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Keeping it warm for Patrick.
He'll be back on Monday.
Taking a well deserved day off today to be with family for a graduation.
So look forward to hearing about his travels on Monday.
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Mr. Bach joins us as well from the Racine Park Studios down to beautiful Racine, Wisconsin.
Gentlemen, how are you this morning?
We're doing well.
Don't speak for me.
You
don't know
how I'm doing.
I'm doing well.
Greg,
how are you?
I'm also doing well.
Thank you for asking.
coming up a little bit later this hour.
Have our round table this morning with a couple of great journalists and talking about the headlines of the day.
And just a minute, Brittany Merleau will join us with a complete weather forecast.
Temperatures around the state of Wisconsin right now range from 61 in superior down to 55 degrees in Milwaukee, 54 over La Crosse, 52 in Green Bay right now.
More on the weather with Brittany Merleau.
Weather quality air advisory out for today with those wildfires from Canada.
so we'll have a little bit more on that in just a moment.
Speaking of headlines this morning, the weather is the top headline.
The Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan have declared states for emergency due to a series of wildfires.
The blazes, which began on Monday in Saskatchewan, have pardon me, rapidly increased.
in size, prompting the evacuation of more than 18,000 people.
Israel has accepted a new ceasefire proposal with Hamas from U.S.
Envoy Steve Wyckoff, which includes the release of 10 living hostages and 18 deceased hostages, as well as a 60-day truce, although Hamas in the latest framework doesn't meet their demands.
Entirely, the militant group offered some counterpoints and said they will continue on.
A federal appeals court yesterday passed, pardon me, paused the court of international trades ruling that President Donald Trump doesn't have the authority to impose sweeping tariffs using the emergency powers he declared earlier this year.
The ruling by the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the federal circuit means Trump can continue to impose tariffs using emergency powers and adds to the
and uncertainty about the future of his economic policy.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted on X this week that an undocumented migrant from Mexico had been arrested for allegedly sending a letter threatening to kill President Trump.
However, upon further review, it appears that the immigrant, Ramon Morales-Reyez, was set up.
Federal officials who asked for a handwriting sample for Reyes also determined that his handwriting and the threatening letter
did not match his own.
Those are the headlines.
This morning, one more for you.
A far-right political activist with a history of anti-gay rhetoric and promoting conspiracy theories about former President Barack Obama.
said he was sacked after over a month of the job following a CNN investigation.
That was he was the Kennedy Center executive.
So more of those stories throughout the day.
But right now at nine minutes past the hour of seven o'clock, take a look.
What should we do here?
Here are a couple of sports scores for you.
How about that?
By the way, as well, we talked about it a little bit in hour number one, but the the Pacers.
could have wrapped it up last night in game five, but they played their worst offensive game of the postseason last night and lost to the New York Knicks 111 to 94.
Our very own James Kelly up there in Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls dancing a jig because he's a New Yorker, a Long Islander.
His Knicks survive.
But despite missing the chance to close out the series, the star for the Pacers, Tyrese Halliburton emphasized there was quote, no need to panic.
The Pacers still lead the series three to two game six is on Saturday night in Indianapolis.
The Brewers had the night off, but they will be taking on the Philadelphia 70, almost said 76ers.
Would that be fun?
Would that, would that be great if the Brewers played the 76ers?
I
think that would go
well.
It would make, it was the only way to make basketball exciting to me.
No, no, no.
They'll play the Philadelphia Phillies tonight.
Game time, the first picture on 545.
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I'm sorry that these these allergies.
I mean, I'm I'm all I just it's terrible.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
You're feeling Poopy
Poopy.
Yeah, that's one thing to call it.
Yeah.
Well that that that too that All right, let's see here, which we do today in the in the history of the national days
Because this is very, very exciting.
We should bring on Brittany Malone for this, because I always like to... Brittany, I always like to talk to Brittany, our civic media meteorologist.
Brittany, how the heck are you?
I'm pretty good.
How the heck are
you?
Better if it weren't for the allergies.
But otherwise, I'm doing fine.
Let's... We're going to do weather here in a second, but I'm very excited about this because it's May 30th, and we've gone over some of the... Also, Mel Blank's birthday.
Remember him?
Nope.
Great.
No, I do not.
Hey, Parker, do you know Bugs Bunny?
Elmer's
Bud?
Wait.
Oh.
Apiduck.
okay.
I do know them.
He did all of those.
All those voices, all the learning tunes, characters and Mary Melody's cartoons.
He died back in 1989, but it was Mel Blank was born on this day.
Benny Goodman, the musician and band leader nicknamed the King of Swing, also was born on this day as well.
Well, let's get to national days because there's some good ones here.
It is national creativity.
day to day.
So if you're a creative person, this day is for you.
I don't know.
Crochet something.
I don't know.
Macramé.
Macramé.
Sure.
I don't know.
Whatever.
You were talking about this yesterday at Matt and Aaron Air with DecoPage.
Oh, DecoPage.
I like that.
All right.
So it's National Creative Day.
Also, and now Parker's a recent UW Whitewater graduate in the comms program broadcasting.
It's Loomis Day.
Do you remember who Loomis is Parker?
pass or fail.
it?
I recognize is Mel home Loomis as the person who received the patent for wireless telegraphy receiving the US patent number Well, I'm not gonna read the number.
It was titled an improvement in telegraphing on a wireless telegraph
telegraphy in 1872.
He beat Marconi's United Kingdom patent by nearly 25 years, but Marconi gets all the all the credits.
weren't at
We learned that in Platteville.
I feel like then people like and Alexander Graham Bell stole from Marconi and.
Right.
And Britney's
like, can I just tell you about the.
I know it's it's it's it's been Julep Day today.
I'm not a big man.
I'm not a big.
big mint julep guy, but have yourself a mint julep.
But here's what I want to get to.
This is fantastic.
This is real.
Each year on May 30th, it is national hole in my bucket day.
It is celebrated by a wacky holiday in honor of the Fun Children song.
There is a hole in my bucket.
I remember this watching Sesame Street.
Who says PBS doesn't create great things?
Here it is from Sesame Street.
They're having
good time with this time.
Do we have a muppet that sounds like Johnny Cash?
There's like a four-minute bit, and so it was the old farmer, he has a hole in the bucket, and the wife is sitting there, and the husband's a dope, but he's like, there's a hole in the bucket, and she's like, well, fix it there.
Well, what shall I fix it?
With a stick, dear.
And it keeps going and going, and finally she's like, just fix it there, Henry!
Just fix it there, Henry!
Just fix it there, Henry!
They have a national hole in the bucket day today!
It's a national hall.
I'm very excited by
Absolutely.
So there you go.
All right.
Brittany Merleau, we're going to need a bucket of something to get through this muck in the air today.
Give us the lowdown.
There is some seriousness to those that have asthma and whatnot.
There is smoke in the air.
Yes, there is.
That wildfire smoke from Canada has made its way down to the state.
That's why it's hazy.
It kind of looks cloudy in some places.
It's not cloudy out.
It is actually clear.
So if you can't see the sunshine, that is the wildfire smoke this morning.
It is really thick out there right now and I actually start to get a little bit better as we go through the afternoon and then a little bit worse again tonight before it starts to clear out.
It should be gone by tomorrow afternoon, but of course it's from that Northwest Breeze.
A little breezy throughout the day today, gusts around 20 to 25 miles per hour.
And like Todd said, it is unhealthy for sensitive groups.
So in that case, you might want to wear a mask, stay inside, have an air purifier running, something like that to help with those symptoms.
But otherwise today, it's about 45 degrees in Janesville.
It's 61 degrees into Ashland.
And we are looking at scattered shower chances later on this afternoon.
very light showers.
But then after five o'clock, we're looking at chances of some spotty storms.
I think those are going to stay northwest, kind of hang into the Fox Valley and then move in towards Milwaukee and Madison area.
But these are a backdoor cold front.
So what that means is the cold front is actually dropping down from the north.
headed south.
So these storms are going to be rolling in from the north, headed south, and we could see some gusty winds and small hail with them.
But otherwise, tomorrow, hey, we're still looking at tons of sunshine today and tomorrow, both rising into the mid to upper seventies.
We'll do the same, pretty much the same thing on Sunday and then Monday.
Oh, we're going to get it so muggy and warm.
Our dew points are going to go into the seventies with temperatures in the mid eighties.
Even some spots could hit 90.
So Monday is going to be a sweaty one.
My grandma used to call that kind of weather sultry.
It's sultry out.
She used to say that.
It's sultry.
When it's like
Kathleen Tenor in the 80s, it's sultry.
But the storms might help move some of this, that's not really smog, I know, but some of this smoke out of the air.
Is that good for
the
smoke?
Yeah.
Yeah, it definitely will.
And then as that cold front moves through and down to the south, it should start to clear that out of here.
So this is all good stuff for the smoke.
Just the clear skies and nothing happening and the heat starting to build today is really making it much thicker.
So once that front moves through...
should be gone and out of here.
All right, Parker.
I'm not gonna be here on Monday.
Pat will be back.
But when you introduce, I want Britney's music on Monday for her bumper music to be, the heat is on.
The heat is on.
Yeah!
Yeah.
Rob and Tigerton, we have his weather report here.
That was... Oh,
sorry.
Hold on.
There we go.
Here we go.
Rob says, good morning from Tigerton, cloudy in 56.
I saw the red sun earlier this morning.
I got a mowing job near Eldron, located on...
on the Chateau and Marathon County line, a job that he was supposed to do yesterday, got rained out.
So there you go.
All right, very good.
I've been to Eldoron and Tigerton when I go to see the folks up in Chateau.
So hope Rob can get the lawn mowed today.
But wear a mask, Rob.
and celebrate it's a whole bucket day.
All right, thank you, Brittany.
Appreciate you.
We'll see you later.
Have a great weekend.
Come on back with our round table and celebrate.
There's a hole in my bucket day.
Back after this.
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I'm all sitting in the guest host chair this morning.
It's 22 minutes past the hour of seven o'clock on this Friday, May 30th, 2025.
Hope your day is going well.
Don't forget a air quality advisory for the entire state today as smoke from those Canadian wildfires is moving throughout Wisconsin, Britain or low.
Our meteorologist says it will clear out.
by tomorrow as we'll have some rain and some garden variety type of thunderstorms move through the state later on this afternoon into this evening.
Right now, we're pleased to be joined by our weekly round table.
James Santel has the week off, but joining us via stream yard today, Jennifer Scholesi, longtime Chicago journalist, including with ABC seven and WGN TV, now writing for the contrarian and the Lincoln Square and Mark Jacob, also a longtime journalist for both the Chicago Tribune.
and the Chicago Sun-Times.
Thank you both for joining us and putting up with the Phyllian guy while Pat's all away.
Glad to have both of you here as well.
As always, it seems to be the endless fire hose of information.
And I guess before I ask you guys, each of your top headlines, your most intriguing headlines of the week, I'd just like your take on this.
And maybe I'm doing a little therapy on the air for Todd, but I try to back when I travel around Wisconsin would take the show on the road and just talking to people.
I hear people and these are people who are pretty plugged in and they're saying, Todd, I just mental health.
I got to turn the news off.
I can't take this every day.
And so what is the job of a journalist in these times of trying to there's a new headline that in normal times would be a.
above the fold headline almost every hour.
How do we balance that out with not overwhelming people, but making sure we get the proper information to folks?
Jennifer?
Whoops,
whatever happened Jennifer.
We can't hear you.
Mark.
Let's go to you.
We'll go and
Yep.
Go ahead.
So I think that you're totally right that, you know, every hour there's some new outrage and, you know, you and yeah, you do have to disengage at some point.
So real problem to me is that some people have never have engaged.
And, you know, I feel like a lot of the support for Trump, some of it is people who love the bad things he's doing.
But I think a lot of other people are just kind of people who just don't follow the news.
I mean, in fact, surveys have found it.
They just not, they're not following the news at all.
They just kind of, they heard something from a friend and, you know, all their friends are voting for Trump.
So they are, and they don't really understand what's happening.
So, so there's that.
But I mean, for the rest of us, people who are actually paying attention to what's going on, yeah, you can, it can be just, it can be mentally draining.
Yes, I agree with that.
But so I think the answer is,
that the news media need to focus on what really affects people, and a lot of people.
And just the crazy town stuff that he does all the time, like calling people scum on Memorial Day, that kind of stuff.
I mean, you've got to report it, but I wouldn't go big with that.
I mean, he's dismantling large portions of the federal government.
He is destroying universities.
I mean, all this stuff he's doing with foreign students,
that is sending a chill through the entire higher ed community in the United States and chasing important researchers overseas.
People are going to die because of what Trump is doing.
The lifespan of Americans is going to go down because of what Trump is doing.
Just focusing on what's actually important might be a good idea.
I think that's a really great point we talked about in our show yesterday a little bit in the afternoon with the Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Sarah Rodriguez that to your point Mark not only with the cuts basically eliminated USAID just the the folks in Africa alone who are going to die because of that probably looking at millions of people potentially dying but also here closer to home of Wisconsin with these with if you ban or deeply cut foreign students when rolling here not only in my opinion is someone who was
rich by having a lot of students from other countries and colleges, friends, but just a financial aspect that it's really costly to cut those foreign or out-of-state tuitions coming here, which they largely pay themselves.
Jennifer, I'm not sure if your microphone is back, but let's try you.
What do you say to that?
Chinese student population.
It is one of the things I think that most experts would agree has helped keep the university afloat as legislative monies have dried up over the last 20, 30 years.
And the University of Illinois, just like in Wisconsin, I'm sure with the University of Madison, would will suffer enormously.
And who will ultimately pay the price for all of that?
all of us.
Not only if your kid wants to go to school there, will the tuition have to go up to make up for that shortfall, but we will all pay the price.
It doesn't just get to kind of the challenge of folks, journalists and folks of media, trying to pour some of these things out.
I feel like too often I hear, basically, well, I don't know, it hasn't really affected me.
But at some point, if you have a kid in college and your tuition goes up $1,000, $2,000 or more because there's no foreign tuition coming in anymore, that will affect you.
And, you know, I know people don't like this phrase, but it seems like people have messed around to clean it up for radio at the voting booth.
And at some point they're going to find out.
Yes, totally, totally agree.
All right, we're coming up on a break here.
We're going to look at a little agricultural news and weather as well.
Then we'll come back with more with Mark Jacob and Jennifer Shosey.
On the other side, you're listening to Mornings of Pat Prylowe.
I'm Todd Albaugh.
You're listening to the Civic Media Brain Network.
back to morning to pack quite low.
I am Todd all about going into the guest host chair Pat would back on Monday.
You're listening to the civic media already network.
It is now 35 minutes past the hour of seven o'clock.
Temperatures in the seventies today.
There is a poor air quality alert out for the entire state of Wisconsin to the Canadian wildfires and the smoke coming down but showers and thunderstorms throughout the later afternoon and into tonight.
We'll clear that out pretty nice weekend ahead.
And then Britain below says muggy.
Saltery starting on Monday.
Summer is arriving right on time, as they say.
Right now we continue on with our weekly roundtable.
James Santel, who is the host, of course, of Amicus, a law review on Saturday morning through at Civic Media, has the week off, but we are very pleased to have with us today.
Chicago journalists.
Jennifer Scholesi formally worked for ABC seven and WGN TV in Chicago and now at the Contrarian and Lincoln Square and Mark Jacob longtime journalist for both the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times.
Guys, let's go to your favorite Barbara Walters.
Remember, she did.
She never she never said the most important person of the year.
She said the most fascinating person of the year.
So what's your most fascinating headline of the week, Mark Jacob?
Jr.
and Trump releasing that study on children's health, which made a lot of false assertions.
And surprise, surprise, included fake studies.
The link to studies that were never written had real scientists attributed to stuff, and they when the news media contacted them, they said, no, I didn't do anything like that.
And then Caroline Levitt, the official liar in the White House, that's her job to lie.
She was asked about it, and she said, well, there were formatting issues, but everything's fine otherwise.
So now lies are now called formatting issues.
And just as far as critiquing the media on that story, the Associated Press
Headline just said there were problems with the studies.
They use the term the word problems fuzzing the whole issue instead of using the perfectly accurate term fake studies because there were fake studies
and also Wisconsin's very own Mark Pokan in Congress and a hearing maybe you guys talked about this last week but Got got RFK junior to say well, you know, you really should listen to me when it comes to medical
when they released that report.
And they together said it was the most important health study on children in America in history.
So both Trump and RFK Jr.
have staked their very feeble, I would argue, reputations on this.
And they're sticking with that story even today.
The Washington Post has a story this morning that says they've been able to determine that most of the study was written with AI.
And I mean, just that and the way that the Trump administration is pushing AI.
ought to be worrisome to all of us.
But Mark's right, that story was also, I thought, really interesting in that it came from a smaller news outlet with younger reporters, something called Notis, N-O-T-U-S.
They broke this story, which is really based on shoe leather reporting.
Here's this report.
It's got all these citations and all these quotes, and it's the greatest thing ever on kids' health.
Two reporters, two.
I can't find anybody else that did this, decided, hmm, where's that stuff come from?
And it's incredible because that's what journalism is supposed to be about.
Not just being megaphones for whatever Trump or RFK say, but digging into the details.
And what we found out, as Mark said, it's all fake.
All of it is fake.
Absolutely incredible.
And Mark, to your earlier point, in the last segment about the cuts that Trump is making and continues to try to make through this budget reconciliation bill, people's lives are going to be lost.
And to this point with RFK Jr., what is this thing now with COVID vaccines only for those 65 years of older, not for pregnant women?
Again,
I think one of the most tragic parts on a lot of tragedies is we're messing with people's lives here.
That's a troublesome new decision by the federal government to not give the COVID shot to pregnant women, because that's the only way there's going to be any protection for newborn babies.
And the fact is that the two groups that are most likely to be hospitalized when they get COVID are old people and newborn babies.
They're too young to get the shot when they get born, but giving it to pregnant women could offer some protection, it's believed.
So, I mean, there's just not a lot of science about it, Todd.
And when they released the study, they were, Eric K. Jr.
said, well, this is the worst, this generation is the sickest generation of children in American history.
And I went back and looked at it, in 1800, 46% of children didn't make it to age five.
And in 1900, 24% didn't make it to age five.
You know what the figure is now?
It's under 1%.
So what is he talking about?
I mean, it's just pulling stuff out of their regions.
It's very weird what they're doing.
And they just think that it sounds good.
And the New York Times repeated that.
The sickest generation in US history.
And I called him out on social media and they actually changed their headline.
They took that out because it was a lie.
Nicely done, Mark.
Nicely done.
I was remiss earlier.
You can also find Mark.
He is the author of Stop Depresses newsletters, so check that out as well.
Jennifer, what is your most intriguing, fascinating headline of the week?
I'm also struck this week by the Elon Musk exit interviews.
This guy, The New York Times,
has a great story this morning about his drug use throughout his time in the White House and it's pretty extreme illegal drug use.
He was handed the keys to our government and has done untold amount of damage and too many news organizations in the last week fell for his rewriting of history or his glossing over of his damage the damage that he's done and we have all these puff pieces about
you know, disillusioned, determined and you know painting this picture of this while I tried my best and you know gosh maybe it didn't work out with really it was like a PR tour that must took and the press fell for it with the evidence in front of all of our eyes every single day for the last four or five months.
I'm still gobsmacked about that.
I can't get over it.
I know there's a, I think it's coming out this Sunday.
If I'm, if I'm correct, David Pogue interviewed Musk for a CBS Sunday morning and I saw the clip where, where Musk says, well, you could have a big bill or a beautiful bill, but you can't have a big, beautiful bill and seem to kind of counter Trump a little bit insane.
He wasn't really on board for this reconciliation bill.
Yeah, they Well, he's pointing to the deficit which the funny thing is you've got all this blowback from the White House after he said that in which they said there is no deficit in the bill Which is a complete hundred percent lie
You know, I've actually started my most recent Stop the Press newsletter.
I've decided to start calling blatant lies, Lutniks, because Howard Lutnik is really the most outrageous liar in the cabinet.
So Caroline Levitt was telling Lutniks yesterday, and Mike Johnson was too.
They were telling a Lutnik about the CBO, the Congressional Budget Office.
whose projections are usually quite reliable and they're saying oh no they're totally out there it's some sort of leftist organization supposedly even though the guy who's head of it was named by Bush you know so it's a so they don't want to accept reality and they voted so they're voting for deficit spending you know this whole thing about the republicans don't like to
tax and spend.
Well, I sure like the spend part of it.
And Jennifer, even Wisconsin's own U.S.
Senator Ron Johnson is calling Trump out exactly what Mark just said, maybe for the wrong reasons in my opinion.
But he's saying it doesn't go far enough in some of these cuts, but saying that it does increase the deficit.
Yes, and so it's gonna be really interesting to see what happens with this bill when it makes it over to the Senate They've already been making and Johnson's not alone.
They've been making a lot of noise about their concerns So we'll see how concerned they really are.
I want to add one more thing about musk and trump The White House just announced that musk and trump were having a joint press conference this afternoon.
and
Maybe we'll have another edition of he has junior samples.
Come on down by and use Tesla here.
Here on the car lot of the White House will be our five for none.
Anyway, it's an old reference for those of us old, old to remember he.
Uh, it's 45 minutes past the hour of a seven o'clock.
We're talking with Jennifer Scholesy and also Mark Jacob.
Put our weekly round table here.
Pat Kratlow is back on Monday.
Guys, I wanted to get your take as, as people have worked at major markets in Chicago.
Long time.
I'm just fascinated by this.
My first station I worked at was a CBS affiliate in Radio affiliate in Richland Center.
I grew up, my parents watched Walter Cronkite and those things.
The fact that CBS this morning on Tuesday didn't cover anything of the craziness that Trump said over the weekend.
The disrespect he showed veterans by not really memorializing them at all, partisanizing the speech at Arlington National Cemetery.
What do you make this mark the Jennifer?
Well, I'm not sure that it's difficult to decide, you know, whether the editorial decisions are affected by the greater picture and corporate pressure.
So, you know, unless you can prove it up, it's just hard to.
to speculate about it.
But it must be said that CBS is under incredible pressure these days.
Because their parent company, Paramount, wants to cut a deal for a merger with Skydance.
And the Trump administration corruptly is holding that up until CBS, suppose they're going to settle this lawsuit, this bogus lawsuit he's brought, complaining that an interview of Kamala Harris somehow damaged his brand.
And it's a it's a lawsuit that should be thrown out of court immediately.
Definitely, there's no way he would win in a real, you know, trial.
But CBS thinks is being extorted.
In effect, they're being told, you know, you've got to settle this.
And they also drop once in a policy for them doing good journalism.
And Jennifer ABC, Disney already settled.
And I
We already know that 60 minutes had minders, you know,
brought in to make sure that their content wasn't, you know, tiptoeing too close to somebody's line, apparently Trump's.
I don't doubt that that throughout their other products that they're, you know, they're being cautious, probably overly cautious about some things.
We're out of time.
We can't talk about it.
But did you guys see the Scott Pelley graduation speech at Wake Forest this weekend?
If
checked it out, Google Scott Pelley Wake Forest.
I'd never seen him like that.
I thought it was incredible.
really, really brave.
Brave as well is Mark Jacob.
You can find him.
He is the author at Stop the Press' newsletter.
And also equally brave is Jennifer Scholesi.
You can find her work at the Contrarian and Lincoln Square, amongst others.
We appreciate you both so very much.
Pat will be back next week, so you don't have to put up with me.
But thanks for being here.
We appreciate you both.
Stay tuned, everybody.
We'll be back on the other side.
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I like it.
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Always great to have real actual journalists have their take on things.
Parker is a new grad of journalism and comms.
Do they discuss this stuff now in classes about conflicts of corporate journalism, having an effect on what stories get done, that sort of thing?
Sorkin's final show so far,
Yeah, this is really, really good.
But I always appreciate Mark and Jennifer being here and they'll be joining Pat next week again along with James Santel.
So look forward to that nervous anticipation.
It's 53 minutes now past the hour of seven.
o'clock on this Friday, May 30th, 2025.
Temperatures across the state range from 61 and beautiful superior down to 55 in Milwaukee.
It is 54 over in Eau Claire.
54 as well in Wausau.
52 in Green Bay.
54 here in the capital city of Madison and 48 degrees.
Little chilly in the old Southwest Wisconsin Valley.
I grew up in Richland Center, a little town.
just south of that, Lone Rock, Wisconsin, little village of Lone Rock, for many years was the, would be the coldest spot in America
in
the winter because it's like in a valley.
And so there's a billboard as you come in now, it's better for years.
I'm not sure if the global warming is true anymore, but it says Lone Rock, Wisconsin, the coldest in the nation with the warmest of heart.
Oh, there it is.
Okay.
Welcome to the coldness of bone
rock.
There is a air quality advisory throughout the entire state of Wisconsin today.
No, that's not smog or fog in a smoke coming down from Canada.
The problem with these Canadian wildfires, and this is why we don't have wildfires in northern Wisconsin, is because there's no Canadian version of Smokey Bear.
He brings in the horn.
I was thinking you're going to do rimshot rimshot.
Oh, that's fantastic.
By the way, we're smack dab in the middle of our big Friday ticket free try ticket Friday brewers.
Lala Palooza giveaway text to win.
All you have to do is download the civic media app.
You open the app.
And by the way, it is a statewide contest.
I'm required to say that or I get shocked in my chair.
Sometimes I don't say it just because I can't get shocked in my chair.
Anyway, we're getting away four tickets to a Brewer's game.
This is for June 7th.
It is a week from Saturday.
It'll...
I was going to say tip off.
No, the first pitch is at 635 next Saturday the 7th of June against your San Diego Padres.
The Brewers taking them on.
So that's what these tickets are for.
You have to be able to go to that game for beautiful tickets in the club level section of Miller.
Now see, you got me to say.
got you.
And fan field.
They're great, great seats and get this.
Our own Luke Mathers, who is the keeper of the tickets in his.
It's the honor is the a synthetic mink oil.
He uses synthetic mink oil to to take care of his leather leather satchel
He tells
me now.
He tells me this is real.
There is a Jackson Cheerio replica Jersey night So the first whatever fans like Jesus like 20,000 fans that go into the game get a gratis a free Jackson Cheerio Jersey
How about that?
pro tip, though, to the all the fans who are going out there.
I'm just going to say this right now, whatever your size is, get one, if not two sizes up.
Cause those replica Jersey run.
Tweet.
Tweet.
I haven't heard that word a long time.
Hey, I got, I went when they did the replica Yacht Jersey and I picked one up and I went in the bathroom and I walked back and like, I need to exchange this.
So here's how you are eligible during our show today until nine o'clock go to the Civic Media app at the first eleven stations are the ones that were on click on the little icon that says text and text the word crew C R E W right now on the Civic Media app crew the word is crew this hour C R E W as in brew crew
After the end of the day, the computer will randomly choose correct entries.
You have to spell it right.
You're not eligible, and one lucky person will be going to that game next Saturday, June 7th at 6.35.
Crew, C-R-E-W.
Jane and Greg will have another word coming up on Matt and Air on air from 9 to 11.
Tom Hartman, who will receive his word via Carrier Pigeon, will have a word on his show as well between 11 and 2.
We will have our word given to us by
one of our pool boys here at the Civic Media headquarters.
Looking forward to that.
Wait,
is your pool boy Jacques or Steve?
It depends on which one.
Well, we can't get an international pool boy anymore because of the Trump thing.
So it's only domesticated
pool boys.
Yeah, exactly.
And then Maggie Dawn will have a word on her show as well between four and six.
So be listening the entire day to Civic Media.
You can enter in each one of the shows, and then one lucky person will win a ticket.
Crew, C-R-E-W, is our word this hour.
Coming up next hour, the wonderful, the talented, the always, she's a person that makes you feel better just from being around her.
The wonderful Dr. Kristin Lierly will be joining us, talking a little bit about men's health, happen to be a male, and I'm kind of healthy.
We'll talk about why guys should not be stubborn.
We should, we should just admit that we, we need a little care now and again.
Nothing wrong with that and very, very important.
And also talk about a new bill making its way through the Wisconsin state legislature on mammograms for women, how those could get either free or less costly.
Very, very important information.
So stick around.
You're listening to more names of packed right.
We'll talk, I talked for a living.
You can do it.
With Todd Allball, the Civic Media Ready Network.
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