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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 0 6.
On this Friday morning, March 21st, 2025.
It's another beautiful morning to have you here up north.
Live from Lake Wissota.
from all across the Civic Media radio network and whether you're listening on the radio or on the app or by a podcast or watching us on social media, we appreciate you starting your day and wrapping up your week right here.
I've got a question for you.
What's a radio host supposed to do when he forgets to write the question of the day to talk to people?
because we're getting near the end of the week and I've already noticed a couple of things have started to slip through the cracks over here, including my question of the day.
So he says, thinking quickly on his feet, have you signed up yet for our weekend?
That's it.
Greg box just sends me a note going improv, baby.
You know what?
That's exactly what I'll improv.
Hey, Greg.
Good morning.
What's at the laughing tap this weekend?
There's no laughing tap.
What's that?
I don't know what you're talking about.
This is a lottery ticket.
Oh, no.
Oh,
no.
Oh, I'm glad you I'm glad you asked because that sets me up for a nice little segue.
Um, yes.
How are you kind of Bolu is our guest this weekend.
He's actually just did a show last night.
He's got five shows.
for left to tonight to tomorrow.
Get your tickets now because Saturday early is already sold out.
So we have Friday early, which probably going to sell out this afternoon.
Then late shows 10pm are available laughing tap.com for all the information $22 at the door 25 I'm sorry $22 online $25 at the door.
And here's two other things Pat one
Harry Cundabola is going to be my guest on Baton Air on air.
I'm filling in for Jane for today on Monday and 11 o'clock.
He will be our guest.
And we'll be talking about comedy life, being a dad in comedy, things like that.
And I am also hosting this weekend.
So you get to see me perform as well.
No way.
Oh.
And now so many of the show, like the shows are selling out, the tickets are, we've got such short notice to be able to come see you.
That's fine.
You'll do it again sometime, right?
We'll see.
Oh,
come on, don't make us beg.
No worries, man.
Hari is the, Hari is the star of the show.
It's a great weekend.
He's working on his new hour.
So there's a lot of great material in there.
And yeah, come on out.
I will, I will just say that, just say as you heard me on the radio and I'll give you a hearty high five
there.
If you're, if you're in the area, stop on in there.
I'm trying to think of what what has thrown me off this morning that I actually didn't have a couple of things ready.
And I don't think I can blame is this white shirt.
You know what I was going to say?
This is it's a change of wardrobe.
It really is.
I get teased so much for the for the plaids, the patterns, whatever, whatever it is.
You're Tartan.
I
always the Tartan.
And I always say the same thing.
I'm like, I had to wear solid color dress shirts for.
Decades yeah as a as a TV anchor and in the legislature.
I was like, I really enjoy being at this age now where I just wear these nice comfortable casual shirts and Going through the the closet yesterday.
I saw a couple of shirts were in the back You know these nice linen shirts or whatever they are including this nice white one and there's another one solid red And I know that when I wear these solid colors the folks watching on social media can can right away tell like oh
Look, look how red his face is against that yellow wall with that white shirt.
And so even though I'm on the radio, still thinking TV and going, okay, this, but today was just like, Oh, you know what?
I'm just going to go ahead, go ahead.
Ever since that time, I was sitting there halfway through breakfast.
And I was like, I forgot to make coffee.
Stop halfway through breakfast.
Go get the coffee.
He says with his Friday Roy Kent coffee mug where you can take a sip here.
Whistle!
Whistle!
Oh,
thank you, sir.
Yeah, so my routine is just a little bit off today.
Then I had this original routine planned for this weekend where, again, empty space behind me, gonna be beautiful bookshelves.
All the IKEA boxes still over here at my feet.
Yeah.
That was going to be this weekend.
Yeah.
But my son-in-law's hockey team made it to the final four of their conference tournament.
So we're going to go see those games later today and tomorrow, hopefully, if they win tonight.
So everything is just, oh, darn you, Dan Schaefer, for taking this word.
It's all, we're all discombobulated.
Oh, I was going to say, I was in flux.
No, we're definitely discombobulated is where we are here.
But, you know, it's okay.
It's also that weird time where it's like, on any given hour, is it winter or is it spring?
I can't tell.
I wanted the winter coat yesterday because the wind was still high enough.
But even with the wind, it's like, this winter coat is still a little too much.
But a light jacket wouldn't have been enough, you know?
So, we're just starting off with a full-blown
of
whining here.
A full bowl of whining.
No, full-blown.
Just a full-blown whining.
Oh, never mind.
Yeah, full-blown whining.
Yes,
I was halfway through that bowl of whining when I realized I hadn't made the coffee yet.
I would like some whining.
Would you like a cup or a bowl?
Oh, please a bowl.
It's been a day.
Yes, I'll take
a 50 gallon drum please.
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In today's newsletter, you're going to notice people with mismatched socks today.
And it's an honor of World Down Syndrome Day.
part of the mismatch chromosomes.
JJ watt is 30 turns 33 over the weekend.
So we tip our hat to the Wisconsin native.
And then we get into this one, Mr. Bach, the whole notion of automatic tipping.
And in Christina's case, there's a story about a restaurant where they just automatically add 20%.
They say, don't tip, here's a 20% surcharge, and then it's shared equally with the staff.
My own standpoint is there's some restaurants in Eau Claire that have added an 18%.
What do they call it?
Living wage adjustment or something for the servers?
And I happily sign that.
I'm good with that.
seems to strikes me as a little high.
And I know there's not a big difference there, but you know, you're selling it as something more than 15%.
Would it be great if we didn't have tipping at all and all servers just got a decent wage?
Yeah, but it's such a, it's a tough cultural norm, I guess, to overcome that.
I don't think you're ever going to get rid of tipping.
So maybe you find a way to adjust it so that people aren't just reliant on tips as far as whether they're going to be able to pay the rent or not.
What hmm, okay, so I worked in customer service for a very long time and very much in the tipping culture and I've always been very very appreciative of the tips I've gotten I will say a forced when you force me to pay a tip I Don't appreciate that because I feel like the tip should be based on the service you get so if you if I don't get if I don't get good service and you're making me
pay 20% and then that bothers me a little bit.
I'm not against tipping.
I don't ever stiff people.
But the other thing too is when you call it a quality of life surcharge, what that says to me is that you won't pay your people enough to live and you're making us do it for you.
You're making us save your pockets.
And here's the comeback for that, which is not, again, it's debatable what's right or what's not.
And I'm gonna play the part of the the restaurant owner who adds the 18% yeah saying I'm adding that because you're saying well, I should just pay them more but
That also means it's gonna eat into my profit margin Whereas the guy across the street who's gonna pay his server two bucks an hour and hope you get good tips You know gets off scot-free So I'd rather be upfront and honest with my customers and say here's what you and I are doing together to make sure that we have good servers I'm not saying it's right or wrong.
That would that would just be the
comeback to it
I would, I would come back with it.
We're not doing it together.
It's on, it's still, the onus is still on me.
I'm the one who's still, I'm the one paying for the meal.
I'm the one paying for their quality of life surcharge.
This is, you are, you as the owner are putting the responsibility on me.
If we're doing this together, then maybe split it.
Then say, Hey, I, you know, whatever that, whatever that thing is, but like,
At the other day, you get into business.
It's a competition.
If you can't keep up with the guy across the street, you're going to go out of business and you can't force me to help pay your, your people more because you're afraid you're the guy across street is going to outdo you.
So that's, yeah, it's, I don't have a problem with tipping.
I'm not cheap.
In fact, I overtip generally because I feel like it's a customer service is a tough gig, especially in today's world.
But it's the
owners who come at us and tell the customers, well, we're going to give that to you.
You're going to handle that for us and you're going to do that.
And it's like, well, then maybe I won't come back because that's that because that then makes it makes the experience a lot more expensive to depending on where you're going.
Oh, it absolutely can.
But I mean, we just had this talk the other day about, you know, portion sizes so
that
you can charge bigger prices.
It just feels like everything is out of whack.
You're charging me too much because you're giving me too much.
But you may not be giving your servers enough and you're asking me to make up the difference for an already expensive
bill
for a meal that's going to feed me for three meals.
Yeah.
So the whole thing just seems off.
I would I would definitely grant you that it does come back to why we often have guests on from main
Street Alliance because there are business owners who again want to get away with paying the least amount possible.
They will be as as cheap on their employees as humanly possible.
Others actually want their servers to have health care.
So it either comes out of their pocket or they do what Main Street Alliance does and they try to get things like
expanding Medicaid coverage for everybody or, you know, raising the minimum wage or things like that have everybody play on the same level playing field.
Agreed.
Work
to
work together.
Yeah.
Let's work together and be good to our workers
and
be good to our customers.
It's not just about the shareholders.
We will pause right here.
Come back.
Talk a little bit about, oh, Tarek Van Orden, he's got a crush on me.
Twice in the past couple of days, he has singled me out for attention.
I feel special.
This is Up North News Radio, live from Lake Wasota on the Civic Media Radio Network.
The things I've
just been talking about you know falling behind and there's a couple of things I didn't get done in time I'm also being reminded that sometimes you can work too far ahead I hear this and I'm just right wait a minute what is
What is this doing here?
And I scroll up and realize I actually did the history lesson.
I had a couple of days and made note to say that on this day in 1953, this was the number one song in the country by Patty Page.
And I didn't want to put it in the formal history lesson.
So we just carried it over to some bumper music at 622 in the morning.
So there you go.
I just have a quick question for those who are alive back in the day of 1953.
How did it feel to accept this as a real form of entertainment?
Oh, well, yes.
I mean, come on.
It was the era of Pat Boone and all kinds of other, you know, vanilla, white toast singers out there.
So eventually, you know, Chuck Berry came along and a few other folks were welcomed into the American mainstream
and
Pat Boone covered those songs and ruined them too.
It ruined them and got higher on the charts at the time, which again says a lot about America back in the day.
I did not share Brittany Merleau's forecast for the state.
She'll be here just after the seven o'clock news, but here's what she's got to say for today.
A front quickly marches through the state today, followed by a day of calm before the next storm hits the state on Sunday.
That's going to pack a wintry mix of rain for some and snow for others.
So here's the state forecast for today, partly to mostly cloudy, breezy, but warmer.
Some spotty light rain and snow showers move quickly across the state today.
Highs will be in the low 40s up north, the low 50s in the south, a west wind at 10 to 20 miles an hour for tonight.
A few flurries, partly cloudy and cool.
upper teens in the north for lows tonight, mid 20s in the south and a northwest wind 10 to 20.
Then like she said, quiet on Saturday, storm coming in on Sunday.
She'll have much more to say about that.
Oh, in about 45 minutes or so from right now.
We got through the entire start of the show without talking about March Madness and the brackets and everything else.
I know I peaked in occasionally.
At the Badger game against Montana and thought this is this is a little too close and it was starting to bring up memories of last year's First round loss to James Madison Badgers getting bounced in the first round of the tournament Well in the end the Badgers pulled away and they did beat Montana 85 to 66 so they next will play BYU that will be Saturday
and it's going to be an evening game, 6.45 p.m.
It'll be on CBS and the radio version of the match will be on Civic Media Stations in the Amory, Wisconsin Rapids and Richland Center.
The tip-off is at 6.45, so I'm assuming radio coverage begins at 5.45, somewhere in there.
But again, not on the app.
You got to be listening to the civic media stations in those four mentioned cities.
Marquette, meanwhile, a seven seed plays against 10 seed New Mexico at 625 this evening.
That game will be on TBS.
I tell you that now because I mean, it feels like the NCAA game is around like 14 different TV channels.
Everybody's kind of looking around like, where's this game?
Where do I find this one or that one?
So.
I don't know.
They give, they give you little clips here and there.
Like I, I missed this entirely at 12 B to five yesterday.
McNeese defeated Clemson, um, by, I think by two points.
So I'm sure that was an exciting game, but I maybe was watching one of the other 13 that was going on at the time.
Possibly.
That's what that, that, I think Pat, that right there is why college sports escapes me.
There's so much happening.
So much happening.
Well, I suppose I better fess up.
Derek Van Orden's got a thing for the show, Greg.
Ooh.
Maybe it's you.
Maybe he's tuning in for the funny stuff.
No, he never really.
I don't know.
He maybe likes a good laugh, because for me, all I'm saying is, here's a guy getting his 30 pieces of silver, as I put it yesterday, for Elon Musk making the maximum allowable donation to him.
And to other members of Congress who specifically called for the impeachment of federal judges who dared insist that Donald Trump follow the law.
So Greg, imagine my surprise when just what a couple of days after he called me a clown online that he took issue with what I said yesterday on the radio, where I said in so many words that Van Orden was one of the first to call for the impeachment of a judge.
Well,
That was my fault.
I knew he was the first.
I don't know why I couched the language live on air, but of course he caught it and commented I think it was on the civic media Instagram or Facebook was I think it was
Facebook.
I think it was Facebook
So there there's Derek van Orden with a freeze frame of me and he says I was not one of the first I was the first get your facts straight you goofball
Which would have been, ooh, that would have been enough of a burn right there.
Weird.
But then he goes on, he frets for a moment, he's like, oh wait, no, I've got another insult.
And he writes, it takes the time, a congressman takes the time to write this.
At me.
I don't recall seeing your royal tubbiness in Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia or the Horn of Africa when I was defending your right to be a jackass.
Congressman, you're right.
I wasn't there.
I checked with Greg.
He has not been in Afghanistan.
Let me check my.
Yep.
No, I was not there.
Nothing there.
Nothing there.
Congressman, that was all you.
You were there and I thank you for your service and I am grateful for it.
It's what you've done since your time in the service that has really put that jackass label elsewhere.
And in our
On our social media sites, especially Facebook, we've made a little slideshow about his response and his willingness to betray the Constitution by undermining federal judges.
And then the last slide is just a sample, just a sample of his tweets from the past couple of days, just loaded with insults, you know, including words I'd rather not say on the radio, pointed at various figures who
have, again, the audacity to want to stand up for their constituents rather than kiss the backside of an authoritarian president.
So, Congressman, I appreciate your listening.
Congressman, if you want to watch these video clips and if you want to keep commenting on them and if you want to bring more attention to this fine radio program, I am very grateful.
Just as I am grateful for your service while you're in the military.
It's your alleged service while you're in Congress.
that has led to these pointed comments, where again, I'll say what I said yesterday.
Show me any daylight between you and President Trump in terms of his moves toward authoritarianism, and I will give you the benefit of the doubt.
But for the moment, what you're doing is still a betrayal of the Constitution that you sort of uphold.
And we'll talk about that with former U.S.
Attorney Jim Santel in our next hour.
We'll have our Courier Newsroom Roundtable coming up next.
You're up north.
Hey, welcome back on this Friday.
It's time for our little courier newsroom roundtable courier.
Here's the parent company of Up North News, a separate entity from Civic Media, but we're always pleased to partner with them for this fine radio show, two hours every weekday morning.
But from Courier Newsroom is a national correspondent, Kia Vakil, out in California.
Kia, hello, how are you?
Very good.
Thanks.
And welcome in.
Matt Henney from Courier, Texas as well.
Matt, I think you told me before.
Are you in Austin?
I am in Austin.
Yes.
You are in Austin.
Okay.
Minutes away
from the state capital.
That's right.
Nice to see you.
Thanks so much for being here.
There are more than a couple of headlines out of Texas we can talk about because the news is always big there.
But before we get to the news, because of course we
We have a habit on the show of threatening people with sports talk, and then we never really quite talk about sports.
So Kia, you especially, you have filled out brackets.
You have a unique way, a very, I would say, non-sports way of filling them out.
I decided to take the, you know, relatively hacky moneyball approach and look at historical seed trends of advancing based on what seed you are and to what stage you get to and what percentage of them.
And so, uh, I put together a bracket based on that.
Uh, you know, I still have Duke winning in the national championship game, so it's not as if I like really did anything.
It's not
Okay, all right.
And in your case, Matt, you said you didn't do brackets, but according to the headline and courier, Texas, there are nine Texas teams participating in March Madness.
So it's not like you can escape it where you are.
No, so I don't have a bracket.
There's probably eight now because I think University of Texas and men's team lost their opening game against.
Xavier, but I don't have a bracket.
I will though just take a safe pick and go with University of Houston on the men's side to go deep into the tournament.
I mean, that's a pretty lame, but it's also pretty safe.
There you go.
We all do it.
Everybody has their own way after on brackets and you never know what what you might win in the office pool.
I've said this before, but I'm going to say it again as well.
Part of the reason we try to start some of these segments a little bit lighthearted is because we actually do cover the news and the news has been
a little dark lately.
And Matt, I wanted to bring you on board to talk from a Texas standpoint in some of the first arrests made since the Dobbs decision, including a midwife.
Can you tell us a bit about what has happened there in Texas and where things stand currently?
Yeah, if you need to start with dark news.
Texas right now we're halfway through the legislative session and it's a good place to turn for that.
But in terms of the arrest, yeah, three people have been arrested in connection with the Texas Attorney General's office.
An investigation into what they allege are abortions that run afoul to the state's draconian abortion ban.
So there's three Houston area people.
One of them is a midwife that has been accused of performing a couple of illegal abortions under state law in the Houston area.
Apparently there's not a lot of details that have come out.
The arrests were just announced on Monday the 17th.
But apparently the AG's office got tipped off by someone, started an investigation with Harris County Sheriff's deputies and went from there and culminated in the arrests on Monday.
Do we know if these were abortions as most folks used to know them in a clinic setting versus facilitating a medication abortion?
The latest details I saw today about the investigation is that at least one of them was facilitated by medication.
But the arrest documents apparently went into a great deal about some of the other equipment they found in one of these clinics.
All right.
Well, obviously it's something that we find extremely troubling and will follow but I also Did see that your governor there Greg Abbott?
Apparently sought to clarify the law that it isn't how did you put it?
It isn't draconian.
It's misunderstood
There is a bill that since the law went into effect a couple years ago I mean it is there are very few exceptions all dealing with the
saving the life of the pregnant patient.
And there's been a lot of confusion from doctors and healthcare providers around the law and when they can step in, which has resulted in doctors not taking action and women dying because of a ban.
So the author of the ban, who just a few months ago said the problem wasn't with the ban, it was with the media and reproductive rights groups, said,
There wasn't any clarification needed.
Fast forward to March, and he filed a bill that clarifies when medical providers can step in to save the life of the mother and not face the fines and steep prison sentences that they would otherwise face.
And the governor is on board with it, and so is the lieutenant governor, so it is likely to move through the session and get passed.
An interesting reversal given that Amanda Zyrowski was speaking again in Wisconsin recently about her experience nearly dying from an abortion in Texas.
Kiev, I know that you
cover national news from the west coast, but even all those many miles away from DC, it seems almost palpable that everybody in Washington DC is like, whoo, glad we got that off our shoulders.
Now all the states can deal with all these issues because they've got, you know, 99 other fish to fry.
But on the other hand, I suppose it won't be that much longer till they take up a national abortion ban.
I'm sorry,
which is the thing that's gonna happen in a lot of these states Idaho, you know Trump is wants to let them deny emergency abortion care when women's lives are on the line and Yeah, I mean we'll see I think they're gonna I don't think I Don't know that Trump they don't have the votes for a national abortion ban, but what they can do
is revoke approval from Ifa Pristone, remove all sorts of funding for women's health care, and sort of chip away at it piece by piece.
And so that come 2029, it might be genuinely very difficult to get an abortion, even if you're in California, even if you're in New York, even if you're in Wisconsin, regardless of what states do.
At the end of the day, the federal government
is the top dog.
And so if they want to chip away at these, they have friendly judges in a lot of these courts.
And so it's totally possible that we're going to enter a period of time where even in blue states that medication abortion becomes very difficult to get.
Let's turn our attention to education and we'll get to the voucher debate in Texas in just a second here, but obviously you did have the president again attempting to follow through with something that
He can't do, but he can almost do, and that is abolish a cabinet-level department, the Department of Education.
What's the current standing on that key?
Is it how much of this is illusion and how much of it is, well, I can't do it, but I'm gonna do it anyway.
Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to direct the Department of Education essentially to...
abolish itself effectively he cannot do that under you know only Congress can eliminate a federal agency you know what he can do is what they are doing they're purging staff they are essentially trying to gut the agency from within similar to you know how they could reduce or limit reproductive rights they could really affect what work the Department of Education does and that's
Troubling for a number of factors, a number of reasons.
One, the Department of Education enforces regulations like Title IX.
It provides funding to the states for things like Head Start and programs for special education.
And it also is the agency that administers and...
regulates student loans.
And so if you eliminate an agency, what happens to those loans?
We have tens of millions of people with student loan debt.
And does that just go to private loan?
Does that just go completely private?
We know what happens when those sorts of things happen.
We know private loans are much, much more predatory in some cases.
And, you know, they're targeting public service loan forgiveness.
And it's just, it's bad all the way around.
And that's just getting rid of the department, which is part of an ongoing right-wing push to privatize education, let the religious schools and for-profit schools take things over.
We have talked a lot about the school voucher situation here in Wisconsin, which is closing in on costing taxpayers a billion dollars a year.
Again, good old Texas, gotta be bigger.
You're already pushing your billion dollar mark for vouchers, aren't you?
They are starting out with a billion dollars here and some new details of the proposals for the voucher plan have come out this week.
There are mechanisms in both the Senate and the state house versions to allow folks who hold the purse strings to state money to transfer money from other agencies once the voucher plan is in place, which is the first time I've seen reporting about that.
State ledge may appropriate $1 billion and if they run out of that money when the legislature is not in session because it meets every other year here, they're putting in a mechanism for budget folks to be able to put more money into the voucher plan here, which is interesting for a lot of reasons, but one of which is the governor as recently as a couple of days ago continued to say and talk down.
budget predictions that the voucher plan is going to explode a massive hole in the budget and say well it's not going to get any bigger than lawmakers allow it to but yet they have this factor or mechanism now it seems to be able to funnel money to it if they tap out the billion dollars they're looking to set aside for it.
So what I'm not hearing is what I know I've heard from other states where
even Republicans are saying, hey, I'm a voucher school proponent, but even this is too much for state taxpayers to shoulder.
In Wisconsin, it's still full steam ahead with what voucher advocates are saying.
That's the impression I'm certainly getting from Texas, that there's no Republican out there who's explicitly saying, hey, we might want to consider putting the brakes on this a little bit.
Yeah, you know two years ago Republicans rule Republicans out of them in Texas helped kill the measure in the house and then they got primary by Republicans by the governor and 10 12 of them were removed and lost their races.
So there's there's less dissent on the Republican side, but you know, we'll see it's the the measure in the house just got a 22 hour committee hearing their
Planning to pass it out of the house sometime in the next week or two, but it's gonna get amended and we'll see what happens when it hits the house floor
Let's let's go from there again trying to Attain things whether they're financially viable or not to trying to attain things whether they're constitutional or not And that would be Kia the coverage back to DC of President Trump trying to do things even if
judges tried to stop him from doing it.
We talked yesterday on the program about Derek Van Orden being one of the Republican members of Congress that Elon Musk maxed out to in terms of donations as he did for any member of Congress who called for the impeachment of federal judges who tried to stand in Donald Trump's way of doing anything that he wants.
So with Elon Musk still keeping the checkbook open
I imagine we're not going to be done anytime soon, despite the rebuke from the Chief Justice of the United States with Donald Trump calling for judicial impeachments.
Troubling and awful that he is they're targeting judges who happen to rule against him And I'll note that it's not just Democratic appointed judges.
He's had Republican appointed judges rule against him all Judges from all ideologies because essentially what they're trying to say is that this is you know He can do what he wants and no one can stop him and so and that laws are essentially irrelevant if you're the president and you know
What's concerning is the Supreme Court kind of said that last year is that he has immunity from things taken under his official actions as president.
And, you know, targeting judges, will they actually be impeached?
That's unlikely, given the threshold you need to reach to impeach in votes wise in Congress.
But, you know, judges are worried about getting death threats.
We have seen Trump supporters, you know, the most extreme ones.
We saw what happened on January 6th.
We've seen them attack and threaten lawmakers, lawmakers' families.
And so it is, I would be afraid if I was a judge right now.
I don't feel particularly, I'm not unconcerned as a journalist.
We've seen them target media outlets they don't like, law firms they don't like.
And there is no, there's no recognition that this isn't like a monarch, you're a dictatorship.
And that, boys and girls, is why we start off light in segments like this, and why we're going lighter right after this break with today's history lesson.
But Matt Henney, Keva Keel, again, thanks for keeping us updated.
We appreciate it so much.
Have a good weekend, both of you.
Thank you.
We'll be back with more after this.
You're up north.
Happy 75th birthday to Roger Hodgson, founding member of Supertramp.
Roger composed and sang the majority of the band's many hits, including the logical song here, as well as Dreamer.
Give a little bit.
Take the long way home.
It's raining again.
Breakfast in America.
And more.
Happy birthday, Roger Hodgson.
75 today.
Happy birthday to actor Matthew Broderick.
Yes, boys and girls.
Ferris Bueller is 63 years old today.
I like watching Greg's face.
Come on, Pat.
What are you doing to me here?
That's, I don't, I don't, I don't, the math works.
The math says Ferris Bueller is 63 years old today.
Okay.
So on that happy note, happy birthday to Russell Tompkins Jr.
from the Stylistics.
He's 74 today.
God I love this group
From 1971 to 1974 the stylistics had 12 consecutive top 10 hits on the R&B chart five of them top 10 pop hits Including you make me feel brand new bet you buy golly Wow breakup to makeup and more Russell Tompkins Jr.
74 years old today Also, let's see
Born what, 76 years ago today?
The late great Eddie Money.
Eddie Money was born Joseph Mahoney in Brooklyn.
He passed away in 2019.
His dad was a police officer and young Joseph Mahoney also wanted to be a cop.
But he refused to cut his hair.
And ironically, the first band he was in, the band didn't want him because he was the son of a cop.
So they thought they thought he would get them into trouble.
So eventually he changed his name to Eddie Money and went on to have a much better singing career.
What's your name, sir?
My name is Edward Sir, not a cop.
That is my name.
Let's
see.
This is the anniversary of the birth of former Wisconsin governor, Patrick Lucy.
Born this day in 1918, passed away in 2014.
And if you've ever had M&Ms or a Mars bar or any of the lovely candies from M&M Mars, you should note that this is the anniversary of the birth of Forest Mars Senior.
who created M&M's and Mars bars.
Interesting.
Born this day in 1904, passed away in 1999, which means what night he lived to be 94, 95 years old.
So candy boys and girls is good for you.
Do you like your own candy sir?
I never touch the stuff.
It's disgusting.
Would that be something?
This day in 1994, Bruce Springsteen won the Academy Award, the Oscar for best song for streets of Philadelphia from the Tom Hanks movie.
I Recalled
that this movie was was bold for its time.
Yes, because obviously You know the LGBTQ community was still very much shunned not in the mainstream and Talk about that in the next hour where the the tea and LGBTQ the trans community.
Yeah has been the subject of just relentless bullying
by politicians, including four bills that passed out of the Wisconsin Assembly yesterday.
So we'll talk a bit about that.
On this day in 1964, the Beatles landed their second number one hit in the U.S.
with She Loves You, so we'll play that a little bit later on.
On this day in 1987, as far as I can tell, the one and only hit from Club Nouveau, a poppy little cover of the old Bill Withersong.
I would
have loved for them to give this treatment to other songs, too.
It was very catchy back in the day.
Club New Vo with
Streets of Philadelphia.
Maybe only to a point.
But they did 15 years after Bill Withers had lean on me.
They hit the charts with that in 1987.
Happy birthday.
We always talk about the late great, you know the anniversary of births from entities that are have passed away Twitter's original birthday was this day in 2006 I remember Twitter wasn't Twitter nice back at at a time.
Yeah, it was a it was a fun place I mean I don't I feel like I got there after the the innocent fun was had a
But way before it became what it is today.
And for the record, if you listen to Madden Air on Air.
In our house, it's still called Twitter.
We do
not call it.
It is still
called
Twitter.
Yes.
Yeah.
There was when it first started, I was like, I don't know if it's going to catch.
There weren't that many users on it and everything.
Eventually, enough news organizations got on there that it basically became a news ticker.
Yeah.
Depending on how you'd set up your feed, it was like the old AP teletype, just cranking out news.
Mm-hmm.
And then Donald Trump and Elon Musk came along and showed us first with Twitter and then with so many other things, including a country, that you can ruin pretty much anything if you're rich enough.
Yeah.
There is way too much stuff on the national day calendar and I've only got 60 seconds.
So I'm just going to rattle through all of these.
React if you want.
Guys, you gotta spread these things out.
There's too many of you who said, nope, I want my day to be March 21st.
All right.
So here we go.
Yeah.
This is International Day of Forests.
Yes.
It's National Common Courtesy Day.
Of course.
It's World Poetry Day.
It's Credit Card Reduction Day.
Yes.
It's Education Freedom Day.
Absolutely.
It is International Color Day.
Oh.
It is International Race Relations Day.
It is, let's see, there's another one here.
National California Strawberry Day.
Okay.
National Countdown Day.
321.
National Crunchy Taco Day.
Okay.
National Day of Action on Syringe Exchange, National Flower Day, National Fragrance Day, National French Bread Day, National Healthy Fats Day, National Preschool Teachers Appreciation Day, National Single Parent Day, National Renewable Energy Day, National Teenagers Day, and Rosie the Riveter Day.
Enjoy.
This day is all about you.
