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Now, live from our Lake Minnesota studio, here's the founding editor of Up North News, Pat Breidler.
Good morning, welcome back to Up North News Radio, unabashedly Wisconsin brought to you by Courier Newsroom and carried by our friends on the Civic Media Radio Network at 7.06 on a Friday morning, March 28th.
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in just a little bit, journalist Jennifer Scholesi, Mark Jacob, and former US Attorney Jim Santel.
We'll talk about the news of the week.
Dan Schumacher will be in later to talk about sports, which for those of us who are still paying attention to college hockey season was especially exciting last night.
I've already explained why I'm rooting for the Western Michigan Broncos.
They needed double overtime last night to win their sweet 16 game in the NCAA men's hockey tournament.
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So that's one of the brackets of many.
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All right, 709 on the dot here.
Time to look at the...
Forecast heading into the weekend here.
Well, no, first, we have to, Greg has finished dancing to the tic-tac-do music.
There we go.
I'm done.
Okay, all right.
It's my best part of the morning.
I love it.
We've been watching a line of thunderstorms that an hour ago stretched perfectly from the Chippewa Valley down to Racine, Kenosha.
It has since that time moved its way a little bit east, has moved into the Fox Valley and more parts of central Wisconsin, Brittany, but
I started last hour asking what season we're in because we're doing thunderstorms, we're doing snow, we're doing hockey, we're doing baseball.
We get it all this time of year, don't
we?
Yeah, we do.
I love that analogy, the hockey and the baseball.
Yeah, we're getting everything and it's starting now.
I mean, southern parts of the state today, you're going to see some extreme warmth as we go through this afternoon.
This is a front that is sparking up those showers and storms that's moving across the state and it's a warm one.
So we're looking at temperatures.
If you've got some showers and storms right now, your temperatures today are going to climb to the mid 70s and some places far south and far west could
hit 80 degrees today.
Extremely warm, well above our average high temperatures, and it's going to be a breezy one too.
Winds out of the south are going to be pulling in that heat today, and I'm sorry, Northwoods weren't there.
Not even me and Wasa.
I'm only going to be in the upper 40s today, so we are going to be much cooler up north and cloudier.
And we have chances for more showers and storms later on this evening.
All southern areas you should stay dry for the rest of the day.
Now we are looking at some sunshine peeking out south and again like I said staying cloudy here up north.
Now what's going on tonight is a little bit of trouble especially into the north woods and along Lake Superior.
This is the first chance of some freezing rain really starting to mix in.
This will be overnight tonight and into early tomorrow morning with the winter weather advisory already in place from 7 p.m.
to 7 a.m.
for those areas.
Then we roll into Saturday.
Now Winter Storm Watch has been put out for a good chunk of the Northwoods, anywhere from Wausau, Rhinelander to Park Falls and up northeast.
These areas are going to see a pretty significant ice storm.
That's what we're looking at.
Pretty much the Northwoods.
Everybody should be on alert for Saturday evening and into our Sunday.
where we're looking at potentially just freezing rain and sleet just piling up and accumulating, mixing in with some snow and rain on occasion.
And this is going to create power outages pretty much near impossible travel into these areas.
I hate ice storms.
It's the absolute worst.
And it looks like the snow wants to stay more long Lake Superior in towards.
actually superior in the Duluth area.
And you could see some significant accumulations up to about 10 inches are possible there.
to potentially a foot.
So as the system moves into Sunday, now this is all Saturday night into Sunday morning for a lot of us up north.
Down south, you're going to start to get those risks too.
This will move in by Sunday afternoon and into the evening hours.
Your rain is going to start to flip over to freezing rain and then all snow through the overnight and into early Monday morning.
Now down south, you're not looking at crazy accumulations, probably just a half an inch by Monday morning.
But again, treacherous travel on Sunday night.
So this weekend, I wouldn't make any plans to be out on the road.
I would stay in if you're going to be anywhere in Wisconsin.
I think
people, people might have thought like, was there a splice in the tape that at one moment you're talking 80s, and then you're
talking ice storm
over here.
It's like, no, that's the same show.
It's the same forecast.
And I'm just thinking wherever that line ends up being between the 40s and near 80, I
think
we should mark that.
And that probably is when we always joke about, well, what is up north?
What's up north?
That's up north.
If you're north of that, if you're getting an ice storm instead of 80 degrees, you might live up north.
You're in the Northwoods.
Yes, I love it.
We're going to use that line officially
from Rob and Tigerton.
Good morning from Tigerton.
It's cloudy and 33 degrees, rain and mixed precipitation just southwest of me toward the Stevens Point area.
Enjoyed a nice day yesterday.
I went to the Tigerton library and looked up information on highways and weather and had a pizza at Blazers in Split Rock.
Took pictures of the sunset in the Tigerton area.
The deer have been out and about, so be sure to watch out for deer.
Then he says, uh, this has been the March madness of weather.
So
true.
So true.
Uh, yeah, we really are.
So for, for folks that will get to enjoy the really warm weather today, get out and enjoy it.
Paul, but you, you said where you are in Wausau probably not going to see that.
No, no, I don't think you are either.
Greg, Greg is going to be the only one out of us three that's going to see these warm temperatures.
I'll be
in
shorts and a tank top dancing around.
Yeah.
Have a wonderful weekend.
You too.
Bye.
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Stories today that Christina Laurie puts in include something about the the origin of the ice cream sundae.
over into rivers.
There is also, let's see, I just had it here.
There it is.
Oh yeah, Jackie Johnson, mispronouncer, all about how to pronounce Wisconsin names.
There is a website that will play little audio clips for you so that you're not saying Akanamawak anymore or lack court Orioles.
You're actually saying Lakuta Ray.
So if you if you see a name for a Wisconsin community, city or town,
and want to know the right way.
Our newsletter tells you how to find the mispronouncer website and learn more.
And then I've got a story there about election 101 for next week.
Basically, if you have been or if somebody you know has been metaphorically living under a rock in terms of, you know, just a self-imposed news blackout.
And they're finally saying, hey, what's this thing about next Tuesday?
We've got an article on the website.
And Alicia, I was sure I said it right.
Comment right there on YouTube.
She says, Alicia, it's two rivers, not two rivers.
I thought I'd put enough emphasis on it, having married a nice farm girl from the Manitowoc area.
So apparently I've got to be even more trivers.
How's that?
It's kind of like, you have to say Fond du Lac, I guess, if you're from that neck of the woods.
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It was a tough one for the Milwaukee Brewers opening up the season at Yankee Stadium.
In part because of the legendary short porch out there in right field, the Yankees homered off Freddie Peralta in the first and second innings.
The Brewers tried a late rally off Devon Williams, who now closes games for the Yankees, but fell short four to two.
Jackson Churriot struck out five times.
Christian Yelich went 0 for 4.
The newly acquired and promoted Vinnie Capra homered in the third inning for the Brewers.
So there's at least some reason for a little bit of optimism there.
But again, we're not going to put
all of our eggs in one game.
There's only 161 more to go.
The Brewers are off today.
They will be back in action at Yankee Stadium tomorrow.
Coverage begins at 11.30.
And you can hear the Brewers on several Civic Media radio stations, including the newest Brewers affiliate up north, WBZH and Hayward.
Head over to the Civic Media website, civicmedia.us to learn more about stations where you can hear Brewers games and where you can hear
all the, you know, the many fine talk shows across both the civic media radio network and a whole lot of great local shows as well.
Oh, and one more reason to go look at the website about shows.
There's also some shows that also that only run on the weekends.
They're just weekly editions of shows.
You'll think of Charlie Barron's, for example, but there's some other great civic media shows that are just once a week or just on a weekend.
Oh, hey, wait a minute, one of them.
One of them is with Jim Santel.
He's his former US attorney who has a show on the weekends here.
Don't you, James?
Get that show loaded.
That's right.
It's called Amicus a Law Review.
It's live Saturday mornings.
They still give you two hours, nine to
right?
Yeah, right.
It's just so... I
always, always, yes, yes.
And when we come back from the break, we're also going to bring in Mark Jacob and Jennifer Schulze for our full weekend review panel.
And we'll ask Jim along with all the national goings on last gym as well about a bill making the rounds in the legislature that would put any parole violators right back into prison.
Nothing in there about treatment recidivism alternative sentencing, because apparently, the money just grows on trees and we can build endless prisons and
our understaffing problems will go away?
I don't know.
Well, that's Jim about that bill and much more next, 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.
the pickle that I face as a host for this.
I am so thankful that I get a Friday morning suspend with a couple of great
journalists and a former U.S.
attorney.
And previously, you know, they would come on separately and I said, let's get, let's get the band together here.
This is cool.
Jim's Walk Up Music was, of course, Warren Zivon there with Lawyers, Guns, and Money.
Well, then I got away from that because, again, we've got this great panel.
But unfortunately, the journalists on the panel are also talking about Lawyers, Guns, and Money when it comes to this new administration.
So we're going to hear Warren Zivon a little bit more frequently than I otherwise thought we would.
Jennifer Scholesi has this great letter.
newsletter on Substack.
Jennifer, how are you this morning?
Good.
Uh and Mark Jacob is here as well.
He's got the stop the presses newsletter.
Mark uh you again are you doing okay?
Or how how
exactly.
We need we need a a better answer for that in this in this day and age but you can get the stop the presses newsletter at stop the presses dot news.
So, Mark, while I got you there, what's what's in the newsletter this week?
Well, the newsletter for this week was reminding people that people power still matters that you know that we were in depressing times where there's so many abuses of power and the Trump administration clearly wants to violate the law whenever it feels like it and It's getting away with it mostly.
I mean their courts are fighting fighting fighting, but how long will they do that and my Explanation is is that people power is really important getting out there
you know, contacting your Congress people, making media behave, which means, you know, cancel the bad ones and give money to the good ones.
And getting out there and protesting.
I mean, this has been, there's not really this.
habit in American life of doing that so much these days.
Right, and Jennifer, in your newsletter as well, Indistinct Chatter, you have talked about the role of media and that there are, for all of the...
rightful complaints we have about some news coverage.
There's also been some examples of good, aggressive, thorough coverage of the new administration.
Well, I think it's important to point out that whether it's journalism or anything else really, when the mainstays start underperforming or failing, frequently there's new, smaller, more nimble,
entities that come up and start taking doing what the bigger guys have failed to do and I see that happening in journalism where
ABC News is writing a $15 million check to Donald Trump for a lawsuit that they could have probably won in court should they have fought it.
We see smaller news entities and individual journalists really stepping up and doing the hard fact-based reporting that the big guys should be doing and seem to be a little bit afraid to do.
I do want to say I think NBC News has done a pretty good job on a lot of this stuff and I wouldn't lump them necessarily with some of the others.
But big journalism has had a rocky first two months with Donald Trump, but we've seen the Atlantic had that huge signal chat scoop wired every single day wired is killing it.
Rolling Stone, if you don't read Rolling Stone, I have to say the political coverage in Rolling Stone is remarkable.
I've been reading the
prospect lately.
I think it's good.
Judd Legum has the Musk watch which I think is required reading every day.
Chris Geidner is covering the stuff in the courts.
I think he is a one-man band.
He writes something called Lawdork and he has the coverage of the myriad of cases in the courts on social media.
You can sign up for his newsletter and it's excellent.
And by the way, this is all summed up in Jennifer's newsletter.
Head over to substack.com slash at news Jennifer to learn more about that.
When you mentioned the executive order and signal gate and everything else, it is so tough to know even where to start with all this, but Jim Santel, former US attorney, so former government employee, you've been told a thing or two.
uh, about secrecy and about handling files and about the way that you communicate and, uh, Jim, did you serve in the military?
I did not
serve in the military.
Me neither, but let me lead into it by saying, but Jim, so we didn't serve, but you know enough about safeguarding information, would you say that the stuff that was shared in that signal chat was probably classified information that you would not have been able to share if, uh, if you had done something like that?
And again, we seem to rely so much on this appellation, this categorization of something being classified.
And if it's classified, nobody can look at it.
And everything else is OK.
And the answer, of course, Pat, as you know and all your listeners know, that's not a distinction that makes sense either.
There's a huge amount of very, very national security-based information that doesn't have the stamp of classified on it that should not be out there in the public domain at all.
And so even when the administration today says, well, this wasn't classified, it doesn't matter.
Let's take a look at what the information was.
These were undeniably war plans.
I'm sorry, Mr. Secretary.
If you don't know that, you should.
This was information about how we're going to go about bombing the Houthis in Yemen, undeniably.
And to your first point, Pat, you and I both know there are huge numbers of mechanisms.
I don't know if I chalk this up to just stupidity, lack of information, lack of training, lack of basic understanding about how government works.
But you and I both know at the risk of sounding very wonky this morning when I was in Iraq for two years, not in the military, but working with a rule of law institutions.
including the judges, the prisoners and police, there's something called a skiff.
Right?
The sensitive compartmented information facility.
It's a hermetically sealed place.
We've got them right here in Wisconsin as well.
They're around the country.
You go in there, you leave your cell phone outside, and you talk about these things.
Even more importantly, there's something called the SimperNet, the secret internet protocol router network.
I had one on my desk.
You know about these things too.
You can go in there and get all the classified information you need, and you shut it down.
Huge numbers of restrictions.
and its use and the release of information, those mechanisms are sitting right there.
The notion that these folks through incompetence, ignorance, intent, who knows, would go on this publicly accessible chat system and do this when we've designed for actually decades mechanisms for keeping this safe and secure.
as everyone says, appropriately keeping our soldiers safe and secure is outrageous and should be condemned at the highest levels.
Well, it's all about, you know, perceived strength.
And then if people perceive that we're strong and that we if we know better, and so we know that signal is is okay.
And we're important people.
So even if we're sitting in the Kremlin, you know, we have to have the convenience of an app.
And it's it's only fooling, you know, the the the most
the deepest Trump supporters at this point, which is why it's still being talked about across the country, and we will continue that conversation with our panel here on Up North News Radio.
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Back now with our regular Friday panel journalist, Jennifer Schulze, Mark Jacob, former U.S.
Attorney Jim Santel.
Nice to have you all here again.
And let's pick up where we left off, which was on
Again, I'm not crazy about the term signal gates, but also, you know, it's it's easier to say than dumbest text chain ever So mark will pick up with you simply to say look we've established what the facts are whether Trump and his buddies want to you know face accountability or not My question to you is where do we go from here?
It's it's clear.
There's no entity that's going to
have any kind of accountability for this, so should all journalists just drop it and stop asking?
I'm sure that's what Trump always hopes for, is that they'll just get tired of asking if we don't answer their questions.
know, which is, and this is, this is by, you know, a giant amount more important and more alarming than that was.
So they need to stay on it.
I mean, and in a lot of ways, it could be because unfortunately, Pat, we're not going to get any accountability from the government.
The Justice Department, which is supposed to be, I mean, it's job, I think, is to look into crimes is not going to.
It was not going to look into crimes if they're done by their club.
by the, you know, so it's, so just, I mean, it's a sad thing, but we're not going to get any justice from the Justice Department.
It's the Hillary derangement syndrome that Pam Bondi, who remarkably is the Attorney General of the United States, Jennifer invoked Hillary when asked if she was going to bring up any charges about this.
It's a, it's a bubble that's awfully hard to penetrate when they're so, so just trained with all the talking points that just come out like, like,
tapping your knee in the doctor's office with a little hammer.
Well, what's distressing to me is that the Trump crowd is running a disinformation campaign around this and the talking points are deliberate and meant to distract us from what's really happening and journalists know that and they need to say that.
I've seen too many headlines where
direct quotes from Marco Rubio, Pam Bondi, are being put up there as headlines when you know that what they're saying is their way to get you to look over here when the story's over here.
So, um, journalists need to be, I think, I agree with Mark completely, this story is going to go on.
forever.
It is a huge story.
I think it's representative of the carelessness and the incompetence that is throughout this entire administration.
But we also need to press for accurate reading of what's happening.
If Trump is throwing up smoke screens and the people that work for him are throwing up smoke screens, let's
be honest with our readers and listeners about that instead of just they say it here we write it there and no context or facts in between that's not journalism that's sharing propaganda
especially in the headlines if your headline is nothing more than than stenography
the the other matter that has come up and I'll start with Mark and then go to Jim on this it's the notion of executive orders and again we've we've created over the decades you know something where the presidency is so much stronger than the founders meant it to be article one was all supposed to be about the congress doing
we're deep so deep into executive orders now Mark that it's not just a matter of
saying that Trump is doing this or doing that, but also, you know, the whole notion of can he do this or that?
Are we going to let an executive order essentially run all of our government all of the time from now on?
I saw this reporting that Trump is going to require states to do X on their elections.
Well, Trump can't tell states how to run their elections.
That's not the power of the presidency.
And for the news media to pretend that some executive order, I mean, I was reading one thing where somebody really accurately described what an executive order is.
And it's an instruction by the president to his staff, to the people, to the executive, to the White House, to the White House staff.
It's not him like ordering the entire country what to do.
I mean there he can't There's certain things he can control and there's certain things he cannot and he but unfortunately he wants to tell universities how they you know, they can treat diversity programs
Right or even We'll get into the whole notion of you know museums and and dictating what they can or can't do But Jim help us a little bit more with executive orders and again in this era understanding that when
When Trump makes an executive order, it should not be reported as nor treated as some kind of a proclamation that all people are duty bound to.
Mark's got it just right.
I'm looking to keep more more upon the media.
I'm looking at.
headline from Tuesday after Donald Trump again without any constitutional basis illegally issues this executive order saying you need proof of citizenship and oh by the way let's get all that ballots returned by election day here's the headline from the New York Times Trump is trying to gain more power over elections is his effort legal no no New York Times the lead of a paragraph which is not that either and the headline should be right uh Trump
pursues power unsupported by the Constitution, issues illegal directives intended to skew an election.
That is not an opinion.
That is what is going on here.
We know that, again, to get wonky here about civics, the second or third paragraph of the New York Times should be, and it's buried in there somewhere, the Constitution says it's up to states to determine the times, places, and manners of elections.
That's James Madison stuff.
How about doing a little bit of civics instruction, New York Times, and explain why what the president did on Tuesday.
Don't ask the question.
announce the answer and that's not that's that's there's nothing wrong with that
and I'll say again and again that that to put in a headline that you know Trump is doing something that legally he can't do if you're if you're if that's factual Jennifer that's not a politically biased headline call it what it is.
Note to editors and producers, if an executive order demands an action that is illegal or outside the president's authority, then you should not describe it as ordering something.
You should say it seeks to achieve some outcome and then note it's illegal and beyond the power of the president.
And every time we don't do that,
We are giving him, we're doing propaganda for Trump and giving him outsized authority that I think just helps him do more of it.
I'm stunned at how the journalism community has failed on executive orders.
I really feel like we need to better understand separation of powers.
We need to understand, I mean, every one of these headlines, if it's illegal, it should say so.
Yes, from from the text line mark, somebody wanted us to get into a topic that I know we were going to get into.
Stephen Milwaukee, and I've got to clean it up a little bit.
Oh, am
that that somebody signed an executive order to bring back racist monuments?
We're talking about things that were taken down as part of the, you know, the national reckoning after the police murder of George Floyd.
But also just getting into, I mean, Trump singled out for criticism, the fact that there are Smithsonian museums out there dedicated to black history and to women's history.
And again, he, like others on the far right, have the gall to call that divisive.
And it's something that, again, if you're going to report on it,
maybe you don't want to put the word racist or sexist in the headline.
should.
But yeah, but don't pretend that there isn't something underlying that's motivating these things.
And the history of this country involves systemic racism.
I mean, the worst war that was ever fought that just, you know, merely destroyed this country was over racism.
It's a part of
the history of this country.
And to act like, well, we're going to cover all that up is just simply an act of white supremacy.
I mean, it is racist in itself.
And if you're not going to let history institutions teach about slavery and other examples of systemic racism, that's an act of systemic racism.
Yeah.
And if there's one thing that Mark has not been afraid to lead with, you can use the F word.
When something is fascist, or if we're
toward fascism, say so.
Same goes with racism and things like that.
Let me start with Jim on this next subject.
It's a Wisconsin bill, but it'll get into this whole national perception of always wanting to appear tough no matter what.
Jim, there's a new bill that's being proposed in the legislature.
And again, I'll take pains to do what we've just said we were doing.
This bill isn't passed.
This bill isn't going to become law.
But it does say where their where their principles are This bill is being proposed by a lawmaker from the mosa knee area Brent Jacobson And under it it would send thousands of people back to prison for violating their parole terms or their probation or their extended supervision this whole tough on crime thing which sets aside the notion that
We don't have enough space.
Our prisons are understaffed.
It makes no accountability for, you know, drug treatment, recidivism, alternative sentencing, anything like that.
But Jim, you are, you are a prosecutor.
You've prosecuted a lot of bad dudes.
So here's your chance to say, absolutely, Pat, keep building those prisons.
Let the taxpayers pay for it.
Let's warehouse.
every single person that violates their parole.
Is that is that your position, Jim?
your answer is no.
The answer is no.
It's a resounding no.
If I write the headline, it's capital N capital O with 515 exclamation marks after it.
Again, not only stupid for all sorts of financial reasons and practical reasons, but it's contrary to Pat.
to what Republicans and Democrats and everybody in between on all sides of the political aisle have thought is good law enforcement for 50 years.
All of us know that there are reasons why we put people in prison.
It's basically deterrence.
There's two things.
One is we need to stop Jim Santel from doing the thing that he has done to deter him.
And then we also want to deter other people who might think about doing things down the road.
You use those basic principles, and what you get to is a notion that every single case is on its own, and the notion that somehow we would look at a whole group of people, some of whom happen to have violated the conditions of their release, their parole, and for that reason,
One time they're back in prison.
No, no, that's just the opposite of what we've been doing effectively again for at least half a century, which is to say, everybody in this country, I embrace this notion, a wonderful nation in which we live, you come into court, a judge will look at you and decide your case individually and make a determination.
But whether or not in your circumstances, it is appropriate for deterrence purposes to send you back to prison.
Or if, in fact, the better thing to do, just like being back when I was a seven-year-old boy, looking at me and saying, Jim, I'm so disappointed with you, read me the riot act and tell me what I've got to do to make certain that this will not happen again.
That is that we know from, again, all the literature, all the practice out there that that second approach
which is calling people in and telling them about the reasons why they've got to abide by these things is so much more compelling.
It keeps people from committing more crimes, keeps them out of prison for all the reasons you indicated.
Rehabilitation can continue.
But this is stupid with a capital
S. But again, it, you know, the whole political notion right now is to appear strong, even if that means that the people you're sweeping up aren't all, you know, domestic terrorists.
They aren't all gang members.
If a few others get caught up in it, well, so be it.
I've got under 60 seconds left, Jennifer.
So I actually have to switch gears really quick because of the word that came out this morning, that Elon Musk is actually coming to Wisconsin to campaign
Schimmel for the state Supreme Court race.
So in about 20 seconds here, what's the
significance of the world's richest man coming to Wisconsin?
What should voters think about this?
go a billion a billion dollars here a billion dollars there pretty soon You're getting yourself a pretty nice a Supreme Court race or 20 million is what he's put into this point Jennifer Scholesi Substack go see her newsletter there mark Jacob stop the presses news Jim Santel amicus tomorrow morning.
Thank you all as always love it.
Have a great weekend Thanks Pat Dan Schumacher helps us wrap up the weekend talking sports right after this you're up north
All right, let's bring this plane in for a landing.
It's been quite a week Let's just kick back enjoy a little bit of sports here It's opening a baseball.
We've got the NCAA basketball tournament going on NCAA hockey going on Dan Schumacher's with us now and
Daniel, you watched all of the Brewers Yankees opener, whereas I had to flip over to the hockey game at a certain point here.
But yeah, that Yankees lineup, Wells, then Aaron Judge, Cody Bellinger, Paul Goldschmidt.
I mean, Freddie Peralta did all right, but that's a tough first four to face.
I mean,
Most people were around me as we were watching the game and as the game opened up with a home run, of course.
Just the massive size, the physical stature of those, you know.
A judge, especially home.
I mean, he's like six foot seven.
I mean, he's built like he should be playing pro football.
Yes.
Against Devin Williams.
Yes, they did.
They had a chance.
I love that Devin Williams was already getting booed by the Yankee fans.
18 pitches into his tenure in the pinstripes for loading the bases.
Welcome
to
New York, D-Wills.
Right.
Well, I mean, he got out of it because, I mean, Jackson Churio striking out five times in a game and Christian Yelich, Christian Yelich went over four, but, you know, not, not everything comes charging out of the gate.
And that certainly was the case in the, the brewer bath, but Devin Williams very nearly.
had had uh had a really bad day but instead uh the Yankees win four to two they will do it again tomorrow coverage starts at 11 30 tomorrow morning on civic media stations in Richland center Oshkosh Racine Kenosha Park Falls and WBZH up in Hayward uh so you watched the burger game I have to admit I've watched none of the sweet 16 getting underway in the basketball tournament um I I remember hearing that uh
Maryland went down, which I think a lot of people had going farther in their brackets, but anything else.
Arkansas went down.
Arkansas
Caleb Hardy to lose.
He's been three leading up to having a six point lead at half.
He was in an NCAA tournament.
He was like 36 and all.
Wow.
The team lost by two points.
Unbelievable ending to it.
Forget who they played, but it was a big underdog.
but Arkansas lost, so Calipari's out of the tournament.
The other game that, you know, I don't follow too much, but I stopped as I was clicking by was the Lakers Bulls game, NBA.
Oh yeah?
And LeBron James turned the ball over with six seconds left.
The Bulls popped it out, they were down by two, hit the three, wins the game at the buzzer.
Hmm.
When was the last time a Bulls Lakers game?
You know, had some significance to it.
That's
Yeah.
Uh and and I will note again just in passing but again the NCAA men's hockey tournament going on.
Uh West.
Yeah, Western
When they went to a second overtime which they also did last weekend in winning the conference championship.
And my daughter, you know, whose husband works for the team, you know, we just send these gifts back and forth of, you know, like the one where the baby's really tired and just puts his head down on the desk.
It's just like, it's like, we're
so
tired.
Why are all these games going to double overtime?
And then the, you know, the Gophers and Massachusetts game.
goes to overtime and Massachusetts comes back from like four, two or something like that to, uh, or three, two, whatever it was, they were down.
They scored two, three goals to beat the Gophers.
So, I mean, that, that tournament,
that bracket is a Fargo.
That's the Fargo bracket.
Uh, yep.
Uh, and so yeah, that, that hockey tournament will roll on, which again, even if you don't have a, a team in there, if you like playoff hockey and I love playoff hockey, NHL, NCAA, uh, boy, there, there's a few things are more intense than that.
Uh, you, you plan into watch anything else in particular over the weekend.
tournament.
Did you do brackets?
Are you one of those people that does no brackets, one bracket, 10 different brackets?
Oh,
okay.
Oh,
but but again, come on.
It's NIL.
It's Donald Trump.
There are no more rules.
You do whatever you want.
Oh, hey, let me let me interrupt just long enough to say that because there's only like
two minutes left that you can text in the this hour's word in the text to win contest.
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Alright, so we're watching a little bit of NCAA basketball.
How about your cubs?
we have the ability now.
We're not standing by a ticker tape.
You know, this is pretty
So I'll follow it
But your Cubs got the first
know what?
Yeah.
I love it.
This is the, this is the weekend to do it though.
If
ever going to be a couch potato man, this is the one to do it.
So all right, well do, do enjoy it.
Uh, stay safe.
If you have to go run for groceries, it's going to be a little lacy out there and we'll touch base real soon.
right.
All right.
Greg Bach is back in two hours for Matt and air on air, what you got happening today.
11 o'clock Susan Crawford is going to be calling into the show.
So if you want to hear what she has to say before the election on Tuesday, 11 o'clock and Dan Shaffer will be there as well for that for that second hour.
That's awesome.
And then next week on this fine program, Monday morning at 7 30, we will have a Democratic State Party Chair, Ben Wickler.
And then on Tuesday for Election Day, we always want to get somebody out there with to tell you to get out and vote.
And for us, that'll be Lieutenant Governor Sarah Rodriguez joins us at 705 on Tuesday morning on Election Day.
So that'll wrap it up for Up North News Radio.
For this week, I'm Pat Crite low live from Lake Wasota.
Thank you so much for being here.
Have a wonderful, warm, then wet, then snowy.
Then safe weekend, we'll see you Monday morning here up north.
