Because I feel like there are ones who have shoveled, who would like to politely disagree.
But there it is.
We're just playing back some of the messages now.
One
of them is me.
And Tony and Ashland writes that he's so jealous because they got no snow up there.
But yeah, that that ban from lacrosse to Krivitz was at five to nine inches by and large.
So and it's not going to hang around
for
too long,
right?
Not too, too long.
I mean, that was just punch one of two.
We've got another storm setting its sights on the state again.
And that looks to hit on Sunday, kind of rolling into Monday morning.
So.
Yeah, north woods.
That one's headed your way anywhere from Wausau to Ashland where Tony is all the way northeast and into the UP as well.
So we'll keep tracking that one, but that looks to move in Saturday at midnight and then into our Sunday with a good chunk of more snow accumulations down south.
It's going to stay rain for you.
It's going to kind of look like this last system did and then it'll slowly start to switch over, but won't go as far south this time.
So what we're looking at in between now and then.
Well, Toma is shoveling out 11.3 inches.
Neal's Vale and Clark County is shoveling out 10 inches of snowfall, and it is a heavier wetter kind, which it did, you know, put some lighter, fluffier snow on top of that as those temperatures dropped.
So a little crisp this morning, 21 degrees in Tamanitwish waters, all the way to 34 degrees until Milwaukee this morning.
Still breezy along the lake shore of Lake Michigan.
Winds are still gusting up to 40 miles per hour there.
Otherwise, further into the state, we're just looking at 15 to 20 mile per hour gusts at the moment.
So...
We will hit the low 40s for highs today, especially in northwestern parts of the state, but where you got snow, if you have snow on the ground, you're going to be cooler today in those mid to upper 30s.
So the sun will shine.
It is going to come back out by this afternoon.
We will stay partly cloudy through tomorrow, but we do have chances of light rain in the afternoon, which could flip to a few flurries because the front is going to be pushing through.
But everything is calm on Saturday before that next system arrives on Sunday.
on the text line from Tiffany in River Falls.
I'm with you, Brittany.
No snow in River Falls, and I'm sad.
See, I'm
not alone.
I'm not alone.
I
got Tony.
I got her.
Yep.
Yeah, it was it was difficult for some folks from Alicia's side note on the weather.
It was a tad trying on the way to Marinette.
Yesterday was kind of funny.
As soon as you got out of Rosendale, there was snow.
It was almost like there was a barrier.
Cassandra wrote in my drive home is normally 35 minutes.
It took me over an hour to get home last night.
and I almost went off the road several times.
Alicia saw that and responded.
Cassandra took me almost three hours to get home in Kimberley from Madison yesterday.
Rob, of course, checks in from Tigerton to say good morning.
It's cloudy and 25 degrees, seven and a half inches of snow there.
I was out at 10 last night plowing and plowed overnight.
The snow was very hard to push.
and it took time but he and he says yep looks like another snowstorm for uh sunday looks like they're coming in pairs highways 29 and 45 have slippery spots crews have been out plowing salting and sanding but he also ends by saying making money thank you britney
You're welcome.
Thank you to all the plow trucks and everyone clearing the snow.
My gosh, they bust their butts.
They woke me up at four a.m.
to do my parking lot, but I couldn't be mad because we needed it.
So.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, you wouldn't.
You wouldn't want it otherwise, you know, where it's like, yeah.
Okay.
How am I getting out of here?
So thankfully they're doing that.
Do you do brackets?
Do you feel brackets for the NCAA tournament?
I do.
I don't know what
I'm
doing, but I do it.
That was me too during the commercial break just now.
I went online and like, all right, here's this, here's this, here's this.
Naturally, of course, Wisconsin's gonna win it all, right?
I think that's what I did last year.
I think I've got Green Bay going all the way for the women's tournament.
So, you know, chase a dream, right?
Brittany, thank you so much.
Appreciate it.
Have a great day.
You too?
That reminds us, talking about sports, that with the NCAA tournament starting today, the Badger Men's basketball team is taking on Montana in the NCAA tournament.
Coverage begins at 11.30 on Civic Media stations in Amory, Wisconsin Rapids and Richland Center.
Because it's the NCAA tournament, different rules apply, so you cannot hear these games on the Civic Media app.
But if you are in the Amory, Wisconsin Rapids, or Richland Center areas, tune into this Civic Media station and get set to hear some Badger basketball in the NCAAs.
Then, of course, there's the Marquette Men's Basketball team.
They play tomorrow against Ten Seed, New Mexico.
There are plenty of games going on in Milwaukee today as they host part
of the first round action.
And the Milwaukee Bucks are in Los Angeles to take on the Lakers tonight.
Badger Women's Hockey, they're in the National Final Four.
That is tomorrow night, taking on the Minnesota Gophers.
Early voting is going on right now.
In-person absentee voting at your local town hall, city hall, whatever the case may be in your municipality.
Head over to myvote.wi.gov.
Folks watching on social media know that, yes, this is the official I voted sticker that's on the shirt today because we voted late yesterday with the state supreme court race, with the race for state superintendent of public instruction.
There is a constitutional amendment referendum that would put in place some rules that would make it harder for some people to vote Republicans are trying to rush that into the Constitution before
Now that we have fair maps, they might lose their majority in the Wisconsin legislature.
There are nearly 90 school referendums all around the state.
Again, a crisis created by that same legislature.
And there are all kinds of local offices out there here in Chippewa County.
There are town board elections.
You may find some city elections in your particular hometown.
And you can find out what is exactly on your ballot now.
ahead of time so that you're not in the voting booth going, wait, I don't know who these people are.
Head over to myvote.wi.gov.
You put in your address and it tells you exactly what is on the ballot for the ward that you're living in.
And that gives you time to, you know, ask around and say, well, you know, who is this person running for school board?
And, you know, in our case, you can vote up to three people on the school board.
Well,
Do you know three of the candidates that are on there?
So have a little heads up, go to myvote.wi.gov, take a look at that ballot, and get yourself informed before you head in to go vote.
It's not often that I...
pretty much repeat in the six AM hour, what I say in the seven AM hour, because I know a lot of people, if you're going to listen through a two hour radio show, I don't want to be too terribly redundant and I appreciate it.
Folks that don't listen in the whole time can always catch the six AM hour by heading over to civicmedia.us.
You can go to the shows page.
And from there, you can listen back to any of the shows, any of the past episodes, past hours, you know, the six AM hour gets posted.
away.
But I didn't want to come back and revisit some topics I mentioned yesterday because of the way that they just they really struck me.
And we're going to start with Derrick Van Orden.
And the reward now that he's getting for being one of the first members of Congress to call for the impeachment of a federal judge.
Back on February 20, Derrick Van Orden
put out a tweet because that's how he prefers to talk to his constituents rather than holding a town hall.
And he called for the impeachment of federal judge Paul Engelmeyer.
He wrote, the time for judicial activism is over.
The American people gave Donald Trump a mandate and no politician disguised as a jurist will interfere with it.
It's not really interfering with it to insist that presidents follow the rule of law.
And that's what Judge Engelmaier was doing when he put the hold on Elon Musk and his minions to not get access to the database of the United States Treasury, which processes trillions of dollars in payments every year.
I mean, imagine Derek Van Orden's reaction if it were President Biden saying, I'm bringing in a team from the outside.
They've not been vetted.
They're not government employees.
They don't get to see secret information.
But I'm going to let them see the secret information in the Treasury database.
Derek Van Orden would be calling for impeachment or indictment or imprisonment.
But because it's Donald Trump and Elon Musk, when a judge tried to stop him,
He now called for the judge's impeachment.
Since that time, other members of Congress have done the same thing.
The president has done the same thing, calling for the impeachment of federal judges.
Elon Musk has taken note, and there was a story that I first saw in the New York Times last night, that Elon Musk, the world's richest man, has made the maximum allowable donation to the Republican members of Congress.
who have come out in support of impeaching federal judges who are standing up to President Donald Trump.
Now, those limits are paltry by the standards of Elon Musk, $6,600.
But it's $6,600 that a congressional candidate or Congress, a congressional representative doesn't have to raise on their own.
It's, you know, fewer phone calls that they have to make.
And yes, Derek Van Orden was one of those who got the maximum allowable donation.
from the world's richest man for wanting to impeach a federal judge who wanted to stop unelected people from seeing private data in the United States Treasury database.
This all makes Derek Van Orden unique in his betrayal of the Constitution and he has now received his 30 pieces of silver for that betrayal.
It is what has made
Derek Van Norden, an ongoing embarrassment, or to borrow his word, a clown.
And so he's got the money now for betraying the Constitution that he had once said he would be loyal to.
But we all now know what he got in return.
And perhaps that will affect how he is welcomed the next time he has a town hall, if he ever has a town hall.
More coming up after this, you're up north.
It wasn't in today's history lesson, but worth noting that coming up on Saturday, George Benson will be turning 82 years old.
We have our history lesson every weekday morning at 6.50 here on Up North News Radio.
There are so many ways that any one of us would reform politics if we could.
One of them, of course, that we talk about all the time is getting big money.
out of politics, not letting billionaires buy Supreme Court races is only the most recent example.
There's another reform nobody talks about that I would certainly make very early on if I could.
And that would be to change the races for county sheriffs in Wisconsin and to make those races nonpartisan.
Now, the reasons why some local, usually county offices are partisan
dates way back to the old patronage system when you had party bosses and they helped people run for district attorney or sheriff or things like that.
Judges are now on non-partisan ballots and the sooner we can do that with sheriffs the better because there are few things to me as unseemly as county sheriffs who are supposed to be trusted
to represent, protect, and serve all the people in their county getting down in the mud during political campaigns.
And the most recent example of that I saw on TV last night while watching the Grand Ole Opry celebration was Kenosha County Sheriff David Zorner.
Engaged in just flat-out mud slinging over the Supreme Court race.
and talking about liberal judge Susan Crawford and being soft on crime and calling her the worst.
I think that had reflected much more on Sheriff's Order than it did on Susan Crawford.
And I would love to see something like that changed.
He was latching on to a case that Brad Schimmel and conservatives are hoping sticks.
And as we know in any Supreme Court race,
There is this rush to grab any decision from an otherwise fairly unblemished record and Try to make you know something out of it that indicates well, that's how they act on every particular case So I've been asked by folks well why doesn't judge Crawford talk about that particular case and she was asked about it in the debate and
I would also like to point everybody's attention to Wisconsin Watch, the investigative journalist site, WisconsinWatch.org, where Tom Kircher has a write-up on the claims that have been made about the candidates and the facts.
And for example, he looks into the one that says, did Judge Crawford sentence a child sex offender to four years after the prosecutor requested 10 years?
And that's the case, and Judge Crawford said as much, and then she told why.
So forgive the somewhat graphic details here, but let's talk about this race and the claims being made.
Five years ago, Judge Crawford sentenced a man to four years in prison, six years of probation, so 10 years total, after the prosecutor requested 10 years in prison, five years of probation.
And then of course the defense only wanted probation.
The man was charged with inappropriately touching a six-year-old girl in a swimming pool in 2010, and then twice touching a girl in that same pool eight years later.
Now, Judge Crawford said, according to Wisconsin Watch, that the crimes occurring eight years apart still made the man a repeat offender, which required prison.
but were less serious than many of the other sexual assaults that come through her court and all the other courts out there and that 10 years in prison was longer than what was needed for rehabilitation.
And it gets back to that whole notion of what are prison sentences for?
Because there are people who would say, in all sincerity, oh, it shouldn't be 10 years, it should be 20 years for inappropriately touching the child.
Can we execute them?
And a more civil society says, okay, what is the appropriate time in prison for this?
Where is the rehabilitation?
What is the risk of reoffending?
Every judge has to balance these cases out and come to a term that if they went along with what the, you know, the most extreme public opinion wants, we'd still have so many, we could not possibly build enough prisons if we take the rehabilitation out of it.
And there are groups dedicated to pointing out the many, many people who have turned their lives around and made something of themselves.
You're never going to get recidivism down to zero percent.
And if that's your rationale for doing nothing but building prisons and warehousing people, well, good luck raising the money for that.
By the most part in society, we look for what is the right amount in each case that is before you.
And that is what Judge Crawford did.
So to have a sheriff pace that as somehow soft on crime is disingenuous and just frankly unseemly.
But if you look at the actual record of both candidates, rather than cherry picking a court case, I think Judge Crawford is on the right track to look at what Brad Schimmel actually did as Attorney General during Scott Walker's second term in office.
When Brad Schimmel waited some two years to begin a testing regimen for the backlog of rape kits.
because he did not want to approach the Republican-controlled legislature to ask for more money to begin processing those kits.
He and his team were looking outside of the state for grant money where they can get it.
And again, to be fair to Brad Schimmel, eventually the money was raised, eventually the backlog was addressed.
But to just let that backlog sit for two years while you look for alternative funding in the name of being, you know, a fiscally conservative,
doesn't do the potential victims of all those sexual assaults any favors whatsoever.
So that, in my mind, is fair criticism.
Is it fair criticism to grab this one case from Judge Crawford?
You bring it up.
I think it's fair to bring it up.
I think it's fair to ask Judge Crawford about it.
And she was.
And she responded, in much the same vein as what I just repeated back from Wisconsin Watch, the facts of the case are there.
So when you weigh that one case versus Brad Schimmel's record,
and then listen to what they stand for and then listen to or pay attention to who is funding them.
For example, the world's richest man, Elon Musk, backing Brad Schimmel, when Elon Musk has a corporate case that could come up before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, it might inform voters a little bit more come April 1st.
And again, early voting is underway for that right now for the Supreme Court raise and everything else on the April 1st ballot.
To learn more, head over to myvote.wi.gov.
We'll talk to a couple of state legislators coming up right after this on Up North News Radio, live from Lake Wissota on the Civic Media Radio Network.
We've only got so much time in every history lesson so sometimes we get things that spill over and it was on this week in 1974
that the Eagles released their third studio album on the border with singles like that one already gone as well as best of my love and James Dean.
Let's see there was one text.
I didn't pass along earlier.
I wish I had but Dave from New Berlin.
Thank you for listening We talked about Fred Rogers being born on this day and he says I bet two years of paychecks that Fred Rogers never ever swore thoughts the thoughts are really short Dave I think you're 100% right everything that I could find on my Google machine Indicates that Fred Rogers was yes.
That was not a TV act.
He was that genuinely wholesome and
I'm sure you never heard a nasty word come out of his mouth.
The same cannot be said from an ex-guest, State Senator Jeff Smith, my brother from another mother.
We've had enough conversations where, you know, an untoward word may have slipped out, but not on this particular program because this is on the radio and we're well behaved that way.
Jeff Smith, how are you?
Well, at least about me.
Come to think of it, I don't know that I've ever heard a crossword from you.
Ah, yes.
Well, that takes us to what's happening in the state capital these days.
And we'll get to that in just a second.
How are things on the farm up there in the town of Brunswick in Eau Claire County?
water.
What all is on the farm
What do you have?
What did you have the most?
Yeah, horses.
When you got to get the eggs, you got to get the eggs.
Jeff's claim to fame in doing parades as a legislator and as a candidate has been usually somewhere in the back of the parade with a broom and a pail because he knows the thing or two about.
cleaning up, shall we say, political manure as well as the animal type.
And it's something you have to deal with.
You have real life experience dealing with what you hear in the Capitol
Yes.
So we'll take care of some of the business and the legislature in a second.
But there was one ceremonial thing that happened this week.
So I thought I would ask your thoughts on it every year.
There is a state of the state address.
There is the governor's budget address.
But there is also the state of the tribe's address.
And this week it was delivered by Thomas Fowler, the chair of the St.
Croix Chippewa.
And it was a very nice address.
recorded it, I've been meaning to pull some snippets out of it to share on the show and on Up North News.
I was especially struck by the part about wanting to change the rule back so that tribal members can wear their tribal regalia at graduation ceremonies.
But there was also a lot said about protecting our natural resources.
being respectful of tribal sovereignty, things like that.
And you've been to more than a couple of these over the years and just wanted to get your impression on the importance of having an address like that every year.
It was one of the best I've heard in the years that I've been.
And it's one of my favorite days, by the way.
I happen to be on the Tribal Relations Committee.
And that bill you just mentioned, it is a bill actually to allow them to wear the travel regalia for the graduations.
That's something that we passed unanimously.
Republicans and Democrats were both on that committee.
And it's, we're only just representative of the legislature.
There's a number of, every tribal nation is represented on that as well.
And a few other bills, but what was unfortunate in this
in this address was the couple of times, especially one time that came that really jumped out at me was we cannot afford to repeat history.
And when it comes to destroying our environment and things like that, and we stood and gave him a standing ovation on that and not a person on the other side of the aisle stood for that.
It's gotten so political.
It's really, really sad.
It is.
And I mean, the most recent example of that that comes to mind for me is the dispute with the Lactoflambo and the town of Lactoflambo joining it.
And again, respect for treaty rights and easements and land ownership.
And it is one that I have said.
the Bureau of Indian Affairs is well overdue in trying to find a negotiated solution to that.
So it was in my mind not helpful in any way shape or form that the Trump administration decided to close up some BIA offices, including the one in Ashland.
It just makes everybody's job that much tougher to engage in public service and avoid the very confrontations that Chairman Fowler was talking about.
He did mention the latest oil spill in line six recently.
We're very fortunate.
We have been very fortunate over the years.
I told him that later that we're very fortunate that the tribes have been the ones that we've had to lean on and depend on to stand up for keeping our environment and our water clean and fighting back with us.
Yeah, Bill, you're absolutely right because what are they trying to do here?
Well, we know what they're trying to do is to take away the rights that not only the tribes have, but all of us have for a good, clean environment.
Yeah, I'm not.
I'm not going to put you on the spot.
I'm just going to make the observation that it was interesting to see the chairman making his remarks and sitting behind him was the president of the Senate, Mary Falskowski, who would elect the flambo, went so far as to ban her from the reservation for some incendiary remarks.
So it would be nice of the Senate president to maybe lead the way in having cooler heads prevail on matters like that.
No, let's turn to the more routine matters of the legislature at this point.
And that, of course, would be the state budget, as most folks don't follow the legislature.
The overview is that there's a state budget that comes up every two years.
The state has a $4 billion surplus.
Or it doesn't, if you count how much the Republican-led legislature has underfunded schools over the past 15 years or so.
But Republicans are insisting on
tax cuts before they talk about any other kinds of investments or spending.
The Joint Finance Committee yesterday, I believe, announced its public hearings.
It always goes on the road and gets public input in these day-long public hearings.
And there are two in early April, two in late April.
They will be in Kokona, West Alice, Hayward, and Warsaw.
which basically means, you know, the the southwestern half of the state is not exactly represented by these.
I know they're tough to schedule.
I know they're day-long events, Jeff, but you and I have sat through Joint Finance Committee hearings when they've been in the Chippewa Valley, and it is as it is as basic and grassroots as it gets where legislators have to listen to regular folks from all over the state say,
These should be the priorities in the state budget.
These should be the investments you make in Wisconsin.
on
joint finance across the state to give people even more opportunity to be sure we hit every corner of the state.
And it's it's it feels like it's become more of a dog and pony to them.
They don't particularly follow.
Any of the recommendations made by the public and it's I'm always embarrassed actually that people will wait for hours It is not an exaggeration and you know that hours they'll sit and wait for their moment to be able to speak and And at the at the front end of these hearings the Republicans will line up their lobbyists that they trust and and
WMC and others and give them as much time as they want to speak and then limit the public to two minutes each as they sit for hours waiting for their chance and and then to think that they've done that and and then feel like they haven't been heard so I say that at the same time I encourage people to be there and and pack those gymnasiums and
and other places wherever they show up, because it is really important that they also feel the pressure from the public.
Yeah, and not in any kind of a disrespectful way.
Again, I've been to enough of these to know that people will literally sit there and wait hours for their chance to speak for only two minutes, and they're almost always interrupted by one of the Republican co-chairs at that point.
But I'm glad you
you brought up what happens at the front end because I don't think that happens enough where it's mentioned and it is also in the topic of minor political reforms that nobody talks about that I would make and one of them would be showing respect to your constituents and not front loading these public hearings and it doesn't just happen in joint finance it happens in regular committee meetings of all sorts where they will front load the testimony
lobbyists and and other allies literally for hours before they let the general public have their little two hour two hour two minute speaking slots and it's just so incredibly wrong but again it's such a it's such an inside baseball thing that they're not made to really feel any sense of shame about it but I appreciate you bringing bringing that well it
No, that's the thing.
It's all special interests to them.
In the short time that I've left you here, we've been talking about the budget.
Are there other things that you either are specifically looking to put into the budget or non-budget bills that you're working on, any other high priorities you want to talk about quickly?
And what I honestly tell people is that, well, you need to help me find a Republican to take the lead on your request, because that's the only way the Joint Finance Committee is going to hear.
But this morning, as a matter of fact, when I'm done here, I'm going to be going to the Capitol with Fran Hong.
We're going to be addressing the press and introducing our resolution for economic justice, Bill of Rights.
So it includes, you know, a living wage, accessible childcare, ability for collective bargaining, affordable, high quality healthcare, environmental and healthy sustainable environment and healthy planet, affordable housing, transportation, broadband and access to capital investments and financial institutions, retirement and equitable justice system, participation in community and civic life, which we just
talked about and life of self-determination and freedom from the oppressions that we are currently seeing happening.
Well, and I'm glad to be introduced.
Obviously, it's not going to go anywhere in a Republican-controlled legislature, but part of why we set up this show was far too often there would be proposals made by members of the legislature that local media would either play down or just outright ignore because, well, it's not going to pass anyway.
Well,
You're not doing your listeners or your readers or your viewers any favors because they deserve to hear everything that's being proposed out there.
and say, hey, maybe that's not going to pass, but that's a pretty good idea.
That might inform, you know, how active they are next time around, maybe who they vote for and things like that.
So, yeah, even though it's not something that's going to pass, it's important to introduce and I'm glad that you did.
I'm glad that you talked about it for a bit and appreciate you spending a little time with us.
Senator Jeff Smith from Eau Claire County, town of Brunswick.
Always good to see you, my friend.
Thank you very much.
Always good for you,
it.
Have a great hot beef at raise as soon as we can here.
thanks.
Down to Water Street.
All right.
Thanks, sir.
All right.
Coming up next, it's Thursday.
Well, that means Luke Mathers is going to be here.
So stick around for that right after this.
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This is breezin' from George Benson.
If there's a pause there, here it comes.
Wait, where'd it go?
There it is.
Oh my God!
Guys, shut up for just, no, we're not talking.
We're just losing this whole song.
Nobody talk.
Coming up next, Fuzzy Zeller is about to putt fruit birdie here on the international.
Let's take a look at that leaderboard right now where Luke Mathers sits on top right now and joins us live from his lair in sunny P. Mr. Mathers, how are
you?
I'm doing well Mr. Freylo, how are you?
Very good, very good.
No.
Sometimes you want to engage with the comment section and bring it onto the radio.
Another time you're like, no, let's just leave.
Pat, are people talking out of their
tushy again?
That might be one way to put it.
Luke, you're going to have to remind me.
Last week, did we already know that there was going to be another Wisconsin contestant on Top Chef?
We talked about that last week, didn't
we?
Or did it happen
since then?
I believe when the season first got announced a few months back, I mentioned it then.
Poor
Greg, he's already checked out.
I am actually, since I got away for spring training last weekend, I'm behind on Top Chef, so I have not got a chance to see the season premiere from last week, so I'm gonna probably watch both episodes this evening.
And we
can avoid the
word for Greg's.
With a Wisconsin chef-testant, yes, Mr. Bach.
I can give you a recap of both episodes.
Okay.
So first there's like all those like smash cuts of like all the beautiful scenery and then, then they cook stuff and then roll credits.
There you go.
Somebody goes home, but it's in Canada this year.
So it is, uh,
it is,
they have to have made poutine by now.
What Canadian superstars show up?
I'm betting rush one or both surviving members of rush are going to be on an
episode.
That's a good guess.
I'm going to guess that either Robin or Alan Thicke will probably do that.
Well, Alan's
not.
Never mind.
Yeah, you're right.
Never
mind.
I can pretty much guarantee that if he shows up, that's maybe on a different channel.
Haunted kitchens.
A bare naked lady or four bare naked ladies.
That
would be the
group no, I don't think so because they have they have nary a sense of humor about anything
They're not good.
Yeah, they, they, they try so hard to be like up with the, the, you know, making fun of Nickelback, but you can tell when people do, they try to participate and it just hurts
that
work.
Nope.
Maybe, maybe some Ryan Reynolds or Justin Bieber.
Yeah, those are both big gets, but those are Canadians.
I don't know if either of them are foodies.
If either of them are foodies, they might be interested in going.
The Wisconsin contestants, damn, I know her name is cat.
Uh, and this on the text line from Jules listening in the Wausau area, there are a lot of strong contestants and she is not one of them.
Sorry.
I'm sorry.
I said that like.
Spoiler.
Come on.
That didn't say she got caught.
Just said she's not one of one of the stronger contestants.
Her name is Kat Turner.
Yes.
Um, look, we have to admit that, uh, Dan Jacobs flat, you know, during his season, he had some not great weeks.
Yeah.
Even though he finished second, he was far against one of those things where he was overall one of the strongest.
But there were a couple of weeks where I thought, oh, you're not going to make it, buddy.
Yeah, that is the case.
It is definitely a competition of endurance.
Like you have to be able to to hit your stride at the right time.
And so it might be a little too early, Jules, to be predicting who's going to be in the finals.
But it is one of those things where you got to be excellent, but you got to be excellent all the time.
And
so
you got to hit your stride right.
Is Michael Buble from Canada?
Yes.
Tony's putting it up on YouTube.
How about Mr. Buble?
I absolutely would put money that he will show up there.
I think...
Or as Alicia's like, I think Greg is ready to end the show now.
Yes, we know.
And he's playing along very nicely for us here.
Yeah, I see Mr. Buble showing up.
Yeah, I'll put some money
on him.
Who's the Crosby?
He's Canadian, right?
David Crosby?
He's dead, too.
Bing, the hockey player.
Oh, oh, cross.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Mason Crosby.
No, that's the, that's kicker.
That's Sydney.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm sure it's going to be chock full of, of amazing Canadian superstars and legends and people we've never heard of Drake.
No, thank you.
Let's make the switch from food to sports here because Mr. Mathers is sporting his brewery cap.
And the season begins a week from today.
How are you
feeling?
pretty good.
It was really exciting to get to spring training.
Pat, you and I both, uh, crossing that item off the bucket list.
We're going to
have to
start to go fund me so that Greg can, uh, folks, if you want to send Greg to spring training next year, send in a donation
to two things, two things.
I have offered to go to spring training for civic media to do work.
Like I would legit do work.
I would cover things.
I would interview.
I would do whatever you wanted.
Nothing.
Also, I said to Luke, I said, Oh, I didn't know you were going.
I would have asked you to get me this.
spring training at your response was buy one at Coles.
That's where
I got my Coles.
Yeah.
It's awesome.
There's a little cactus on it and it's got the, the spring training with the state of Arizona on the bag.
And I picked it up from Coles.
So I had it with me before
I went.
I think I really want to, I want to go next year.
The only problem is I take a vacation in January and it's very hard to make that, you know, so it's going to have to be like a Friday afternoon to Sunday type of thing.
Cause I don't want to take too much time off and leave people.
in the lurch.
It's a great turnaround, but you could definitely, it's right in downtown Phoenix, which is really nice and it was easy to get to.
And I highly recommend for folks who haven't had the opportunity yet.
Great spring training.
Very exciting to see the crew this season.
Oh, and, and one more Jules again on the text line, Dan Levy.
Yeah, Dan Levy would be excellent
on there.
I could definitely
see Dan.
I can see the Levy family on there.
I can see all three of them on there.
Definitely.
Yep.
Tony writes on Ashland that he would join the trip to provide social media support for Greg's tour.
There we go.
Greg, we're making, we're making plans already.
It's going to be
great.
The crew beat the Guardians, Tony's Guardians on Sunday.
And you can hear them on our newest affiliate, newest Bruce affiliate up north in Hayward.
WBZH.
That's right.
Thank you, Mr. Mathers.
Appreciate it.
Greg Bach is back in two hours for Matt Nair on air, and we appreciate you being here for Up North News Radio.
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Voted early.
You can go do the same.
