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It is 6.06 on this Tuesday morning, April 29th, 2025.
Another beautiful morning to have you here up north, live from Lake WSOTA, from wherever you're listening across the Civic Media Radio Network or on the Civic Media app.
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This special, special day, the 100th day of the Trump administration.
I'll pause for applause here.
Oh, nope, hearing none.
I'll carry on, yes.
It's a milestone opportunity to outline the many many many many many many many ways that it turned out to be a not very good idea to elect a convicted criminal with a chip on his shoulder who is willing to take out his frustrations on every non-billionaire American.
On the bright side, his attempts to meddle in Canada's election just back a backfired spectacularly worthy of Wiley Coyote.
We'll talk about that during the day, as well as Governor Evers joining the parade of lawsuits looking for courts to remind Trump of the things he's not allowed to do.
In this case, slash education funding for Wisconsin kids.
Later, we get to re-combobulate.
Dan Schaeffer starts his stint as a regular for us.
The Civic Media Political Editor has this week's big stories to watch for.
His site, the re-combobulation area, also included recently a guest column by Green Bay Mayor Eric Enric.
And he talks to us about that, what the mayor put in his column, and the mayor tells us what he thinks Democrats need to change to win more elections in 2026.
Sharita Booker outlines our most popular social media posts of the past week or so, including the high dollar value of really old cheese.
Our community editor, Christina Laurie, will be along as well.
Talk a bit more about the successful NFL Draft in Green Bay.
Chad Holmes and Dan Hagen are here to tell us about stories they're following up north as well, plus Greg Buck at Radio Park and meteorologist Brittany Merlot, who tells us that there's a brief break.
and a cool down here for the weather, then more rain before the week comes to an end.
It was a stormy one last night, including a tornado that appeared to touch down briefly just south of Eau Claire.
No significant damage reported anywhere.
The state forecast for today calls for a few light showers in the morning up north and to the east.
breezy and cool today with skies clearing throughout the day.
Highs will be near 50 up north to near 60 in the southern part of the state.
A northwest wind diminishing from 20 miles an hour down to about 10.
Then by tonight, mostly clear and chilly.
Frost is likely up north.
Lows up here around 30 degrees.
Upper 30s in the southern part of the state.
Winds will be light and out of the northwest.
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There's just so much stuff that I just listed there, Greg Boggs.
This three hour thing has got us so busy.
We are like the
busiest boys in radio.
Aren't we though?
I mean, look at this.
So much stuff here.
So much
happening.
And yet we we managed to pull it off
day after day, you know,
I mean, I don't use the word heroes a lot, but, but call it what you, I mean, I mean, others would
say,
I'll
accept a parade.
Yes.
I mean, by all means, we're, we're very happy with that.
So we'll, we'll cover all of that ground today.
I know what I wanted to ask you.
I did not have time before the news.
We had a little tech issue here.
So I just pulled up the, the, the map of temperatures across Wisconsin.
What does the temperature say down there at Radio Park in Racine?
Right now, weather reads, let me take a look here.
74 mostly cloudy feels like 78 with a high of 71 and a low of 40.
That is exactly what I'm looking at on this map.
It says 75 in Kenosha.
Yeah.
In superior, it's 37.
Yeah, when I 30s, 40s, 50s,
60s, 70s are all here.
When I went to bed last night.
It was 79 degrees.
Wow.
I
had to open the windows.
I had to turn the fan on.
And what I didn't realize is that the heat managed to be turned on as well.
So like I woke up like my, like, if you could sit, my hair is like wavy curly because of the humidity and all this stuff.
And I just did not, not, not sleep.
I think Pat, I think a nap is in Greg's future.
Ooh.
See, now I'm now at an age where that sounds enticing.
Remember, once upon a time, you were like, no, mom, I don't want to take a nap.
I want to do whatever I want.
You know what I want to do now?
I want to take a nap.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I
always look at kids when they get all squirrely.
I'm like, child, you will appreciate the day.
Yes, we will.
So like I said, it's 43 in Hayward right now and in Amory.
It is 46 degrees here in the Chippewa Valley, 50 in Wasaw, 50 in Rapids, Green Bay is at 61 right now, Madison 64, and it's 72 in Milwaukee.
It's 48 in La Crosse.
Like I said, just a crazy range of temperatures across the state at the Sour.
On our website over at upnorthnewswi.com, let's see, stories that we're following there, Donald Trump has ended a program to encourage and recognize schools that pollute less and are more energy efficient.
Fortunately, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction is stepping up to fill some of the void.
In our newsletter today, put together by Christina Laurie, and again, we'll talk to her a little bit later on, but it is pollinator time.
We have all of our crops and flowers that are dependent upon the little buggers who are in peril because of human encroachment.
and a changing climate.
We can't necessarily change those things, but there are things we can do a little differently that put us in a more responsible position in that whole circle of life thing.
There are things you can plant, there are things you could do a little less of, and it's all outlined in our newsletter.
Head over to UpNorthNewsWI.com, click subscribe in the top banner.
So to get to the headlines here and then Sharita Booker will join us in less than 10 minutes now.
The 51st state, Canada, has said, we don't want to hear that nickname anymore.
We're kind of done with that.
We're done with the jokes.
When snap elections were called in Canada a few weeks back, it seemed like conservatives were poised to take power.
Donald Trump had just taken office.
It felt like there was this kind of red wave sweeping across.
And then Trump took office and started talking smack about Canada, started a trade war.
And next thing you know, we have surprising results out of Canada.
A stunning turnaround for Prime Minister Mark Carney's liberal party that won Monday's federal elections.
primarily out of promises to continue to confront Donald Trump over the trade war and jokes about annexation.
It may not quite be a full majority in parliament for the Liberals, but they certainly could cobble together with some of the smaller parties to pass some legislation.
And again, the person that you have to thank for that up in Canada is Donald Trump.
This is
not unlike what happened during his first go around in the White House, where again, he won the election that put him in office.
He then proceeded to lose the House, proceeded to lose the Senate in special election after special election and in the midterms.
And it seems to be happening on its way to happening yet again, as the guy's in office, he can do whatever he want for himself, but
He has a tendency to drag people down with him, which takes us to Derek Van Orden, who yesterday got the formal endorsement of Donald Trump on the truth social.
Greg Bach giving us the two thumbs up there.
I mean, why even hold the election?
What that is is Donald Trump looking at his polls and flailing and grabbing anything and sometimes what you grab you pull down with you and Derek Van Orden might be one of them.
Somebody who is seen to be in such a swing district and in such trouble that he was looking for the Trump endorsement early, something to wave around and say, see, we're still joined at the hip, which is not necessarily what Wisconsin voters look for.
Yeah, I mean, granted, I'm not saying that, well, I think Derek Van Orton is unpopular, not as unpopular as Trump, but he's sinking slightly less than Trump.
So it's not much of a reach.
And also, like, I don't want this to happen, but there's part of me based on the Susan Crawford situation.
I'm like, Hey, Elon, you want to try to put a bunch of money into this one too?
Come on, let's see what happens.
It was just, it was really something to see this, this post come up.
I thought, well, maybe, maybe it's, uh, you know, again, a prank or something, but no, it's, it's here where Derek is working hard to champion our great farmers and American agriculture.
No, no.
Let's see.
Strengthen our incredible military.
I don't know.
We've laid off a bunch of veterans from the, from the VA.
Derek Van Orden has my complete and total endorsement for reelection.
He will never let you down.
That kissing sound you hear could be the old kiss of
death.
Man, I'm just sorry, folks.
I'm stretching right now because Papa Bear is tired.
But I just, I read that yesterday and I go, I just said to myself, I'm like, God, I kind of felt bad for Derek because it doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't really.
I don't think it helps.
I mean, anyone who supports Derek Van Orton supports president.
I don't see a lot of people like, well, I'm a
fair-minded
liberal Democrat who really likes Derek Van Orton.
I feel like if you endorse Ann Orton, you're endorsing Trump and vice versa.
So him endorsing isn't a huge shock, but I also, you know, maybe Derek Van Orton's like, hey, just turn off the house lights.
Just hide behind the couch.
We'll just pretend this one time.
Yes.
But no.
And again, still a long ways to go.
So the fact that they feel the need to do that endorsement now is rather telling.
Now, as I wrote in the Sunday morning newsletter about this week marking Trump's 100 days in office, here's the thing I want to be fair about.
This whole notion of what became doge, it started with good intentions.
Here's the line that Donald Trump told the New York Economic Club last September.
He said, quote, I will create a government efficiency commission tasked with conducting a complete financial performance and audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms.
Now I'm going to read that again because Joe Biden could say that Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, any Republican, any Democrat could say these words that are clearly written by speechwriter.
I will create a government efficiency commission tasked with conducting a complete financial performance and audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms.
People heard that.
We're like, okay, sounds good.
Now, everything I'm about to tell you.
should have the sound effect of crusty the clown or sideshow Bob stepping on a rake, okay?
Because yes, we all can say there are things you'd consider wasteful spending, but veterans health care, healthy food for low-income families, public health, let's see, libraries, school lunches, farmland conservation,
lower utility bills, jobs at the National Weather Service, cancer research, humanitarian aid, suspending FDA testing on milk.
All of this has made it clear that this was never about going after truly wasteful spending.
This was about cuts for the sake of cuts to pay for billionaire tax cuts, and Americans are tired of it.
Sharita Booker is up next.
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We are joined now by Sharita Booker, social media manager here at Up North News.
Sharita, how are you?
Very good, thanks.
Let's take a look at some of the posts that are getting lots of traffic in recent days here.
One of them was put up by our parent company Courier Newsroom as well as Up North News all about Governor Tony Evers, his partial veto powers and the shall we say multi-century amount of school funding increases.
that that partial veto allowed for.
Tell the folks a bit more about that and some of the reaction to it.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court recently ruled that Governor Evers veto from last year is totally legal and it locks in more money for schools for the next 400 years.
So in a 2023 budget lawmakers approved a $325 per student funding month for just two school years but Evers cleverly used his partial veto power to strike a few characters changing the expiration year from
2024-25 to just plain 24-25.
That means Wisconsin public schools are set to keep that funding boost until the year 24-25.
And that post had almost 50,000 likes on our Instagram.
Pat James said, love this, using the authority Republicans gave to themselves against them.
And Izzy said, the people of Wisconsin, don't we all love Governor Evers.
He's a legend.
We've gotten rid of the so-called Vanna White veto, where you can strike individual letters to create new words.
We got rid of the version called the Frankenstein veto, where you could strike out words and form entirely new sentences.
But there isn't anything like that for individual digits and characters in a bill.
If that's proposed, here's the thing.
I think whoever supports or opposes it
it will probably depend on whether they have their person in the governor's office.
And that's a very cynical thing to say, Sharita, but I'm willing to put a little money on it that you're feeling about the veto depends on whether you're wielding the pen or not.
So the other post from the political realm that got a lot of attention happened last week on Earth Day.
And we all we did all we did was point out what the White House put up.
on their website with a headline that said, on Earth Day, we finally have a president who follows science.
Shreya, a lot of folks had thoughts on that.
That post is totally contradicting considering that over the past four months alone, the administration has pulled the U.S.
out of the Paris climate agreement again, approved logging and national forests and ramped up coal mining across the country on top of other things.
That post had more than 700 likes on our Facebook and almost 2,000 on our Instagram.
And Elizabeth Calley said, in his defense to him, a baking soda volcano is good science.
And Gareth Jones said, follows and quotes.
as in lags behind, in his case, miles behind.
I'll tell you what, this is at first, I really did think it was the onion when it was coming up.
And this was one and again, look, a lot of the stuff that Trump and the administration does is designed exactly for this.
Okay, it's meant to distract and you're you're chuckling and everything else.
and you're not thinking about the things that actually impact the economy and impact, you know, people's bank accounts and their future hopes and dreams for childcare, to buy a home, all of that.
But we're gonna walk and chew gum here, and we're gonna continue to point out those things, even as we mentioned, the ridiculousness of a post like that.
And finally, let's go with Wisconsin food, and there's nothing quite like Wisconsin cheese.
I mean,
It's delicious, it's prevalent, but in some cases, it's also really valuable, Sherita.
Fromage Nation.
We're gonna give the whole Fromage treatment to it, yeah.
but only while supplies last.
What did folks say about that?
It's amazing cheese.
If you are able to splurge on it just once, I recommend.
And John McKevitt said.
Car Valley's 15-year-old cheddar is the best I've ever tasted.
I can't wait to try this.
And Karen Damari said, hey, it takes 20 years to get it to market.
And Sandy Porkmal said, I was lucky enough to enjoy this last release.
Oh my gosh.
It's true.
And it's true.
And look, again, young Pat would have been like, oh, whatever.
It's old cheese.
So what?
And at some point, I think it was a hooks.
I don't know if it was a 10, a 15, may have been a 20 where you just get a taste of it and you go, holy cow, this is what people are making a fuss about.
And it's not just cheese.
I may have mentioned before that the best birthday present I got on my 50th birthday over a decade ago now was when my good friend who loves bourbon as much as I do, brought over some Pappy Van Winkle.
I mean the like the top of the line stuff and at first I was like is he giving me a bottle of pappy and he's like no no no settle down cowboy I'm bringing you a shot and he poured you know just an ounce worth and it was just
the best tasting thing if you are a bourbon drinker.
Same goes for these cheeses and these aged cheeses.
I know other people feel this way about wine or, you know, other other food or beverages.
I don't know if you have something like that.
Like if you've got the money to splurge, you would do it.
a bottle of tequila before.
So Wow.
I'm not gonna judge you on that because, and again, I didn't learn this till later in life.
Tequilas and rums, good examples.
Welcome to liquor talk here, folks,
really in the
morning.
Tequilas and rums, the stuff that we normally associate that you can get at the corner bar, no, no, no.
We're talking about the stuff that is aged for many, many years, 10, 15, 20 years, and it's much more, in the case of the rum, it's darker and smoother, and the tequila, the same, is just so,
much smoother that, yeah, if that's something you are willing to splurge on, you should absolutely go
for it.
And I have a feeling you do not regret that purchase.
Absolutely not.
For that story and so much more, check us out on social media and Sharita Booker does it all.
Our social media manager and up North News.
Thanks Sharita very much.
Have a great day.
Me too Pat.
Back with more after this.
Hey, welcome back.
Coming up tomorrow, how is lead paint in Milwaukee schools still a thing?
I will tell you.
a Republican-controlled legislature that has been underfunding all schools for years and years and has told Milwaukee kids at risk of lead poisoning tough luck.
Tomorrow we will talk to Jennifer Hofschulte from the Wisconsin Public Education Network in our homeroom segment.
about the ongoing effort to change all that.
Also tomorrow, a new bill raises this question, should Wisconsin utilities get an advantage when it comes to new transmission line projects or does that stifle competition?
All that and more tomorrow here on the program.
But right now, we are joined by Christina Laurier, community editor who puts together our newsletter.
Sign up for it at UpNorthNewsWI.com.
You heard a lot about the NFL draft yesterday from Kristen Lyrely and from Selena Heller who
out there.
There was one thing we didn't really get to.
That was the players that the Packers picked and so Christina Laurie is here to set us on the right track.
Christina, hello.
How are you?
Yes and it was it was a big party and it was a
big success by all accounts.
Again, not everybody wants to stand around in a parking lot and listen to whatever it was, 257 names picked, but for the festivities themselves and for the number of people who showed up, this was a pretty cool thing.
Well, not
I love this story.
So he actually didn't even get an invite to the draft in the first place.
His name is Baron Sorrell and he just came anyway.
And good thing he did because while he sat alone on day three in the green room.
The Texas defensive lineman not only heard his name called, but he had it called by the Packers and
he got to walk
It's
I was out
I was out doing yard work at the time and I'd come in for a break, you know, get some ice water or whatever.
You know, I had the draft on just in the background.
Wanted to see what all was going on and it's up.
Nope.
Green Bay is about to pick.
I'll wait and see who they get.
first was very surprised that the commissioner came up to the podium kind of in street clothes basically and then called the packers pick and I loved how he said at the podium and he's here with us today and he was the only guy left in the green room and was welcomed as an absolute
hero.
So it was just all the best circumstances for him to come in.
So it really was, you know, a great story.
No different than the Packers first round, the first pick.
Also just great stories for the Packer fans who gathered there.
this
So you'd rather have the Packers picks.
And their first round guy, he, the Packers just
we know they've already picked right because immediately in his first conference for the Packers he explained how he plans to use his signing bonus and you know a lot of players will I've heard players you know buying their parents a car or maybe buying their parents you know the watch they always wanted.
Matthew Golden wants to buy his grandma's house back.
She lost her property a couple years ago.
It was someplace he was almost in tears describing mess He called it the place where he grew up.
He has his greatest memories there and as luck would have it It's on the market right now.
So he's gonna buy that house back for his grandma and
He just I mean, I don't know what else to say.
It just like gives me goosebumps thinking about it that in the heat of the moment, the greatest moment of Matthew Golden's life, he made the story about his family and not himself.
You know, one of the things I really liked about how ESPN and ABC covered the draft was with all of the players that for whom they had video, which of course was everybody in the first couple of rounds, but even some afterwards as well.
Almost every video within the first 10 seconds or so.
showed the parents and put their names up on the screen and had them talking about their parents.
It was if somebody said for the draft coverage, somebody get me somebody from Mayberry RFD.
What can we do to make this as American as possible?
And what I mean by that, Christina, is that in a couple of different cases, these parents were immigrants to America and they had created a life for themselves and their son
was just drafted into the National Football League.
If that didn't give you goosebumps about the great American melting pot, especially in this day and age, I don't know what will.
I loved that the parents were played up and the grandparents at times as well.
This is like one of the positive things of social media because now we're seeing all week long a lot of colleges are sharing videos of their players answering the call to hear who they got drafted from.
And Wisconsin, so their safety for the past four years is this guy named Hunter Woller.
He grew up less than 15 minutes from Camp Randall.
a lifelong Badger fan.
He was scouted by a bunch of teams super early and he committed to Wisconsin.
I think his sophomore year of high school, because he said for him, that is it.
That is the pinnacle.
He's like the ultimate Wisconsin guy.
And then to get to hear his name called, he was a third day draft pick, but he's on an NFL team and he got to hear his name called the Colts, which is
great news, you know, Wisconsin fans will know that he gets to reunite with Jonathan Taylor, one of the best
running
So that will be fun.
But when you talk about emotions and thanking parents, do yourself a favor and just go on the Wisconsin footballs social media pages.
They've shared this video everywhere, but it's Hunter answering the phone call.
And he once he hangs up, he's surrounded by his family, and he just goes
Colts and that's all he can get out before he starts crying and his family comes in for a hug And I'm even tearing up telling you this because it just it's incredible It takes truly not just a team but on the field but a team at home to get these players where they are and that's you know It's about more than just sports.
Can I go off topic for a moment?
I'll come back to the draft but about the draft and all of these young men
Not knowing necessarily what team they're going to, except for the ones at the very top.
And even then, sometimes that's not guaranteed.
We need to hear the name.
It reminds me that being married to a physician, and I'm sure I'll talk to Lirely about this on Friday as well, medical students have something called Match Day.
where they pick the residency programs they wanna go to after all the interviews, and the residency programs, they rank the med students that they would like to take on as residents, and then a computer figures it all out, puts all the names and envelopes, and on, I think it's March 30th or something like that, all these med students everywhere gather together on Match Day at their med schools, they open up the envelope, and they find out where they matched at.
And so between that and the NFL Draft,
Wouldn't it be something if more of us had something like that?
Like, you know, if everybody who was changing jobs had to change jobs at like a certain time a year and on that day, everybody opens up the envelope and finds out where their next job, where do you match at?
That would be, that would be interesting.
I wish more people had a chance to experience that.
ended up not being part of the greek system but for universities where the greek system is a big thing they have something similar called bid day at least for the girls and sororities where they all have their envelopes in their hands of like what sorority they're going to join and they all open them at the exact same time and then they run off to whatever house it is
It Greek life was a very big thing.
I went to the University of Illinois So like this was like thousands and thousands of girls all in one place and then they'd run off to their thing So that was kind of that's a lower stakes version I would say that the NFL's version of this is the best because they're also finding out that they're making Thousands and thousands of dollars medical students.
They're getting to find out where they're gonna have the opportunity to spend their own money
Yes, and go deeper into debt until your residency is all done.
It does occur to me that I have actually done a version of this called election night, where I matched once and did not match two other times.
And trust me, matching is a lot better than not matching.
But let us get back to the draft here.
So we've talked about two of the
Packers, uh, draft picks.
We talked about the first round and the third round.
Uh, what else struck you from everything that went on in and around Lambeau field?
know, in Chicago.
Yep.
Well, we've talked before, you know, about like
the Upers like are they more Packers fans or are they more Lions fans so that rivalry in particular is really deep rooted even more so because Detroit hosted this draft last year and their newspaper the Detroit Free Press just had a field day trying to like keep every headline they wrote was just about how the draft is you know second to Detroit not as big of crowds.
you know, their main headline was Green Bay falls way short of Detroit's NFL draft attendance for round one.
You know, Detroit had 275,000.
Packers only had 205,000.
But
First of all, Green Bay never promised to host the biggest draft.
They promised to host the best draft.
And after watching that, I'm not sure you could have any questions that there was a whole lot of heart in our draft.
Also,
Detroit's population is 633,000 people.
Green Bay's is 106,000.
So they more than doubled the capacity of their city on a single day, all weekend they increased it by six times the amount.
So if Detroit wants to say they won, they're gonna have to show us the numbers that they pulled in 1.2 million people
to be
close.
Let's see the multiples here, Detroit.
You know that you can't pull that off.
And
Yeah, whatever makes you feel better.
We're very content with what we were able to pull off here.
It was a lot of fun.
It may not be back here for a while, so everybody
definitely made the most of it and now we can look forward to how our picks do and the rest of the team goes as we get that much closer to training camp and then the season opener.
Christina Laurie, thank you so much for helping us revisit a great weekend and we'll look for the stories that you're doing including your sports newsletter which is now a monthly regular thing, right?
Yes, please sign up for it because I was going to say even though even if you missed this year's draft there's plenty of reasons to plan a visit to Green Bay coming up.
I will be talking about that in a few future editions that I have in the works, but
It's a very low impact newsletter.
We only send it out once a month.
So we're not going to be inundating your inbox.
It's a good way if you've never signed up for a newsletter before.
If you just want to like dapple and you don't want to add to your reading list, we just send it on the last Saturday every month.
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right there at UpNorthNewsWI.com.
Christina Laurie, thank you very much.
Have a great day.
You too.
One more note on
This being the 100 day of the Trump administration before we take a break here that on the 99th day, Governor Tony Evers announced that Wisconsin has joined another lawsuit to prevent the Trump administration from doing something they ain't supposed to be doing.
In this case, cutting more than half a billion dollars in federal funding from the US Department of Education.
saying that essentially this is spending that was passed by Congress, and as was shown during the Nixon administration, White Houses are not able to cut the spending that Congress approved of.
Now, this particular Congress wants to roll over and play dead and not exercise its oversight, but Evers and governors of 18 other states want courts to remind.
the president of what he can and cannot do.
Dan Hagen from Newswatch 12 up in Rhinelander will join us for today's history lesson coming up in just a bit.
I'm Pat Critello on the Civic Media Radio Network.
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One of life's great injustices is that Tammy Terrell was taken from us way too early at the age of 24 From a brain tumor and yet in her short life.
She was born this day in 1945 She did these songs with Marvin Gaye nothing like the real thing ain't no mountain high enough.
You're all I need Just an immense talent who we lost in 1970 but Tammy Terrell born this day 80 years ago
And then there's Willie Nelson.
It's his birthday today as part of today's history lesson.
Let's bring in Dan Hagen from NewsWatch 12, WJFWTV and Rhinelander.
Mr. Hagen, how are you?
Well, I thought you guys' eyes looked a little bloodshot this morning, but, you know, Willie Nelson's birthday, so it makes sense.
And this is a guy who, yeah, maybe you associate with bloodshot eyes.
But his nickname is Blue Eyes because of this particular song that we're playing in honor of Willie Nelson's birthday.
Oh, God, that voice.
So we know that through use of substances for medicinal purposes.
And medicinal
purposes only.
Yes.
Willie Nelson is still with us.
Do you happen to know, Mr. Hagen, how old Willie Nelson is today?
He's
got to be
92.
Wow.
Wow.
Look at this.
Is that right?
92 years old today,
Willie
Nelson.
Oh
my.
Yes.
That's a guess.
Yeah.
Let's see, more people born on this day who are not with us anymore, composer Duke Ellington, born this day in 1899, Carl Gardner, the lead singer of The Coasters, born this day in 1928, Dale Earnhardt was born this day in 1951, and of course lost way too early at the age of 49, Leslie Jordan, actor you
might
remember from Will and Grace, born this day in 1955.
I was waiting for you to tell me something about Leslie Jordan.
I can actually tell you
something.
So he was on a TV show before when he died called call me cat with, uh, and the episode they did after he died was one of the most emotional pieces of television I've ever watched in my life.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
They were
like, they were weeping on the show.
Oh, funny guy.
Oh, beautiful man.
Beautiful man.
Yep.
So Willie Nelson is 92 today.
Dwayne Allen is 82.
He is the lead singer of the Oak Ridge Boys.
I love the Oak Ridge Boys.
They always sing like
this.
They have their own style.
Yes they do.
Jerry Seinfeld is 71 years old today.
Kate Mulgrew is 70.
Daniel Day-Lewis is 68.
Michelle Pfeiffer is 67.
And you know who else is 67 today?
Jan Brady, Eve Plum from the Brady Bunch is 67 today.
Today,
Tommy Jings.
Yes?
Or we look up in the squares, you know,
and
look
who
we
are.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm looking down at you if you're watching on social media.
Wait, it's Eve Plum's birthday.
She was Jan Brady.
Yeah.
Oh, wrong button.
Sure.
Okay.
So
I just wanted to play that.
Yeah.
Carrying out now.
Singer Tommy James of Tommy James and the Chandels is 77 years old today.
If anybody younger than me goes, wait, is this the Tiffany song?
I'm gonna be unhappy with you.
Hey, Dan, have you ever heard of Tiffany?
No, don't do that.
You
don't want to start this today.
We'd have to be in a mid-range between us and Dan over here.
Andre Agassi is 55 years old today.
So is Uma Thurman born the same day in 1970, 55.
Carney Wilson of Wilson Phillips, born to the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson and his first wife, Carney Wilson is 57
today.
And let's see, two more historical notes.
Dandy, did you, does anybody you know drive an Oldsmobile?
Do you still see any Oldsmobiles on the streets of Rhinelander?
I saw one town car the other day, but no
Oldsmobile.
Oldsmobile, the last one was built this day in 2004, and ending 107 years of vehicle production.
And then finally, this day in 2011, so 14 years ago,
was the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton took place at Westminster Abbey that was a big deal 14 years ago was that did that resonate as as TV watching for you Dan?
Absolutely like all my friends and I can't remember what grade what year did you say it was?
2011
I'm
guessing if you were 16, you noticed the bride, Kate Middleton, but also her sister, Pipa.
Remember Pipa was all the rage of the wedding.
Who is that?
I remember, I remember some adolescent arguments about Pippa or Kate, okay?
I'm not proud of it.
Everybody has their ginger versus Marianne or Betty versus Veronica.
Always Marianne.
Yep.
Monica versus Rachel.
We know.
This is National Supply Chain Day.
Great.
You're not going to hear that one at the White House.
And finally, this is National Zipper Day.
It marks the first patent for a hookless fastener that was submitted by a Swedish-American electrical engineer who is credited with designing the modern zipper.
For modern technology of 1913,
That was a super big deal.
Dan Hagen's going to stick around and tell us what kind of things he's working on for NewsWatch 12 up in Rhinelander, but let's at least get to, we haven't talked to you about this for, well, since much earlier this month, the Hodag dome had deflated right before election day.
Is that still in progress trying to get that dome reinflated?
That's right.
And to provide some context, this is a really important item for the community.
It's been around for maybe four years, and people use it for walking.
Older folks use it for walking.
The local sports teams use it.
In addition to that, we get...
a lot of tournaments.
So those were neglected as well, but it's in the process of being built.
It should be back by the end of May.
Let's come back and talk more about that and other stories.
Also in our next hour, Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich on what Democrats need to fix if they want to win more elections.
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