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Well, hey there, Wisconsin.
Good morning.
It is 6.06.
It is Tuesday morning, May 20th, I think, depending on what side of the international date line my
brain is on right now.
It is another beautiful morning to have you here up north live from Lake Wissota from wherever you're spending your mornings listening across the Civic Media radio network or on the Civic Media app, watching us on YouTube or Facebook, maybe listening later on by podcast.
Thank you for starting your day right here.
I've got one of well many questions throughout the course of the next three hours.
Starting with, could I get a recommendation for a Sherpa to help me scale Laundry Mountain?
because we got back from our vacation in Europe last night.
And that was after being awake for 22 hours of constant travel and flights across the ocean.
And a lot of times we'll empty out our bags and go, okay, we'll attack Laundry Mountain in the morning.
Didn't even get to that point.
We just dropped the bags at it right to sleep.
And all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed right now because somebody's body clock thinks it's noon.
as it would be in Portugal but instead we're getting our day started here with day one back and I want to thank everybody who helped make sure that the train continued to run on time not the least of which would be our friend back at Radio Park Gregorian Aloysius Bachmeister who did
I guess the term is yeoman's duties filling in.
It's been a long time, but we I know we explored the term yeoman's duties once and it is a compliment.
So that's all that's all I got to offer is my fancy European word after being around, you know, Moorish castles and and other Roman ruins throughout the past week or so here.
How are you?
I'm
doing well.
I cannot complain.
Things are going good and we're just rocking and rolling along.
But yeah, it was.
It was a fun week.
Lots going on.
And thank you to Matt Rothschild, Angela Lange, Chad Holmes, and Dr. Kristen Lierly, who her and I make up the spectacular duo of Bach and the Doc.
Tell me you use that throughout the course of the day yesterday.
Oh, yeah, as much as possible, as long as I wasn't interrupting or it wasn't like, you know, yeah,
no, no, it happened.
Nice.
Good.
Yes.
Thanks to Chris and Kristen.
Now I didn't stay all up to speed on everybody's, you know, social posts or headlines, but Kristen had had a lot going on these past couple of weeks as well, but still found time to fill in here.
Let's see.
Alicia says on YouTube, welcome home Pat.
Tony says, Matthias, Patrick, quite low.
Good to have you back.
Well, it's close enough.
He says, I think the technical term is Greg crushed it.
All right.
All right.
Let's calm down.
You also missed Davison and the dock.
Davison and the dock that was happening as well.
Yep.
What was that?
What was that?
Sam, your third hour produced.
That's his last name.
Oh, oh, salmon.
OK, gotcha.
I think I was saying salmon, the dock, but whatever, they can try whatever they want.
Yeah, that's fine.
And the people have spoken.
Thank you for the kind words on YouTube as well.
It was, you're gonna get plenty of vacation chatter today because what few times I looked at the headlines back here at home did not make a list of, wow, I can't wait to talk about that.
Instead, here's the thing.
So many times Americans who travel to Europe come back and they are insufferable.
We're there.
They're basically saying, where did our country go wrong?
Why can't we have nice things?
People, if I'm given just an empty microphone for the next two hours and 50 minutes, I'm going to be in the exact same category because you look around there at quality of life and everything else and you go, what?
What is the thing here?
And the thing here is always freedom.
Freedom.
We don't need no metric system, even though it's easier.
We don't need high speed rail, even though it's easier to move people around.
We don't need health care for everybody, even though it would be health care for everybody.
So it was one of those trips where you go.
We got work to do when I get back.
All
those socialist, communist countries out there giving people free healthcare and free education.
They're just, they're falling apart.
And they're not.
If anybody's falling apart, it would be the country that didn't keep up.
And I'm not, I'm not coming back here to, to trash America, but I definitely have some opinions on
How did I put it once when making notes?
Stop being babies.
And I'll tell you what, if I'm gonna go off on any one thing about it, I will start with the metric system.
Stop being babies about those like, oh, we've always used feet and miles.
You've seen the Nate Bargazzi sketch on Saturday Night Live.
Mocking us for that.
I should have known that should have been my red flag back in the the mid to late 70s when Americans were like, we're not gonna change like, oh, this is an omen of things to come,
you
know, stop being babies about some of these things that would make our lives better.
But you can only you can only lead a horse to water so much.
So Tony says, oh, no, did you come back to a socialist pat?
Never really left.
in that way, shall we say?
It's all good.
Pat Alicia says on YouTube, we could absolutely do so much better.
I love my country and change can be a bad thing, I said cleaning up her language, but we need it and we can be so much better.
And I mean, that's that's what it is.
But let's let's take the geopolitics out of this for a moment.
And, you know, just just talk about
being away.
And this was the whole point of my trip away was for a dear friend getting married, somebody that I'd worked with at the TV station here in Eau Claire.
And she has been through many ups and downs in her life.
And finally found happiness with this guy, this great guy.
I mean, you know, Greg, you've been to a wedding and you go, Wow, how did these two people find each other?
Could it be any more perfect?
Yeah, I mean, our own of
course, too.
Oh, I mean,
I've been thinking about my wife this whole time.
That's how much I like her.
And I'm not even saying that to be funny or anything.
Like I am so I am I am that guy that you saw at the wedding and went, really?
She
picked him.
Him?
Yeah, that weird.
That's exactly how I look back and I think of because we were so young.
Yeah, all the people going, don't don't buy him anything engraved, you know, any goodness.
And, but here we are 40 years later.
There you go.
So, so I was thrilled when they asked me to be the, the celebrant, the efficient, whatever you want to call it.
So that was my, I had a gig while I was away.
It was marrying these two wonderful people.
Yeah.
That's great.
I've done, I've, I've done, I've married a, I married a bunch of people, but most of them like quick stuff type of things, you know, just very, very fast sign thing.
But I did do one ceremony and it was.
So good.
It was so fun.
Oh, and I knew that they, they were like, now it's not going to be overtly, you know, traditional, but we've, we've all also been to weddings that are like, you know, five minute affairs and you're like, well, let's, let's do a little bit more than that.
And they somehow they knew.
that I could be counted on to, you know, time this out with a few comments about them and about marriage and, you know, as they say in Princess Bride and everything else.
And I, you know, I would like to think that I did all right at that.
So I'm very happy about that.
So we'll talk more about the trip.
We will certainly get caught up on other things like Hans Brighton Moser will be by as he always is on Tuesdays at 730.
Chad Holmes will be along.
Again, thank you for filling in Chad and we'll talk about
We'll talk about health care as well.
And he may have mentioned already some of his own health care notes, just a note to all all men of a certain age get checked up, get checked up.
It's a very good thing.
Yeah, like, make sure gentlemen, yes, certain age, you get the colonoscopy, get the prostate check.
If they send you a sleep study, you do the sleep study for your health, because it's important.
I feel seen.
It could lead to maybe getting some.
life changing help and don't just play it off and be like, and then like, don't ever talk about it again.
What now?
Oh, sorry.
I was,
I
wasn't talking to you, Pat.
Okay.
Okay.
So here's a story.
So I'm at this winery for the, for like a reception thing the day before the wedding and my phone rings.
And it's the one time my phone rang and it gave the name of the clinic.
And I thought,
Okay, that's fine.
I let it roll the voicemail and you can see the text of the voicemail and the text of the voicemail says this is so and so calling back with an urgent message about your, you know, upcoming appointment.
When you hear urgent message and you took a sleep study, you know, that's designed to find health problems and you're not sure that the sleep study went well, you see urgent message.
Are you going to wait, you know, five days until you're back in the States?
Or are you going to call right away?
So I called right away.
And this person says, well, yes, we've had a change in the schedule and we can move you up earlier and see you earlier.
I'm like, so you're saying there's no, there's no like imminent emergency, like my heart's not about to explode or something.
This is not urgent and I will call you back next
week.
Yeah.
And I'm usually not that abrupt on the phone with folks, but don't say something's urgent and a follow up to a healthcare thing.
And it's just about changing the appointment date.
Okay.
There was one thing I want to vent about today.
So while we brought that up, but I will, I will be following up today on the sleep study.
Okay.
Yeah.
Holy shun.
YouTube says, Patrick, as I look over the top of my glasses, I was doing that.
Wasn't I?
Yes.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
Uh, but we're, we're.
We're now the vacations over we're getting back on track for that getting it taken care of because again the little Apple watch iPhone thing I'll look at it like I did again this morning.
It'll go Yeah, you're not dead yet.
Good deal.
You should follow up on that.
Good job.
Yes.
So I will and we'll talk to Chad Holmes about that.
Did I get to Dan Schaeffer?
No, I didn't Dan Schaeffer will be here as well at 8 30 and not only will we talk about things like the Republican State Convention over the weekend and other things in Wisconsin
But we will get a little, shall we say geopolitical, we'll get a little international here.
Yeah, I know.
Well, because, and I mentioned this in our weekend newsletter that I had sent out while I was away, that not only was this, you know, wedding over the weekend in Portugal, but it was also Portugal's national elections.
And so everywhere in Portugal, especially around Lisbon,
We're billboards with all the various candidates and here's the thing and it actually leads to our question of the week here We think two political parties not a great system here, and I would I would be the first to say yeah, you're probably right Portugal is going through something that other countries have gone through before as well they have something like ten different political parties and The plus side of that is you try to cobble together a coalition at any given point based on where the voters say that we
where they want you to go.
But sometimes the voters give you such mixed results that no group of parties can put together a coalition.
They have two main parties, but you know, people, there are enough people dissatisfied with both of them that some are going to like this far right Trumpist like party.
Others are going far left, almost, you know, socialist parties that they have there.
And in the end, the auction results were much like they are here, so evenly divided that nobody knows
where are we supposed to go with this?
Meanwhile, in Poland and in Romania, much like in Canada, a couple of weeks back, the Trump wannabe candidates were dealt setbacks.
Basically, people have looked at Trump and said, we don't want that here.
So we're going to talk to Dan Schaefer a bit about how is it that Trumpism is holding on in the United States with, you know, because it's the guy named Donald Trump, whereas everybody else who says, Hey, let's do the things Trump does.
They go, I don't think, I don't think so.
We
don't need that.
Yeah.
So we'll talk to Dan Schaefer about that.
We'll talk a bit about the sports, the weather.
I've got Brittany Merlos forecast here that I will rattle off as well.
And then she'll be here a little after the seven o'clock and the eight o'clock news as well.
Tony says, you've come back so cultured.
Yes.
Yes, I have so, so much culture.
I'm dripping with culture over here.
Oh, sorry.
Made a mess with my culture.
Didn't mean to do that.
Uh, so we will continue the, what we do here.
live from Lake Wissota.
Thanks for making this a place to spend part of your mornings on the Civic Media Radio Network.
I'm Peck
Rightlaw.
Hey, welcome back.
It's a Tuesday morning.
It's May 20th, 2025.
And this is the week leading to Memorial Day weekend, isn't it?
I've been so focused on the vacation thing that
there's
a big holiday weekend coming up here.
Are you sounding tired before the holiday weekend even starts?
No, I just forgot.
There's work to be done here before because we're not going to be here on Monday, so I have to.
Oh, that's right.
That's yes.
The holidays are great.
Don't get me wrong, but for both for civic media radio shows and for us at Up North News, it means, hey, you can have the day off, but you're going to need to prepare some content ahead of time that we're going to post on the holiday, whether it's a radio show or a newsletter or whatever.
And so it is, it is the old saying, no good vacation goes unpunished.
And
that's
exactly what we're facing here.
So yes, we do have that, but you know, positive thoughts.
It's a
great, it's a, it's a, it's a good long weekend coming up.
We will remember those who gave their lives in service of our country.
We
will
spend time with our families.
We will welcome the, we will welcome the changing season and the coming of summer right after March leaves because here's the email from Brittany Merleau.
Welcome back.
I hope the trip was wonderful.
As for the forecast, blah.
And here's your forecast.
Heavy rain rolls into the state alongside gusty winds, knocking us down well below average for high temperatures today and battling a wind chill too.
Here's the forecast for today across the state.
Heavy rain, especially in southern Wisconsin, lighter rain working its way north.
Windy highs will be near 50 in the southwestern part of the state and near Lake Michigan.
Upper fifties up north and east wind at 20 to 30 miles an hour.
I had to get used to that driving home last night was seeing we have one of those big old flags at one of the workplaces here and you don't normally see that thing blowing out of the east to begin with and then like completely straight out, you know, and that's what it was with this 20 to 30 mile an hour east wind.
Breezy and wet tonight still chances of rain lows in the low to mid forties and an east wind at 15 to 25.
We actually we turned the furnace off.
Before we left on this trip because remember 10 days ago, it was like pushing 80 all the time.
It
was
feeling great.
We had to come in first.
We had to do is throw the furnace back on because it was so cold in the house here because that's where that's where we are now with the weather.
Oh, well, so anyway, what do we have right now here?
45 degrees here in Chippewa Falls and Brittany will be along and just a little bit to give us the full details on the forecast here.
Somewhere buried in all of these notes as I try to get back into the swing of things is the Brewers.
I was listening a bit on the radio.
William Contreras had a great game, went four for four, and then he broke a tie in the eighth inning with a two out single.
The Brewers won five to four last night.
over the Baltimore Orioles.
For the Os, it's their seventh consecutive loss.
But Bryce Terang had a great two-out walk, stole second, and then Contreras hit a shot past the shortstop to bring home Terang.
Contreras singled in the first inning.
He doubled in the third and the fifth.
He walked in the sixth.
His four-hit game matches a career high.
Milwaukee's Abner Uribe earned the win by working a scoreless eighth inning.
And let's see the the baseball action rolls on here.
Let's see if I, you know what, I didn't put my notes down on that.
I tell you, it's just there's just the guy comes back from vacation and he's just fallen apart.
So I can tell you we're playing Baltimore again today and then again tomorrow afternoon.
So I'll get the exact game times for you.
But again, you can hear the brewers across the civic media radio network and we'll have details on that in a little later on as we come in through the show.
The Up North News daily newsletter is out as it is every weekday morning at this time.
Christina Laurie puts it together and here's the thing about, she talks about the badgers and you're gonna what?
The football, the basketball, the university?
No, the animal.
Apparently at this time of year, they like to flip from their stomachs to their backs and stay awake for most of the day.
So we're learning all about the badger here and how things change in warmer weather.
which we're still hoping to get.
There's also an article here on whether Uber or parking at the airport is the better deal at some of the busiest airports in America and a bit about why the Trump administration wants to kill PBS.
which I did take note that Sesame Street has been rescued, I guess, by Netflix after being on HBO Max for the past several years here.
And so people have been passing around an old West Wing clip.
Okay, to be honest, I see a lot of West Wing clips in my video.
If you know how it is, you click on one thing and suddenly they just keep feeding you more.
Clearly it must have clicked on the one from two cathedrals, one of the great West Wing episodes, but I've been getting West Wing clips ever since.
And there was one that came up yesterday was making the rounds about cutting PBS and the whole notion of that there's, you know, is PBS elitist?
Fact-based educational programming and culture, there's nothing elitist about it.
The better question is why aren't more
Americans watching and supporting the things that broadcast television won't otherwise provide.
I don't mean to open up an entire discussion thread here on the merits of, you know, publicly funded public radio and TV.
But I have I have lived in a place where the only commercial TV station eventually went out of business.
And the only option was the government run radio station.
You don't want that and I'm not saying that it happened overnight here But you've got to have a you've got to have a full range of media options that includes publicly supported media as well as one that where you have a media landscape that isn't owned by you know just the the millionaires and billionaires in other words It's it's not elitist
to embrace education and culture.
Look at me, Greg.
I'm ended on culture again here.
It's it's just it's the it's the European in me.
So clearly what I need to do during this break here is brew a little espresso.
Which, hmm, or some clearly, or a little
pot of tea, you know, something like that.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
That could be that could be it as well.
So we will continue to roll on here with my thanks for spending some time here as part of your mornings.
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I'm Pat Kraitl.
Welcome back at 6 35 on this Tuesday morning made 20th pack right low here in Chippewa Falls Greg Bucket Radio Park in the Greater Milwaukee area and Luke Mathers clearly joining as well because adding at the text line he copies in the the brewers notes so that I would have them in front of me that you can catch the brewers versus the Orioles coverage starts at 6 0 5 this evening on Civic Media stations in Richland Center Osh gosh we're seeing
Kenosha Park Falls and of course Hayward and then tomorrow's matinee coverage begins at 11 35 in the morning before the Brewers leave town for a trip in Pittsburgh Luke Mathers is like our security blanket, you know, so he's like our teddy bear, you know, he's right there.
Mm-hmm.
I agree.
Like a he's like a teddy rock spin where he just sits there looking cute most of the time but sometimes you pull his string
And then he he's either helpful or point of order.
Pat point of order.
Yeah.
Teddy Ruxman didn't have a string.
You put a tape in his back and you played it and he sang to you.
So get
your
toy facts
straight.
Sorry.
Sorry.
And of course Tony reminds us like Teddy Ruxman so handsome and capable.
Yeah.
So we appreciate that much very much.
Mr. Mathers where I will again remind you.
that brewers and Orioles coverage starts 6 0 5 and then 11 35 tomorrow morning.
Do you get into how do I tell this next part of my vacation story?
And I have no I have to start with the McRib from McDonald's.
Oh, you know
how my favorite Irish meat sandwich.
Is that what you call it?
The McRib the McRib
of the McRib
clan.
Oh, I see, I see.
I like that Cassandra already after she heard that, sorry, right away, puts up on YouTube.
What time are we betting that Pat crashes today?
Well, again, given the, you know, the time zone change by 4pm today, just absolutely out.
But I appreciate that, that show of support.
Or is it like watching a car crash?
We never can tell.
Here's why I bring up the McRib.
In Portugal, you will find some
American things like Burger King and McDonald's and McDonald's is going through an ad campaign out there right now and there is a traditional Portuguese sandwich called the Bifana and it is a makeup of
pork.
It's kind of like a pork patty and then a sauce that has, uh, like notes of peppers and garlic and bay leaves.
And a lot of traditional Portuguese foods there, a lot of sardines, a lot of, uh, cod, but then there's this, this pork sandwich.
So that's the Bifana.
Would you eat something called the McBifana?
Because I saw those, the only thing you saw other than the billboards for all the elections and the candidates was for the McBifana.
And as much as I talked about it, would Sherry, who was doing most of the rental car driving and I was doing most of the navigating, would she pull over at a McDonald's for me to try the McBiffana?
Absolutely not.
We were not hitting McDonald's in any way, shape or form on the way there.
So did I miss out or did I luck out?
There's the big question for
her.
Well, I guess, did you have a...
Bikfana, you said it's called?
Bikfana.
Bikfana.
Did you have a Bikfana while you were there, not attached to fast food?
I
did not.
No.
So I feel like you
missed out completely.
I did miss out completely.
I had a lot of, there was a lot of cod.
They make it in all these different ways, but in the end, it is still cod.
And sardines, which again, are fine, but really salty.
It's really, it's really.
tough to overcome that.
There were times when at two different points, I mean, you're not like next door to Italy, but you're a lot closer than you are here.
And there were a couple of little, there were so many local restaurants.
That's how I really want to put it in all of these cities in Lisbon and Porto and Evra and everywhere else that we went.
Lots of these small locally owned cafes and restaurants.
And it was wonderful.
Then a couple of them were pizza places.
Some of the best pizza
The best pizza I've ever had was in Italy and this was right there on its heels.
The way that it's made there, just to get away from the commercial production, the mass production of food and have something made right there for you one at a time was just insanely delicious.
Did you find yourself like I know people have said to me before when they go to like Italy or Europe They like I ate so much food But I felt light as a feather and I lost weight because we were walking so much and because
all
because the ingredients are always natural and there's less chemicals and in Additives like cuz you know their laws say you can't do that because it you know hurts people
Yeah, there's that and and also the fact that if you were on vacation you're walking You know eight to fourteen thousand steps every day based on you know what other little phones tell us and they're in Portugal which if you missed it earlier I was there for a friend's wedding and then we did some other exploring around the country, but it's very hilly
And rather than, you know, again, these cities go back, you know, millennia.
And rather than bulldoze a lot of things, I mean, you are living in this, in these cities where the hills and narrow cobblestone streets.
I
mean, very narrow cobblestone streets.
Driving was a character builder,
shall we say, getting
through some of these places like Nazaré where I, uh, in another part in, in Everett.
we're going down this dirt road to get to where the wedding is.
And clearly they were doing some setup of the wedding because coming at us, not one, but two big delivery trucks.
And we're like, there's just no way.
And we're, we're, we're faced with the prospect of backing down this dirt road about a good half mile with curves.
And by the way, there, you know, at the end, not, not some, not some curb and gutter, not something nice and flat.
Oh no, it just drops right off.
And the guy in the truck was just like, no, no, no, come on, come on, making this gesture.
Come on, we can pass, we can pass.
And Sherry says, nope, and gets out and I get in, it's my turn to take over.
And I have never come that close to side swiping a vehicle while at the same time nearly plunging off the road.
But we managed to pull it off.
Things are just a little...
Different in older places where you have the cobblestone streets there.
They are not built around cars.
It's not built around a car culture.
They still have Trollies.
There's a wonderful trolley route that takes you through Lisbon that I could not recommend highly enough.
And again, commuters are using the Trollies.
They're using commuter rail.
They're using light rail.
They're using buses.
and they're getting to work just fine without having to have, you know, a million cars in the city center.
And it's just a way of going about things that how did, I think Pat said it or Tony said to Pat, did you do a semester abroad in college?
I feel like you're bringing strong college student back from a summer abroad vibes
today.
Where did you go for vacation?
I went to Bathalona.
Bathalona.
That's exactly it.
And it was not on our list, I guess is what I'm trying to say is this whole segment is brought to you by the Portugal Tourism and Culture Board.
Go.
It's something that Americans, we're not a culture raised on the notion of traveling outside of our borders.
I mean, America is a big country.
I mean, you can drive 11 hours and you're still like,
from one side to other and you're still in Texas.
So,
and I think when you have, when you grow up in like Europe, like my friends, I have friends in Europe.
When you grow up in that area, you have access to cheap flights to other countries.
It's just part of your culture.
You can drive, you can, you know, drive to a different part of Europe, but we don't do that.
And, and, and what you were saying earlier is now we've almost like what we were saying about PBS culture breeds.
Education because you're surrounded by different people and you're learning and you're taking in more and we have weaponized that to be the act of the elite and Yes, the
yeah,
and to be educated in any way shape or form is to be feared correct
and It's very easy to you know mock those who Get an education or who do travel when the fact of the matter is the the people who
settled where you are right now.
They were travelers once themselves.
Yep.
You know, and to think that any place is static in the way that my place right now is the way it's always been and should always be is just absolutely foolish.
Things do do change or evolve to some degree.
And then there's other things that you you hang on to because they're beneficial.
like your trolley system.
We had those in this country all over the place until, again, it became big business to just pave everything and put cars in there.
Oh, by the way, that reminds me of one headline that I saw while I was away, was that Uber is experimenting now with, how exactly did they put it?
It was like, Uber's experimenting with multi-passenger timed commuter vehicles.
And as somebody noted, in other words, we're privatizing the bus system.
Oh, more
expensive, or more expensive bus is great.
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
That's exactly what it, it's always that, hey, you know, this corporation will be able to, to do it better than you, including McDonald's.
We will, we will make your, your national sandwich.
We will mass produce it and we will make it better for you.
Here's one thing that we have not embraced from Europe that I'm, I'm going to be okay with.
Soccer.
When we first got to Lisbon.
Tread lightly friend.
I know.
Here's why.
When we first got to Lisbon, we were at a hotel in the city center that was adjoining a large park, not a zoo or anything, just a large green space.
And we were warned that there was going to be a big football match and that it turns out Lisbon has
two teams, kind of a Mets Yankees thing.
And as it turned out, it was the second to last game of the season for the, for the league in Portugal.
And these two teams were tied for the top.
And if one of them won the match, they would become the league champion.
But if they tied, they'd have to go on to next week and play other teams and then decide it that way.
But they said, we just want you to be prepared that if one of the teams wins and is going to take the title, there will be upwards of one million people in this park across the street.
And so things could get a little crazy tonight because again, we got in at like eight, nine in the morning.
We'd been flying all night and everything.
They said, just want a warning.
We're like, we're fine.
We're tired.
We don't care.
We just want a nice clean room.
And we did wake up in time that the match is going on and they draw one to one.
And you could have shot a cannon through that park because everybody was just like,
Ugh, it was such like this national letdown that, well, there was a tie, so nobody's the champion, so we'll have to play again next week.
So that's the point I'm making is this whole notion of a tie, a one-to-one tie?
No, no, we're not doing that.
You play till somebody wins in this country.
That much we've got.
If we gotta do a shootout, we'll do a shootout.
If we gotta do 12 over times, we're gonna do 12 over times.
This is America.
There's a winner and there's a loser and there's no ties here.
Except in the national football league where they have really dumb rules.
I was gonna, I mean, while, while you were doing that, I was just going to be like, that's a terrible version of that song.
Wow.
I was going to play, I was going to play America, the beautiful behind you as you just got more and more unhinged about the, the rules of a very old sport.
Tony, right away.
You watch your, I knew, I told you, man.
I told you Tony was going to,
yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He said I did not expect that hard turn back to America Pat Again, it's just the notion of ties and a game that ends one to one I was actually following the the hockey playoffs while I was over there and Hoping so hard to see, you know teams from Canada in because I'm not all Merca I would like to see because the Stanley Cup winner has been from Canada in over 20 years and of course they were all eliminated except for Edmonton so
because again, we do the shootouts.
You play to win.
Soccer
does
shootouts too, not all the time, but it's fine.
I know.
And I didn't have to put up with a million people in, you know, interrupting me.
So I'm okay with that.
Today's history lesson is next, as we always do.
Mornings up north and live here on the Civic Media Radio Network.
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Happy birthday to Sherilyn Sarkeesian of El Centro, California.
You know her best to share, and she is 79 years old today.
First teamed up with Sunny Bono in 1964, recording as the group Caesar and Cleo, before changing it to Sunny and Cher the next year.
Once they hit it big with I Got You Babe, she decided to just go with Cher.
And so happy birthday to Cher, 79 years old today.
Joe Cocker was born this day in 1944, passed away in 2014.
And to play that song, it welcomes in our friend Dan Hagen, because the only way this show is going to work is if we get by with a little help from our friends.
This
is neither Dan nor Greg singing, by the way.
Or John Belushi.
Yeah.
Mr. Hagen,
how are you?
I'm doing well.
You know, this was that, wasn't it Woodstock where he nailed this song, right?
Believe so, yes.
I can't believe I just got a Woodstock reference from Dan Hagen.
I know.
How great is this?
What a great way to come back for vacation.
I love my Beatles and, you know, the adjacent.
You know, I can do adjacent once we get to share.
I know a song or two.
That's
awesome.
Wow.
or Tony thinks we're doing a Wonder Years episode.
Yes, there is always that too.
What have you been working on there, Dan?
I feel like all we've ever talked about with you lately is reinflating the HODAC
dominance.
That's so funny.
You say that because that's what I was going to mention.
It's reinflated.
They're doing interior repairs.
They got to fix the track and the tennis courts, but I should be back up and running for real, maybe in a week or two.
All right, good.
See, again, all weather related.
Now the weather is not so great out there, but hopefully not in a way that would be awful.
Does just have another storm go through and go, oh, there goes the dome again.
So
let's keep things on the good side of repaired, shall we say.
Actor Dave Thomas is 76 years old today.
Let's see, a couple of business anniversary notes.
Guy named Levi Strauss received a
received a patent this day in 1873 for blue jeans with copper rivets.
Which, when you think about it in hindsight, it's like, wait a minute.
That was the big technological advance, was pants with rivets in them, but we're all still wearing our blue jeans today, aren't we?
It was originally workman's wear, is that right?
For like going out into mines?
Yeah.
That's right.
And now we purposefully wear them distressed.
Right.
Let's see, this is also the birthday in 1818 of William Fargo, who co-founded Wells Fargo and American Express.
On this day in 1965, the Rolling Stones debuted a certain song of theirs on an American variety show called Shindig.
Here's the number one national hit song that was heard for the first time in the world, right here on Shindig.
And here are the guys who made it famous, the Rolling Stones!
It is now weird given that it was 60 years ago today to see them just so young and energetic and the song was brand new and it's so...
Not that now it's it's nice to go back in history.
We found this on YouTube You can find the clip as well and to have these shows like shindig where Songs can be premiered and I don't know that we have anything like that Especially now that MTV doesn't you know have like music videos anymore or anything like that we have people like the voice and American Idol, but yeah, we don't really yeah, it's it's not quite the same as it the young rascals had a number one hit this day in 1967 with Groovin
Wings had a hit this week in 1978 with with a little luck going to number one.
That's weird.
With a little help with a little luck.
It's all beetle stuff.
That's right.
Yeah.
No, no.
Hey, Jane Whedeland, go goes guitarist is 67 years old today.
Buster Rhymes is 53.
Rachel Platten, who gave us fight song is 34 years old today.
On this day in 1989, Paula Abdul notched her second number one hit with the title track to her debut album.
Can I just make a point about Miss Jane Weedland who's turning 67 today?
Yes.
O'Connor Walk, Wisconsin's very own Jane Weedland.
Oh, thank you for that reminder.
Yes.
She is from O'Connor
Walk.
Yes, and we could have played rush hour from her she hit on the charts as well as the solo artist and It was three years ago today that Harry Styles released his third solo album Harry's house which debuted at number one on the charts All I really see there is
I think Jimmy Fallon doing some kind of a spoof on this.
It's a very spoof-worthy tune.
Sounds
about right,
yeah.
Let's see, this is National Band Director's Day.
Dan, were you in band?
I was in band.
I played trombone just so I could, you know, slide it back and forth.
And I was last chair, I think, so I wasn't anything special.
I didn't know last chair was a thing, okay.
And this is World Bee Day as we get near the end of No Mo May.
How's that going for you over there, Greg?
I mowed the front yard yesterday.
The backyard is insanity.
So if it's nice out or acceptable enough for today, I'm going to start mowing the backyard because I'm over it.
And so bees, you're on notice.
Enjoy your World Bee Day.
Yeah.
Just stay out of Greg's yard later today.
Exactly.
And this is also National Weights and Measures Day.
to which I would again direct people to the rant that already took place earlier in the show about the metric system.
It's like, why are we still doing things the way that we are with weights and measures?
My dad told me in school like they would teach him the metric system because they're like, all right, we're going to convert soon.
Let's just learn it.
Yes.
Man, 100 years ago about.
Could you even imagine someone today bringing a weights and measure bill in and.
All, all of like, all of them just losing their minds.
Would absolutely go crazy.
Yes.
Hey, Dan is going to hang around after the news and two more hours still to come as we get rolling with another one of those Tuesday mornings here powered by Up North News.
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