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Good morning, it's 8.06.
Nice to have you back here up north on this Friday morning, June 6.
Pat Critello here in Chippewa Falls, Parker Olson in Madison Studio A2 at the Civic Media Global HQ.
Have you come down from the high of your
Whitewater baseball team winning the national championship this week.
You know, Pat, I thought I was.
And then I saw some pictures this morning of the little homecoming parade they had yesterday last night.
And I was like, oh, we're national champs.
This is kind of cool.
So so you did not race back there for the for the little parade, as you say.
No, I didn't.
I had some self restraint.
OK.
Figured I should go to bed.
All right.
Uh, let's see.
I believe, uh, I'm sure that I mentioned, uh, uh, Dr. Leigh Lee may be coming by and I plum forgot that I believe she has a conflict today.
So we will not be talking where they bought.
It's too bad because one of the, the last notes I got from her was that, uh, she, I don't know if she was there.
I assume she was there, but she might have just told me that, uh, the Wisconsin Medical Society had its doctor day at Manona Terrace this week in Madison.
and that assembly speaker Robin Voss was there and that he made some crack about to these doctors about them needing to do their research.
And
I
had this great question that I wanted to ask Kristen and it was whether there were any proctologists amongst all the doctors that were in there so that maybe somebody could finally find whatever bug it is that crawled up Robin Voss's posterior.
and made him the way that he is single-handedly preventing the expansion of stable, affordable healthcare for new moms from 60 days to 12 months.
But unfortunately, if there was a proctologist there, we don't know
yet.
So
Kristen should be here Monday morning at 6.30.
And so we'll talk to her more about that and everything else that comes up.
Robin Tigerton wants to congratulate you as well, Whitewater, for winning the national championship.
Thank you very much, Rob.
And we want to say again, happy birthday to the Rob because I was looking at the post here that Dr. Lierly put up all about Rob's birthday and collecting some birthday love.
So we appreciate all of that as well.
We always like to have everybody joining us by text or in the comment section or anything like that just makes everything so much more well-rounded.
Mike Clemens is going to be here at the bottom of the hour and we're going to talk a little bit of sports because
There was that big comeback in the NBA finals, game one last night with Indiana never leading in the game until the very end, three tenths of a second left, Tyrese Halliburton shooting.
And then the night before game one of the Stanley Cup finals went to overtime and Edmonton came all the way back to defeat Florida.
So game two of the Stanley Cup finals is tonight.
And so Parker, what have we learned from this?
Don't go to bed early.
Oh, yeah, that too.
I've learned that this is definitely going to
overtime.
Uh, it could, and again, I don't have a problem with that.
Well, one overtime.
Yeah.
One overtime is fun, more than that, especially in hockey, because they do the whole 20 minute, like, intermissions between.
Well, the Zamboni's got to do Zamboni things.
Oh, I know.
It's just, it
makes
it so
much longer.
I know.
I mean, imagine if in between all the basketball.
period, you had to like take, take somebody's Hoover Eureka and we're just going to go up and down and, and vacuum the entire basketball court.
That's a
no, that'll be a really good like marketing thing.
Why didn't like one of those robotic vacuums ever
get it?
Oh, why wouldn't you?
Oh my
gosh,
we've hit on something.
Roomba, the basketball court, get a Roomba Zamboni for the basketball courts.
Oh, I love this.
Tony, unhappy about the all the many double digit comebacks.
Very frustrating because he wants them to lose.
I assume he's talking about the Pacers.
Yeah.
And it just does not appear.
Look, if there's one thing I know about sports and there's not a lot, but the one thing I know is people going, well, these are small market teams.
Nobody's watching.
People will watch a game seven.
And
so the only thing all they want is a long series.
So they're happy Indiana one because Oklahoma City was the favorite.
So as long as this keeps happening,
and they end up instead of playing four games, play five, six or seven, everybody's gonna be very happy.
Today is National Donut Day.
It's mentioned in our newsletter.
You can head over to UpNorthNewsWI.com for that link and to learn more about it, including where some nationalists put some of Wisconsin's best donut shops at.
I don't know that I have one these days.
Some bakeries have come and gone over the years.
I know down there in Madison, Greenbush is a very popular one.
I know that it makes some nationalists.
I don't know about Whitewater, but did you have a favorite place to go get donuts back in the day?
I'm
not as much as I love donuts.
I don't know that I've ever like gone out specifically for the purpose of finding a donut.
Whitewater, what's it called?
I think it's Sweet Spot Cafe.
I'm not sure if I've ever been there, but everyone says that it's very good.
Okay,
so I would love if people got on either the text line or in the comment section and just gave a shout out to some local
donut shops in Eau Claire, there used to be a place called Heppner's Bakery, which was always good.
Some of your local grocery stores, you know, can still make up some good fresh donuts.
And I'll say this.
And again, I don't mean this with any animus toward the toward the folks here, but there's one chain that's known for its donuts.
It's right there in the name.
And yet I have never warmed up to Dunkin Donuts.
Now we're now dunk dunking as it's called.
Is it just Duncan?
No, I didn't even know that.
Yeah, well, it's
Dung, D-U-N-K, apostrophe N, because again, nobody uses full words anymore, because you got a text, you know?
Yeah.
BRB, be right back, you know?
So, Dunkin' Donuts,
and yet, on the other
hand, the chain that I can't believe had to eventually pair back and downsize, Krispy Kreme.
Because I remember when Krispy Kreme donuts were relatively new and when the chain was really expanding.
Yeah.
And
those puppies would come right off the, the, they put that glaze on right out of the fryer.
So they were warm and they were gooey.
And, oh, I still can't believe there's not one on every corner.
That sounds really nice.
I
would love
some Krispy Kreme.
I
know, doesn't it though?
So anyway, National Donut Day, again, a little bit more in our newsletter, upnorthnewswi.com.
And then you can also follow us on social media.
And if you do that, you'll find that there's a story there.
I think it was first seen on CNN, and we put it in ours as well, about a Wisconsin artist who, using reclaimed wood, mostly from thrown out furniture, used that wood to create some very artistic logos for every NFL team.
And then those wooden logos were on display all throughout Green Bay for the draft at Lambeau Field a few weeks back.
And so it's a follow-up story about how that artist's handiwork, again, using the reclaimed wood, all that work is now going to, I think, the NFL headquarters to be displayed there.
So you can find that story on our Facebook page.
Now Cassandra's jumping back into the doughnut debate here saying glazers are better.
And Tony saying, those are amazing.
I'm not going to give you a full-throated endorsement of Glazers.
I'm sorry.
Glazers are
good.
Yeah.
And
Alicia saying, we've got a new place in Kimberly called Cheeky Donuts.
I like that.
Cheeky Donuts.
So who else has got?
I'm looking out.
Oh, you know what?
I was so busy looking at one text line that I didn't look at ours.
So let me see.
Luke
is getting, I believe those must be.
the donuts from Greenbush.
There is a photo from Luke Mathers on the text line of a box of Greenbush donuts on their way to... Oh my goodness.
I'm very happy.
I can be there in three hours.
Let me just grab the... They'll be gone, Pat.
I'm having that whole box.
they will, they will, they'll be so gone.
That is very unfortunate.
Oh, where was I?
Oh, yes, I was talking to newsletters because there'll be a weekend edition out as well that I'll be putting together here shortly with some of the top stories of the week.
And again, you can head over to news wi.com and subscribe to that there as well.
There were so many stories that we didn't even get a chance to get to with the weekend review panel, one that I just want to spout off on briefly.
And it's based in a sad story.
There was a death in Alaska of somebody climbing a mountain.
And in the story, I realized that the New York Times had reverted to what Donald Trump wants to call it, which is Mount McKinley.
And it had been Mount McKinley for a while when some white guy came along and named it after a president who never saw it, never visited it, but to honor him.
But, you know, for all of its time previously, the indigenous community there had referred to it as Denali.
And during the Bush administration, I believe the name was formally changed back to Mount Denali.
But Donald Trump, along with pretending to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America,
did the same and said, this mountain is now renamed Mount McKinley.
And I don't know what counts as official and what doesn't count.
All I know is the New York Times really disappointed me yesterday by calling it Mount McKinley.
And then deeper in the story, it says, a vast majority of climbers on Mount McKinley, whose name was changed from Mount Denali by President Trump this year, attempt to and blah, blah, blah, so on it goes.
I'm like, why?
Why even go there with, is that something that a president can just wave their wand and make happen?
Because it's going to be changed back.
I mean, we can do this all day long, but ultimately it's going to be Denali because most people understand the reason for it and the reason why the Mount McKinley title wasn't appropriate then and isn't now.
The new jobless report has come out, and there's some good news and there's some bad news in there.
Employers added 139,000 jobs last month, about in line with the economist's expectations, and the unemployment rate is at 4.2%.
Now, adding 139,000 jobs is nice, but there's also what the Times calls the doge effect, and that is that the federal government last month alone shed 22,000 jobs.
And since January, the federal government has shed nearly 60,000 jobs, probably more when you also look at the ones who were put on administrative leave or who were contractors and their contracts were cut.
Now, again, there's a group out there that says, well, this is good.
This is shedding government expense, which it is for the short term.
And then you look at the services that they were providing and you look at how things get worse in terms of service or services aren't provided at all.
And then it costs more in the long run to restore them.
And you realize where the phrase penny wise, but found pound foolish came from.
This is the Trump effect, the Doge effect of shedding all these folks for short term gain.
And again, I say it's not like cutting all these jobs is gonna put money back into anybody's pockets unless you're a billionaire.
Because all that money that's not going to pay middle-class people working for or around the government, that money is now just gonna go toward tax breaks for the fabulously wealthy.
And if you don't believe me when I say you can only shed so many jobs before quality of service struggles, just look at what Elon Musk bought.
when he bought Twitter and changed it to X, it's a dumpster fire right now.
Yesterday was the most time that I'd spent on Twitter or X in about a year.
And I left it not just because of Elon Musk and what he did to the company.
He let like half the workforce go.
The product suffered and he had no problem putting essentially soft porn on Twitter and putting all kinds of rants from Nazis and the place has just become a dumpster fire.
still go on time to time because you have to, you have to convey the news and the messaging, you know, where folks are, wherever they are.
But Twitter is nothing like what it used to be.
And what Elon Musk did to Twitter is exactly what Musk and Trump are doing now to your federal government.
We'll continue here live from Lake Wissota on a Friday morning, June 6th here live from Lake Wissota on the Civic Media Radio Network.
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One of the things that has happened in the age of Trump is we've discovered the Republicans, the conservatives out there
who can still hold on to some basic American values of truth and fairness.
And so even people with whom we would have vehement disagreements, you know, think of your, you know, Liz Cheney's and things like that, we find common ground from time to time.
Here's a group of four people, two Dems, two Republicans.
You maybe never thought would be co-authors of an op-ed column.
Mandela Barnes.
J.B.
Holland, former Attorney General, Mike Tate, former Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, and former Congressman Scott Klug.
And these two Republicans and two Democrats have put together a column called, We Know How to Fix the Biggest Lie About Wisconsin's Elections.
The reality is Wisconsin runs a tight ship throughout the election season, and faith in election integrity is rising.
And their point
is, especially from the two Republicans, as much as the two Democrats, is that we need to stop, they need to stop, Republicans need to stop spreading the lie that there's something, there's some kind of funny business going on in Milwaukee, the so-called late night ballot dump.
Again, for folks who maybe missed the basics of this, people are upset.
and love to spread this conspiracy because election results don't come in from Milwaukee and some of the other larger cities until very late at night, sometimes the middle of the night.
That's because they're big places and it's easier to bring all of the ballots to a central count facility rather than buy a machine.
You can buy a machine for your small town.
You buy a couple machines for your larger village.
But imagine
how much infrastructure would be needed in a city like Milwaukee.
And people would say, well, why do you do that?
Why don't you just put everything into a smaller number of machines, bring all the ballots there and count them there.
That's what they do.
And so they bring, and this happens in Green Bay and other cities as well, they bring all the ballots to a central count facility.
It still takes a while to count them all because that's still a lot of people.
And as a result, numbers aren't available often time until later than smaller communities.
That only makes sense.
So what can you do about it?
Well, one thing you can do is you can begin processing absentee ballots a day earlier, not counting the ballots.
They can all be counted on election day.
But to process an absentee ballot means to look at the envelope, make sure it came to the right place, is filled out properly, has the witness signature.
If all that's right, then you can open it up and then feed that ballot into the machine.
you could start reviewing the absentee ballots the day before so that you could set aside the bad ones, the ones that you're not going to count because there's something irregular about them, and have the rest ready to run through the machine from 7am to 8pm on election day.
This is simple.
This is basic.
Everybody understands it.
And in the past couple of sessions, there have been bipartisan bills that would allow every place in Wisconsin to begin processing their absentee ballots the day before the election.
And the past couple of sessions, a handful of Republicans has stopped it.
Had said, nope, these bills are not going to pass.
And then they go on to spread the lie about the conspiracy, about funny business in Milwaukee with these late night ballot dumps.
And so that's why you have now two Republicans and two Democrats with this column noting how strong election administration has been.
and how wrong it is that Wisconsin is getting a black eye about these late night ballots and that there is a way to fix this.
76% of voters in a survey they cite want to allow election officials to begin the absentee ballot verification process a day before the election.
Voters understand that things are going right.
in this state.
And so the call for reform is clear, they write in this column.
Voters want their elections to be safe, transparent, efficient, and consistent.
The proposal to begin pre-processing absentee ballots one day earlier and the push for standardized drop box rules are simple but important ways to address public concerns while reinforcing faith in the electoral system.
So again, that is a plea put forward by Mandela Barnes, J.B.
Holland, Mike Tate, and Scott Kluge, a way to address a conspiracy that it's long past time that this be addressed.
Alicia, putting on YouTube, passing the early process would take away one of the Republican scare tactics.
Yes, Alicia, which is why, unfortunately, even with this,
Even with this column by two esteemed former Republican elected officials and two Democrats, I do have a feeling that this bill might not pass.
After all, we're having a tough time getting a bill passed to provide stable, affordable healthcare to new moms.
A political bill about elections, that might be an even taller mountain to climb.
Tony putting on the current standard for drop boxes is that the mayor can take them whenever they want, right?
He says, taking a poke at the mayor of Warsaw.
Uh, yeah, quite possibly.
And that thing is still dragging on as well.
One more note to tell you about this also from the journal Sentinel, uh, an article from Dan Bice about Bill Barion, the Whitefish Bay businessman, a Republican considering a run for governor.
But Dan Bice has been looking at some of his past donations and other activity and notes that Bill Barion might have a tough time running for governor next year if he chooses to.
because he not only donated $33,000 to Nikki Haley in her primary run against Donald Trump last year, he was also quoted back then in the Washington Post saying, Nikki Haley's more aggressive posture toward Trump was welcomed as it is communicating the stark choice in front of the party and the country and the need for a generational change in leadership, said Bill Barion.
We'll talk to Mike Clemens about sports coming up next.
You're up north.
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If Parker were going to send us a note, the note would say, I got a donut.
And for folks watching on social media, he still hasn't taken a bite out of this thing.
But Luke, nice evil laugh.
Luke Mathers has made it back from Greenbush.
And as showing off, is that what you say it was, a s'mores donut?
He can't even talk.
It's smaller than his face.
It s'mores and it's spectacular.
Oh my gosh.
All right.
We did ask where your favorite doughnuts were.
Adam jumps up on YouTube and says, Fosdell Bakery in Stoughton has the best doughnuts hands down.
I looked it up on the website.
Yeah, I'd I'd eat those that is some good stuff here and from Tony the aptly named Ashlyn baking company has all sorts of fantastic baked goods So there you go.
We're a national donut day.
We're just passing things around here Let's talk about sports for the weekend and bring in Mike Lemons who will be joining us On a weekly basis to talk about what's happened.
What's will what will be happening this weekend?
the man's on the road all the time.
He's doing all these sports events and so we've got to wait.
I got one more here.
Cassandra saying Manderfields and Appleton for Donuts.
So, I got to start by asking Mike, of all of his travels, Mike, do you have a favorite donut place?
Good morning.
Thanks for being here.
You know, in my hometown of Beloit, there's a place called Old Fashion Bakery that's been around for 50, 60 years.
They do that, that Elf and your cinnamon crisp kind of thing.
Yes.
Oh, you know, that you know, and that's that's really dangerous.
But no, I love it in, you know, even and when you get into San Francisco, you talked about Fisherman's Wharf, and the great seafood and everything.
But they've got a couple of huge giant bakeries right down there, you know, by the water, where you can smell the sourdough bread being made on.
Oh,
yes.
Yes, I've smelled that there.
Oh,
carb
I believe it.
Oh, I'd forgotten all about how good that smells there.
That's, that's, that is wonderful.
Uh, where, where do we find you this week?
Where are you traveling around too?
Cause the brewer's starting their longest hand, uh, homestand of the season pad.
And it's tonight it's the brewers against the, the San Diego Padres, Padres, pretty good team there in second place behind the.
division leader Dodgers over there in the west and Murph is probably going to go with Chad Patrick tonight on the mom, amidst all the other drama he's had this week.
Did you see what happened to Brandon Woodruff?
It was supposed to be his final rehabs.
I mean, it's just unbelievable.
Brandon Woodruff has not been able to pitch for the Brewers since September of 2023.
Then he has the surgery and then he had an ankle problem during this
Uh, rehab and then the other night it was supposed to be his last rehab start.
It's the second inning.
He's 12 pitches into the game, throws the ball, batter hits it back at him, hits him in the right elbow.
He's right handed.
Uh, a contusion.
He's had it imaged twice this week, but he's back on the IL and they just can't get their veteran, uh, pitcher out there to, you know, lead out there.
I mean, even help with guys like Freddie Peralta just being a part of the clubhouse every day and part of the rotation.
Yes, I mean the presence matters and I'm sure he and everybody associated with the team is going a break cannot be caught with this guy.
No, you know, so I I do fully expect and I don't mean to be flipping about this but I will not be surprised if he does finally make it to American Family Field and on his way out to the pitching month steps on a rake because it's these just the
That's the way it goes.
So we've got this
long homestand coming up, starting with the Padres, and I'd best, before I forget, remind everybody that the pregame starts at 635 on stations throughout the Civic Media Radio Network, head over to the website to learn more.
So there's San Diego for the weekend, and then Atlanta Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Wednesday is a day game.
But then we've got, we resumed division work going up against the St.
Louis Cardinals, so.
I'm not diminishing the first two series in this home stand, but boy, they'd best not wear out before next Thursday.
No, it'd be nice to win all three of those series, but certainly when the Cardinals come here next weekend, Cardinals in second place right now behind the division and leading Cubs.
But how about the Brewers just hanging in their five, six games behind Chicago, but still getting through this period?
And one of the things that's turned around
I mean, that dramatic grand slam that Christian Yellowch had the other night.
And then, you know, the next day he gets hit, you know, in his right hand with a pitch.
And you're thinking, you know, thank God it's not a contusion.
He managed to pop back up, you know, woke up the next morning, the swelling had gone down, and he was back out there again.
And then he hit another home run to finish out that series in Cincinnati.
They beat the Reds now, 12 series in a row with that nine to one win they had on Wednesday afternoon.
a much needed rest yesterday before they get into a home stand.
So they're in pretty good shape.
And I mean, it's just amazing what Pat Murphy has done pulling bunnies out of a hat with
the
It was a solid pitcher.
You know, everyone was disappointed.
Why did they send in Logan Henderson down?
The kid has won like, you know, three, four games in a row here to start his career.
But then you see DL out there say, OK, this is a grown man out there on the mound.
This is a guy who knows what he's doing.
So if they can get him going into full rotation, then they actually, they'll be positioned to make a run at this thing for the summer months and hopefully into the fall.
I sure hope so.
It's good because I'll tell you, up two weeks ago or so, I thought, well, this is it with all the starting pitcher injuries.
It just didn't feel like we were going to bounce back.
And we did, especially winning, I mean, sweeping in Philly.
That was probably the best surprise of the year for me.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
About as surprising as, yeah, as Yellich not going down because he'd been so injury prone.
Let's turn to football for a sec here.
The Packers wrapped up their
OTAs in Green Bay.
For the uninitiated Mike, OTAs are.
what I do it's what it the way I do it now is I do show up I wave I then turn my camera off I get a few other things done the meeting is wrapping up I turn my camera on I wave and Nobody's the wiser and so the the packers have an in-person version of that
And Jordan Love, man, he threw a ball 60 yards in the air and hit Jaden Reed and Stride.
And that might be one of the best passes I've seen in Love Throw in his whole time in Green Bay.
I mean, he's starting to hit these long balls that were kind of 50-50 in the past.
Then he hits Romeo Dobbs in the corner of the end zone on a two-point conversion, and it's looking pretty sharp.
You're a little disappointed because you're looking off to the sidelines, and there's Marshawn.
Lloyd, who they drafted in the third round last year from USC.
I've got no doubt on this guy, Pat.
I mean, you know, he was injured so much last year and on IR, then when he was coming off and looked like they might get him into some of the games as a penicitis.
So they end up shutting him down.
Well, we get into these OTAs and I'm like so anxious to see what this number 32 can do, you know, behind Josh Jacobs.
And there he's on the sidelines, again, this time with Christian Watson, who's coming back from an ACL, apparently a hamstring.
We asked LaFleur about it and he goes, listen, we've seen enough from this guy to know that he could be special.
But yeah, it's true.
He's got to figure out a way to make himself available.
And they said that he worked out really hard after the season.
He's been in the facility working out every day and trying to improve his strength.
Then they let Malik Willis, their backup quarterback, take over the offense, running the ones.
And he's moving the ball.
He's throwing a couple passes, 25, 30 yards down field, and looking really sharp.
And I leaned over to one of the guys from the Packers around the sidelines and said, let me ask you a question.
Did the Pittsburgh Steelers have anybody in their roster right now that can play a quarterback as well as Malik Willis?
Because they didn't.
Earlier in the week, with between Mason Rudolph and...
It was a Will Howard, the kid from Ohio State.
They picked up like in the sixth round and, you know, quite well taken.
Like, what are they thinking in Pittsburgh?
And then, and then we get yesterday's news, you know, Aaron Rodgers is going to come in today, sign a one year deal and is, but it looks like we'll be there for their mandatory mini camp next week in Pittsburgh.
And this has been an ongoing, what, courtship?
Romance, whatever you want to call it with Steelers coach Mike Tomlin.
Clearly there's a mutual admiration society, but nobody knew if they were eventually, if he was going to put his name on a contract and he finally did for one year.
Now the question becomes, will he still be around?
Is it week eight when the Steelers play the Packers?
Steelers, it'll be Jordan Love against Aaron Rodgers.
in Pittsburgh on NBC Sunday night football and he starts out you know his career with the Steelers week one against you know his former team of jets it'll be Justin Fields the former Steelers quarterback against Aaron so that you know that's going to be you know the NFL schedulers know what they're doing but you know at the end of the day you know Aaron can make things so complicated sometimes and you know he's done this thing where he's
He's he used to criticize Brett far for this.
Well, he's doing it where he finds out ways to get away from the empty the OTAs and the mini camps and matter of fact his last year in Green Bay He there he was week two week three of training camp Complaining about some of these young receivers that he had around that they picked up in the draft like a Romeo Dobbs and all that like these guys got to pick it up, right and I've covered him
all those years since he got drafted in Green Bay.
And I said, Aaron, you know when Brett would come in here for training camp, it would take about two and a half weeks for him to get going, right?
And he smiled.
Yes, that's true.
I said, and you came here day one, and you were ready to go.
And he smiled again.
That's right, because he was in tip top condition.
He was ready to go.
Unbelievable passes, unbelievable tricks with the football for day one of training game.
But if you're going to complain about these young receivers Wouldn't have it helped if you could come to some of the OTAs or the mini camp to you know Let them get more rest with you and some of the beat writers later said dude Are you do you have a death wish he'll never talk to you again after a question like that?
No, I know this guy the whole time and that's when he gave his kind of famous answer goes look the offseason You know those programs OTAs are all finding good.
That's the 100 level curriculum
for our offense.
When I get here, that's the 200 and the 300 level.
When I'm on the field, because we run a different offense when we're on the field.
And that right there is the problem, because with the 30 hand signals, he makes it so complicated at times.
That's some of the problems that some of these players around them have, but they love them as a guy and as a talent.
It's just if they can somehow be on his same wavelength.
Yeah, we've got the AMFAM championship this weekend at TPC, at the Women's US Open last Sunday at Aaron Hills, and I got 30 seconds left here for you to tell me about game one of the NBA finals, the Pacers leading one time and at the very end.
They came from Oshkosh North High School.
They're down by 15 in the fourth quarter.
He gets it within four, so he comes down, a jump shot from the right-hand side, good, and the Pacers steal one.
First lead of the night, 111-110 with 3 tenths of a second left last night.
Game two is Sunday night.
In the NBA finals
all that counts.
Yeah, winning at the buzzer there.
We're talking Friday sports with Mike Clemens.
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from Cassandra on YouTube describe what's on the donut for us Parker folks who might have missed it Luke Mathers brought in donuts for National Donut Day from are they from Green Bush?
I couldn't quite see on the the photo there from he did
not say I believe that they are that's my guess
I believe so too and you
You have just been going crazy about what what remain what little bit remains of that donut there.
Oh, here's more donut.
Here comes Luke, too.
He's excited about this.
So yeah, he's making sure you don't get crumbs on the board.
Oh, no.
So it's fine.
So we've got to have some graham cracker.
Yeah, we got.
Oh, what do you got?
Which one you got, Mathers?
Jelly.
That's a good one.
Oh, I'm jelly.
Yeah.
I see what I did there.
I see what you did there.
So a little graham cracker, a little chocolate.
A little
graham cracker, a little chocolate, a little chocolate frosting.
And I do believe there's got to be some marshmallow in there.
I don't see it, but man, I taste
it.
Dehydrated marshmallow, marshmallow powder.
I don't know.
Somehow or another, it's on there.
Yeah, it's good.
It's
good
stuff.
I'm a fan.
I will be going back to this place.
I will make sure I know where this is.
You know, I'll tell you, I'll even give you a chance to eat it right now because I've got to do a little exercise here.
If you'll indulge me for a moment,
I'll indulge.
Yeah.
See, as part of creating the new Sunday newsletter at Courier Newsroom, parent company of Up North News, they said, well, here's here's a launch kit here all the ways to publicize, you know, the Sunday morning newsletter.
And one of them they suggested was an intro video saying just talk a bit about yourself and you know the product in this case a Sunday newsletter and Let you know let people know they should do it.
So I guess Theoretically, I'm supposed to go do a selfie video.
Maybe I'm supposed to go outside with my phone here and say hey, I'm back right low I got a camera right here.
I got I got a willing audience right here and I got judges in the audience to tell me if this works or not Let's just do the video right now.
We'll do it live as Bill O'Reilly used to say so
Let's give that a shot.
What do you say?
You ready?
Yeah, I'm ready.
Okay, go ahead.
Let's do let's even we'll even give it a countdown.
Three, two, one.
Hey, this is Pat Krightlow from Up North News.
You can catch me live right here on the radio across the Civic Media Radio Network weekday mornings from six to nine.
Like right now, I'm exposing our radio listeners to this announcement about our new Sunday morning newsletter.
It's called Sunday mornings with Pat Krightlow.
Just like the radio show is called Mornings with Pat Krightlow.
Very convenient, isn't it?
On Sunday mornings, I put together a newsletter that wraps up some of the political stories that happened around Wisconsin over the past seven days.
Lots of it happening in our state capitol, some of it happening in other places around our great state.
I was an intern for my state legislator in middle school, and it was then, as a good little nerd that I am, I got an appreciation for state government.
and how very important it is.
Funding our schools, making sure that our roads are in good shape, making sure we take care of our natural resources, and of course, our people.
State government does all those things.
I even went on to serve in state government in the legislature for a time.
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Now that was supposed to be 30 to 60 seconds.
And I'm pretty sure Parker that that ran so long you finished your donut and probably stole Mathers donut and eight half of that as well.
But I'll take care of that and what they call post production.
Well done a good take.
I just take care of all the all the best of the rest, you know.
Yeah, you got it.
I like that.
We might actually make this a thing.
We might just do a daily wrap up video at this point.
Tell the kids what we learned.
What did we learn today?
We learned that we do it live.
Do it live.
Tony Rhodes and resources.
You nerd.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yes.
Nerd.
Totally guilty.
I was, I was that kid who it was, you know, liking my social studies class so much that when I was running into issues at school and going to my, my school counselor and he says, I know exactly what to do.
And he picks up the phone and he calls my state legislator right then and there and says, I got this, I got this eighth grader with some time on his hands.
We got to get them out of the classroom.
Could you take them?
And so every Thursday.
I would just hop on a bus.
I'd hop on a city bus.
I'd put my dime in the fare box.
That's how old I am.
And take the bus out to the state capital and basically open the mail or I was like a gopher, a courier.
I would just take things between, you know, legislators' offices.
And then I'd sit in on the sessions, on the floor sessions, like a page, essentially.
And loved every moment of it and thought, I'd like to do this someday.
And I did as a reporter and then as a legislator.
And now I get to share all this with all of you.
And sometimes you respond and sometimes you say, can we hear more about the donuts, please?
But either way, I just try to bring a little something extra that you might not get out of state government.
So if you're getting that from this radio show, if you're getting it from our newsletter, if you're getting it from our coverage on Up North News, well, that just makes me happy.
And I'm glad you guys all are here.
I know I'm hearing you now going, please, more doughnut.
All right, more doughnut.
The doughnut's gone, right?
Doughnut's gone.
Doughnut
was
gone about halfway through your little soapbox, doing your
video there.
I know, and I think I deserve one.
So, yes, where I'm going as part of my rounds today.
I'm going to stop at the Chip Will Falls Post Office, check PO Box 27, 54729, see what kind of notes have been sent along and along the way.
I will have the radio on on 93.5, the tap here in the Chippewa Valley, because coming up next on Matt and Air on Air, guests include Dan Schaefer, Civic Media's political editor and founder of the Recombobulation area.
That's part of Matt and Air on Air coming up next.
And then Todd Alba will have sports and positive thinking with Brady Ewing, a former Badger and NFL fullback, and so much more ahead coming across the Civic Media radio network.
Parker Olson.
Have a great weekend.
Well, thank you
Monday morning.
You too, Pat.
I'll see you.
Yeah.
Thanks everybody for being a part of our program this week.
I'm Pat Crite, low founding editor of Up North News, the Wisconsin outlet for Courier, a pro democracy news network.
Follow us at upnorthnewswi.com.
Have a great weekend.
We'll see you Monday morning here up north.
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