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No, wait, look, I'm back in Chippewa Falls.
Hey there, Wisconsin.
Good morning.
It is 6.06 on this Tuesday morning, June 17th.
It is another beautiful all-american 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 listening or watching us on all over different platforms.
Thanks for starting your day right here.
I got a question for you.
Can you believe they let me back into the country?
Tony on YouTube.
Wait, you came back?
And Alicia.
Oh, hey, welcome home.
Well, hey, yeah, here I am.
It worked.
Here's here was the funny part about it Apparently my flight home Sunday from Saskatchewan, which was canceled had something to do with a tire issue So imagine how it was a bit unnerving Sitting on this, you know propeller driven plane.
I didn't know they had those anymore and I'm in like row 19 now because I'm on the next day's flight and Don't realize until I hear the cathunk
and I see the wheel coming out because it's below the wing and I'm sitting right behind the wing and so I'm looking at this wheel coming down going okay I'm examining it like like I'm a technician from Goodyear you know and it's like hmm how's that tire look uh okay it's okay and it worked the propellers worked the tires worked you know and like Alicia says hey at least you know you can you can take this show international yes I can
Tony asks, does the air smell freer?
Oh, no, no, Tony, it does not at all.
Although it's always interesting to talk to people from another country about their government and what they think.
And in this case, in this day and age, how their government is compared to, say, our government and the complications that it's throwing at them.
We will talk about that today in the area of farming with Hans Brighton Moser this morning because
I do recall late last week President Trump putting up a post saying, you know, oh this mass deportation might not be so good for our great farmers and our hospitality industry and things will change.
Did they?
Will they?
Or was that flip-flop just going to be flip-flopped again?
I honestly don't know.
We're going to find out and see more about what this uncertainty does to America's food supply, not just the farms, but everything else that's connected with it.
So we'll have that coming up with Hans Brighton Moser along the way.
Dan Shafer will be joining us.
Civic Media's political editor, founder of the Reconpopulation Area, author of a column that said Governor Evers should consider not running for a third term.
Dan then went on to cover the State Democratic Convention.
We'll see what the reaction was like to his column there.
We'll see what he's if you got a lot of blowback if you got affirmation What did he how did he interpret governor Evers remarks at the convention?
I'll have a few things to say about the governor and the state budget debate in the legislature coming up at the bottom of this hour because a Republican state senator May have already telegraphed what the Republican strategy is on the state budget Don't do anything like literally do nothing
probably taking a hint from their friends in Congress who haven't been able to pass a budget bill in a couple of years here.
And we'll explain why they might do that and what would be the political benefits and the political risks, not to mention how it would affect you and me.
That's all coming up later this hour.
Lou Ann Bird will be joining us in the seven o'clock hour to talk about the ways that more people around Wisconsin are making it clear to their elected representatives.
that President Trump's big bloated boondoggle of a budget bill should not slash affordable, stable healthcare from Medicaid to tens of thousands of people in Wisconsin.
And so Luanne will join us to talk more about that effort.
We'll talk to Dan Hagan from NewsWatch 12, WJFWTV in Rhinelander at his new time, which will be at 7.20
instead of 650.
Today's history lesson is, as comedian Ron White likes to say, loaded.
There's a lot of history to pass along today.
So we will be working on that at 650, Dan Hagen at 720, all that and much more.
Brittany Merlos forecast as well, which continues to have showers and thunderstorms in it for the next few days.
But the heat is on the way.
And I mean the heat is on the way for the weekend.
So get ready for a hot, steamy weekend that could be coming up here in a very short order.
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that we ask in our Sunday morning newsletter all the time, something that you can sign up for over at UpNorthNewsWI.com.
And it comes back to that Dan Schaefer column.
Three term Tony, up or down?
What do you think?
Should Governor Evers run for a third term?
And of course, you've got people in three different buckets.
You've got people saying, well, of course he should run for a third term.
He's the one best suited to win.
He's got a good record.
He would look like the centrist and the moderate to most Wisconsin voters compared to whatever extremist gets the Republican party nod.
And I don't feel like I'm engaged in hyperbole there.
I can't think of a moderate Republican that would be named one that would
make Tony Evers look radical liberal by comparison.
So there's people who want Tony Evers to run.
There's people who don't who say we like them, fans of them, but you know, he maybe can't win a third term and Democrats should pass the torch.
And then of course, there's people that say they should, that he shouldn't run because, you know, they're Republicans and not fans of him.
Anyway, folks who get our Sunday newsletter,
We're the first to start answering that question of the week.
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Brittany Merleau will be here a little after the seven o'clock news, but here's her state forecast.
She says, an unsettled week of weather rolls on with rounds of showers and storms continuing, but the heat will crank up just in time for the weekend.
She says, partly sunny with rounds of showers and thunderstorms, especially in southern Wisconsin today.
highs in the mid 70s up north to the mid 80s in the south a northwest wind at five to 15 miles an hour tonight partly cloudy up north cloudy south with chances of rain lows tonight in the mid 50s up north to the mid mid 50 to the mid 60s south and then a light northerly wind
as well.
Right now here in Chippewa Falls it's 64 degrees and despite many ominous looking lines of showers and thunderstorms we we got very very little here other places got dumped on some parts in the Twin Cities got heavy heavy rain flash flooding flooding out some of the streets for a time there so
You definitely want to stay weather aware and catch that local forecast throughout the broadcast day all across your favorite civic media stations.
Meanwhile, down in Madison, in Madison Studio A2, we find Parker Olson, who did Yeoman's work yesterday filling in for yours truly when he had to dash off to the airport in Regina, make it back across the border and do this program, but Parker got the job done.
Parker, thank you, and good morning.
me.
Geez.
You know, there's all the housekeeping to get done.
Sign up for our newsletter here are the guests.
Here's the forecast.
It's a lot of things.
It's a lot of things before we can actually be conversant over here.
But now we get to get to do it.
How was Laura Bird, our 830 guest yesterday, author who was going to talk about memoirs.
That's about the time I was dashing off to the airport.
Oh, wait, let me fix that.
Dashing off to the airport until my phone beeped.
And it said, it said, you, your luggage is no longer nearby, which doesn't make sense.
Cause we were dashing to the airport, but I have an Apple tag for my luggage.
the suitcase was in the truck.
I knew that, but, but the, where I put the Apple tag is in my toilet tree bag.
And that was still in the bathroom.
of
the
gets you.
Which, you know, at first she was like, our friend who was driving was like, what do you want?
And I'm like, throw it out.
It's toothpaste.
It's toothbrushes.
Then I realized it's not just the Apple tag, but my glasses were in there and
something
else.
We're like, OK, we got to go back.
So I was going to listen to your interview with Laura Bird at 8.30.
But things were a little sideways at that moment.
How'd it go?
was good, though.
Did it give you any thoughts of writing your own memoir at some point here?
This is actually true.
Tony notes, you are a national champion, Parker, right there.
Yeah, that's true.
I might have to write a book.
I have many stories.
Do you have stories already?
Oh, oh, yeah.
Oh, well, this should be good.
Oh, yeah, okay The
I'm just trying to think.
How old are you again?
22.
Pat's going 22.
Oh, God.
What stories could he have?
What stories could he have?
And then I think of my own stories and go, OK, I can see it.
Yep.
Yep.
Look, everybody's got a story.
That's the thing.
And if you, everybody says, I don't have a story.
If you ask the right questions in just the right way, if somebody's in just the right frame of mind,
Everybody's got stories.
Oh, yeah, it's just a way of leading to it.
You don't know what's gonna trigger it I wasn't gonna tell the Apple tag in a toiletry bag story until the right moment came up and there it was, you know, so Stand by everybody for the memoirs of Parker Olson on a bookshelf near you Sometime in the next 40 years
The Milwaukee Brewers are on the road this week.
They were off yesterday.
Three games at Wrigley Field starting tonight against the Chicago Cubs.
It's going to be a big series and coverage begins at 630.
on Civic Media Stations in Richland Center, Oshkosh.
We're seeing Kenosha Park Falls and Hayward.
Head over to civicmedia.us to learn more, but there will be games this evening, tomorrow evening, and I want to say Thursday afternoon.
I think it's a day game.
I'm going to call that up right now just so that I'm not a liar.
Yep, sure enough.
So first pitch is 7.05 tonight and tomorrow and then 1.20 on Thursday afternoon is the first pitch.
And then they're off to Target Field to take on the Twins in games Friday evening, Saturday afternoon, and Sunday afternoon.
Big series.
They'll be back home next Monday for a home stand that starts next Monday with three games against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
And again, if you're looking for a little day game, a little matinee, get off work for a little while.
And that'll be next Wednesday against the Pirates.
A 110 start there.
So maybe make a plan to play a little hooky and get on down to the ballpark.
Let's see the NBA Finals continued and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Indiana Pacers.
And 120-109 was the final there, so the Thunder are now up three games to two, coming close to being able to clinch the finals after a tough run by the Pacers, or the Pacers could tie it up next time around and force a game seven.
And then the Stanley Cup Finals tonight, game six in Florida.
Florida could clinch, or Edmonton could force a game seven.
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bumper music there.
It's like our little grateful dead excursion right there.
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That was interesting.
I think I've only heard that once before when we had deadhead Dan Schumacher on the program.
I think that's how they came down.
Back to our daily newsletter at Up North News in today's edition.
I was just peeking at that and Christina Laurie's got stories in there about cheese curds in Wisconsin, about great places to catch the northern lights.
And then she's also got a story and I thought I would share some of the details of it here.
Do you know how much it costs you every time Donald Trump goes to play golf?
And look, yeah, I can already hear people going, well, you know, President Obama played golf.
Yeah, they all play golf.
Well, most of them.
But the expense, the extent to which some presidents, a certain president plays golf rather than, you know, working.
According to a government accountability office report, back during his first term in office, Donald Trump's trips to Mar-a-Lago, each one costs about $3 million.
Trump and his entourage fly down on Air Force One.
The military has to bring down vehicles for his motorcade, so those come down on C-17 transports.
Because Mar-a-Lago straddles the width of a barrier island, police boats with machine guns mounted on the boughs patrol the intercoastal waterway.
A Coast Guard vessel is stationed off the beach.
There's explosive sniffing dogs and other law enforcement.
The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office has to maintain a presence in the air on the ground and in the water around Mar-a-Lago 24 hours a day.
That's an additional $240,000 a day.
And of course, to me, the kicker is always that Trump stays at his own properties.
The Secret Service is there to protect him, but he charges them for the rooms.
And it's one thing if Secret Service has to stay at a hotel and the hotel's reimbursed, but this is the president who's making money off of this.
And so all of that, all of that money that the taxpayer is charged for his own Secret Service protection goes to him.
So a lot more about that in our newsletter that you can sign up for over at up on news wi.com I Was looking to add some of the other stories that we have on the website here There's also one that I wanted to share called for Wisconsin factory tours that are worth the drive and we will talk about this a lot more in the coming days But we love a good story about Wisconsin weekend road trips
And so these factory tours involve bikes, beer, cheese, and more.
So look for that on our website over at UpNorthNewsWI.com.
Happy anniversary to the Watergate burglars.
It was on this day in 1972, 53 years ago, that five White House operatives
were arrested for breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee to illegally wiretap the George McGovern campaign.
It was as stupid an idea in politics as they come because, as most folks of a certain age know, Nixon would go on to win 49 states
in the presidential election of 1972.
The only reason you would bug an opponent that you would end up winning in 49 states is out of paranoia.
And Nixon had that in droves.
He would resign and disgrace two years later for his extensive efforts to cover up his role in the whole Watergate mess.
But here's the thing that brings us to the present day.
One of Nixon's TV advisors was a guy named Roger Ailes.
who didn't believe in things like honor and contrition and playing by the rules.
When Nixon resigned, it started the wheels turning for Roger Ailes for what would start as Fox News and the right wing media constellation that has become so prevalent that a guy like Donald Trump could not only get elected president,
twice not be impeached not once but twice after being caught red-handed committing crimes and lacking any honor not only refused to slink away but positioned himself to become a potential dictator and that was all because a right-wing messaging ecosystem had been created by Roger Ailes who thought well if only Nixon could get his side of the story out
You know the side with the paranoia and the burglary and the using the attorney general as your own personal attorney and Threatening to use the sick the IRS on your opponents If only you could go do those things and make it sound good you could get enough Americans to support you and That's exactly what happened since then By all accounts for those of us who again grew up in a certain age
Having somebody with 34 felony convictions, convicted on sexual assault related charges, so many business failures, would not come anywhere near sniffing distance of the White House.
Much less be in it with all of the transfer of wealth from the middle class to others, the charging of taxpayers, as I mentioned earlier, for all of his rounds of golf.
but a right-wing media ecosystem that has sprung up and cocooned those who would just as soon say, you know, we don't really need to have those pesky elections.
Why don't we see if we can get courts to overturn them?
Why don't we not actually have debates over ideas?
Let's just rule Congress.
at the state level?
Why don't we just gerrymander the maps and be proud of it until or unless a court forces us to make things better?
That's going to take me to my next topic at the state level where Republicans in Madison appear to be on the cusp of borrowing an idea from their brethren in Congress.
And that's to just not debate a budget.
Don't work with Democrats.
Don't look for a win-win.
Don't look for the moderate course.
And if you want to go extreme, go extreme.
And sometimes the best way to go extreme is to do nothing.
And I'll explain what we mean in just a little bit.
Dan Schaefer is still coming up today.
Chad Holmes is along the way.
Luann Bird and much more.
Thanks for spending some time here as part of your mornings powered by Up North News.
We'll have more live from Chippewa Falls after the Midwest Farm Report here on the Civic Media Radio Network.
All right, this is normally the point where I jump on the little civic media sheet and I go, hey, who else is coming up on these fine civic media programs later on today?
That would include for Matt and Air on Air in the 10 a.m.
hour, retired Major General Randy Manor from National Security Leaders for America.
Then on the Todd Alba Show from two to four, there will be an appearance by James Small.
the Rural EMS Outreach Program Manager at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
On the Maggie Dawn Show on the four o'clock hour, J.D.
Shulton, a former Courier Newsroom video creator and commentator who is now a U.S.
Senate candidate running against Joni Ernst.
He is a state representative in the Iowa legislature.
At 430, Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson will give his perspective on having federal troops in Los Angeles and of course the tragic happenings in Minnesota and also the events coming up for Juneteenth.
And in the five o'clock hour, State Senator Dora Drake from the Milwaukee area
We'll discuss some issues related to her role as vice chair of the Senate Democratic Caucus and chair of the Wisconsin Legislative Black Caucus.
And of course, you can catch Night Light with Pete Schwabba this evening as well all across the Civic Media Radio Network.
Let's get a bit of a Republican or get a bit of a state budget update now.
Thanks to a post recently made by a Republican state senator, Chris Kappinger of Waukesha County.
He's giving the first unofficial indication of where, in my opinion anyway, Republicans were going to be all along on the state budget.
They are so tired and frustrated by Governor Tony Evers' veto pen and his partial veto powers, which are among the strongest in the country.
They're so frustrated they'd rather claim that the more responsible path for a state budget
is to leave things as is.
I've never been willing to bet the farm on Republicans actually passing a new state budget.
And Kappinger's comments are a fresh sign that this is the direction Republicans might choose to go in.
They may see doing nothing as their best path forward.
On Twitter, Kappinger writes the following.
Wisconsin's state budget expires on June 30th.
There are three options based on what I'm seeing.
One, accept the governor's budget.
Keppinger writes, the governor made clear he wants significant spending and tax increases.
The request don't even make sense.
It's a non-starter, he writes.
Number two.
support the budget being drafted by Republican members of joint finance.
This version also appears to be adding unnecessary spending without any reforms that would improve the budget process or dig into wasteful spending currently in place.
An additional major risk in doing this is the state supreme court has allowed the governor to do essentially whatever he wants it with his veto pen, no bueno, capping a rights.
And then he says option three.
allow the existing budget to carry over.
It would be the lowest spending increase in a decade and have no veto pen risk.
Unless something improves, he says, I'm going with option three.
And some of the initial headlines made it sound like Chris Kappenga was having some kind of a revolutionary break with members of his own party.
And I disagree.
I think he's telegraphing where they might want to go.
Before I go deeper into that, though, can I just go back to his part about option number two, which is what the Joint Finance Committee might eventually create, you know, the one that the Joint Finance Committee with 12 Republicans and four Democrats.
What I find interesting is his insistence that while he's insinuating his fellow Republicans haven't done enough to do, how did he phrase it here?
the reforms that would dig into wasteful spending currently in place.
Tell me again, who's been in charge of the Wisconsin legislature for the past 14 years?
If there is wasteful spending currently in place, who's doing it?
Can't say it was Democrats.
They haven't been running the legislature for 14 years.
But anyway, back to the larger picture.
Kaikman says, maybe don't pass a new state budget.
Just keep limping along without updating how state government operates.
Now, if this sounds familiar to you, it's because it's what Republicans in Congress have been doing for the past two years themselves.
We see the deadlines.
We keep hearing about the potential for a government shutdown.
And then Republicans pass what are called continuing resolutions that simply kick the can.
and keep the old budget operating.
It's also why there hasn't been a new Farm Bill since 2018.
Kicking the can, because governing is hard.
Now this is not completely unexpected in terms of a strategy.
Think back to about a year and a half ago or so, Senator Ron Johnson was asked about being part of the least productive Congress in history and his response was to say that if he had things his way,
Congress wouldn't pass any more bills.
None.
They'd stop working.
He says this with his usual extremist anti-democracy hyperbole.
He says every bill that gets passed makes things worse.
No, it doesn't.
Those are the words of someone who doesn't want democracy where you have to debate your values and accept the results in Congress or at the ballot box.
Ron Johnson believes he knows what's best for you, and if you'd only let him and Donald Trump rule by executive orders rather than writing bills and holding votes, well, things would be better off.
Especially if you're in the same tax bracket as Ron Johnson or Donald Trump.
So let's bring it back to state government.
Why would Republicans not send a new budget bill to Governor Tony Evers?
Isn't that politically risky?
It is.
It does open up Republicans to charges of being a bunch of do-nothings in line with their practice for many years now in the legislature of doing only a few months of work at the start of the year and then taking taxpayer-funded vacation for the rest of the year, despite a full-time salary, despite full-time job status.
To them, that's what small government is.
Don't solve problems.
Don't invest in making anything bigger.
But there's more to this approach of not passing a budget.
And it comes back to something I haven't mentioned for a while, but I have been talking about it for nearly four years now.
They're trying to pull off a heist.
Because once again, there's a budget surplus at the state level.
And once again, they would love to put all that into tax cuts aimed at helping their wealthiest friends first.
and maybe some crumbs for everybody else.
But Tony Evers and his veto pen are in the way, so they stall.
Their hope four years ago was that he'd be one term Tony.
He'd lose his reelection bid and then a Republican governor, in this case Tim Michaels, would sign their budget bill that squanders those billions of dollars.
It would have been a heist.
And they would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling voters.
who gave Governor Evers a second term.
And now we're at that point again.
If Republicans don't send him a budget bill, the surplus, your money, just sits there the way it has been.
It doesn't fix a broken school funding system.
It doesn't expand affordable healthcare in the state.
It doesn't create jobs through infrastructure and economic investments.
It sits and waits
for a Republican to maybe win the governor's race in 2026 when the heist can finally be pulled off.
This is all serious stuff, but allow me to lighten things up and explaining why I don't think it'll work.
You see, when Republicans try to be cute this way, I've seen it in Madison, I've seen it in Washington DC, they always end up looking like Wiley Coyote in the old cartoons.
In this case, Governor Evers is the roadrunner and his veto pen is the Acme and Ville that keeps getting dropped on their heads.
Chris Capunga is signaling that they still see Governor Evers not as a partner in governing.
They don't want to govern together.
They don't want to work together on tax cuts and important investments.
They see Governor Evers as an opponent, like the roadrunner, to be defeated.
And their tactic
could work.
If they spend enough money next year on election ads, they could maybe convince enough voters that not writing a new state budget was their only way to be fiscally conservative against a mean and extremist governor.
But their excuses will come undone.
because voters see the long record.
They see the extended taxpayer funded vacations.
They see how much Republicans detest Governor Evers.
They see how they sneer at affordable health care coverage for more than a million people in the state through Medicaid as welfare.
They see Republicans blocking extended postpartum Medicaid healthcare coverage to new moms blocking healthcare coverage to new moms They see the gerrymandered maps They see the negative messages that have lost what four of the last five state Supreme Court elections Voters don't like to pay a lot of attention to politics, especially state politics
But they do pay attention to messaging.
They do pay attention to productivity.
They do know who's working on their behalf much of the time.
And so if what they want to do over the next few weeks is not pass a state budget, well, in my view, it would be best for them to get one of those tiny cartoon umbrellas opened up to guard against another Acme Anvil that voters are going to drop on their heads next year.
Over in the comment section, Alicia is looking at what the legislature has been doing the past few years and says about not writing a new state budget.
It screams laziness, stubbornness, and childishness to me.
Tony says, because everyone knows government has got it all figured out.
Wait, tons of things are broken, like the tax code.
And
whatever happened to auditing health insurance companies who deny a bunch of claims.
That's the kind of thing that Tony Evers put in his budget bill that Republicans took out.
And again, there's so many things going on that most folks didn't even know Governor Evers proposed it.
Fewer yet know that Republicans pulled it out, so I'm gonna mention it again.
Governor Evers proposed in his budget a provision.
That says to health insurance companies if you're doing business in Wisconsin if you're taking Wisconsin taxpayers premium dollars to provide health care coverage and you have a consistent track record of denying legitimate claims You're going to get audited And let's find out what's behind this and let's find out are you a health insurance company or are you scamming?
The taxpayers of Wisconsin the health insurance customers of Wisconsin
It's a bold pro consumer idea to ensure that businesses are not Taking advantage of unscrupulous business practices and Republicans took it out of the budget bill Now will they write their own budget bill?
That's the part that remains to be seen But we've now told you why why they might choose not to and if they don't the current budget, you know state government won't shut down
We'll just continue to operate under the old budget.
It also means things won't get any better.
We won't be fixing the things that we could be fixing.
We won't be addressing the things that need to be addressed, like PFAs in our drinking water.
If that's really the goal, to do nothing to look fiscally conservative, as Chris Cappinger puts it, to have the lowest spending increase in a state budget, I mean, they can take that to the voters.
I feel pretty confident how enough voters are going to interpret that.
Still ahead, Dan Schaefer, Chad Holmes, Lou Ann Bird, Hans Brighton Moser, but first today's history lesson is next, as we always do, mornings powered by UpNorth News and live here on the Civic Media Radio
Network.
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Oh, here I had such a good riff going on about Lola.
I'm sure you did.
I wanted to hear you singing with her.
With faded feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there.
Happy birthday to Barry Manilow, who is 82 years old today.
Born in Brooklyn, gave us 51 top 40 singles on the adult contemporary chart.
36 hits in the top 20.
28 top 10 hits.
13 number ones.
And
is that
good?
That's pretty good.
That's pretty good.
The guy was everywhere in the late 70s.
And the thing is, before that even, he was a successful jingle writer.
He's the one who wrote, like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.
Really?
He wrote, I'm stuck on Band-Aid because Band-Aid's stuck on me.
He wrote, you deserve a break today for McDonald's.
Wow.
He he wrote jingles for Kentucky Fried Chicken and yeah, for Pepsi and more.
Wow.
So quite the resume.
Yeah, he's he's written a few tunes and he's 82 years old today.
Congratulations.
Happy birthday to Barry Mandela.
Folks going, hey, where's where's Dan Hagen?
He's normally here on Tuesdays.
We've we've made a bit of a schedule.
There's so much history all the time.
Didn't it always feel like we weren't giving Dan nearly enough time?
Yeah, so what we've done is Dan's going to join us now at 720 on Tuesdays.
So he'll be here in less than a half hour.
If by chance you're listening to a station that cuts away and does a local update at 720, you can watch us online, Facebook or YouTube or subscribe on Spotify or Apple as a podcast and catch Dan later.
So you'll be seeing him there in 1972.
On this date the spinners stepped into a Philadelphia recording studio for the first time with their new producer Tom Bell and the session is very productive yielding two of their biggest hits including this one.
The spinners would also
put out I'll be around from that session again 53 years ago.
On this day in 1885 the Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
Nowadays Donald Trump would turn the boat away.
Dolly Parton stepped into a recording studio this day in 1973 and here was the result.
On this day in 1963, the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled eight to one against a school district about requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
Just a reminder, freedom of religion allows you the freedom of your religion not to dictate somebody else's.
The number one song this date in 1978 was by Andy Gibb.
Got some more birthdays here.
Venus Williams, tennis legend is 45 years old today.
Kendrick Lamar is 38 today, born in Compton at eight years old.
Kendrick watched Tupac and Dre film California Love in his neighborhood filming the video and decided right then and there he wanted to be a rapper.
On this day in 2008 came Katy Perry's major label debut, one of the boys with this hit single.
This was a big day for a lot of folks in 1994.
On this day in 94 following a low-speed highway chase, O.J.
Simpson was arrested for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
And he would eventually beat the charges, but be convicted of other crimes and passed away not long ago.
On this day in 2006, Shakira landed her first number one hit in the U.S.
this day in 2021, the Juneteenth National Independence Day was signed into law by President Joe Biden, making it a federal holiday, and it will be observed on Thursday of this week.
It is Global Garbage Man Day.
that's the name of it global garbage man day so if you have a garbage lady or a garbage hostess whatever uh no no offense taken it just happens to be marked as global garbage man day this is national apple strudel day this is national eat your vegetables day park are you a vegetable eater
corn love corn on the cob
Oh, no.
Now we're going to hear from people about whether corn is a vegetable or not.
You ever know, so you get that with almost everything.
Oh, tomato, it's a fruit.
We know what we like.
I don't care what it's called.
I'm going to eat it.
There you go.
Born this day in 1923, Elroy Crazy Legs Hersh.
passed away back in 2004 in native of Wausau.
Crazy Legs Hirsch played college football as a half back at the University of Wisconsin in 1942 and Michigan in 1943, turning both teams into top five powerhouses.
He received the nickname Crazy Legs for his unusual running style.
Dan Janssen is 60 years old today.
speed skater from West Alice High School, inspired by his sister Jane.
He took up speed skating while growing up.
In Calgary, he fell a couple of times.
Shortly after his sister had passed away, he won no medals in 1992 either, but then in 1994, Dan Jansen struck gold, setting a world record in the 1,000 meters for speed skating.
Another sports related birthday, Mark Tosher is 48 years old from Auburn Dale High School, spent his 11 year career as an offensive tackle for the Packers after making the Badger football squad as a walk on in 1995.
He was a key blocker for Ron Dane in his 1999 Heisman Trophy winning season.
He remains an advocate for childhood reading, having lived in Sun Prairie and talking about how childhood reading programs
helped him overcome early difficulties.
Still a lot ahead for two more hours as we get rolling on another one of these Tuesday mornings, powered by Up North News.
We've got Dan Schaefer coming up for long, talking about the State Democratic Convention this past weekend.
I'm Pac Rightlow.
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