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Now, live from our Lake Minnesota studio, here's the founding editor of Up North News, Pat Breidler.
Well hey there Wisconsin, good morning.
It is 6.06 on this Friday morning, March 28th, 2025.
It's a beautiful though noisy morning to have you here up north because of some rumbles of thunder.
live from Lake Wissota, from wherever you're listening across the Civic Media Radio Network.
On the app, Facebook, YouTube, podcast, however you're here, you're here.
And we thank you for it for wrapping up the week right here.
I've got a simple question.
What season are we in?
Thunderstorms now?
Snow in a day or two?
I'm watching baseball.
I'm watching hockey.
I've got four different jackets in the back seat for whatever the temperature is going to end up doing.
We'll get the full forecast details from meteorologist Brittany Merleau in just a sec.
I'll have her state forecast in just a moment here, first telling you what's coming up today.
Friday brings us Kia Vakil from Courier Newsroom.
We will talk about some of the national news stories of the week.
We'll start with a...
rather serious one of all the things that we've had to talk about during these eight weeks and there's been a lot.
One that I don't think we've talked about enough here is that some people are actually being taken right off the streets by playing clothes, law enforcement and unmarked cars and detained to be shipped out of the country without due process.
And that should bother anybody.
Again, even if you voted for somebody thinking, well, they're going to round up all the criminals.
Experience tells us in other countries when they say, I'm just going to go round up all the criminals.
It never is just the criminals.
There turns out to be folks who have committed no crimes.
There appear to be sometimes political opponents or critics.
And is that really the kind of country that we want to be?
So we'll talk to Kia a bit about that.
In our second hour, we will, as always, have Mark Jacob and Jennifer Schulze talking about media coverage of the week's events and former U.S.
Attorney Jim Santel.
Jim Santel is a former prosecutor.
All right, he's prosecuted a lot of bad dudes.
So I was curious as to his opinion on a new bill making its way through the Wisconsin legislature that would say in so many words to anybody violating parole right back into prison with you.
You know, the ones that are overcrowded and understaffed with no accounting for things like rehabilitation or a need for addiction treatment or anything.
Nope, we just throw you in a cage because we have some lawmakers who think prisons just magically happen and are just magically paid for and that there aren't more cost-effective ways to look out for public safety.
So we'll talk to Jim Santel.
Maybe it's a prosecutor.
He'll think that's a great idea.
Spoiler alert, he does not.
So that's coming up.
Dan Schumacher will talk to us about sports and Brittany Merleau will have the full forecast, here's her state forecast.
As some showers and storms linger in southern parts of the state later this morning, they're about to get smacked with a heat wave.
Meanwhile up north, folks are stuck with cooler conditions and then there's that major storm bringing ice accumulations and snow right on our back doorstep to show up later in the weekend.
So right now there's a system of thunderstorms that stretches, I mean, perfectly diagonal from Eau Claire Chippewa Falls down to Racine Kenosha.
And then for...
You know, 20 to 50 miles either side of that line is just one big old system of thunderstorms moving its way across.
Nothing severe.
Certainly some locally heavy rain in some places.
Once that moves through, there will still be a chance for spotty sprinkles up north, but sunny and unseasonably warm in the southern half of the state.
The highs today, how's this for a range?
Low 40s for highs today in northeast Wisconsin to around 80.
in the southern parts of the state.
A southeast wind at 10 to 20 miles an hour tonight.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms are possible.
Lowes tonight in the low 30s up north, mid 40s in the southern part of the state and east wind at 10 to 15 miles an hour.
And then things get downright ugly in parts over the weekend.
Ugly is in what happened at Yankee Stadium yesterday and we'll get into that in just a moment.
But first we
make our way toward Radio Park by telling you the temperatures at the bus stop this morning.
In the rain 46 here in Chippewa Falls, 40 in Hayward, 43 in Amory, 34 in Wasaw.
Wisconsin Rapids, 37 La Crosse is at 48 already.
Green Bay 39, Madison 47.
In the Milwaukee area it's 45 at Mitchell and it's 44 in Radio Park where we bring in.
One Mr. Greg Bach and you'll notice he and I both were resplendent in our brewers gear yesterday, today not so much.
Now we're just resplendent in reality.
Uh, details in a bit, but the burgers lost and there was some ugly stuff there as well.
But first it's Friday.
And if there's one thing Greg Bach is good for on a Friday morning, it's telling you where the ha ha's can be found.
And that might be a little place he hangs out at on the weekend.
It's called the laughing tap.
What's on tap, sir?
Oh, it's a ha ha's that are happening down.
It's a laughing to stop doing that.
Um, Chastity Washington.
quite, quite honestly, the funniest comedian in Milwaukee, the queen of Milwaukee comedy is going to be here this weekend.
We're going to be doing shows seven 30.
I think it's going to be two shows this weekend.
So seven thirties, Friday and Saturday.
And you can get your tickets by going to laughytap.com $22 online, $25 of the door, no drink minimums.
She is
the real deal.
She is a regular opener for Roy Wood Jr.
And she has been on BET HBO.
She has done it all.
That's great.
So go go get a look at that or head to laughing tap.com to see what else is coming up in the future for maybe some other trip that you're making to the Milwaukee Metro.
Your next chance to win in civic media's statewide break into spring text to win contest is less than an hour away.
So get ready to use that Civic Media app and listen to 707 for your chance to win either right before or right after the forecast from Brittany Merleau.
Hey, this is your last call for early voting.
If you have the chance to get over to your local clerk's office today, depending on when their hours are, you can still do your voting early.
in-person absentee balloting and then that'll go into an envelope and that envelope will not be opened until Election Day morning and then processed just like all the other ballots of people who are voting that day.
So again, big, big election on April 1st.
We'll talk about that in a sec.
But to learn more about where to vote and what's on your ballot and whether you're registered or not, head to myvote.wi.gov again myvote.wi.gov.
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Christina Laurie's story today is her stories, I should say.
Include one about Jackie Johnson.
a reporter who got tired of hearing people mispronounce Wisconsin town names.
And so she started a website with a whole bunch of audio clips so that you could hear how to pronounce them so that you would not mispronounce the names anymore.
And I love the name she gave it, mispronouncer.
not to be confused with Mrs. Pronouncer, but she's she's now known as Miss Pronouncer so that you can go learn how to pronounce those names.
Read about it in the newsletter.
Also about the origin of the ice cream sundae.
Legend has it that Two Rivers played a role in that.
And then my story on Election Day 101.
Basically, if you've been asleep all of this time and are just starting to wonder what's on the ballot for Tuesday.
Well, you can read that article in today's newsletter or you can head over to our website and look for my article there all about What to do if you're first tuning in now to the election at up north news wi.com And then of course we've got our politics newsletter Coming out on Sunday morning as well wrapping up the events of the past week All right.
Well in in sports, I think
opening day, everybody feels like, okay, we've got all the potential in the world.
Let's go get them.
Let's not overreact.
Tony writes, here's what I learned from opening day.
Cheerio is going to strike out every at bat this year.
The Brewers will fall just short of the playoffs.
Cleveland will play extra innings every game and end the season undefeated, probably sweeping the playoffs series as well and go down as the best team of all time.
Certainly not an overreaction, says Tony.
So, it's a little frustrating when you have all the best intentions of being patient all year long and then, you know, Jackson Churio strikes out five times.
Five strikeouts.
Christian Yelich goes 0 for 4.
The Brewers opened up the season at Yankee Stadium with a 4-2 loss.
And look, let's not make excuses here, but
Yankee Stadium's right field is a joke.
Okay, it's it's lovingly called Oh, it's a short porch a short porch That just means it wouldn't be a home run in any other major league stadium and Yankee hitters know how to hit it better than the visitors The Yankees catcher Austin Wells deposited a Freddie Peralta pitch in there right off the top of the bottom of the first to make history It was the first time in baseball history that a catcher
has hit a leadoff home run on the season's opening day.
I know it's a bit of a stretch, but it's true.
Perhaps more annoying was facing Devin Williams, who was traded to the Yankees.
He's now the closer there, and yet he was already getting booed by Yankees fans because he comes in and loads the bases full of brewers with nobody out.
He gives up a run on a sack fly, but then proceeds to
strike out the aforementioned Jackson Churio and Kristen Yellich to end the game.
And the Yankees win four to two.
Freddy Peralta giving up those short porch homers in the first and second innings.
The bright spot was newly acquired Vinnie Capra had homered in the third inning for the Brewers.
Now they have today off.
That's always the backup day on opening day in case it's rainy or snowing or whatever the case may be.
So the Brewers do not play today.
They are back at it tomorrow.
Coverage begins at 1130 tomorrow morning on Civic Media stations in Richland Center, Oshkosh, Racine Kenosha, Park Falls and in Hayward.
So catch the Brewers all across the Civic Media radio network.
The Milwaukee Bucks are back from a long road trip out west and they play later tonight against the New York Knicks as they make the final push toward the end of the regular season.
One of the things that we're gonna cover here after the break is again, getting you up to speed on what's happening with the elections in Wisconsin, especially the big one for Wisconsin Supreme Court, where you have Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimmel, who was Attorney General during Scott Walker's second term as governor, facing Dane County Judge Susan Crawford.
Some very interesting ads in these final days and some interesting stunts.
like the world's richest man again, basically trying to buy this election and announcing that he has once again, like he did last fall, given a million dollars to a Wisconsin voter who was in some kind of a sweepstakes.
Nothing untoward about that at all.
I'm sure.
So we'll get into more of that and get you ready for Election Day next week.
Can we handle the silence when this is all done?
This is Up North News Radio, live from Chippewa Falls.
I'm Pat Kratlum.
Riva
McIntyre has put out exactly 100 singles as a lead artist.
100 singles.
A lot of them did pretty good.
She's got a birthday today.
We're talking about that in today's history lesson coming up.
That's not one of the typical country songs, but it's one that I've really liked since it came out when she was
just the queen of all things country and said I can play any genre I want.
I can do blues, I can do rock, and we'll tell you more about today's history lesson coming up in just a little bit.
Greg, I did not ask you this ahead of time, so we're getting a stone cold reaction out of you on where you are on Justin Vernon and Boney Vare, and I will quickly add my spicy take is that I'm an old man.
And not necessarily in his target range, but he is clearly a huge selling artist based here in western Wisconsin.
Yes, he is.
And I think you'd enjoy him.
He's got very...
an emotional roller coaster with Justin's music.
It's very all over the place, but it's got its place.
And I think it's got its place for every every listener.
I'll tell you my boney bear story very quickly.
And if you live in Western Wisconsin, you know how much Justin loves that area.
He's very he's visible.
And he
owns a little I believe he owns a little Motality
refurbished.
Oh, yes.
He basically he and some others in some way saved downtown Eau Claire in part by buying that that old Holiday Inn and refurbishing it into a wonderful place.
That's awesome.
I so I was doing a show in Eau Claire years ago before the pandemic before you and I met and at a place called the plus and It was great show.
I was opening for a friend of mine
and my friend, Harry Cundabola, who was just in town last week, and we were in the back area of the plus, and there was Justin Vernon with some very L.A.
people, Pat, very L.A., like, mm.
Babe, babe, how you doing?
Does this old fashion have matcha?
And are your cheese curds farmed at table?
I get
it, I get
it.
He's working on like just, he's futzing around with his music.
He had just been nominated that morning for five Grammys and he was doing his thing.
He was having a good time.
He was celebrating and he walked up and he goes, hi, I'm Justin.
And I go, hi, I'm Greg.
It's nice to meet you.
I let him do his thing.
I'm not going to bother him.
And then I'm doing my show.
I get off stage and a guy just walked up and he goes, he goes, Justin really liked you.
He thought you were really funny.
I'm like, yeah.
I'd like to now announce my retirement.
So if you look at my social media, all of my social media says, I made Boney Vare laugh.
That's
great.
See, Tony puts up on YouTube.
Towers is a wonderful song by Boney Vare.
I say all this because he got a nice write up in the New York Times.
Was that yesterday?
Maybe day before?
All about Sable Fable, his fifth studio album and his first since 2019.
Wow.
And I love...
music writing.
I love journalists who write well about music.
So let me just give away the lead on this.
What you notice right away on Sable Fable, Bon Iver's fifth studio album and first since 2019, is its directness, its brightness, and in some places, its lust.
Justin Vernon, the band's frontman and creative engine is singing more directly than ever before, and the production captures hopes, thrills, and a kind of unselfconscious exaltation.
goes on to talk about how he's very much an in-demand collaborator for Taylor Swift, Charlie XCX, Zach Bryan, and many others.
And yeah, from everything I've heard, all around good guy.
Yes.
Yeah.
I mean, Pat, the way he walked up to me, he didn't say, hey, what's up?
I'm Justin.
Or like, it was just the most, hi, I'm Justin.
I'm like, I know you are.
He's very, very sweet boy.
And again, it has not forgotten his
roots.
Oh, in fact, if anything, he clings to them.
And I think there's something about that.
Like, you know, I always think about that.
Like, what if I became a famous comedian?
I think I would still want my home base to be here.
I don't want to be in LA and I don't want to be in New York.
I want to be the place I know, the people I know.
I don't want to have to deal with LA comedy scene.
And all I mean, cause I mean, it really, I mean Pat, Pat, the stories you hear from comedians and especially with LA, there's like, you're talking to people and they're, they're staring right through you.
They're not listening and they want to know what you're doing so they can be a part of it.
And if it's not popular enough, they don't care.
they will not otherwise they will glum right on you.
So yep, understand.
So anyway, check that out.
Somebody sent it to me as a gift link.
Somebody else should share it with you because it's a nice write up about it.
So all right, well, let's get over to the state Supreme Court race for a quick update here.
And the update is from first one is from me personally, checking out the latest political ads.
And I one of them just really stood out to me.
And I think you deserve to know about it.
It's an ad that at first looks like it's an anti Brad Schimel ad, you know, about Donald Trump and about how Donald Trump is getting involved in the in the state Supreme Court race.
And he's writing about how this is the the most important race and how, you know, we need to elect Brad Schimel.
And I thought, wow, somebody's really taking, you know, control of this like Trump is his popularity is down.
He's meddling in our race and but then the commercial goes on you know Trump wants price him to win and Trump's right and Trump or otherwise
the Trump agenda is going to be blocked here in Wisconsin unless we elect Brad Schimmel.
I'm like, oh, maybe this is an Elon Musk group or maybe it's Trump's pack that's saying, oh, no, Trump is, you know, Schimmel is Trump's choice.
They are in lockstep.
You've got to vote for Schimmel.
If you're going to vote for Trump, I'm like, oh, what pack is this?
And at the, I get to the end and there's the fine print paid for by Brad Schimmel's campaign.
It's a Brad Schimmel ad touting his endorsement.
by the most partisan and divisive figure in at least recent American history.
Somebody in the process of dismantling some of the best parts of government that help the most people, make more people suffer, commit a heist in order to shovel all that money from these alleged cuts into more tax cuts for people like Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
I said, trust maybe we should just change the name of the ticket.
So that's the update.
Brad Schimmel wants you to know he's paying a lot of money and campaign commercials to say he is Donald Trump's choice.
And if you vote for Brad Schimmel, you are voting for the Republican presidential candidate when you cast a ballot for the former Republican Attorney General.
Is that really what we need on the Wisconsin State Supreme Court?
We'll cover more ground with Kiava Keel.
Right after this, you're up north.
Here now is Key of the Keel Courier Newsroom political editor, national political correspondent, all around good guy.
Just there's so many titles floating around here these days.
Kia, how are you?
I am all right, Pat.
I'm exhausted,
am
I don't mean to start on kind of a down note, but as somebody who went through the wildfires there,
Is it kind of weird to see what's happening out in the Carolinas and other parts out east that there?
I mean you never hear about that kind of a wildfire problem on the eastern half of the US and yet now they're going through this
Obviously.
I don't wish it on anybody You know, I think that we are seeing wildfires and you know, the southeast is
Jarring it's also jarring to me how little it's broken through in the national news You know relative to I mean the LA wildfires broke through for a few days at least but you know these wildfires in the Southeast I've been going for a couple weeks.
I want to say yeah, and You know it is you know, it's jarring to me how little I've seen of it Obviously, there's a ton going on in the country in the world, but it's scary.
You know, it speaks to the fact that you know
more and more areas are going to be prone to wildfires as our climate heats up.
Well, that and you're talking about an area that had already been hit so hard with that hurricane.
And I mean, so this is just adding insult to injury.
So our hearts definitely go out to the folks there and I'm glad things continue to be quiet out by you.
So now as we get into the news of the week, there's one serious thing I wanted to start with that we haven't had time to address on this program.
And that is
How do we put it?
I guess I would refer to them as the disappeared.
It brings up memories of Operation Condor in South America when some 60,000 people just disappeared because of right-wing dictatorships.
And, you know, that's not where we are at the moment, but everything starts somewhere.
And these have been very troubling cases recently, Kia.
You know, we saw a couple weeks ago Mahmood Khalil, who's a Columbia student, essentially, you know, abducted from in front of his wife by unmarked or, you know, undercover ICE agents, whatever you want to call them, DHS agents.
And he lives in New York.
He was then taken to a prison in Louisiana, a holding facility in Louisiana.
And, you know, he's still there.
And he is, you know, they their justification was that he engaged in, you know, pro Palestine protests.
He that's insane.
Well, right.
It's this expansion of what is, you know, terrorism, basically, that they're
If Donald Trump is saying if he declares somebody a terrorist then he has all the power Well, that may be fine at first, you know for somebody that doesn't agree with a Palestinian demonstration organizer But you know, where does it go from here?
So, you know first it might be someone involved who's pro in protests on Tuesday.
We saw you know a tough student in Boston
Rumesa Ozturk, who she was walking to her, you know, interfaith center and a bunch of plain clothes officers, you know, looking like a goon squad, essentially, essentially descended on her.
The video is incredibly horrifying.
She screams, she's grabbed, she's whisked away.
She has handcuffs put on her and is whisked away.
And this is in broad daylight in a, you know, very
I'd know Somerville.
I went to college in Boston.
I probably walked down those streets.
It is jarring.
We are watching, and for her alleged crime is co-writing an op-ed in her student newspaper, essentially calling for equal human rights.
And if we're in a day and age where anyone who writes an op-ed, wishing that people in Gaza are free from...
death or that everyone is treated the same in the world, then we're in a very dark place.
This is, like you mentioned in South America, the right-wing dictatorships of Pinochet and a few other countries abducted people, disappeared them, in some cases killed them.
And we're eight weeks in and they're already arresting people and disappearing them halfway across the country for literally doing almost nothing.
exercising what should be their right under the First Amendment.
is,
I was going to ask you about that next.
Yeah, I mean, it just, it was propaganda to watch the Department of Homeland Security Secretary standing in there with all these men in cages.
Like, you know, Hunter Kimmler would be proud of that.
It was so appalling.
And a lot of those people that were sent who were Venezuelan in dissent.
were sent to El Salvador having committed no crime.
Some of them were here legally.
Some of them had tattoos about autism awareness for that one of them had a tattoo for autism awareness.
And that's why he was deported.
Because you know, it might have been a gang tattoo.
Yeah, literally picking people up off the streets for tattoos.
Again, it's it's racial profiling.
is what it is.
I mean, I'll say again, I put that challenge out for anybody defending any of this.
Show me the first blonde hair blue eyed Swedish exchange student who overstayed her visa, who is treated this way abducted off the streets and
It's not that I'm going to be suddenly on your side, it's that you're going to be on ours to finally understand that this can happen to anybody and it will happen to somebody blonde-haired, blue-eyed when they write something that somebody doesn't like.
And the fact that we've had so very little pushback from Republicans, Republican elected officials who swore an oath to the Constitution should trouble everybody.
They might be on student visas or permanent residents But if you think they won't expand this to cover naturalized citizens and then eventually American born, you know citizens they will and This should I don't care who you voted for if you voted for Trump because he thought he'd fix the economy fine if you are okay with this that is
appalling because it is the most un-American thing imaginable.
We obviously have a history of doing terrible things at moments in time.
Obviously in World War II, we interned a lot of Japanese people in internment camps.
We have treated different populations, you know, poorly over the decades.
But America has always tried to improve and become a more perfect union where everyone has equal rights.
It is the only country in the world that has tried to do that.
And that is being torched right now.
by these abductions, these disappearances, these efforts to essentially say Donald Trump and Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth and all these other people get to decide who is American and who gets deported and imprisoned to countries they're not even from.
Yeah, and look, it is okay to say, well, the people I wish they were rounding up, you know, are the violent criminals and all of that.
You can wish that all you want, but you'd better say something when that net
sweeps up a whole bunch of people who did not commit crimes or do anything like that.
Because if not, then, you know, like he said, well, like, I would say, I don't even want to know you to put it quite bluntly.
When you mentioned Pete Hexeth and Marco Rubio, of course, that takes us to, you know, the big story of the week, which I guess is being dubbed signal gate for signal the app.
And people go, What, why do we put put gate on everything?
Well, because the
Dumbest scandal ever is probably a name that won't stick or the dumbest most dangerous text chain ever Again, it's it's too much to fit on a bumper sticker.
So we'll go with signal gate for the moment and Not so much anymore the text chain itself.
It's now become about the disinformation campaign to say that wasn't classified because I say it wasn't classified I've I've never I'm looking at the the battle plans right here
That's classified stuff.
Yeah
Yeah, I mean look none of how this has played out has remotely surprised me we have seen that if Donald Trump's entire Approach is denied denied denied deflect deflect deflect never admit wrongdoing never admit defeat anything like that So of course his you know acolytes in the government are in Pete Hexeth Mike Walts, you know, they very clearly
invited a reporter into their private signal chat, which is an incredible thing to do, by the way, an incredible screw up.
And then to share war plans in a private signal chat, you know, most people around the country might not understand that this is a big deal.
It might not affect their daily life.
I get it.
Like, if I were just, you know, a senior in Wisconsin, I'd care more about the attacks on social security.
But these, like we know,
a lot of foreign countries try to hack us, try to secure turn CIA agents into spies, et cetera.
And to share war plans in a signal chat where you've invited a reporter is insane, especially for a party that made hay out of Benghazi and Hillary Clinton for years.
But more troublesome, like you said, is the denial, the deflection, and it might work.
I don't suspect this is going to blow over.
I think someone's going to get thrown on the stake, and it'll probably be Mike Walts.
But you're seeing the entire MO.
It's to essentially create an alternate reality, and they can do that because of all their media ecosystems.
And they expect all of their voters to buy it and to just not care.
And it'll be troubling if that actually pans out to be true.
So let's get to the things that would affect somebody.
People go, well, that's not for me.
And so we could mention the ending this week of malaria vaccinations overseas.
And again, you'd say, well, that's not me.
Well, until the next plague gets here.
The increase in measles cases around this country as a result of disinformation.
should affect you, should impact you.
There's the whole, the ramping up of calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme in terms of getting ready to attack all of that.
But if you take all that aside even, I would point people toward an article in Politico here where a top commerce department official sent a blistering email about the cuts to rural broadband in order to enrich Elon Musk's satellite internet company.
which the official said was a was was much worse than just doing world broadband and saying we're doing it to make the world's richest man even richer.
And I basically have given away the story Kia, but it's to say that at least on some of these things, we are seeing pushback.
We're seeing lawsuits.
We're seeing people being outspoken.
They're not nearly enough yet.
But I do feel like this battleship is very slowly turning.
Yeah, I mean, I think a majority of Americans do not want to see Elon Musk anywhere near the government.
There was a poll I saw the other day that said of all the agents, they asked about, I think, eight or eight to 12 agencies.
I can't remember the exact number, but if there's any of the federal agencies they'd want to see eliminated, the one that got the most support for eliminating it was Doge.
And so people don't want to see their social security gutted.
They don't want to see malaria spreading in their communities or measles killing children.
And the entire agenda is essentially to hollow government out, like they've been doing, but really speed running it now, and essentially then just awarding contracts to Elon Musk, to potentially Peter Thiel, to surveillance firms, potentially to Amazon.
So what you're seeing is, yeah, they're going to cut rural broadband, they're going to try to privatize Medicare, they're going to try to privatize Social Security, and it's essentially a billionaire torching all forms of public benefits and service and institutions so that his billionaire buddies can come in and make more billions off of that and provide Americans with garbage benefits and service.
Well, of course, in the private sector, the benevolence of the billionaires will take care of us all as the way it goes, which again takes us to that whole notion of, you know, if you give them an inch, they'll take a mile.
It starts with disappearing people who they can easily label as terrorists or illegals, but it ramps up into, you know, citizens and others.
And the same goes for maybe some people are okay.
cutting some of the aid that goes overseas.
But again, it's not going to stop there.
That's going to come home to your Social Security.
It's going to come to your broadband.
And as we learned this week, it's going to it's going to come to add thousands of dollars to the cost of a car.
I didn't even try to get Kyle Kaminski from our sister publication, The Gander out in Michigan to come talk about the auto stuff.
I've seen the stuff you're editing for him.
Yeah.
And there's an impact in Wisconsin, but Michigan not not a fun place to be right now for
A state where a whole lot of people thought they were voting for something other than what they normally got.
But Kia, thank you for summing it all up with me for this week.
We will definitely be on the trail for happier news next week.
Have a very good weekend.
We'll be back with today's history lesson in just a bit.
You're up for it.
Yeah, this is
a Pap's Blue Ribbon commercial from 1979.
Craig's jaw is open because...
The commercial that we're playing is from the disco era, and that is a young Patrick Swayze appearing to be on the same dance floor as John Gervolta from back in the day.
It is such a classic disco commercial, and it's just Patrick Swayze and a partner dancing while they think about Paps Blue Ribbon, all because Friedrich Paps was born on this day in 1836.
And his last words on his death on where, let them dance.
That's not what you sounded like at all.
No,
no, it's not.
It's really not.
So I listened through a lot of commercials yesterday to try to come up with a nice retro PAPS Blue Ribbon commercial.
But I just wanted you to see the Patrick's Waze.
That was amazing.
Just
look up PAPS Blue Ribbon 1979 or disco or Patrick's Waze and you'll you'll thank me later on.
But Frederick Papst, happy birthday to you, died back in 1904.
On this day in 1974, the number one song, I always want to say blue suede, but it's blue suede.
Blue
suede?
Was blue suede, get your uga chagas ready, here we go.
I can't stop this feeling.
How old was I?
I was nine and a half, almost ten years old when this came out.
It
was the greatest thing ever.
Who got chugged up?
Who got chugged
up?
That's gotta be adorable.
There's gotta be a whole generation of kids your age and younger.
A little bit younger.
Oh yeah, we know.
We told, we know.
We bust out laughing.
I wasn't even born then.
And it's just that way.
That way when you hear the the BJ Thomas version, the very schmaltzy.
Yeah.
No,
you want
this one and then Guardians of the Galaxy put it
on the soundtrack
and it has life certified gold this day in 1974.
The next year 1975 I've told the story before but I always like when it comes up 1975 Elvis Presley was playing a concert at the Hilton in Las Vegas Barbara Streisand goes backstage Tells Elvis she's gonna be doing a remake of the film a star is born and Barbara Streisand wants Elvis to be her co-lead Elvis is interested but on the advice of his manager Colonel Tom Parker
Elvis demands too much money and demands top billing.
I'm sorry over Barbara Streisand.
And so the role went to Chris Christofferson instead.
I, you know, knowing what I now know about Colonel Tom Parker, I wonder if him's telling him like, like, ask for a lot of money, top billing.
He knew that she'd say no.
And like, because that man was all about like mini sabotaging Elvis.
Oh, yes.
Like, you know,
to just have it all to himself.
Yeah.
Enrich himself and all of that.
That all this movie from what, two years ago now?
Yeah.
That was really good.
I
had to check it out.
I was kind of against it at first.
I'm like, oh, God.
All right.
Oh,
my
God.
Yeah.
With Tom Hanks playing the role of Colonel Parker.
Yeah.
Happy birthday to Reba McIntyre.
She turns 70
today.
Her new show on Peacock Happies Place is real fun.
It's not anything deep.
It's not anything deep.
It's not anything like groundbreaking.
It's just fun.
You just like it for what it is.
Yeah, it's got like a real tribute to the old show on there.
And you know, it's just great.
That's good.
I kind of feel the same way about the NBC's reboot of Night Court.
Same.
It's like, you know, it's nothing like the original, but
you
know, it's nice.
It's easy.
Actor Vince Vaughn has a birthday today.
He is 55.
On this day in 1970, John Lennon's Instant Karma hit its peak on the charts of number three.
On
this day in 1979, there was a coolant leak at Three Mile Island.
The nuclear plant outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania led to the core overheating, a partial meltdown.
and a collective freak out, may I say, from coast to coast going, what's happening?
On this day in 1981, the new number one song was also the first number one song that featured a rap it was by Blondie.
I wait way to go.
White ladies.
Brown breaking rap for the world.
See now, I wish I'd have brought the story here, but Lonnie was very much in in with that.
Yes, that was
originating rap.
And again, coming back to my history of rock and roll podcast that I've been listening to, why is she the first one up there?
Because again, they'll give it to the white lady.
She'll do it.
Give it with star power.
And yes, if you want a really good documentary on Netflix, hip hop evolution.
the first season.
They talk about this song.
Okay, there you go.
So 1981 for this being the number one song.
Let's see, on this day in 1881, P.T.
Barnum and James Bailey merged their circuses to form the Barnum and Bailey Circus.
That was 1881.
Then in 1907, they were bought out by the Ringling Brothers and the Ringling Brothers were from... Anybody?
Anybody?
Baraboo, Wisconsin to form Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
Now, you know, one more birthday.
Happy birthday to Lady Gaga.
She turns 39 today.
Born Stephanie Germanata.
I wonder if she still gets mail at that name or is it always, you know,
Lady Gaga Gaga lady or Gaga
comma lady right Lady Koga Another one for a lot lot go Gerts darn it.
Yep 39 years old today
and that is today's history lesson coming up in the next hour of Up North News Radio we are
We are going to be talking to our regular week in review panel that of course will be former US Attorney Jim Santel and a couple of Chicago veteran journalists Mark Jacob and Jennifer Scholesy and we have again plenty to talk about.
It's amazing how not bored we ever are on Friday mornings when we're talking about the news of the week.
Hmm wonder why.
Wherever you're listening across Wisconsin on this Friday morning when you're here you're up north live from Lake Wissota on the Civic Media Radio Network.
