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Good morning.
It is 6 0 6 on this Monday morning, June 23rd.
2025 another beautiful morning to have you here live from Lake Wissota here up north for more every year spending your mornings listening across the civic media radio network listening or watching us on all very different platforms thank you for starting your day right here i got a question for you how'd you do at the heat yesterday here in the Chippewa Valley we saw a little bit of weather history the warmest low temperature ever recorded
The the warmest the highest low temperature to start a day like 82 degrees was the low But I have to tell you with that south wind at about 20 miles an hour Between either being on the boat if you could do that or if you could find a shady spot with the breeze It was actually nice
You know, there were plenty of places that I'm sure it was just stinky hot, you know.
But with that wind and with a little bit of shade, you could make the most of it, especially if you reminded yourself what 20 below feels like in the dead of winter.
Suddenly things feel a lot better, don't they, after you have something like that.
So we'll talk more about the weather meteorologist, Brittany Merleau, an hour from now.
There will be
As that heat bubble, you know, moves off, there's a front coming through.
There will be some showers and thunderstorms.
The radar right now shows showers just firing up across the border, coming into River Falls and heading toward Menominee and eventually to Chippewa Valley.
And there's more behind that that'll fill in.
So some folks are gonna get a little rain today, maybe a little bit of thunder.
And then Brittany will tell us about the rest of the forecast coming up in just a little bit.
Coming up this morning, Kristen Lyrely is in Washington DC at some kind of a conference or event.
We'll find out what she's got to say about, you know, the weekend's news.
She will be joined in our second hour by Tracy Ann Mangold, a former Republican Party official from Northeast Wisconsin who has left the party and based on news reports over the weekend, it's looking like state Republican Party
Chair Brian Schimming may be out or may be about to be out of a job running the Republican Party of Wisconsin.
Again, you've got this fight between what remains of traditional Republicans versus those whose embrace of Trumpism threatens to tear apart their party as much as their president has done to the country.
So we'll talk to Tracy and Kristen a bit more about Brian Shimmings potential future.
We'll talk to Jimmy Cusco with Little Weekend Sports, the Oklahoma City Thunder, one game seven of the NBA Finals, but the bigger story was Oshkosh native Tyrese Halliburton going down with an injury early in the game.
And it sounds bad.
It sounds really bad.
And then in our third hour, we will talk to State Representative Francesca Hong.
She will give us an update on the state budget process.
And based on a clip that I saw recently, it sure seems like Republicans in the Capitol are still behaving the way that the ones in the US Capitol are behaving.
And that's downright autocratic.
you know, rather than do anything bipartisan with Democrats when it comes to taxes, education, healthcare, they're just pretending that we have a system of one party rule in this country and try to ram through whatever they can.
So we'll talk to Representative Hong about that, who clearly has fans in both Alicia and Tony, pointing out that Fran Hong will be here.
And Alicia says, yay, two of my favorite people, which could, could, well,
That could be Kristen and Tracy Ann.
It could include Fran.
It could include maybe it's Fran and Parker.
Maybe it's Kristen and Parker.
I don't know.
Pat,
don't tell yourself short.
You could be somebody's favorite.
I could be one of somebody's two favorite people.
It is possible.
Parker Olson joins us in Madison Studio A2.
And if I talk about witnessing baseball history,
I am not talking about Jacob Mizorowski's near perfect game on Friday night, though I'll get to that.
But Parker saw his own bit of baseball history covering the Madison Mallards over the weekend.
What did you see?
I saw a no hitter, Pat.
It
was really
cool.
It was a lot.
It was a complete game, no hitter, too,
which
is really special because I don't know that you see a lot of those hardly anymore.
No, you don't.
And what was the pitchers' name?
I don't have it.
Isaac Milburn.
He's a pitcher.
He goes
to Purdue.
And two walks was it that he gave?
Was that his only
blemish?
Yeah, two walks.
One, I want to say, second or third inning and another in the eighth.
And the Northwoods League does have pitch count limits.
So we were kind of creeping up towards, oh, God, is he going to be able to start another inning?
Oh, but they have.
They were very smart about this and I am very appreciative of this.
Um, even though he didn't quite get to that point, they bump up how many pitches you're allowed to have if you have a no hitter going.
Oh, so that
was very nice.
Well, that's, that's a, that's very prescient on their part to come up with that rule and go, Hey, by the way, if, if, if there's no hitter, you're doing, I, I was actually looking that up because of Jacob Mazurowski, uh, who you'll recall if you missed it over the weekend in his opener for the brewers, his first game as a major leaguer.
five innings of no hit baseball.
And then he left in the sixth inning after giving up a walk in a home run, but still.
In the game on Friday against Minnesota, he had a perfect game.
Six innings of perfect baseball, 18 up, 18 down.
And then gave up, what did he give up?
Wait, was Friday the one in the home run?
I think he gave up a walk in a home run.
The home run
was the first
thing he gave up, yeah.
Oh, that's right.
Yes, because, yeah.
Anyway, he's got two wins and he's given up one hit.
Yeah.
That's never happened in the modern era in Major League Baseball.
So I guess the Baseball Hall of Fame has already asked for Jacob Mazurowski's cap.
I sure would think, yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, it is just stunning to watch this stuff.
And again, I hate sounding.
old cynical, whatever.
I'm just kind of like, enjoy this.
It might be to be true because, you know, you're throwing so hard.
So much.
He's a big dude.
He's what, six, six, I think, six, six.
Okay.
But it's fun to watch, man.
You've never seen.
I mean, you can see a breaking ball.
You can see a curveball, you know, dip, dive, duck dodge, whatever.
But to see it do that at like 95 miles an hour.
Yeah,
that's borderline insane.
That's the thing is breaking his slider too.
I think you might have one of the fastest sliders in the league.
It's ridiculous.
It is so fun to watch and you just can't not root for this kid, especially at perfect game going, you know, into the seventh inning.
And, you know, again, in both cases, he didn't he didn't get the no hitters or the perfect game.
But the Brewers won.
They gave some run support.
They swept the Twins over the weekend.
A little bit of drama yesterday.
They almost kind of sort of tried to give it away late in the game.
But, you know, they won just the same.
And that's four games in a row now.
After beating the Twins yesterday, nine to eight, Reese Hoskins homered and doubled and drove in two runs.
Bryce Terang hit a three run homer.
Caleb Durbin had three hits for the Brewers.
They are now at a season high, eight games over five.
hundred and the Cubs lost again so now they trail the first place Cubs by only three and a half games right now so the Brewers come home they're taking on Pittsburgh and let's see first
Let's get the pregame time on this.
Uh, 605.
There you go.
Burrs versus Pittsburgh coverage begins at 605 on several civic media stations and get this.
Um, there's, there's the game tonight.
There's the game tomorrow night.
And then there's a Wednesday afternoon game.
The Wednesday afternoon game is going to be Jacob Mizorovsky.
versus Paul Skeens, who was basically the Jacob Mizorovsky of last season, right?
I mean, he was like the young phenom that nobody could hit.
He's a bit more mortal this time around, but that could still be so much fun to watch.
I'm very excited.
I am sort of considering leaving work early and possibly getting those tickets.
It's a good.
It's a good thing we're not on live radio where the boss can't hear that because that would be.
Yeah.
But no, look, if you can be the first one to snag up those tickets, you should absolutely go.
And that's one where I wouldn't mind a pitchers duel one bit.
I was commenting yesterday's game nine to eight, and there were like 34, 35 hits in the game total.
And if you're going to sit and watch a baseball game, 95 degrees and the heat index is 102, you don't want to watch a pitcher's duel.
And that's fine because with the air that hot and everything, the ball was clearly carrying out, you know, when you've got a score that big.
But for these two pitchers on Wednesday afternoon, if, you know, if they both are lights out and the Brewers can, you know, eke out a one nothing victory on Wednesday, I'm totally
happy with that.
That's exciting baseball.
Yeah.
And then.
There's Garrett Mitchell.
Garrett Mitchell who again I thought was the entire future of the franchise and then he got injured.
Then he got injured coming back from the injury and then he got injured again and he just got injured coming back from the injury.
His left shoulder which was what he was recovering from.
He slid hard into a base on Friday I believe and may have knocked his left shoulder out of whack again.
So there's that and then there's third base prospect Brock Wilkin who injured his left knee while celebrating.
That's what he did.
Yes, Garrett Mitchell did his injury in class in AAA ball in Nashville and Wilkin injured his lefty celebrating in Biloxi where they were celebrating the first half championship.
So what had been happening to the brewers starting pitching is now just happening elsewhere, you know, which is part of the game.
It's a game of entries.
And amazingly, the brewers pitching staff is, I mean, for all the entries still pitching lights out, still one of the best in the league.
Yeah.
No, it's actually incredible how good they are for how much trouble they've
gotten themselves into.
Yeah.
So, you know, congrats to to the Brewers first week in the twins.
Hopefully they can get some of their prospects back.
I don't know.
So again, Pittsburgh series this weekend as we continue on, I mean, it's still look, it's still early.
It's June 23rd.
I get it.
That's totally fine.
But
You got to have something like this to cheer on along the way.
So Let's see.
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Now, when we come back, we will get an update on what's happening or what happened in Iran over the weekend and a little bit of background on it.
But more importantly, this whole notion of
Is it a one-off, as people like to say?
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We are 44th nationally in terms of public funding for our public university system.
And it hasn't always been that way.
It's been 14 years of Republicans running the legislature that has continually chipped away at one of the crown jewels of the state's economic engine.
It's hard to say how much more sustainable that is given the closings of some two-year campuses, the layoffs that have hit some of the four-year campuses.
How much longer can you eat your seed corn?
So we ask in our question of the week whether the UW system should have that big boost in state support from the next state budget bill, or should we simply maintain things where they are, or...
Republicans last week were talking about actually cutting the amount of state funding that goes to the UW system.
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Alicia says it's just so sad that we have sunk that far down in public funding of our universities.
Couldn't agree more there, Alicia.
She just says you guys are so busy.
How do you get any rest?
I don't know.
Compounded by the fact that had the two younger grandkids here for the weekend with one of our daughters.
And they're still here.
They're taking off a little bit after the show.
So I always warn people, not warn, I advise you, that there's a chance that a three-year-old or a six-year-old could be toddling through here at any point looking for a donut.
I mean, they probably won't because, you know, there's cartoons on and things, but just in case, you know that it's there.
Then I've got the older grandsons, 11 and 18 now.
And...
That's the reason that current events are kind of on my mind as well with one turning 18 and and the other will be a young man before so much longer and What kind of world are we turning over to them?
especially one where a president who never served in the military who used his wealth and privilege to avoid service and who has denigrated the military has taken the military for granted and put it on parade as a vanity project as
now engage the military into an act of war against Iran and believes that this is just some kind of a push button thing.
You know, we push a button, some planes take off, they drop some big bombs and that's it.
And that's the comments that you hear from President Trump and some other allies and especially among far right Republicans is that this is it.
This is
This is something we've been waiting to do for 40 years, you know, since the Iran hostage crisis.
And finally, we're punishing Iran.
And that's it.
And this is a done deal.
Who do you think you're kidding?
That this is some kind of a one off and that Iran will just roll over and say, yep, you got us.
Our Supreme Leader will step down as you wish.
And you guys who we think are the devil, we will just do whatever you say.
Is that really what you think happens next?
Because that's certainly not what, you know, concerns me when I think about, you know, your kids and grandkids and mine.
Like the rest of the world, we now wait to see if this reckless gamble done without congressional authorization or, frankly, any kind of cooperative effort or bipartisanship.
If it leads to terrorism, if it leads to cyber attacks,
if it leads to military action that puts American troops in harm's way, all for a president who originally scrapped the landmark deal that had been working to keep the peace.
And I can hear the scoffing, and I can already see the scoffing in the comment section as well, but it was working.
And frankly, when it ever looked like it wasn't working, we had an ally in Israel that would take that kind of military action
that again would set back any nuclear ambitions and not directly involve the United States.
If you think any and all retaliation is going to be against Israel now at this point, again, you're fooling yourself.
It's always been a challenge to make sure that Iran can't go the way of North Korea, for example.
Or any rogue states now.
I mean, we live in a somewhat stateless society in that
If God forbid there ever is some kind of a nuclear detonation, it probably will not come from a country.
It will come from a faction someplace.
And so all options have to be on the table, including military action where appropriate.
But again, military action that is, shall we say, a bit more surgical and a little less ham-handed.
Because the Trump administration has somebody who's heading up their office on
on terrorism right now who is what 22 years old and fresh out of college because that's how little Donald Trump thinks of the intelligence community assessments.
This is all difficult work.
I'm not telling you that there are any easy answers.
I am telling you that engaging in actions like this without consulting with Congress, without some kind of a declaration of war, has the prospect to open up
all kinds of consequences that we can barely fathom.
Hopefully this is a one-off, hopefully.
But for decades, we've tried to run our foreign policy on something a little bit more concrete than hopefully and a couple of bombs.
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Let's see, Cassandra writes in on YouTube, my mother-in-law had said Trump was the only one that would keep us out of wars.
Now my brother-in-law pilot is deployed and we worry every single day because our president is so inept.
And I think, again, that's one of the things that really puzzles me, I guess.
I'll ask Kristen Lyrely about this in just a second as well.
But the ability of people to pivot so easily from
I'm voting for Trump because he said he's going to keep us out of wars, and he's the only guy that's going to keep us out of war to, yeah, we're going in, plant that American flag and tear on, baby, or whatever it is.
It's like, wait a minute.
Not that everybody's doing that.
You see some real breaks in the Republican Party right now of people going, hold on.
Do he just get us and meshed in something that, like Afghanistan and Iraq before that, are we about to commit to years and years of follow-up to something?
Because people are going, oh no, no, this was easy peasy, lemon squeezy, we're done.
Yeah, just like when we went into Baghdad after the first couple of weeks and we were like, oh yeah, mission accomplished, right?
Not so much.
So and again, we'll talk to Tracy and man gold in our next hour about some of those divisions within the Republican Party that last to this day All happening in Northeast, Wisconsin the home base of one dr. Kristen Lylee who's not in that home base today She's traveling yet again today, but can certainly talk about what's happening back home in her neck of the woods dr. Lylee I believe is in the nation's capital, right?
It is
I mean, it was what was it?
86 when I went to bed last night.
I think it was 83 when I woke up at 4 30.
It's it's been a weekend.
I don't know.
Did you manage to beat the heat?
Were you able to stand a bunch of air conditioned meetings?
No, I went clubbing.
You went clubbing.
OK.
So
we have meetings all day today.
So, you know, sometimes you just got to get out and do some dancing.
OK.
And this is.
for a Cogni?
No.
So today, Pat, is the Dobbs anniversary.
And there is a storytellers conference here in Washington DC sponsored by an organization called Free and Just.
It's great because as you probably know, one in four women in this country will have an abortion in her lifetime.
There are so many stories to be told, but there are stories that often go untold because they're hard to tell.
They're deeply personal.
They're loaded with shame and so much challenging context.
But this is a place where we bring people together, including our friend Heather Martel from Chippewa Falls.
And we're talking to each other about how do we tell our stories?
Who do we tell our stories to?
In order to help people understand that, yes, abortion is healthcare, here's why.
And it's the kind of thing that you and I have been trying to do for the past couple of years here.
And it's clear that more and more people understand it or understood it and now just don't feel so alone.
But the threat remains out there as much as ever.
And so when we say every election is gonna be the most election,
the most important election in ever, it's probably gonna be true, especially for women, for the foreseeable future.
Can I quote you on that?
Every election is gonna be the most election forever.
It's
gonna be the
most
important, the most important election forever.
Monday!
Yes,
it
is.
It's true, but it seems like, I don't think that we're overblowing things.
When you look at what's happening in the world,
Yes, and we don't realize that we are at the epicenter.
I mean, I was talking to people who live in the district.
They look at Wisconsin.
It's an outpost.
They recognize how important our state is because we are the state that is the most closely divided.
So the decisions that we make literally impact the rest of the nation, and that's why it's so.
fundamentally important that we make good, solid, well-informed decisions based on conversations that we have with our neighbors about the issues.
Not which team you're on, but what do you need to live your life?
How can our leaders do a better job for us?
How can we fight for the future that we all need?
Well, that's exactly it.
I mean, there are people who can still be as fiscally conservative as they want or have conservative positions on a number of things, but
draw the line at, you know, government controlling what they can do with their bodies.
And that's where, again, it's, it's okay to leave your party membership at the voting booth, you know, as you head into the voting booth and make the choice that's right for you.
And that gets us into what we'll touch on here briefly, but then more in our next hour.
And that is the precarious position of State Republican Party Chair, Brian Schimming.
There was an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel over the weekend and no shortage of rumors elsewhere that
There are a lot of people, especially from the Trump side of the party who are dissatisfied with him, you know, losing another state Supreme Court seat.
Yet despite, you know, Donald Trump winning, you also have fair maps.
And so they're losing some of their legislative majorities.
And according to the report, he'd been told that a majority of executive board members of the state Republican Party are ready to fire him unless he resigns.
He says he's not resigning.
It does not go into any further detail as far as how many are on the board, how many have they reached, you know, and so forth and so on.
But it does go on to say that a lot of this comes out of Northeast Wisconsin, where as you know, and we've talked to Tracy and Mangold before and we will next hour, the county parties in that region have been especially vocal.
on one side or the other the traditional Republican side that sees Trumpism as a convenient aberration and those who see Trumpism as you know the way the light and the truth the way the light in the future or whatever else you want to put it.
I mean those divisions are very much on display in your neck of the woods.
Tracy is going to be a wonderful resource in this in this conversation because she is a party insider.
She's a former leader within the Republican Party.
So talking with Tracy is always enlightening.
But Pat, it's not.
There are 11 counties in the eighth congressional district.
It's really only three of those counties, and it's really a handful of people who are very vocal, very frankly, ugly in their speech in the way that they treat each other and treat their fellow.
Republicans.
So this is not the majority of people who identify as Republicans.
This is just a handful of really ugly squeaky wheels who are making it hard for everybody else and frankly hard to get things accomplished in the state.
Oh, without a doubt, that's our topic in our eight o'clock hour when we have Francesca Hong here.
And I think, I don't know, did you, you're so busy, but did you get to see the video clip she put up where she was trying to make points about the state budget in a committee hearing?
And Joel Kitchens, the Republican chair of the committee, just kept talking over her and saying, you know, you've got to stick to the budget, you've got to stick to the, you know, the relevant question here.
And she's like,
I am.
All of these things are interconnected.
We have to talk about state support for education.
We have to talk about state support for health care.
And if we don't, I mean, your state budget bill can't just be tax cuts for the rich.
Kristen, we expect a little bit more of our leaders than that.
What?
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah, maybe not.
I know that is the one thing.
If you could boil it all down to one problem, that's the problem.
It's the lack of
vision and insight that this budget is for the people of Wisconsin and the people of Wisconsin have a variety of needs.
That includes a strong economy that works for all of us, but also education, childcare, affordable housing.
You name it, you can't pull any one of those things out of that potpourri and say, you've got a complete package here.
It has to include every single piece of it and people like Fran get it.
Oh, she does, as opposed to as Tony puts on YouTube, as opposed to Joel.
I'm a veterinarian, but really an OBGYN, kitchens.
Referencing back
to a comment.
He never claimed to be an OBGYN.
No, he just claimed to be the expert.
The
expert on reproductive systems or whatever, more than anybody else in the assembly chamber, which is a rather deep well of knowledge right there, folks.
Yeah, I
know.
Look, I like Joel kitchens.
I'm going to be honest, like I've worked with Joel kitchens on some really important birth control bill.
I, you know, we've had great conversations.
He's not an, I mean, ugly person.
Hey, there are just some really fundamental things that we agree on, like women's healthcare.
I'm sorry, Tony.
Tony says, don't step on my joke, Kristen.
Look, it was, it was a.
When he said that at the time during assembly floor debate a couple of years ago, it got our attention.
It's like, oh, yeah.
Anyway, on today's history lesson, which is coming up in just a couple of minutes here, but let me jump ahead to one of them because the Food and Drug Administration on this day in 1960.
So it was 65 years ago today.
The FDA declared.
Is it Enovid or Enovid?
Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world, leading to common usage of the term the pill.
And it just reminded me as I was writing that up last night that that's not so much in our lexicon now because there's so many other, you know, birth control methods that are out there.
But for those first couple of decades or so, just saying the words the pill was borderline scandalous for its time.
Well, because it was illegal.
Remember, it didn't become actually legal to use birth control until the 70s.
And it was when it was first legalized, it was for married couples only.
And there was all this talk of, well, we can't we can't legalize this for single people.
And again, I think I hate sounding like grandpa here, but if people could just look back and
realize what these debates were like.
Like you've said many a time where women could not have a bank account on their own.
You know, they couldn't get access to birth control.
They couldn't get credit cards.
There's all these things that we've finally moved into.
And yet now you're feeling people in powerful positions want to rip some of that away.
Women had to get their husbands to sign off on their birth control.
prescriptions.
We didn't event up in Dark County.
And there was as we were talking and taking questions from the audience, there was a woman who said, yes, in order for me to get my birth control and luckily she was in a healthy relationship at the time.
So they laughed about it.
But she said it was ridiculous that I had to get my husband's permission to use birth control.
And you're right, Pat, we don't realize how scandalous the pill was or what it took to bring the pill to market.
There's a fascinating book about all of the controversies and how challenging it was to even
get it there.
So it's always been an uphill battle.
There have been some times that have been much more challenging than others in this struggle, but
You know, we've got to keep pushing it forward and making sure that people have access to the health care that they need because contraception is health care.
Abortion is health care.
Women need health care in order to have healthy babies and grow our families and live our lives.
All right, so that's just from one aspect of today's history lesson, which we will have coming up here in just a bit.
Selena Heller is off this week, so Kristen will be back in just a bit.
We'll talk more about things that are on today's calendar of historical events and musical memories.
And a reminder, the Brewers start a new series here after sweeping the Twins.
They will now be taking on the Pittsburgh Pirates, and you can catch the pregame starting at 6.05 on several Civic Media stations at thecivicmedia.us to learn more.
I'm Pat Crightlow.
You're up
north.
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Again, we are primarily a radio show, but for the folks that can watch on social media and watch Kristen's face light up when Duran Duran comes on, it is, yeah.
She's right back at the club, boys and girls.
She's right there, one night at the Roxbury with Kristen Lyrely.
And that is because the reflex by Durand Durand was the number one song this day in 1984, though with a footnote, it went to number one only after being heavily remixed by who?
Kristen Lyrely, you
know?
Niall Rogers of Sheik.
Super producer.
Yes, exactly.
So there you go.
Number one song 1984.
Was this was this the one that like turned you into a Duran Duran groupie or was it some other song that you first went?
Ah, this is it.
This is my band.
I think it was hunger like the wolf.
and MTV.
By the way, there is a wonderful podcast about the history of MTV and if you are of my era and MTV was really important to you back in the day, listen to it.
It's fascinating.
Is this the one with the original VJs or is this an external one?
Oh, is there one with the original?
Alan Hunter is in it.
Okay.
Okay, we'll
compare notes later on.
All right, let's see.
I mentioned Tracy Ann.
Mangold's gonna be on next.
She clearly just tuned in because she's right there in the comments section.
OMG, Kristen is the best.
I thought about calling you.
She said, I wish we could have gone.
Oh well.
Fox Valley Pride was a good time.
All right, so
all kinds of
good things to talk to Tracy about later.
On this day in 1973 on the album charts, the new number one album was by George Harrison.
Tracy adds now on YouTube.
Do not remind me of how old Kurt Loder is from MTV.
Yeah.
He was old back then.
Yep.
TRL.
Things like the show, the young ones, do you remember that?
It was so dumb and so delightful, all of the same, like all of these things pop in and you're like, yes, the memories,
the memories.
I'm trying to think, when did it start to, when did they jump the shark?
When did it start to end for MTV?
And I think of reality shows, which of course leads me to say Sean Duffy killed MTV.
I mean, I think it's...
It might be that simple.
On this day in 1962, Ray Charles topped the album chart with Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music by Ray Charles.
On this week in 1979, the Charlie Daniels Band released their newest
tune.
Makes you wonder how many people took up the violin or the fiddle because they heard the song and wanted to be this good and Imagine the first time they tried to play this how fast they give up
Or how many people didn't pick up the fiddle because they were like yeah, I can't
yeah, that's right Happy birthday to Jason Maraz who is 48 years old today
On this day in 1868, Latham Scholes, the publisher of the Kenosha Telegraph, who also served in both the State Assembly and Senate, received a patent on this day in 1868 for his invention, the Type Writer.
So it was Type-Writer.
Others had been working on a similar invention, but his creation a few years later of what's known as the QWERTY keyboard is the keyboard that we still use today.
the Cordy Keyboard, a Wisconsin invention, which makes perfect sense once you learn to type, but while you're learning to type sounds like the dumbest thing in the world.
Why are the letters put the way they are?
F, F, F, J, J, J. F, F, F, J, J, J. That was typing class.
Oh yeah, might do A, Semi, A, Semi, A, Semi.
See
what you got on Parker?
I don't remember.
No, they just, they just do video games and things and pick it up along the way.
Tony writes, I think
it's
fair to say Sean Duffy killed the video
star.
Sean Duffy killed the radio star.
It works.
It does.
It does.
Let's, um, let's see on this day in 1987, a 15 year old Tiffany began doing shows in malls starting in Paramus, New Jersey.
Five months later, she would have the number one song.
She was doing a remake of a Tommy James and the Chandels hit.
I think we're alone now, which was a hit in 1967.
She made it a hit in 1987.
And we thought, oh, that's a big gap between 20 years between the time it was a hit.
It's been 38 years since then now.
Were you a Tiffany person or a Debbie Gibson person?
Because that was
the dyad.
Yeah, Debbie Gibson, because she was writing her own stuff.
which
I
appreciated very much.
On this day in 1991, a new video game is released, Sonic the Hedgehog.
On the Sega Genesis platform, soon beginning a popular franchise, so Sonic the Hedgehog is 34 years old today.
And finally, this week in 2012, sometimes you wonder, how do these songs get to number one?
Well, you know, at the time, they're new.
They're novel.
Here's Carly Rae Jepsen, number one, 2012.
Really?
2012?
Yeah.
Wow.
I know, right?
Let's see.
Today is National Porridge Day.
I'm looking at the National Day list for the first time here today.
What exactly is porridge?
Now you've stumped me.
What's the difference
between porridge and
oatmeal?
That's a great question.
I don't
know.
OK.
Well, we'll just put it.
That's oatmeal-ish.
There's her.
There's our new question of the
week.
Oh, Meals for British people.
What is forage?
This is International Women in Engineering Day.
This is National Detroit Style Pizza Day.
I thought you'd buy a Rocky Rococo.
I do like that.
And this is National Hydration Day.
Seems like we talked
about that a
lot over here and yeah, there he is holding up that that big old bottle of water I think oh, yeah Alicia said she's already a quarter of the way through my first 40 ounce cup of water Stay hydrated peeps.
She says it's hot
Could not agree more.
Not as much as yesterday, but still a warm one.
Hydration is still extremely important.
Tracy Ann Mangold is going to join us coming up in our next hour.
We're going to talk about the in-fighting and the state Republican Party that might lead to the ouster of the state GOP chair.
We'll also get the updated forecast from Brittany Merleau.
Jimmy Cusco will help us talk about sports, the Brewers sweeping the twins over the weekend.
Back home now to face the Pirates with a huge
pitching matchup coming up at American Family Field on Wednesday afternoon.
I'm Pat Crightlow.
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