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Great day in the morning, people.
Victory is mine.
Thank you, Josh.
6 0 6 on this Wednesday morning.
the second day of April, the first day of no political ads during commercial breaks, and the first day of some renewed hope across Wisconsin.
There it is.
There it is.
As Susan Crawford wins handily.
wins a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court and Jill Underly wins a second term at the Department of Public Instruction and Greg Bach is standing by down at Radio Park and I want him to make sure he gets credit from Tony here on YouTube.
Congratulations on your victory Pat and Greg you did it.
Yesterday you convinced everyone a must win would mean more political ads so I think legally you get 90% of the credit.
5% credit to Crawford and obviously 5% credit to my sarcastic comments.
Good job all around.
Yes, works just fine.
Uh, by the way, let's just get this out of the way.
The Boo Birds are starting good and early here where again, I love this comment.
I remember this from 2020.
There isn't one person I know personally who voted for her or will ever vote for a Democrat again.
If you don't know anybody that voted for somebody from the other party, you live in a bubble.
Get out
more.
I would really love to give my response.
Can you read that?
Can you read that again for me?
Just for just, it's a great day in America.
Can
you read that
for me?
There isn't one person I know personally who voted for her or who will ever vote for a Democrat.
All right, so what?
I don't
care.
Oh, here's a nice evil maniacal laugh over there.
Here and here's the important thing about that.
OK, for for everything that you would want that people would want to say about Brad Schimmel.
He conceded he called to congratulate.
Yes, Susan Crawford on the win and said he's I heard him say the words to his supporters We have to accept the results.
Thank you.
I yes, I still wait non Eric Havde to say the same thing still still weren't for Donald Trump 2020 Thank you Brad Schimmel for doing that for being an example that
You can run and I didn't like the campaign you run.
I will say that first and foremost, but at the end of the day, you did lose and you conceded and you're walking away.
That is, unfortunately that's
the low bar, but you crossed it friend.
No, I've lost two elections.
I've had to, and I made those phone calls.
I'll tell you, making that call to Sean Duffy, not easy, but you do it.
It's what you do.
in America, it's what you do in a democracy.
Yeah.
So, you know, again, here, before we even congratulate Susan Crawford, congratulations, Brad Shimmel, on doing the right thing.
Yes.
That's where the bar, that's where the bar is today.
So, I normally start by saying I got a question for you.
So, I'm gonna go with this.
Here's my question.
Aren't you proud?
You should be.
You should, all of you, you too, Mr. Bach, should be proud because again,
Let's we're going to talk all about the results.
What these all mean and to not read too much into any one thing.
Okay.
It's not a blue wave.
You know, it's nothing like that.
It's not like 2026 won't be on a completely different plane.
But for what this race was and especially what it became when it became nationalized.
I mean, folks should be proud that they did say I don't know that I would normally turn out and vote for this but we're not going to let a billionaire
You know, run our elections this way.
So good for folks doing that.
Yeah.
Along the way.
I'm sorry.
No, no, I just, I that's, that's for me, you know, that's the biggest takeaway is that Wisconsin is not for sale.
And I hope that other state, and I hope that other states that honestly, it sounds weird to say this out loud.
And I'm sure it's, it sounds ridiculous to maybe a few, but.
Even the states that voted for Trump, I still want them to reject the mere notion that a guy can walk and be like, well, you voted for us anyways, but you know what I mean?
Like still use more money and influence because he thinks he can.
Vote how you want, but push away the billionaires who think that this just belongs to them.
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Right now, with 95% of precincts reporting, Susan Crawford leads Brad Schimmel, basically 55-45.
Just short of 1.3 million votes to 1 million votes even.
And here's the thing you need to know about that.
In four of the last five Supreme Court elections,
Uh, the results are, are kind of interesting or shall we say coincidental?
Um, let's see.
I have them in front of me.
Here's someplace.
Here we go.
Uh, we had in 2018, Rebecca Dalit won her race, 55 44 in 2020.
Jill Karofsky beat Dan Kelly, 55 44 in 2023.
Janet Protasewicz.
Again, defeated Dan Kelly, 55 to 44.
And now this race is looking like it's on its way to being 55-44.
The only blip in all of that was in 2019 when Brian Hagridorn defeated Lisa Neubauer.
And there, the margin was less than a percentage point in that particular race back in 2019.
And so, you know, this is
This is not an anomaly in terms of Supreme Court elections where, again, you don't have a party label.
When you have a party label, some folks who might, you know, consider themselves progressive or lean progressive, but they don't consider themselves Democrats.
And so, I mean, if this were a partisan election, I think the results would have been a lot closer.
I think it would have been more like, you know, 51-49.
But...
You notice this in other states, Greg, that when they put like Medicaid expansion on the ballot or abortion rights on the ballot, it doesn't have a party label on it, but these things pass.
Yeah.
Because people by and large have progressive values.
It's just when you, when you slip into party politics that some folks kind of, you know, fall off the range.
And the question I have is like, you know, Brad Schimel to his admittance started running pretty much the moment that
Janet protus say, what's one?
He
threw his cat ring.
No other, no other right-leaning candidate got in.
He was, they were kind of clearing the way for him.
And they thought, okay, if he just runs from now until 2025, we should be good.
And he kind of ran under the radar, just doing the thing you're supposed to do, which is going out to the events, meeting people, shaking hands, talking, that kind of thing.
And it was when the lights started to be showing on him,
And he's, he really sidled up, like, sidled up hard.
Like I tried to put this on, I tried to say this on Matt and Aaron air, but like Musk was going to do what he wanted to do regardless.
He was going to put the money in and he was going to, you know, they were going to do their thing.
And Brad Schumer could have run his campaign saying they'll put their money in, but I'm running as this candidate full, full steam ahead.
But I really feel like the moment he really started hooking his train, his, his caboose to their, their train is when it started to go bad for him because he just started to show that the ugly side of the MAGA America and he embraced it.
And people were like, I don't know if I want that in the courtroom.
they don't they don't and and look again it's so disingenuous not just people that go I don't know anybody that voted for her it's all paid for by you know George Soros and then you see the I'm already seeing the comments as well oh you mean she was elected by Madison to Milwaukee honest goodness people open up another tab go to any election results I'm looking at one of the maps right now let me count the number of counties that went to Susan Crawford for you
Yep.
There's Milwaukee.
There's Dane.
So that's two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22.
22 counties.
Are they 22 populous counties?
Nope.
Not all of them.
And land doesn't vote.
There are a lot of people living in cities.
Hence the term cities.
They're there and they all vote and they all count.
And when the votes were counted,
People went the way that they that they did and so stop with the you know Well, there's zip code is different from mine.
So I don't want to accept the results except it folks I mean, that's what you told us in November, right?
You know, that's what we do in a democracy.
We accept the results We may not like them and we move on so Stop with the tantrums and move on
All right, let me do some weather really quick here before I forget because we also have some nice sports news to pass along.
Governor Tony Evers has declared a state of emergency for the areas that were severely damaged in an ice storm a few days ago.
That declaration will help ensure that state agencies, local partners, utilities, and emergency management officials can continue working together and respond quickly to a damage caused by the recent severe weather.
Brittany Merleau's state forecast says that after snow just swept through the state, now severe thunderstorms are possible in the south.
The spring roller coaster ride will finally give us a break after today.
Looking at the radar right now, there are some pretty heavy rain and perhaps thunderstorms through the southern middle third of the state and widespread rain or light snow in the southern half of Wisconsin right now.
The forecast calls for a wintry mix up
North turning to rain, periods of rain and thunderstorms in southern Wisconsin.
Breezy, a little warmer.
Some thunderstorms in southern Wisconsin could be severe this afternoon.
Highs up north in the upper thirties in southern Wisconsin in the lower sixties.
A southwest wind at 15 to 25 miles an hour.
for tonight, scattered showers early, then variably cloudy and breezy, lows near 30 up north, mid 30s in southern Wisconsin, and a west wind at 10 to 20 miles an hour.
And again, Brittany will be here with more forecast details coming up at about 707.
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We've got, of course, coverage of the election results and also a story about ballpark food and how the food, how the cuisine at American families
field rates, some of the good stuff that you can get there.
Speaking of the Brewers, Eric Hoson, Christian Yelich hit solo home runs, backing a strong start by new pitcher Chad Patrick, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Kansas City Royals 5-0 last night for their first win of the season.
They will next play this afternoon.
We got a matinee game, Brewers versus Kansas City, coverage starts at 11.35 this morning on several civic media stations, head over to the Civic Media app and the Civic Media website to learn more.
And the Bucks shot 69% from the floor, 51 of their 73 shots to set a franchise record for highest percentage of shots made.
So some good, precise shooting from the Bucks last night to help them beat the Phoenix Suns 133 to 123 for Coach Doc Re...
It gave him a career win total of 1,155 coaching wins, tying Phil Jackson for seventh place all time in NBA history regular season wins.
And the Bucks will be at Philadelphia on Thursday.
Wherever you're listening across Wisconsin on this beautiful Wednesday morning, when you're here, you're up north.
We'll be right back.
Okay, uh, free to pain is not really part of today's history lesson, but that's a bit of a tease how she weaves in with somebody else in today's history lesson.
You're going to have to stick around for another half hour to find out more here on Up North News Radio.
We also tell you what, uh, what's on the national day calendar.
And I'm just going to jump on one of them now because it's still one of my favorite stories, Greg.
Today is national ride your horse to a bar day.
And I only say that because one one one evening at the the sand bar here on Lake La Sota and this was many many years ago, but Boy, there were two women there.
They were whooping it up They were just having the the best time and it turns out they answered the question that we had first walking into the place Why are there two horses hitched up outside the bar which you know
100 years ago was a regular scene at a bar in Wisconsin.
Not so much now.
So it was a nice little novelty and good on them, which takes me to this other story about horses at a bar.
I was doing some genealogy research, again, many years ago, trying to figure out where the whole Kratlow family tree is.
And a lot of it is in places just west of the Twin Cities, a place called Montrose, Minnesota.
And I actually found some relatives out there that I did not know about, like second cousins and things.
So I'll wear my, what would it be, great, great, great, or great, great grandfather lived.
And they talked about they, one of the stories that still gets told around town was, you know, he'd like to have a little barley pop or two when he was out on the town, uh, going to town, you know, in his horse drawn wagon and, um, and have a couple.
And I guess one night he had a little, a little too much.
And so basically his buddies poured him into the wagon, slapped the horse on the backside and the horse knew right where to go.
The horse found its way home.
And I'm like, maybe that's what that that would take care of a lot of issues if we just let the horses drive us home.
I agree with that
night and have its own horse lane like, you know, you make its own horse road that we didn't wear what cars don't have to worry about anybody else.
This is the dedicated horse road for transportation of those who need transportation.
There you go.
I think, you know, I'm going to call Sean Duffy.
We could do this, like,
nationwide.
Secretary of Transportation could get us horse lanes for when we need a ride home.
That's our new sober cab.
We were going to have Congressman Mark Polk hand on the show, but due to somebody else's temper tantrum, we've had to move it to Friday.
Allow me to explain, well, Greg Buck gets the crying baby sound effect ready to go.
Thank you.
You see, there are these people in the House of Representatives who are rather
bipartisan on some matters.
One of the matters deals with working moms and a proposal that would allow house members who are new parents to vote by proxy.
You know, meaning that they don't have to be on the floor of the house.
They can submit their vote another way.
And this is something that's been done before.
It was done during COVID.
when you you couldn't have gatherings.
So it's it's proven to work.
It's proven to be safe.
But Mike Johnson doesn't like it.
So Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, Republican from Louisiana, did not want it to come up for a vote.
But along came a bipartisan group of members led by Florida Republican Representative Anna Luna to force a vote on the matter.
So she put in what's called a discharge petition which forces a vote if it gets a majority and the speaker can't stop that kind of a vote.
They held the vote and nine Republicans crossed over voted with Democrats to say, hey, we want to vote on this rule that helps working moms and new dads to vote by proxy.
It should get its own up or down vote is all that they were trying to say.
What did Mike Johnson do?
He sent everybody home.
He ended the business for the week.
So your taxes are paying for members of Congress who are flying home today or last night the way that Mark Bocan is, which is why Mark Bocan isn't going to join us today.
He's going to join us on Friday.
He's going to be part of our week in review panel Friday during the 7 a.m.
hour.
So that'll be really nice.
And I'm sure that Mike Johnson or he'll have some words on what Mike Johnson had to say about this.
Actually, I believe we now have that sound bite from Mike Johnson about working moms and whether he supports them or not.
I mean, what what kind of weirdos don't don't have enough respect for working moms to do something that incredibly basic.
Look, I'm not I don't think this is bringing some kind of disrespect to Congress that you don't have to be on the floor.
That's that's not what this is about at all.
We were talking about this J and I off air and
I feel like there should be proxy votes for all these situations.
Are you home sick?
You should get a proxy vote.
Your vote should be heard, and if you can't be there, that doesn't mean you can't vote.
This is kind of ridiculous.
Also, very ridiculous from the pro-family party.
Yes.
Very ridiculous.
These are the little basic things that you can do.
And again, I know Donald Trump's not looking for free advice from me, but
You know, when you kept talking about infrastructure week, you could have put forward a plan.
There could be a bipartisan infrastructure plan.
And I say that because of what today is in Donald Trump's world.
Donald Trump keeps referring to today as Liberation Day.
When all it really is, it's not liberation, it's inflation day.
It's the day that he's going to announce new tariffs on some of our closest allies and trading partners to further drive a wedge.
and to further drive up prices and to drive up unemployment in this country.
And yet there are some news outlets out there that are still going along with the whole Liberation Day theme.
Again, I would remind you, if you're buying into Liberation Day, you probably also bought into Infrastructure Week, even though nothing came of that.
Then there was Repeal and Replace.
Remember that one?
Great slogan.
Tried to repeal, had no replacement.
We can go back even further to read my lips from George H. W. Bush.
So don't fall for the marketing gimmick.
Go for what the results actually are or what the results are most likely to be when you're covering somebody like a president who's all good with the slogans, but get to the impact.
What does it mean to real folks?
Which is what's going to take us into our climate check here.
And then we'll get back into talking about, you know, the news of the day.
I wish I had better news on the climate check front, but as we look at what, you know, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency is doing, when we look at a former environmental lawyer like Robert Kennedy Jr.
and how he's just standing by watching, you know, the decimation of environmental regulations, it's a little bit puzzling.
But Melissa Boldoff and I then looked for the silver lining and we find it.
closer to our own hometowns.
So stick around for all that.
Today's history lesson and then in our second hour, Todd Alba joins me and we'll break down more of last night's election results, the wins for Susan Crawford and Jill Underly and what partial results we have on school referendums.
All that after this, you're up north.
All right, welcome back.
We will continue our coverage of election results coming up in just a bit here on Up North News Radio, but it is Wednesday morning, so we want to talk a bit about a changing climate and what kinds of things can be done about it, especially in the political climate that we have these days.
And Melissa Baldoff is here to talk to us about it.
As always, Melissa, how you doing?
Fine as well.
Thanks.
You know, we are going to be talking about people involved in our climate and part of me wishes we maybe had a psychiatrist with us for this particular segment because we're going to be talking about people who are playing a central role in the Trump administration who are not today what they used to be
back in the day.
We have talked about Lee Zeldin before and running, you know, the Environmental Protection Agency and talked as if, you know, he's always been this way.
And we were looking at a press biography about him and it really made clear that much like so much of what we see on the far right doesn't strike you as a lot of this is is prompted by personal opportunism.
rather than some kind of a natural change of heart, whether you're looking at this Lee Zeldin one or Robert Kennedy Jr.
or any of them like that?
I mean, I think, you know, if you were going to put a brand on the Trump administration writ large, it could be personal opportunism.
So it fits that that some of these folks that we're seeing step into these roles.
And I would say
you know, some, you know, sycophants and, you know, true believers that have been, you know, by Trump side since day one.
But over and over again, we're seeing this conversion of people who, you know, used to be more moderate, used to, you know, respect the Constitution and have some, you know, a backbone and have some, you know, a moral center.
You know, you've seen people like
You know Marco Rubio is selling out for Trump and
You know, it's just a pattern, right?
And clearly it's because they see something in it for themselves to enrich themselves.
It goes right to the top.
Donald Trump was thought of for the longest time as, you know, if not a liberal Democrat, certainly a moderate, somebody who was very pro abortion rights, for example, and then came that conversion that we've seen with so many of the uncles in our family and other things like that.
So, you know, a lot of
what has appeared to motivate Trump over the years has been, first it was financial opportunism, and then of course the political opportunism began to show itself.
So yeah, it's not a big surprise to see that more people, you know, hear the siren song of money and power and come that way.
It's just that we've never really seen it at this kind of level.
you know someone who is a moderate from a blue state coming from New York and used to be at least you know somewhat pro pro climate at least not you know aggressively anti climate and environment so really has gone quite a quite the extremist route and like you said they you know are
taking all of these efforts to completely dismantle the protections at the EPA to change the focus and the purpose of the EPA and what they're doing, you know, to claw back billions of dollars approved by Congress.
to go out to clean energy projects around the country.
And what's this I see that he's offering a new way for power plants to get around mercury and other emission restrictions?
Basically, it's just as easy as sending an email.
Am I seeing that correctly?
from projects want to dismantle the EPA's ability to collect data.
That's incredibly important for a whole lot of decision-making processes.
I want to make it super easy to just rubber stamp the ability of corporations to get around the Clean Air Act and be able to
to pollute and release these very, what we know are very, very harmful chemicals and emissions into the environment.
So instead of following the rules, the EPA is going to rely on what I'm seeing described here as a very obscure section of the Clean Air Act.
that, and this is from reporting in the New York Times, that would allow the president to temporarily exempt industrial facilities from new rules.
It's in the interest of national security.
So they are not only broadcasting that, hey, here's your workaround.
They're providing a template email for companies to use and making it incredibly easy to just rubber stamp for
these polluting corporations to continue polluting without any kind of recourse there.
That's where we stand at this point.
And you're saying, all right, well, Pat, Melissa, that's fine.
That's the bad news.
What's the good news on this?
There isn't any.
Not this week.
Not this week.
I mean, you look at this and I think the only the only thing on anybody's side at this point, Melissa, is time.
because you're going to need time for Congress to either grow a spine or time for a new administration to come in.
And until then, when you've got, you know, Zeldin slashing jobs, eliminating the scientific research arm, cutting the agency's overall budget 65%, you know, firing all kinds of good people out there, you know, there's really not.
a bright side until and unless more voters and more Americans are out there, you know, expressing their disapproval either at the ballot box or on the streets or both.
And, you know, I do think that, um, you know, we we're going to continue to see though the, you know, that the after effects of these, of these cuts, um, when it comes to, um, what's happening with the EPA, when it comes to what's happening with, um,
with public health because those we know are so so linked the relationship between what's happening with our environment and the climate and our public health and you know that's another when you look at you know the our healthcare here and who's making decisions about it at the federal level we've got another person who is a a trump
you know, one of those opportunists making the decisions and knowing that we have, well, you know, people call him RFK Junior.
Joe does not like to call him RFK Junior.
He thinks it is a slight, he likes to call him Bob K. So I'm going to say Bob K for my husband here.
But we got Bob K running, running our healthcare.
If somebody else who, you know,
not only, he was not a moderate when it comes to the environment and climate.
This is somebody who, you know, cut his teeth as environmental advocate, as a lawyer.
And now is, you know, sitting, sitting by and as he runs our healthcare in this country and makes decisions about public health is sitting silently by.
knowing that these decisions coming out of the EPA, the decisions coming out of the Trump administration when it comes to climate, are going to have absolutely disastrous consequences for public health and for people all over the country.
So it really is something that people are going to see the negative results, the negative consequences, unfortunately.
you know, like you said, we don't have a super bright spot here today.
But yeah, people are going to really, really, I think, see those negative consequences and they're going to feel them.
And it's not something you ever hope for people to experience.
But what I do hope is that they will draw the correct conclusion and kind of through line as to who's responsible for this.
And then
make their voices heard when they have the opportunity, every time they have the opportunity at the ballot box.
Yeah, I mean, when you talk about Kennedy being an environmental lawyer, it was work in part for a group called River Keeper.
And there's this article in The Guardian about it, how this...
It's an environmental organization that has, you know, inspired some 300 programs around the world.
And now for Kennedy to just stand by as the EPA, you know, just reverses all the work that he and others did over time.
It just, again, makes you wonder, much like people were saying about Lee Zeldin.
Well, were you acting back then or are you acting right now?
And that's the thing that
you know, people are trying to come to grips with is when you see some of these folks come up and it makes the, you know, the the the Liz Cheney's all the more remarkable that there are some Republicans who did not drink the Kool-Aid, essentially.
And I would be remiss if I didn't point out that we have a phenomenal Milwaukee Riverkeeper chapter here in the Milwaukee area that says
really outstanding work in this area in southeast Wisconsin to help keep our waters clean and healthy and have done really incredible work doing cleanups around the rivers, advocating to take out dams that have been harmful.
So we see it here locally too.
these organizations really do great work and it's unfortunate to see somebody who had the potential to make such a great impact on our environment and our policy decide to go the other way.
I had no idea that there was a Riverkeeper chapter in the Milwaukee area and that makes me especially happy for this reason.
During the time that we lived in Milwaukee, and we're going back 30 years now, but I was working at a radio station in West Bend.
And of course, it's got one of the rivers flowing through there on its way down to Milwaukee.
And back then, they were only just starting to talk about once again embracing the river.
and not having it just be, you know, this is unsightly area where, you know, industry is.
Let's clean it up.
Let's put some trails by it.
Let's put some housing and the Milwaukee River of today.
is so much different than what was there 30 years ago as, you know, locales decided to embrace the river once again and put their front door there instead of the back door of their buildings and their business districts.
You look at downtown Milwaukee is another example.
So at least on the local level, we can say that there continue to be advancements in cleaning up the climate and the environment.
where we are and that these are things that we can keep doing if we choose.
There may not be the funding that there was but I'm really glad you mentioned that group because it tells you there are still good people trying to do some good things out there.
That's absolutely true and I guess that is maybe our good news is to be more like Fred Rogers and to look for the helpers when we are in this time of
climate crisis and to know that there are still great people doing great work in every community all around us and if you aren't seeing anything happening in your area then maybe it's your time to think about how you can
be a part of a positive change?
Oh, without a doubt.
And now you've just kind of wedded my appetite to look more into things that have been done with the Milwaukee River, with the River Valley down there in Milwaukee proper.
And we've got to look for ways to emphasize some of that good news.
We've got to find it where we can in this administration, Melissa.
We've got to find it where we can.
Melissa, thank you.
I think we might have tried to turn a little bit of a page going forward here.
We'll give it our best anyway.
Melissa, thanks for the climate check.
Have a great day.
Today's history lesson is next.
You're up
Out of that segment with not great climate news and play Marvin Gaye's Mercy Mercy Media College song, but the calendar is what it is, and it was on this day, sadly.
Or no, it wasn't this day that he was shot and killed, it was the day before his 45th birthday.
And today would have been Marvin Gaye's, do the math, Pat, 86th birthday.
Marvin Gaye born 86 years ago today.
Melissa Kaye joins us for today's history lesson.
A little under the weather, a little tired.
She's down in Waukesha County where she was at the Brad Shimmel party last night covering things for civic media.
Melissa, how you doing?
Oh, a little rough this morning, but yeah.
Oh my God.
That's
good.
That's okay.
Now it's rough with some of the other people that were there at the party.
It was a rough night for them.
You were in the belly of the
beast.
We did say, we let off the show saying Brad Schimel at least was man enough to concede the race and talk to his supporters.
Yes, he did.
He did.
He gave a nice concession speech and he called Susan Crawford and conceded the race.
And even though the crowd booed him, he was like, no, no, no, no, we gotta, we gotta trust the numbers.
We gotta trust the elections.
So give him credit for that.
Yes.
It's weird.
We shouldn't have to give them credit for that,
but
but again, we're still waiting on on Eric Hubdy's room.
We're waiting on Scott Walker's concession speech for 2018.
I'm
waiting for John Adams concession speech from 1780.
Okay, there was that too.
Let's get back to the history lesson.
The Fleetwood Mac Album rumors hit number one this week in 1977.
You can try to run away or say whatever you want about this record be like rumors.
It's So
good Yep, it spent an astonishing at the time 31 non consecutive weeks at the top of the album chart 31 weeks at the top of the chart later Eclipse by only one other album so far Michael Jackson's Thriller album at 37 weeks
Let's see, born this day in 1942 was singer-songwriter Leon Russell, who had several hits like this one.
On this day in 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands.
The Falkland Islands didn't belong to Argentina, it belonged to Great Britain.
War broke out.
And it went the way you would expect, and the Falkland Islands remained in British hands.
Happy birthday to singing legend, Emmylou Harris.
She is 78 years old today.
She's awesome.
I know.
Happy birthday to singer, Gregory Abbott.
Here's a here's a song that he had in the 80s and then a little trivia about him
We can't afford to get Al Jarreau who do we get Gregory Abbott
Who I learned last night from 1976 to 1979 was married to free to pain.
Oh
of the 1970 hit band of gold that we played earlier.
So there's your answer to this question.
I know some stuff we learned.
One more and then we're gonna visit more with Melissa on this day 41 years ago.
Steve Perry released this hit.
Today is national peanut butter and jelly day.
It's national ferret day.
When an entire nation asks, why do you have a ferret?
It's National Produce Manager Day, Autism Awareness and Acceptance Day.
And as mentioned earlier, ride your horse to a bar day.
Something Melissa K maybe did in her younger years, but is now a respectable driver.
How did...
I believe Tony put something in the in the comments that you are actually oh it was first Elon Musk loses and now he loses the race to self-driving transportation if we let horses you know take our drunks home again once again for a safe
ride.
So Melissa.
I saw a video of a bull that takes his his drunk owner home.
See, it was probably a relative of mine based on that story from before.
Could be.
Give us some more of your impressions of folks you talked to at the Republican Party yesterday.
Well, it was a really big party.
I mean, they had a rock band.
They had entertainment planned.
Brad Schimel's band, you know, four on the floor is the name of the band he's part of.
What?
The crowd.
Yeah, he plays bass.
Of course he does.
And.
It was, it was a big party and then things kind of, you know, slowed down and calmed down a bit as numbers were coming in.
Although I don't think the crowd realized what was going on because they changed the TV channel.
Something else that wasn't Fox News and showing number of results, I think, but because we had people walking up to the press table going, have any numbers come in yet?
Are you serious
right now with that question?
That's when, again, we talked about this at the top of the show.
You got to know when to get out of your bubble, folks.
And if you're at, if you're at the election victory party, quote unquote, and they're not showing election results, you're in a bubble.
Go get your information from someplace else.
Do you have any, do you have any numbers?
No, Melissa couldn't play that from there.
Um.
Well, I'm glad that we really appreciate your coverage.
I was listening to it last night along with Dan Schaefer and Todd Alba.
You know, Savannah, Tomei Olson, everybody else was just wonderful.
Wonderful work and you making the drive down from Wisconsin Rapids.
How's everything going with the the play?
Oh, it's going excellent.
Oh my gosh, I have such a fantastic team.
They were good.
They ran all of Act One last night without me.
And I can't wait to hear how that went.
That's fantastic.
All right.
And the dates again.
The two first weekends in May.
There you go.
It's Thursday, Friday, seven shows.
Noises and Saturday at two.
Noises off.
And the website is
WRC theater r e dot org.
There you go.
Melissa, go back to bed.
Yeah, you were wonderful.
Get some tea and up with us and feel better soon.
Always good to see you
guys.
Oh, you as well.
Thank you.
We will have Todd Alba coming up in the next