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Now, live from our Lake Wissota studio, here's the founding editor of Up North News, Pat Breidler.
Well, hey there, Wisconsin.
Good morning.
It is 6.06 on this Monday morning, March 31st, 2025.
It's another beautiful morning to have you here up north, live from Lake Wissota, from wherever you're listening across the Civic Media Radio Network, the Civic Media app.
on demand by podcaster across social media on youtube and facebook thanks for starting your week right here i've got a question for you are you ready to go vote tomorrow if you haven't voted already that is and a lot of you have already voted i'm happy to say
big elections tomorrow for State Supreme Court, State Superintendent.
There's a terrible idea for a constitutional amendment on the ballot.
There are school referendums, local offices, school boards.
Learn much more at myvote.wi.gov if you're still on the bubble about whether to go or not.
And one tip for folks that might be listening around Rhinelander,
You might need a new polling place after the collapse of the hodag dome during the ice storm over the weekend here.
We're going to talk to Dan Hagen from NewsWatch12 coming up one hour from now about the ice storm there and the damage that it did and the roads that are still slick out here.
And by the way, there's another winter-like storm coming tomorrow into Wednesday.
Meteorologist Brittany Merleau will tell us what.
Northwest and North Central Wisconsin are facing with snow, rain, high winds.
How far does it spread across the state?
Brittany will tell us all that coming up in just a little bit.
Back to the election for a moment.
State Democratic Party Chair, Ben Wickler will be our guest coming up at 7.30.
Let's see, we talked about Dan Hagan, Selena Heller will be here, Up North News reporter.
We'll tell us what she's been covering for us.
Dr. Kristen Lierly should be here around about 6.30 or so as well.
And you can certainly join us on the show as well by phone or by text.
The number here is 855.
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at 707 the civic media break into spring text to win contest ramps up again for another week so get set to text that hourly keyword using the app you can be entered for the uh hourly prize next hour and then of course the grand prize of a queen mattress set from uh verlo as well all right back to the weather and temperatures right now across the state at the bus stop look like this here in chipotle falls it's 25 degrees
Hayward is at 14.
We still don't get to put away the winter jackets yet.
Amory is at 23, Wausau 26.
Wisconsin Rapids 28 right now, lacrosse 31.
It's also 31 in Green Bay, 30 in Madison.
And in the Milwaukee area, it's 32 at Mitchell and 34 at Radio Park, where we find Greg Bach standing by down there and welcoming him into our Lake Pasova Studios, or shall we say,
The Lake Wissota Library, now that we have the bookcase is finally built behind us.
This place looks classy now.
I have classied up this joint.
Mr. Bach, good morning.
Didn't
you have pictures of family
back there before?
They're still there.
They're still on the shelves.
Yep, still there.
Classy as
ever.
But now it's now it's got it's got family
photos
and
books.
Give me give me two examples of books you got back there.
Oh, Garfield Omnibus.
I do have, I debated whether to bring up all my Bloom County books from back in the day.
I've got pretty much every Bloom County book, but there are books up there from two 7th District Congressional Giants, not Sean Duffy and Tom Tiffany.
I'm talking about Dave Obey and Mel Laird before that.
You said Giants, so that's
why I didn't think that in the first place.
Yep, so we've got that up there.
We've got, what else?
What else do we got?
Oh, we've got milked by Ruth Conniff.
We've talked about
few times about the all the migrant labor on Wisconsin dairy farms.
A lot of baseball books are back there.
Um, you know, a little panoramic photo books of stadiums and other things about the game.
Uh, let's see.
We've got, oh yeah, we've got the, the, what's next?
A, an oral history of the West Wing given to me as a Christmas gift by some cool dude.
He's
probably, you know, he's a nice
guy.
Which I'm about halfway through and need to pick up again.
So yeah, we got that.
We got the photos.
We even got some coffee mugs down there.
Dang, I'm loving
this.
Yeah, this is like an up north news.
It's like an up north news like a little museum.
Time capsule
or museum or something.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I mean, for folks who who catch the show on Facebook or YouTube, we've had this kind of same yellow wall behind us, which there was nothing wrong with it when it was just like a home office.
But as a studio, it was it was always kind of like on my list to kind of do something else with the wall back there.
And this weekend was finally the weekend where I could
take, take out all those IKEA boxes and my little Allen wrench, my one little Allen wrench and, and one cordless screwdriver.
And thank God for cordless screwdrivers.
Right.
Um, and, and get, get all of those.
It's a, it's three parts there behind me.
Get all three of those parts assembled.
I have not moved and stretched and bent and lifted that much in a while.
So, uh, today's bookcase is brought to you by Ibuprofen.
Lots of
popping and crackling.
Oh my goodness.
Yes.
But it was a, you know, nice weekend overall to be doing just house projects because the weather, it just took a dive here.
It's just icy, snowy, windy, icky, nothing like what we really deserve at this time here, especially for the Brewers Home Opener, which we need because the other part about this weekend was watching the Brewers in New York.
Yikes.
Get shellacked.
I mean, so the whole thing about the bats thing, they were using those new fangled bats.
The Yankees were.
And I'd love to say it was the bats, but.
No, no, no, it was it was way more than that I mean have you have you have you all never seen Aaron judge?
Have you never heard of some of the other folks in the lineup?
You know Cody Bellinger
some of the others Paul Goldschmidt, but my goodness that game on Saturday where The the new brewer pitcher Nester Cortez former Yankee gives up a home run on the first pitch of the game
gives up a home run on the second pitch of the game, gives up a home run on the third pitch of the game that has never happened in history.
Three home runs on three pitches to start the game.
And it wasn't really any better yesterday.
I mean, it was just a shellacking up and down.
So I declare a do over.
So this is the season opener today down to the American Family Field against the Royals.
Coverage starts at 1230 on Civic Media Stations in Richland Center, Oshkosh Racine Park Falls, and the newest Brewer's affiliate up north, WBZH and Hayward.
So yeah, Brewer's, please shake it off and let's go.
But as far as the bats, I mean, I've seen the bats.
Yeah, they look like these little torpedo things.
I don't know.
I, when I first looked at it, I'm like, okay, it's a bat.
You know, it doesn't look to me like there's clearly some kind of an advantage.
Although for people my age, you might have noticed that it looks a lot like the club handled by Bam Bam, little baby in the Flintstones.
And that did appear to be what the Yankees were doing.
Bam, bam, bam, bam.
I mean, so many home runs.
When I
saw that score late that night, I was like, what?
And it was like it was it was a typical thing of like the Brewers, I mean the Brewers got beat bad But they didn't get beat 20 to nothing they scored nine runs and yet
Yes, it's when the brewers are when the brewers score like 12 runs, they still lose.
It's like
they lose 20 to nine on Saturday.
It was 13 to three in the second inning, something like that.
And then they lost yesterday, 12 to three.
You know, and of course they'd lost the opener on Thursday by the score of four to two.
How quaint.
But yeah, we need to do over.
Yeah.
And.
And also this thing about starting interleague, you know, starting with the Yankees in the Royals seems very odd to me.
It's not, obviously it's not the world's biggest issue, but I would, I would be happy if we did not start the season in Yankee Stadium anymore.
Let's start the season in Milwaukee against the White Sox.
How about that?
Yes.
Yeah.
I could, I could definitely go for that because this was, this was not pretty folks.
And, you know, what else wasn't pretty was the, the Bucks last night they lost to Atlanta.
25 to 124 this is now sounding like the Bucks of about this time last year where again there there was all of this potential and Then then there wasn't yeah, that appears to be the world that we're living in right now The the Bucks at one point here.
They were where were we on March 5th?
They were 11 games over 500 since that time they've gone four and nine and they've lost four in a row
and they will host the Phoenix Suns tomorrow.
And of course, they don't have Dame Lillard who's being treated for the blood clots.
And so, yeah, the Badgers are out of the NCAA tournament.
On the plus side, if y'all would like to, you know, join my bandwagon, your Western Michigan University Bronco hockey team won both their games over the weekend and are moving on to the Frozen Four, College Men's Hockey Version of the Final Four.
That'll be in just under two weeks now in St.
Louis.
So congratulations to my daughter and her husband and everybody on the Broncos hockey team for doing that.
I did at one point
run up to our local watering hole and made them change the channel so we could put the game on.
And it was, it was fun to kind of convert a whole bunch of folks who really couldn't have cared less.
you know, what were they going to watch?
You know, the, the, the brewers.
And so we put that on and we gave them something to cheer for.
We'd give them some hope.
Yes.
Yes, we did.
Um, and speaking of local watering holes, the, the last thing we did over the weekend was we, uh, we closed down the neighborhood watering hole here, uh, known as the edge.
here on Lake Wissota, used to be called Water's Edge for a long time.
And it is under new ownership.
So yesterday was the retirement party for the previous owner.
And so we said goodbye to Al and wished him a happy retirement.
Now the place is going to be closed for about a month.
And the new owner, who one of them is Lupi from Lupi's is a well-known establishment here in Chippewa Falls.
And so Lupi and investors
are gonna give the place a makeover.
And so we're gonna have a shiny new place to socialize on the lake.
More reason to finally get Greg and company up here to do that show on the pontoon.
We have something to work
toward.
Yeah.
So, yeah, so it was nice to, nice to kind of have the end of an era for a local establishment and hopefully things go well with the new owners too.
When we come back, we'll talk a bit about the day's news and that doesn't start off on a great note either.
because legalized bribery appears to be a thing.
A couple of courts said so over the weekend as Elon Musk came to Wisconsin.
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One of the stories in there is about inaccurate election information being sent to folks in the mail because again, just some people
We can't have nice things because of them, but it's a lot of Brewer's Coverage today because of the Brewer's home opener
There's a story there about how can you get discounts on Brewer's tickets?
What about the Brewer's promotions for the year?
There's a story in there about front row Amy.
Anybody who watches the TV broadcast knows Amy is there keeping score in her little front row seat there right behind home plate.
So we'll blurb about her.
And this one I thought was especially useful, a link to the bag policy at American Family Field.
bags you know little backpacks whatever the things that you know you would take for granted that you can bring into a ballpark if you haven't been to a ballpark lately if you're going to the home opener and you haven't been to American Family Field or any big league stadium or arena for a while
You're definitely going to want to read up on the bag policy before you go to any place like that, because they're all a little different.
Some say, well, you can bring in anything as long as it's in a clear bag.
Others are just very anti-bag at all, and you've got to, you know, just buy the stuff that you want while you're in the stadium.
So learn more by signing up for our newsletter up NorthNewsWI.com.
There is also
A note to be said about yesterday's newsletter the Sunday morning politics edition newsletter that I put out and along with coverage of the previous week in politics We do a question of the week and we are getting a lot of responses to our question of the week Which by the way you you can answer it as well.
Just go to send us an email radio
at upnorthnewswi.com don't forget the wi radio at upnorthnewswi.com and so here was the the question it was that it was about supreme court elections and it was noting that there's more than one way to do a supreme court election in fact uh there there are five different ways to do this wisconsin is one of only 14 states
that have nonpartisan elections for state Supreme Court justices.
So that was one of the options, was A, nonpartisan elections, just keep what we're doing, warts and all, where people like Elon Musk can come in and just buy all the ads they want.
Option B was.
partisan elections.
Just acknowledge that political parties get involved.
Eight other states do it that way.
You just put it on a partisan ballot, just like any other politicians running for office.
Option C is you punt it to the legislature and say, you know what?
We elect the legislature.
The legislature can vote on who should sit on the Supreme Court.
That is done in two other states.
In four states,
the governor just appoints.
There's no elections, the legislature's not involved, it's a gubernatorial appointment.
And then finally the one that's done most frequently in the country is something called a nominating commission.
That's done in 22 states where an independent commission puts together a list of recommended candidates and then the governor picks a person off that list.
That way they can't
put somebody on the court who is completely unqualified.
Enough said about our U.S.
Supreme Court.
And so a lot of folks are writing in about either they're intrigued by the idea of a nominating commission or they just want to keep what we've got here that you know they don't want a partisan election, they don't want to punt it to the legislature or the governor, they want to be able to choose the Supreme Court.
So nonpartisan elections as we have now
or a nominating commission, an independent nominating commission, are the ones that seem to be getting the most responses.
But of course, we collect responses all week long.
And so again, you can shoot us an email radio at upnorthnewswi.com to learn more.
Now, I was not necessarily expecting Elon Musk to get arrested yesterday and coming to Green Bay.
but I would not have been disappointed because after all, the guy's breaking the law about bribery and offering million dollar checks to people who come to his rallies, offering people $100 payments to sign a quote unquote online petition.
Elon Musk doesn't give a rat's butt about an online petition.
He's trying to get Brad Schimel elected and looking for a roundabout way of doing it.
But one thing we've learned in the age of Trump where he doesn't try to hide the corruption is that our Constitution and our laws, our norms, they were not ready for this level of unbridled corruption.
It's what's led us to something like Citizens United, where corporations can put in as much money as they want.
And now billionaires born in other countries coming here.
can put in as much money as they want into elections as well.
State Attorney General Josh Call went to court, then to an appeals court, and then to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in all cases saying this should be patently illegal.
It is a clear violation of Wisconsin law that says you cannot offer anything of value to entice somebody to vote or to entice somebody to not vote.
And yet the state Supreme Court voted unanimously.
All the judges refused to hear the Josh Call challenge of Elon Musk's giveaway, essentially saying that there's been no demonstrated harm.
And that's a flaw in the law that needs to be addressed.
You know, this notion of that somebody has to be hurt first.
Here's who gets hurt first.
Every voter in the state, after election day, if enough of them
can look at the world's richest man putting cash out there and saying, okay, I think I'll go for that.
Now, again, before people go, well, what about this guy and this guy, these billionaires?
They are dwarfed by what Elon Musk and his other groups and other billionaires, frankly, are putting into this race.
I really want to salute Kate Duffy and everybody at motherhood for good.
Put together a great little graphic using building blocks and then having Kate's baby knocked down the baby blocks to demonstrate just the wild
disparity in terms of money coming in by billionaires to the state of Wisconsin.
It would seem to me the best way we can avoid having billionaires buying elections from this point on would be to make sure that Elon Musk doesn't get his way.
More after this, you're up north.
I feel like I'm back at Skateville.
Skateville!
In beautiful Woodbury, Minnesota.
Just everybody doing their little skate thing.
Left, right, left kick, left, right, left kick.
What
was?
Well, not the boys didn't know.
Some people were a little crazy and then
they
already claps as they go.
Herb Alpert has a birthday today and so we will have that and more.
I have a lot of Herb Alpert music coming
Oh, we are going all game show music.
This one here.
This is Rise.
This was one of his later hits.
God, listen to
that.
I know.
But his stuff in the 60s and early 70s was much more game showy.
And so I thought, well, we'll have a little fun with that in the next hour.
Dr. Kristen Lyrely is here.
uh, warm and dry after a very busy day yesterday.
And I guess she's going to continue to be busy outdoors.
Dr. Lierley, how are you?
I'm so good.
Yesterday, 33 degrees, freezing rain.
We're all outside, shouting, loving each other, having a blast this morning.
I wake up.
There's snow on the ground.
It's a winter wonderland again.
Yeah.
I may, I may have swore at my outside windows, but I saw them like.
What the?
Yeah, it's not pretty out there.
Wisconsin.
We love you.
We
do,
but
boy, your weather is psycho sometimes.
It
just is.
Our politics.
However, I would be curious to know the crowd at the Elon Musk event in Green Bay versus the crowd outside unhappy about a billionaire buying elections.
What was it like?
I've never seen anything like it.
I grew up here.
I have lived a substantial part of my adult life here, most of it.
And I have honestly never seen the people of Green Bay turn out the way that they did yesterday.
They were fired up.
They were angry, shouting.
The signs that they had were very pointed and direct.
It is clear that Elon Musk.
cannot buy Wisconsin.
We are not going to stand for it.
Well, I hope so.
I mean, that's the current, I don't know if it's a viral video, but certainly one of the most popular videos being made is a video with anybody just looking into the camera and saying Wisconsin has the ability to do the most awesome thing and show Elon Musk something he can't buy.
He can't buy Wisconsin.
But
Again, that all depends on turnout.
And so when people hear this, when they hear you, and they go, oh, big crowd and all kinds of people there, there are some folks that hear that and go, oh, I guess I don't have to vote
tomorrow.
It's cold out.
Yeah, you do have to vote.
You have to vote.
Every vote counts.
I didn't
get around to it.
I might not get around to it tomorrow.
It matters.
It matters.
It matters not only on this level, but it matters in your community too.
There are school board races and local races where people win or lose by one vote
and that
could be your vote.
So yes, your vote absolutely matters.
Please get out to the polls tomorrow and vote and vote.
Yeah.
And especially those local races, you know, school board, for example, some of those elections sometimes are decided by just a handful of votes.
And we have definitely learned the importance of school board elections.
They used to be pretty sleepy affairs because everybody that wanted to be on the school board wanted to serve and, you know,
It's not that way now.
Now, and the same goes for the state superintendent race.
I mean, you know, Brittany Kinzer has a lot of money, a lot of Republican billionaire money behind her.
And he's got these ads where she's saying all the right things about we want her schools to be good.
But she's not telling you and she's never said in any of the interviews how she plans to pay for Wisconsin have two school systems.
So these are, these are, are big up here.
Uh, lesion notes on YouTube.
Oh, guess who showed up for an Elon Musk town hall?
Tony weed and Derek van horden.
Wow.
They won't show up, show up in their own districts for their own town halls, but they show up here for Elon musk's town hall.
You
just can't cause there were no
questions being asked.
There were questions being asked.
Yes, I watched part of the live stream Yeah, they were they were straight from Fox News kind of questions like when the radical liberals try to take over what is your plan?
By all the hummus you can because you know those radical liberals they love themselves
crush chickpeas
Uh, and, I mean, and Tony's right putting a comment up saying, I'm really worried about the DPI race.
I think Brittany Kinzer is very dangerous.
And it's again, it's true because I know I've, I've known enough people who have seen all the Supreme court commercials and they say.
I think it's Susan Crawford that I want to vote for, but I'm not sure because the other commercials make her look so bad.
And then what happened was, you know, a few days ago, Brad Schimmel just dropped all pretenses and all these ads started running that said, Brad Schimmel is Donald Trump's candidate.
And it informed some Trump voters, but it also informed a lot of other voters who were like, I don't know who these people are.
Well, they know who Brad Schimmel is now.
So.
I'm really looking forward to flipping Wisconsin blue in 2026.
This is my master plan.
And then having the state legislature and the governor come together and pass some sort of a law where we can't have all this spending in our elections.
Remember how it used to be like before we opened that door.
We didn't have to deal with all of this ridiculousness.
So let's just get rid of it so that we can actually judge candidates based on their merit and their records instead of the Daily Show did a side by side.
Comparison of the ads that both the Crawford and Schimel campaign Yes, they did.
I mean there were the same things like she you know Let a child pornographic person out on the streets.
He did the same thing.
She let this happen He did that happen.
It's
yeah, you'd think the Supreme Court races are all about you know Child porn and sexual assault.
That's nothing like what a Supreme Court works on and the things that we need a Supreme Court justice for Are the kinds of things that don't make for the same
kind of attention getting commercials as what we see here.
So there's such a disconnect between the commercials and the truth and a disconnect between the commercials and what a state supreme court actually does.
And it's where again, you have programs like this, you have up North news and others where, you know, you want, you want to feel like you matter as Tony says on YouTube.
Yes, I want my small dollar donations to matter.
I
don't want them made irrelevant by a billionaire's
money.
Exactly.
And
that's
where we find ourselves right now.
So yes, as important as ever.
And you're not done yet.
You're not done being outside with your, your cowbells and things.
Are you?
No.
So we're going to be at the Brown County Republican office today to greet Brad Schimmel.
We're going to give him a frosty Wisconsin welcome.
And the Ghrigian grandies are going to be there with us.
My megaphone.
We're hoping to have about a hundred people because we want him to know that the people of Wisconsin
We've got different ideas.
We want our judges to be fair and objective and to represent the will of the people, not these pre-judged notions about what the law should mean.
to Brad Schimel and his wealthy donors like Elon Musk.
Did I hear you say does Wisconsin have its own raging grannies now?
Oh, all over the place.
Milwaukee has an incredible group.
Madison has a beautiful group and now Northeast Wisconsin has raging grannies too.
I'm so excited.
I might become one.
We'll see how
things go.
You got a little ways to go there.
Grandma, you're
not anybody can be a raging granny.
Anybody.
Oh, gotcha.
Oh,
Greg, you could be a raging granny.
I am.
I'm a
raging.
I'm I'm I'm angry about all sorts of things.
Just name it.
I have a opinion.
Yes, you do.
Oh, yes.
Thank goodness.
So I've heard nothing yet about the I mean, it's no Kristen Lyrely office.
But I mean, we've got the sexy new.
He just just noticed the
bookshelf.
Kristen just knows the bookshelf.
Yeah, I got a I got a live picture of bookshelf creation And
it was a it was a half-opened Ikea box with parts strewn all over like wish me luck Meanwhile, I had dr.
Lierly sending me music videos from the late 90s early 2000s.
It's just
I asked for a song and then this whole barrage of songs started coming out and I started remembering and then I got super excited about Summerfest because I was looking at the Summerfest lineup and it was
one old bit like the producers at and then Hippo campus and then Def Leppard and then like all of these amazing bands are going to be there.
I think I might live in Milwaukee this summer.
There you go.
Hey, okay.
Um
I forget what you said there about, but something you just said made me think of a show that we watched on the Hulu last night that is Nathan Lane has a new sitcom
called
Mid-Century Modern.
Yeah, and it's basically, it's kind of a takeoff of the Golden Girls, where these three gay gentlemen, they lose their best friend, because they used to be this group of four best friends.
The three of them decide to move in together.
Hilarity ensues.
The late Linda Lavin, it plays Nathan Lane's mother.
before she had passed away around Christmas time here.
So she's in the first handful of episodes and it's like, oh, I'm going to miss her.
I didn't miss her.
She's, I mean, especially her stuff later in life.
I mean, it used to think of like Alice, the sitcom, you know, in the mid 1970s, but she, she had a wonderful resurgence and just a great new show.
It is 100%
the Will and Grace team.
It is the creators
of
Will and Grace.
Jim Burroughs is directing.
It's, it is basically like it is, yeah.
when I saw all the names, like, oh, this is just Will and Grace, which I was, on the first episode, I was like, this feels very almost exploitative in the way they're talking, acting.
It just felt just, yeah, but then I watched the second and third episode, and there's a little more warmth, a little more heart, a little more opening up,
but,
you know,
we'll see.
Well, but that you get that with a lot of shows I mean how many times you've heard me say that like well You got to get settled in and you you have to establish the premise of the show first and then you can start watching from there
It's like meeting a new friend.
Yes
Fall into that right away.
You have to like get through some of the basic questions get a feel for who they are Let it sink in a little bit, you know
We got that we had that with you from like moment one like oh, who's who's this?
She's funny.
She's
smart.
Let's keep her around
So I
could help us as blossomed over the years Pat.
I know now you're a raging granny with a bullhorn.
I could be.
I do have the bullhorn.
You're just a quiet country doc and now.
Oh, is that the bullhorn
back?
I just
wanted to put my tile out and help the people.
Now I'm a raging granny with a megaphone.
To be clear, I am not yet to raging granny status, but I certainly could be.
which might be the only way I become a grandmother once I really evaluate my children.
Now here's how we know you're on your way to raging granny status.
Nothing is going, when am I going to be a grandma?
Somebody
make me a grandma over here.
I didn't say that.
I'm just making a prediction.
You're making a prediction that.
Your four boys are not going to bless you with a grandchild.
You've met my children.
I
mean, yes,
they're
lovely children.
My, my, my wife, there's three kids, no grandkids and probably never going to be.
I mean, I might end up with some sort of a Pokemon.
My grand Pokemon is an honor roll student at such high school.
Oh, that would be funny.
Yeah, that's the direction we're headed.
There's out.
I feel like now we need to have a show with with all four of the boys there just to defend themselves and and to, you know, to dish the dirt on mom here.
Do you think
they'd
ever do that?
You would not believe you wouldn't be able to get a word in edgewise.
They are.
I wouldn't have to.
I would just say
here are the Lyrely boys and go.
We
brought our own
questions, Pat.
So hey.
Yes.
You know, just ended at 7.58.
I wrapped them up and that's
it.
Good luck wrapping them up.
Also put them on a channel where they can be pretty much unedited.
Okay.
Podcast then.
Introducing the next new podcast from Civic Media and Up North News.
Lyrely's Uncensored.
The Lyrely guys.
Oh yeah, that would be interesting.
Oh, although Tony does note on YouTube, one son did co-host when Pat was gone.
That's
true.
Oh, yep, that was
Abe.
So you've
You definitely have a brood there that could do some kind of a partridge family thing, but instead of singing, you're all yapping on the radio.
They're all music people, too.
Okay, now we get a musical interlude, too.
We love that.
We actually performed at The White World.
Hello,
world.
There's a song that we're singing.
Come
on, get happy.
We sang Love Me Do By The Beatles.
That's so great.
Yeah.
Yeah, I even let my ex-husband come play guitar.
It was fun
And again, that's how you do a sitcom with a family singer as you have the you know the divorce couple decides to get together for the sake of the band again Hilarity ensues just just one gig.
What could happen?
Nothing passive aggressive there at all.
I do have one who's not very musical, but he got a triangle hit that was comedic
the nice of you to include him that way.
See, very, very inclusive, which.
Don't the whole thing around
him.
Okay.
When we come back, we're going to have today's history lesson.
Selena Heller is going to join us from Up North News and then at 7 0 6 we're joined today early by Dan Hagen from WJFW News Watch 12 who's going to tell us all about the ice storm damage up there, the collapse of the Hodag dome and more.
That's on Up North News Radio live from Lake Wissota on the Civic Media Radio Network.
You're listening to Civic Media.
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and there we go, Selena is to a degree as well.
Welcome to Off-Nord News Radio's daily history lesson kicked off by Kenny Loggins and Footloose, which was the number one song this day in 1984.
I love
Loggins.
I love Ken Footloose.
What's not to like about Footloose?
I know.
Just lay on the couch here.
Let's analyze the Selena tell us
about your mother and foot loose
Never liked that song.
Oh the
song or the movie
well
both
Okay, not a Kevin Bacon.
No,
you don't like Kevin Bacon.
Nope No degrees of him nothing
I'm one degree away from Kevin Bacon.
How do you how dare you?
How dare
you like a whiskers comes in like
I I want
to show support
So
Footloose was the title song to a not yet released film where Kevin Bacon brings dancing to a small town in the south.
I always had the toughest time seeing John Lithgow as a dramatic, serious...
Or as a comedic character, rather, because he was so dramatic and serious in that movie as the preacher, you know, the father who eventually, I don't want to give away the movie.
It's only 42 years old.
Anyway.
Okay, let's go ahead and do some more of today's history lesson.
Chuck Berry is in the history lesson for a song that he released this day in 1958.
First
recorded by Marty McFly.
by, you don't know that people.
Chuck Berry is his cover, his cover.
Marty McFly brought this.
Johnny Be Good was named after his piano player, Johnny.
Johnny Be Good.
It was named after Johnny Johnson and the street where he grew up on Good Avenue, Good Within E, which is why Johnny B. Good has an E at the end of that as well.
Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Germany this day in 1685.
I think he did the original of this.
I haven't gotten a single residual check.
Joseph Haydn was born in Austria this day in 1732.
Jimi Hendrix lit his guitar on fire this day in 19...
167 for the first time during a performance at a place in London.
He had to go to the hospital for minor burns afterwards, to which Pat replies, duh.
The Eiffel Tower opened in Paris this day in 1889.
We mentioned Herb Alpert earlier.
Today is his 90th birthday.
Oh, we just made this show a lot more mellow.
That keyboard, that Rhodes, that Rhodes keyboard people.
This guy.
This guy
is in love with somewhere.
Bert Backer was like, OK, yeah, who's copying me?
You're
right.
Let's let's let's get this place jazzed up a little bit.
Let's go.
Happy birthday, Herb Alpert 90.
We'll hear more of this trumpet later.
But we got to get on a different track here on this day in 1972.
America's self-titled debut album hit number one with tracks like this.
Rock it out, kids.
Yeah, because when I think of rock and roll, I think of America.
I
think of America.
Okay, okay.
Give me one more chance.
Let me try.
Let's go to 40 years ago this week.
The new number one song was by Phil Collins.
Oh,
man.
It's just a history of slow skates.
Can
to Kenny Loggins?
I mean, we'll just set Selena aside here, but maybe.
All right.
Today is National Crayola Day.
Today is National Crayon Day.
Did any of you think it was a
different day?
Well, yes.
What's National Crayon Day?
And then Crayola was like, oh, it's National Crayola Day, too.
Sure thing.
Did any of you, were you able to ever get the box of 64 crayons?
With the built in sharpener?
Selena's given us the whole demonstration here, yes.
Does not work on
markers.
Today is National Farm Workers Day.
Today is National Tater Day.
Today is Transgender Day of Visibility and today is World Computer Backup Day, which I think is kind of interesting because I mean, so I want to say very fewer and fewer people all the time store pretty much anything on their computer.
You know, it's all stored in a cloud someplace.
Everything's in Google or wherever.
My
laptop is 100% like it's a pixel book, so it's all like there's nothing on that computer that
if I just buy a new pixel book,
I just sign in.
Perfect.
Yeah.
Sherry had one where she's like, oh, this thing that came up to back up.
I'm like, what do you have on there?
Well, nothing really think well then don't worry about it, you know there but they'll still try to sell you all the the virus programs and the backup programs and everything else but just just not as Necessary as it needs to be
I think it's important to back up your phone if your company like what like I have Google I have a Google Pixel and I Google Fi and they allow you with a program like a $20 a year program It backs my phone up like every few days so that way if I buy a new phone I can just
recharge it, or if I lose it, I'm not I've lost nothing.
I've lost nothing.
So
I'm trying to think of I mean, my contacts, they're in the cloud, my photos are in there.
So I mean, basically, if you nowadays you
drop your laptop or your phone, you don't really lose that much, except the thousand bucks, because that's how much a phone cost nowadays.
Selena normally tells us right after the seven o'clock news story that she'll be working on.
We're first going to hear from Dan Hagen from WJFW and he's going to talk about the collapse of the hodag dome and other ice storm damage.
And then after Dan Selena, what are we going to be talking about?
Yes, something Kristen's told us all about.
And so Kristen, Greg, Selena, Dan Hagen, we'll all be back after the news.
I'm Pat Kratlow.
This is Up North News Radio, live from Lake Wasota on the Civic Media Radio Network, rocking out on this Monday morning.
Take us home, Phil.
Oh, baby.
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