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Well, hey there, Wisconsin.
Good morning.
It is 6 0 6 on this Tuesday morning, June 24th.
2025.
It's another beautiful morning to have you here up north, live from Lake Wissota, from wherever you're spending your mornings listening across the Civic Media Radio Network.
You might be listening or watching on one of the other platforms we've got out there as well.
However you got here, we appreciate it.
Thanks for kicking your day off right here.
I have got a question for you.
Have you opened your windows yet?
Are you able to open the windows yet?
Now, not everybody can.
There's a line of showers that stretches from basically Platteville to the Dells to Shawno to Marinette.
There's a little shower activity in Clark County back to Pierce County that's dissipating right now.
But once it gets past, you can open the windows.
It's 63 here.
It's 20 degrees cooler than yesterday at this time up here in the Chippewa Valley.
And yeah, it is it is just downright pleasant to be able to do that.
For now, we've got chances of rain, you know, throughout the coming days here in Brittany Merlot will be here with full forecast details coming up in just a bit.
But coming up on the program today, a surprising update in the state budget debate at the state capitol.
Governor Tony Evers has drawn a red line.
and said that without one particular thing in the state budget bill that Republicans are going to send him, he won't sign it.
And it deals with the crisis of affordable childcare in Wisconsin.
So we'll have more to say about that throughout the course of the morning, including at 7.30 with Corinne Hendrickson.
She's a childcare operator from Nouglaris.
She has been leading the charge to help improve public awareness of the crisis that's
being endured in Wisconsin by providers, by parents, by child care workers.
So many more people are aware of just how bad things are out there, except it seems some Republicans in the legislature who are still in denial or don't value the role of child care because they just assume mom or maybe dad stay at home.
Along those lines, The New York Times has a new feature story on Sean Duffy, the former congressman from up north and the current U.S.
Transportation Secretary.
He is using his platform to spread a message and it's not about transportation.
It's make more babies because it's good for America.
But what we wonder is, is it all babies or just a certain group of them given his record on
supporting or not supporting new parents, people who need food assistance for their kids, WIC, affordable housing, good schools, anything else that would help families grow for families that don't have jobs on TV or connections in politics.
We'll visit with Dan Shaffer of the Recombobulation Area, Civic Media's political editor, and we'll talk about a new Washington Post story on Wisconsin's congressional districts.
There are eight of them.
We have the same maps in place for this as we did in the last decade.
The legislative maps got changed.
The congressional ones did not.
But right here, smack dab in the middle of the decade, there is a chance the lines might be redrawn.
And if so, that could decide control of Congress nationwide.
So a lot of people, once again, looking at Wisconsin as
you know, kind of the bellwether for how things could go in the rest of the country.
All right, we mentioned that Brittany will be here in an hour.
Her state forecast says chances for rain throughout the rest of the week is a front stalls across the state, also setting up the potential for some flooding in places.
The forecast for today says it's going to be sunny up north, clouds and scattered showers south, highs today in the mid to upper 70s with a light northeasterly wind.
so different than that windy hot south wind that we had all weekend for tonight partly to mostly cloudy some lingering showers south lows tonight in the mid fifties up north low sixties south with a light wind and again
Temperatures in the low 60s in many parts of Wisconsin right now.
Alicia on YouTube.
Oh, hey there.
Hi.
Yes.
Hi.
Nice to see you.
Thank you there for being there.
Roger in Stevens Point on Facebook says it's much better outside this morning.
66 in Stevens Point on Refuse Collection Day.
So if it's trash day, get get those cans out there.
And meanwhile down in Madison in Studio A2, we find Parker Olson standing by.
How are you this morning?
I didn't.
Well, that, that's exactly where I was on, you know, I watched the, the brewer game, the first part of it anyway.
I was very excited to see the brewers coming back in the fifth inning.
Christian Yelich with a game tying home run in the fifth inning.
I'm like, okay, we're on our way.
And then the pirates get a go ahead triple in the sixth and they hang on to win five to four.
But that home run by Yelich, I liked the way it just, it just stayed fair.
And
I mean, he's been hot lately.
It says here in his past seven games, he is 16 for 30 with 14 runs batted in.
I mean, I did not know that this Christian Yaltsch was going to come back, to be honest.
No,
I would say batting better than 500 is good that way.
Yeah, that's that is just fine.
Freddie Peralta is pitching in game two of the series tonight with the Pirates pregame is going to start at 605 on several civic media radio stations.
And then there is that pitching matchup tomorrow afternoon, a hot new rookie Jacob Mizorowski for the Brewers.
Paul Skeens for the Pirates.
It's going to be an early afternoon game.
There's going to be all kinds of people taking off for work, making up some kind of excuses like maybe they don't feel great or maybe they got to go take care of some errands that happen to be at American Family Field.
Parker, you don't know anybody like that, do
Well, that's good.
We've got a, I've just scheduled a special team meeting for the show.
105 tomorrow afternoon.
Are you free to make
no, I really would not.
Okay.
Okay.
But yeah, I've seen a few other people who's either their workplace as a block of tickets or they have tickets and yeah, that
That came tomorrow.
That ticket's getting really popular all
of a
sudden.
And again, there's no guarantee, but boy, if that pitching matchup lives up to its potential, tomorrow afternoon's game is going
Yes, consider that an assignment.
Let us know when you see what's happening on the ticket prices.
And while you do, I have to mention that yesterday, and I think this was around 7.30 or so, we had the one daughter and two kids here.
So the six year old, the three year old made a quick appearance on screen here, right before they took off and they had an eight hour drive ahead of them to get back home.
And, you know, eight, nine hours later, I sent a text to my daughter and she texted first saying that she'd made it back.
All right.
And I said, I hope the trip went well.
You know, thanks for coming out and everything.
And she says.
She's asked me a question.
Let me set it up by saying that again the six-year-old the three-year-old they both have tablets, you know in the backseat So you can download movies on them.
So each has their favorite, you know, Disney movie or Whatever Nickelodeon, you know things that are on there and then they've got their headphones and they sit in the backseat It's you know, that works when you've got an eight-hour drive.
That's that's what you want And I remember my daughter saying the night before to the kids, you know
with each one.
Okay, here I've got, I've got little mermaid, I've got Aladdin, I've got this, I've got this, I've got this.
Is that good?
Yeah.
And then the other one.
Okay, so I've got bluey and I've got this and is that good?
Yeah.
So fast forward to her getting home and sending a text that says true or false.
The six year old at one point announced, I deleted my downloads, I don't want them anymore.
with 3.5 hours yet to drive.
No!
I don't want these downloads anymore.
I've deleted them.
All I sent back was 99 bottles of beer on the wall.
We didn't have tablets when we were kids.
We sang 99 verses of a song to get through it all.
But I thought that was great.
It reminded me of our first grandchild, who is now 18.
And when we had a long drive with him and with his now uncle, who was my daughter's boyfriend at the time, and he fell asleep.
And before he did, he gave his iPad to Mason, who was, I don't know, maybe eight years old at the time, I'm guessing.
And when my son-in-law woke up and saw that whatever game he was playing, he'd amassed all these credits.
I forget what kind of a game it was, but you amass all these different credits that you can use to like, you know, quote unquote buy things that, you know, more equipment for your game, maybe more weapons, whatever the case might be.
He wakes up and sees that his number of credits is down to zero.
And
he turns to the eight year olds like, what did you do?
And he's like, oh, I bought all kinds of stuff.
And he looks, he's got all the stuff that the character does not need.
There was a shop, you know.
So.
You got to be careful with those, those pads, those, uh, those iPads, those tablets can be really helpful.
Uh, but you got to watch them.
Yeah.
Watch them with the kids.
Are you finding some ticket prices there?
excited.
It is.
And I don't know the weather forecast for tomorrow night in Milwaukee, but boy, if it's anywhere decent, I mean, people are going to say, yes, let's bring in the little grill.
Let's go make a day of it.
In other words, if you're in that area, if you work in that area, and I have worked in the Milwaukee area, you know on certain game days, find a new route home.
So consider yourself on notice Milwaukee ends if you're not going to the game tomorrow afternoon And that game is gonna end somewhere in the 430 area Just find it do not plan on taking 94.
Okay, that sounds bad same same goes for you Just camp out there, you know, I I like the reverse tailgating like oh, you know what?
We're gonna tailgate here for an hour plus after the game and let this crowd go down
sometimes
Yeah, exactly.
Roger notes that Yelich has raised his batting average by 79 points since May 21,
which sounds
about right.
Like I said, because he did not, this has not been a whole season thing.
He started the season kind of, you know, flat line, shall we say?
Yeah.
And, and then it just has built right up.
So somebody has been eating his Wheaties, which is a good thing.
Nobody says anything.
Is Wheaties even advertised anymore?
idea.
Probably not, because, I mean, here's the thing, Wheaties, you know, the breakfast of champions and all that, and you go, why did we eat it much?
Did our generation?
No, we did not.
You know what?
Because it tastes like gravel.
I don't know what Wheaties were made out of, but if they were not your typical corn flakes, shall we say?
Yes, we got to get you got to get him some churros.
Matt Naranair coming up at 9am after this fine program.
Todd Alba will be joining the program at 9.30 from the heart of America's Up North live from Lake Wissota.
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This morning's edition from Christina Laurie just came out, including this story, three states where Wisconsinites are coming from and moving to.
She notes that on average,
Wisconsin adds about 12,000 new residents a year.
Where are they coming from?
The real estate marketing company Hypewired decided to find out using Google search data for terms like move to, relocate to, homes in, followed by the name of each state.
They found some of the most popular relocation destinations in America.
Of the top three states that want to move to Wisconsin, there's Minnesota, where the average house price is $332,000, meaning a move to Wisconsin to get an average house could cut their costs by $38,000.
Same goes for Illinois and Iowa, where again, housing prices can definitely vary.
As far as where Wisconsinites are thinking about moving to,
the top three are Florida, Texas, and Tennessee, because again many of the fastest growing U.S.
cities are in the southern U.S.
Now of course there's another way of looking at that when you see the difference in house prices say in Minnesota versus Illinois.
You also see the signs of a strong economy there which again gets us into what
Legislatures are prioritizing in all those other states.
But regardless to learn more about that and more in our newsletter, head to the website upnorthnewswi.com.
The New York Times put out a feature story yesterday on Sean Duffy.
And essentially, this is somebody else's phrase, but that Sean Duffy and his wife Rachel Campos Duffy, both reality TV stars,
preached the prosperity gospel of having large families and that having many children is the key to saving America.
For example, the story notes that in a 2023 episode of a Fox podcast that they co-host, Sean Duffy said, quote, if you make the decision of a big family, I think your kids are better.
I think you're better.
The report says even as Duffy focuses on air traffic reforms, tackling issues exposed by the plane crash at Reagan National in January, his policies and perspectives are shaped by the conviction that women should be having more children.
Early in his tenure at the Transportation Department, Mr. Duffy signed a controversial memo pledging to prioritize transportation funding for regions with higher birth rates and marriage rates.
and approach that Democratic senators have called, quote, deeply frightening and disturbingly dystopian.
The story goes on to say as the Trump administration seeks to both exude macho masculinity
and encourage men to settle down.
Some conservatives see Mr. Duffy as an important cultural figure who offers a middle way.
A red-blooded American male who once scored with reality TV stars.
He is now a devoted dad with his own chicken coop and beehives, publicly pledging his commitment to his wife and their old Chrysler minivan.
Like Mr. Trump, who also crafted his image on reality TV, Mr. Duffy understands what will get people to turn on a show and to keep
watching.
And if that sounds like the the overall article is going to be, well, let me put it this way, it is very indicative of what the rest of the article is going to be like, if you go into a piece like this, already thinking about the Duffy's what you just heard in that last paragraph, this article is not going to change your mind.
This is again, somebody who
How do I how do I put this right?
Your success as a man or a family for that matter some people believe that your your success is measured by your fertility and Honestly, that's a sad way to look at things if you have the means to have that many children and you know Sean Duffy is from a family of 11 children He now has nine children of his own if you have the the means to do that
then good for you.
But it's a little odd hearing that from somebody who had served in Congress and to, you know, to put it kindly, was part of a Republican party that does not have a great track record of supporting young families or growing families, whether it's, you know, wages and affordable housing.
good schools, WIC and other food assistance, childcare, you name it, from a group of folks that, I mean, this is actually kind of new talk about having more babies.
What have we typically heard?
We've typically heard, oh, those families that just keep making more babies and then they want the rest of us to support them.
So I think the caring and the the rah-rah-ing
for large families does not apply evenly across the board, if you know what I'm saying.
But there he is with a very long feature about how this former bad boy of reality TV is now a devout, devoted, and trying to work ways to have the make more babies thing be part of official policy.
And I've heard this repeatedly from Republicans who talk about, oh, our birth rate is so low and we just gotta get more people making babies.
Are you so anti-immigrant?
Are you so against people who aren't exactly like you, that instead of embracing the immigration that made this country great in the first place,
that you're just going to say to a certain segment of the population, if you all are more fertile, your country will be better off.
I just think there are better ways to support all families and we should have expected better from him in Congress and we should expect better with him as our transportation secretary.
Again, be tuning into Civic Media shows throughout the day here on the Todd Alba Show.
Alex Madorski of the Nature Conservancy talking about the Knowles Knowles Stewardship Update that's at $3.30 on the Todd Alba Show.
More from Lake Wissota coming up after this.
I'm Pat Crichtlow.
This is the Civic Media Radio Network.
Coming up tomorrow on the program, we will have what you would call a civic media potpourri.
We have all of our civic media friends that normally join us on Wednesday's Earl Ingram, out of Milwaukee, Todd Alba in Madison, Melissa Kay in Wisconsin Rapids, James Kelly in Chippewa Falls all telling us about the things they're working on for civic media programs, news, stations and more.
That's all tomorrow here on these mornings powered by Up North News.
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But on that Civic Media app, there's also the ability to leave us a voice note.
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Over at Courier Newsroom, the parent company to Up North News, there's a wide array of newsletters and podcasts and video series.
And I want to share one of them with you here.
And then we're going to talk about Governor Evers drawing a line in the sand when it comes to the state budget and childcare.
But first, at couriernewsroom.com, you can find the newsletter Control Alt Right Delete from Melissa Ryan.
And here's a little bit of her new column called humanity and pride.
Solidarity is the only way forward.
She says, who has granted humanity?
Who is deemed worthy of rights and freedoms of health care, free expression, the vote of voice and civic life?
Who in the eyes of society has the right to simply exist?
She writes, the MAGA regime and the movement that helped bring it to power are attempting to redefine humanity and who has access to it in real time.
It's not enough for them to believe that not everyone should have a seat at that table or access social and political capital.
This movement led by Donald Trump has declared war on the right of marginalized communities to exist.
They've empowered themselves with a mandate to cause as much harm as possible in service of this mission.
The right-wing majority of the Supreme Court is more than happy to serve this agenda, as we were reminded again last week when it upheld a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care from minors.
I'll let the experts break down what this case means from a legal standpoint, but it's a blow to the trans community, in particular, families with children who are transgender seeking care.
One of the most disheartening developments of the last decade is how we've gone from broad public support for the idea that transgender individuals deserve human dignity.
to continually just asking questions and putting the humanity of trans individuals up for debate.
The divide and conquer aspect is especially gross as marriage equality became the law of the land, LGBTQ rights became more accepted by most Americans, so the right needed a new boogeyman.
They easily found one latching on to a vulnerable community and the children within that community.
far too many people who don't consider themselves right wing were more than happy to take the bait.
To read the rest of Melissa Ryan's column on humanity and pride, head over to couriernewsroom.com.
Again, all kinds of newsletters and podcasts and video series there couriernewsroom.com and Melissa Ryan's newsletter is Control Alt Right Delete.
Well, I was, I'm going to tell you, I was surprised.
when I saw the story late yesterday that Governor Tony Evers had made some comments after visiting a child care center.
It was a one in Milwaukee and he'd stopped at one in Eau Claire earlier in the day and made a statement that said he will not sign the next state budget bill a two year spending plan for the state unless it includes payments to child care providers in a program known as child care counts.
A lot of this information comes from a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story by Jesse O'Poyne and Hope Carnop.
Evers hinted that the child care accounts program was part of negotiations over the state budget.
Republicans have pitched alternatives they argue would more directly help parents who have high costs.
Work overall on the state budget came to a halt last week.
Evers has since urged Republicans to, quote, get their act together and come back and let's finish it up.
It's necessary for people to understand, Evers said.
Republicans especially, how important this is for the state of Wisconsin.
Not supporting childcare counts, he says, is going to hurt not only our kids, but our economy.
So let's go back and talk about childcare counts and what that is.
I don't think I need to set up the entire affordable childcare problem here.
We have fewer people that are going into childcare.
They've had to raise prices as a result.
That's put it out of reach for parents.
And so some parents have had to make the decision to leave the labor force.
You know, again, we're in a labor shortage like never before.
We're
sending mobs out to kidnap immigrants, and we're telling parents, well, if you can't afford childcare, which is part of why you would get a second job, well, then you're just out of luck and we'll just continue to exacerbate the worker shortage.
Childcare accounts took some of the federal pandemic relief that came in, that federal pandemic relief, by the way, that saved the American economy.
I get really tired when I hear people going, oh yeah, the federal government, they threw so much money out during the pandemic and it's what caused inflation.
It is not what caused inflation.
Worldwide disruptions and supply chains and then the quick bounce back after the pandemic created inflation.
The investments made through the CARES Act and the Rescue Plan and all the rest were what prevented the depression.
And one of those instances was the child care accounts program because remember, we talked about frontline workers during the pandemic, people that needed to keep going to work even though people were dropping dead left and right.
But for those essential workers to go back to work, they needed a place to put their kids.
And we already knew before the pandemic that there was a child care problem in this country.
And so childcare accounts helped provide financial support to childcare providers so that they could keep their rates affordable and hold on to workers, pay them better than poverty wages to care for our children.
Well, that federal pandemic money, of course, is running out or has run out in many instances, depending on the program.
And Governor Evers has looked at how this program has helped
And as he has explained to the legislature repeatedly, this worked.
This worked when you use some of our investment.
And again, we have a $4 billion surplus.
When you invest some of that into childcare to make sure that everybody who wants to be a productive part of the economy can get out and work to their full potential and contribute to the economy, but feel good that their kid is going to a quality childcare provider.
I mean that says win-win as it gets.
And yet Republicans in the legislature have turned a cold shoulder to it.
In some cases have been just downright hostile to it thinking that this is some kind of a welfare handouts for people who maybe should just stay home.
Without any explanation as to what other ideas do you have then?
to address the labor shortage and to help with the affordability of families.
Again, back to our last segment, it doesn't make sense for Sean Duffy or anybody else with big families in politics to tell other people, oh, we need you to be making more babies out there if we're not willing to make the investments.
And childcare is an investment.
Same as schools.
I mean, go way, way back to when public education first got its start.
in the 1800s, when the idea of a free public education was downright radical.
Going, what?
We're going to create schools.
I mean, look, if some wealthy family wants to send their kid to a school, that's their right.
But we got to milk these cows.
We got to put horseshoes on these horses.
Whatever we got to do, we got to make these barrels.
No, we should have that opportunity for children to learn.
And so yeah, it was a radical idea back then, no different now than people going, wait, childcare?
But that's part of the education of our children.
And we're gonna talk to Corinne Hendrickson in our next hour about this, about the childcare counts.
But she did put out a statement yesterday as a childcare provider herself.
And she helps make the connection that we, she says about childcare,
are usually the first ones to talk with parents and support them and their child through the up to three-year-old school district process.
Without qualified educators, those children are often expelled from school instead of supported.
Without our universities and technical colleges fully funded, we won't have educators to teach the next generation the skills they need to thrive in their lives and in their careers.
It's all interconnected.
Responsibility that we should feel for the education of our children does not start in kindergarten.
It should be starting well before then, making sure that they are in places where they are not only safe and cared for, but where their little brains are being developed.
It's why you want good schools as well, so that they're not getting expelled, so that they are excelling.
Alicia writes on YouTube, I've seen people say, why should I pay for other people's kids?
I would say, do they like working extra shifts because there aren't enough people?
Because again, there are so many ways that we can work in Alicia Notes and it doesn't end at 12th grade either.
Right, thank you for clarifying that for me as well.
So it all comes together and Governor Evers understands that.
He is, of course, pushing for improving funding of our
public schools K through 12.
He's dealing with a legislature right now that not only does not want to more adequately fund the universities of Wisconsin system, but actually wants to cut state support to the UW.
What's their crime?
The crime of embracing diversity, equity, inclusion.
The thing that corporate America has wrapped its arms around and said if we want a strong workforce We have to understand that not every one of our workers is gonna come from the 54729 if you're up here in Chippewa Falls All right, we need people from all over outside of this county's borders this state's borders this country's borders But we're not gonna get that if these folks if these qualified people
face hostility when they come here.
Let's work together on how we can understand each other better.
And that seems to be the biggest efficiency in this Republican led legislature is not wanting to know how we can understand each other better.
And I'm not talking about people from different cultures.
I'm saying these folks in the legislature are having a tough time understanding childcare and working parents.
And so Governor Evers is pushing some chips into the center of the table and saying, look, you can write a budget bill.
Maybe you're going to want to cut UW funding.
Maybe you're going to want to just give tax cuts to the very wealthy, whatever the case may be.
There's a lot of things that he can line item veto.
There's a lot of things he can negotiate, but you can't line item veto something beyond zero.
And if there's zero in the childcare accounts program, he now says he's just not going to sign the bill at all.
And we'll talk to Corinne Hendrickson more about that coming up at about 7.30.
On the Maggie Dawn Show today from 4 till 6, Angela Lange is co-guest host starting at 4 o'clock.
Emily Mioda from Kids Forward will be joining Maggie at 4.30 and then at 5 o'clock Nick Ramos of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign talking about their lawsuit against Elon Musk for billionaire voter bribery, money in politics and the prospect of having fair maps into the next decade.
Today's history lesson is next as we always do mornings live from Lake Wissota on the Civic Media Radio Network.
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the 70s.
It's such a lighter, sweeter, more innocent time when you could hear couples like the Captain and Tenille singing to About Love Will Keep Us Together.
This was the number one song 50 years ago this week.
I know it's today's daily exercise in Pat going 50 years ago, really?
Yes, Captain Daniels number one hit level keep us together was 50 years ago this week 1975 on this day in 1922 the American Professional Football Association changed their name They had to because it's a lot.
It's it's it's much more Telegenic whatever you want to call to say the National Football League.
It's got more oomph
Yeah, it's got the National Football League has much more room than the American Professional Football Association is proud to present the Steelers versus the 49ers.
It's no.
It's the National Football League.
Who's the guy that did the NFL films for all those years with the big voice?
Oh, I don't know his name.
But yeah, Sadden or something.
Anyway, let's see.
So the NFL got a name change this day in 1922.
Happy 80th birthday to Colin Blunstone, lead singer of The Zombies.
If this sounds
Well, but some of the like the little keyboard look coming up right here.
That.
Yeah.
I looked I'm like.
How many, where have I heard that sampled?
The list is too long to name.
There's like well over a dozen songs that have sampled parts of time of the season by the zombies.
And Colin Blunstone lead singer is 80 years old today.
The zombies also gave a she's not there.
Tell her no, she's coming home and so forth.
Guitar legend Jeff Beck, the late Jeff Beck was born this day in 1944, passed away two years ago at age 20.
He replaced Eric Clapton in the Yardbirds.
He later formed the Jeff Beck Group.
In 1985, he released Flash, featuring a variety of vocalists, most notably Rod Stewart, on a remake of Curtis Mayfield's People Get Ready.
Happy birthday to Mick Fleetwood, part of the namesake of Fleetwood Mac.
I was looking to see if McFleet would had like any specific, you know, writing credit.
Obviously he was a drummer.
He was a, you know, key member of the group.
And everything that you'd read about Fleetwood Mac wasn't so much that this person did all the writing and this person did all this.
It was a big mishmash.
They spent way too much time together.
They made
They did way too much cocaine together.
They hated each other, and the result was a masterpiece.
Excellent music can be bred from hate.
That is rock and roll right there.
Cocaine and hate.
That's why we get so much great music today.
Just making it sound like the devil's music here.
Actress Mindy Kaling is 46 years old today.
Oh, I like this one.
Now, Glenn Medeiros was kind of a one hit wonder back in the mid 80s.
Here's as a teenage singer born in Hawaii 55 years ago today.
Here was his big hit.
I really like this because you have to go back and look at the video.
I mean, he is so not Disney Channel already.
You know, it's like very awkward trying to sing to this girl.
But he was a heartthrob for about an hour and a half.
And to this day, he's got this daughter on social media who clearly fans still recognize him or whatever.
And she mocks that her dad was a teenage heartthrob.
The way anybody would, if you found out later on, like your dorky dad was a teenage heartthrob, really?
That's awesome.
It is funny stuff.
It's great.
So, Glenn Medeiros is 55 years old today.
Chuck Taylor.
It's not just the name of a shoe.
He was a basketball player and a salesman.
Born this day in 1901.
died in 1969 and people talk about having their chucks or their chuck tailors and yeah it was a guy born this day in 1901.
On this day in 2003 Beyonce released her first solo album entitled Dangerously in Love.
Here's the standout track from that.
It featured her then-boyfriend, later-husband Jay-Z, and she did all right after that.
She did all right.
22 years ago.
On this day in 2022, so three years ago today, the movie Elvis hit theaters starring Austin Butler as Presley.
And I know you haven't seen this one yet, right?
No.
I know I've
recommended it on air before.
Again, it's not a documentary, so go with it.
But it's very interesting.
It came out three years ago today.
Also, three years ago today, a couple of serious news notes now in today's history lesson was the Dobbs decision.
Dr. Kristen Lierly talked to us about that yesterday.
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, where an extremist U.S.
Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
and ruled that the Constitution does not assign the authority to regulate abortions in the federal government and returning activity to the individual states.
A checkerboard of women's reproductive health rights has been around ever since.
On this day, four years ago,
I think maybe a lot of folks have forgotten about this, but down in Surfside, Florida, remember when that condominium tower collapsed?
It was called Champlain Towers.
Collapsed this day in 2021, killing 98 people inside, which seemed kind of weird to first hear about it.
And then somebody found security footage that showed it coming down.
And just imagine you're seeing this apartment building there and it just comes down.
I completely forgot about that.
People and people knew that you know, there was water running in the in the in the parking structure They knew that the foundation had issues.
It's right there on the beach, but you know, nothing bad's gonna happen, right?
Wrong and on this day two years ago the Wagner group led by Yevgeny Pergoshin launched an insurrection against the Russian government
And remember, we all thought that Progosian was going to get to Moscow and Putin was going to be dead in 48 hours.
And somehow or another, Progosian said, no, I'm all good here.
And he was the one who was gone very shortly thereafter.
Corinne Hendrickson talking about childcare in our next hour on these mornings, powered by Up North News and here on the Civic Media Radio Network.
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