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Well, hey there, Wisconsin.
Good morning.
It is 6.06 on a Monday morning, June 30th, 2025, last day of June.
Flip over to July tomorrow.
Summer is just picking up the pace here.
It's another beautiful morning.
Foggy morning up here.
to welcome you live from Lake Wasota from wherever you're spending your mornings listing across the Civic Media radio network or listening to or watching us on one of the other different platforms out there.
Thanks for starting your day and your week.
Right here, I got a question.
How high is the water by you?
Depending on where you live.
I mean, here in the Chippewa Valley, like six different people needed to be rescued off the Chippewa River over the weekend, which is ridiculous.
The water is so high.
The river's running so fast and what would prompt anybody to think, oh yeah, I should get on an inner tube and go down this thing.
It'll be fun.
Not fun.
and downright dangerous in some places, or, you know, has potential to be fraught with peril, shall we say.
If I look down the bank there, I'll see that my boat and my boat lift are still there, my dock still there, but my dock sections are hanging on for dear life.
Thank God for zip ties and bungee cords, as the Chippewa runs a little high running down here, so hopefully all that rain over the weekend hasn't caused too much hardship out by you.
Coming up on the program this morning, the state budget had the potential to be done by today's deadline, but that's not happening.
Thanks to Republicans in disarray, we'll update Friday's Joint Finance Committee meeting that was supposed to start at 10 a.m.
and started at 10 p.m.
The U.S.
Supreme Court made a major ruling on birthright citizenship that really wasn't about birthright citizenship.
so much as it is about how federal district courts do business.
So it does stretch out the legal fight to once again protect another basic right that is under assault by Donald Trump and friends.
We'll talk to Jeff Mandel from Law Forward about their group's lawsuit against the world's richest man, hoping to stop people like Elon Musk from ever again being so bribery adjacent during Wisconsin elections.
Then we go talk to one of my North Carolina colleagues from Courier Newsroom because on Saturday, North Carolina Republican Senator Tom Tillis seemed like a rare profile and courage for the GOP, voting against President Trump's big bloated moondoggle.
And then on Sunday, Tillis announced he decided not to run for reelection next year.
Have you ever seen the hashtag on social media, E-T-T-D, that stands for everything Trump touches dies?
Well, Tom Tillis' political career, boom, done.
So we'll talk to one of my colleagues from our North Carolina outfit because that does open up the prospect of a democratic pickup of an open seat in a swing state like North Carolina.
Dr. Kristen Lyrely will be along in less than a half hour to tell us about her weekend excursion to see the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Up North News reporter Selena Heller shares tales from her weekend with the US Navy's Blue Angels during the Chippewa Valley Air Show.
We'll catch up with Civic Media friends, John and Gordy, fresh off their show in Madison, and Jane McNair to find out what she'll be talking about in her 9 AM show.
And to you as well, if you care to join us in the comments section, like Alicia did, saying, oh, hey, hi there.
Alicia, thank you for writing in on.
On YouTube, in her case, you can join us by Facebook as well.
Just get into that comment section and let us know what's on your mind today.
Or you can email us radio at upnorthnewswi.com.
You could also email in your response to the question of the week from our weekend newsletter.
I'm going to tell you about that in a little bit.
But first, let's say hi in Madison Studio A2 to one Parker Olson.
Mr. Olson, good morning.
How are you?
Doing pretty good, Pat.
How are you doing this morning?
I'm good.
It was such a good weekend.
It was the most nothing that we'd ever planned to just be around the house and yet still productive at the same time.
So we did stuff but we didn't make the to-do list with, you know, 6,000 things on it.
We just kind of did things as they came up but I spent more time in my hammock than
I can never recall.
Usually it's, I'll be there for five minutes and I'll be like, ah, I should, I should go do this or I should go do that.
And this time I was like, no, it was a beautiful day.
We were.
We were in the shade, you know, the hammocks in the shade there and it was, it was just so nice.
It
didn't rain 30 seconds after you got in.
That's great.
No, it did not.
It did not.
Let's see from Jim and Brookfield.
Good morning, Pat, on the text line here.
Southeast Wisconsin did not receive as much rain as other parts of the state.
A summer perspective, I often joke how when we reach Memorial Day, you blink and it's the 4th of July, but January seems to take like six months.
Well, I blinked and here we are at 4th of July week.
I know.
And people go, you know, 4th of July is coming up this week, this Friday.
And people are all like, oh, summer's half over.
I'm like, no, it's not.
No, we've got all of July, all of August.
Don't rush it.
We'll be just fine.
Pat, that's
pretty close to halfway.
No, no, no, no.
The summer solstice was six days ago.
We got time.
Yeah, but I've been
done with school since like May 15.
So.
Well, yeah, if you consider that to be some or sure, did you work some Mallard's games?
I did.
I worked a Mallard's game on Friday and then had a Nightmare's game, two of them on
Saturday.
I'm sorry, a Nightmare's game?
A Nightmare's game, yes.
That is the softball team in Madison.
Oh, okay, okay.
I'm like, you had a bad day?
Okay, no, it was a Nightmare game.
No, it was actually
very good.
They had to walk off wind.
All right.
Well, that's great.
You always like to see that.
Also from Alicia on YouTube, my kids were in Minneapolis over the weekend and oh my, was I productive.
Yeah, you see, when you get the kids out of the house, that'll happen.
And she mentioned Green Bay was a buzz when the Blue Angels flew over yesterday.
Yeah, we saw the Blue Angels flying here as we were running errands around Chippewa and we could hear them from our house all weekend.
We couldn't quite see them.
They were just kind of past the horizon, but you
definitely heard the air show throughout Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
But then they as they were flying away, they flew through Green Bay and did a flyover at Lambeau Field.
I just saw some video of that on social media.
That looks that looked super cool.
Yeah, I was seeing a ad for the air show and Ash cash for I don't remember when that is in a month or so.
And
I'm starting to
think about going I've never been I kind of want to go it seems really cool.
Um, Brittany Merleau is off today, but when she's back, uh, back on duty, you got to talk to her.
She is Ms.
Air Venture.
She loves the EA.
She camps out there for the entire week.
Literally camps.
So you got to talk to her about that.
Roger puts up on Facebook.
I was in Wisconsin Rapids yesterday.
All the gates were open.
on the Wisconsin River at the Rapids Dam.
It was a little humid this morning as I was rolling out the refuse.
Yeah.
Trash and recycle pickups are a day early this week in Stevens Point.
Yeah, I can't actually see out the windows.
They're so foggy right now, so steamed up because the temperature, you know, had been in the mid 80s, you know, low 80s throughout the weekend and now it's in the low 60s.
And yeah, there's quite a lot of fog out there.
It was a little damp taking the garbage out this morning.
Tony's like the EAA.
Yeah, we're talking about the EAA and Alicia says OMG air venture I take vacation specifically for it.
So You'll find friends if you go, I
guess.
Yeah, so it sounds like I'm gonna have
to
have a
whole crew go Yes, take the crew absolutely Let's see nothing else over there on the text line.
Just want to make sure I got everything.
Oh, did you did you notice above me and behind me?
You know those lights
Did you remember those lights?
I do remember those three
lights that worked and fourth light that
didn't and the fourth light that didn't and I got you know the nice little ups truck showed up with the the power whatever and the light whatever to make the four lights work and I got that and I was gonna work on that yesterday and just by sheer stupid coincidence
If it had happened just a few hours later, you would have seen them all hanging.
One light still stuck to the top of the shelf.
The others all hanging because they're all strung together.
Just hanging down the shelf because the other three of them, the tape gave way.
They had them up
there.
Oh,
I
wish we caught that on air.
That would have been so fun to watch on camera.
Wait, we already caught on air when behind me here where there used to be a Wisconsin map on the wall and it literally fell off the wall while we were on air.
Fortunately, I've got one behind me that says home and the state of Wisconsin replaces the O in H-O-M-E.
Sure.
So happened to have that to fill right there.
But yeah, at some point, I wouldn't knowing my handiwork.
wouldn't be surprised to have something else literally fall off of this.
So how stable is that bookshelf?
The that I did get that bracketed to the wall before the grandkids arrived.
I got that much done.
So which
Again, it's no guarantee because the three-year-old she is mobile and I could see her in fact remember the up on the top here was the Gumball machine that had M&Ms in it and I had to put it up on the top shelf because they were raiding it They're all the time looking for more M&Ms.
They were like, you know lab rats, you know, they know where the gullets on sugar shock.
Yeah, and
I'm glad that she didn't see it, because that little monkey would have just climbed right up those shelves if she had a chance.
Tony pops up.
I'm not rooting for the bookshelf to fall apart, but it would be pretty funny to see Pat's face.
Well, that depends on whether the bookshelf hits me in the back of the head or not, but yeah, it would be
entertaining.
Yeah.
There is the prospect that something would fall, entire shelf would give way.
And I would not even turn around I would just kind of look right at the camera here like yep
That kind of just seems like a moment you look into the camera and just like This is my life
now
things just fall apart around me.
This is how it works You know when you got my set of mechanical skills here, you got to keep that music handy You just never know when it's when it's gonna come into play but
things things have worked today so far and the only thing that you can't see if you're watching on on Facebook or YouTube is that while the the shelf is well organized and while I'm sitting here and everything looks fine what you can't see is the floor and you can't see all the little piles of paper and of course the lights that have fallen down
There's a yacht rock captain's hat.
Well, you got to have the captain's hat on hand.
Yeah, a travel pillow in the hand
case to get tired during the show.
That makes sense.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's a boat bag back there for when we get on the pontoon, but we couldn't because the river was too high.
You know, you could you would not be able to get the boat down from the boat lift, you know, I don't know.
Oh, no, I suppose not.
You're going to have to come up here over a ride, you know.
Yeah,
I do
know
that.
Yeah, we'd be good with that.
In fact, Todd Alba has talked about doing that next week when the Northern Wisconsin State Fair comes to Chippewa Falls and opens up here as it does every year, the week after the 4th of July.
So yeah, next week, either Thursday and or Friday, Todd Alba will do his 2-4 PM show live from the Northern Wisconsin State Fair and I will join him as well.
It would be nice to do, you know, my show from the Northern Wisconsin State Fair, but at 6am, the only thing open are the barns.
And yeah, I
don't, I don't love the idea of random moves and
just random moving as we're trying to talk about the day's news.
And so see what I did there.
That's that you don't even get a room shot for that.
would not even necessarily work.
So all right, so we've got a busy one up ahead.
And I mentioned before our question of the week from our Sunday morning newsletter, and you can sign up for it along with all of our newsletters over at UpNorthNewsWI.com.
And after the news that both Tim Michaels and Eric Hovde are each thinking of maybe running for governor next year, I ask, who do you think right now?
will be the Republican nominee for governor next year.
Will it be Tim Michaels?
Will it be Eric Hovde?
Will it be Josh Schoeman, the Washington County executive?
Will it be some other politician?
Or will it be some other rich guy who's never been in elected office?
So you can answer that question throughout the week.
From the heart of America's Up North, live from Lake Wissota, thanks for making this the place to spend part of your Monday mornings.
I'm Pat Crightlow.
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Coming up after this fine program is a finer program, Matt Nair on air with Jane Matt Nair.
She'll join us at 8.50 to tell us about her weekend and what's coming up this week.
But I can tell you now that Shaly Pittman, Civic Media's new news director, will be joining Jane and Greg at 9.30.
Then at 10.30, we got this garden, urban gardening and a farming initiative targeted at children.
And of course, this shouldn't be a thing.
On the Todd Alba show from two to four this afternoon, Todd has to miss the first hour.
So yours truly will be hosting the 2pm hour along with Trig V. Olson, senior advisor at the Lincoln Project.
And if you
are not familiar with Todd's show.
On Wednesdays, Trig V and I join him for the first half hour of the show.
But today, Trig V and I will be co-hosting the entire 2 p.m.
hour.
We are hoping to be joined by State Senator Kelder Royes with an update on the state budget.
Again, unless something, some kind of news is broken and she can't join us, but otherwise we'll have Senator Royes on there.
A little sports now first, then we'll talk more about the state budget.
It used to be that if I told you Orlando Arcia hit a tying home run with two outs in the ninth, that'd be a good thing.
But Arcia now plays for the Colorado Rockies and the Rockies were down to their last out in the ninth at American Family Field yesterday when he hit that game tying homer only his second home run of the season.
The Rockies went on to win it in 11.
Final score four to three.
The Brewers still took two out of three from the lowly Rockies.
They remain two games back of the Cubs in the National League Central.
Bryce Terrang now has a 13 game hitting streak.
A day off today before beginning a road trip to New York and Miami.
The Brewers will play the Mets on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
Then they'll spend the Independence Day weekend playing the Miami Marlins on Friday night, Saturday and Sunday afternoons before coming home a week from today to start a home series against the LA Dodgers, then the Nationals, and then it's the All-Star break already.
Baseball season just zipping along here as well.
But anyway, back to this week, Brewers and Mets again starting tomorrow, 5.35 each evening, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, pregame at 5.35 on stations across the Civic Media radio network.
Dave Parker, the Pittsburgh Pirates legend and one-time Milwaukee Brewers DH, who is set to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame next month, died over the weekend.
Dave Parker was ubiquitous to baseball characters of the 1970s, playing for 19 seasons.
11 with the Pirates, he was the National League MVP in 1978, won a World Series with Pittsburgh in 79, another with Oakland in 89, and then in 1990 he spent one season with the Brewers, hitting 21 home runs.
He made the All-Star roster as a Brewer, his seventh All-Star selection, though he did not play in the game.
It's going to be a bittersweet occasion when Dave Parker is inducted in Cooperstown at the end of next month.
Dave Parker was 74 years old.
One more sports note, Bobby Portis, one of the league's top reserves, has agreed to stay with the Milwaukee Bucks a three-year, $44 million contract to remain a fan favorite with Milwaukee.
Nice to have him along.
All right, well, it's a case of deja vu at the state capitol on the budget, which is due to start tomorrow, but it's not ready yet.
Republican disarray is holding up a budget bill in much the same way Republican disarray has been holding up a federal budget in Washington DC.
In both cases, it's about disagreements on making spending cuts that are severe, but not so severe as to cost them their majorities in 2026.
The Joint Finance Committee was supposed to meet Friday morning at 10 a.m.
to work out the final details of a budget bill.
Then they pushed it to noon, then 2 p.m., then 4 p.m.
They actually didn't get their act together and start meeting until 10 p.m.
And even then, they didn't finish their work because they said they still have not reached agreement on what to do with things like childcare, the UW system, Medicaid.
So...
The committee did release some of the money that's supposed to be allocated for new literacy programs, but it's really not clear when joint finance will meet again to tackle these final items, so the Assembly and Senate can finish work on a budget that was supposed to be done by today.
In the Senate, Republicans have an 1815 majority, so that means they can only lose one vote.
And there's at least three Republican senators right now that are not willing to sign on to
just anything that Republican leadership puts in front of them.
So the question remains, do the rest of the Republicans say, look, we want to get this done.
And so we'll, we'll try to get some Democratic votes on this.
Or do they just give up and say, well, we're not even going to try to pass a budget.
Again, State Senator Kelder Royce will tell us more about any outreach to Democrats coming up when she joins us in the at 2 30 this afternoon on the Todd Alba show.
Over the weekend or on Friday, the U.S.
Supreme Court made a ruling on birthright citizenship that isn't as broad as President Trump is claiming, though it does stretch out the legal fight to protect yet another basic constitutionally guaranteed right.
But this Supreme Court has already ripped away women's health care rights, so why not take on birthright citizenship?
But it really wasn't as much about birthright citizenship as it was about their own judiciary.
Right now, federal district judges around the country, if they find something is unconstitutional and they put an injunction in place, it goes nationwide.
Because something unconstitutional in Wisconsin is unconstitutional in Iowa or Tennessee or anywhere else.
But this Supreme Court said no.
Said no, no, no, the federal district judge in that district.
can make a ruling and it applies to the people who brought the case in that district.
But the Trump administration can go on and pursue whatever it wants to pursue in all the other districts unless y'all get together and do something like a class action lawsuit.
And that's something that Justice Sotomayor called a travesty of justice.
because it is.
Again, it's a fundamental change in basic rights and the basic ways that our judiciary operates.
But the way that this Supreme Court operates, you have to hang on to your basic rights with both hands because this is a court happy to rip them away.
Coming up next, Kristen Lierly.
Thanks for making some time here as part of your Monday mornings powered by UpNorth News.
More live from Lake Wissota after the Midwest Farm Report on the Civic Media Radio Network.
I'm Pat Crichtlum.
Tomorrow on the program we'll have Hans Brighton Moser, a dairy farmer from up near Maryland, Lincoln County.
See what all this rain has been like for him and a lot of folks who've been delayed getting their second cutting of alfalfa done.
We'll have Chad Holmes along as well and Dan and Dan.
We'll have Dan Schaefer from the recombobulation area.
talking about any progress on the state budget and Dan Hagen from WJFW News Watch 12 tells us what he's covering up in the Rhinelander area.
That's all tomorrow then on Wednesday.
State Representative Angela Stroud will join us.
She'll be talking about a Republican bill to address removal of lead water pipes and superior and why she voted no on it.
Spoiler alert.
the words corporate giveaway come to mind.
So we'll talk to Angela Stroud about that coming up on Wednesday.
But we are joined now by Dr. Kristen Lyrely, who this is a this is a getaway week for her.
And she's been so kindest to join us from her many destinations.
When we last left Dr. Lyrely on Friday, she let's bill that the hotel she was in was right across the street from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
But she ain't there now, Dr. Lyrely.
Good morning.
Good morning from Burlington, Vermont.
Wow, Vermont.
My goodness.
Oh, wait, let me look out the window there.
Oh, you're right.
I see Democratic socialists just like falling out of trees.
There's so many of them there.
Wow.
It's pretty remarkable.
I mean, the landscape is beautiful.
The weather's been amazing.
The people are living in a whole different place than where we live in Wisconsin.
Do they all?
Talk like Bernie Sanders just out of affection affection for their senator or No, but
we were at we came here to celebrate the residency graduation of Craig's daughter Mackenzie who's coming back as a new OBGYN doctor in Green Bay
And it was so cool to be surrounded by all these OBGYN doctors who practice here in this blue state where they're very safe and very progressive and very sheltered from what's happening outside of Vermont.
With one exception, one notable exception, I had a great conversation last night with a high-risk pregnancy doctor who has worked for two decades in research in high-risk pregnancies and he is on the verge of losing all of his research funds and trying to figure out how
to piece it all together.
Very frustrating.
It is extremely frustrating.
And, you know, we'll, we'll just take my mom as representative of the entire population.
Maybe that's not fair.
But when I called her a few days back, she was just surly.
And I'm like, what's the matter?
And she's like, she was just so mad because she had just got done watching, like, either a CBS Sunday morning report or something about
all these NIH grants being canceled, all this medical research that isn't being done.
My mom's not a doctor or anything, but she saw and it must have been a preview of the full report because we watched the full report on CBS Sunday morning yesterday about these women facing cancer battles and finding out that they can't be part of these clinical trials anymore because they've been cut.
And the anger wasn't just at the cuts, but that
These bozos still insist that nothing's getting cut they keep saying oh, we're just getting the waste and the fraud and the abuse and blah blah blah It's like that is such a lie and yet they keep telling it knowing that they have just enough people who believe it But I'm Kristen everybody else who sees through it is just beyond outraged at this
for those of you who
are having a hard time grasping the concept of gaslighting.
This is the real life thing that is definitely hitting home.
These are those consequences already that we are starting to see and feel in our real lives.
And Pat, if this big, beautiful bill were to pass,
This is two-thirds of the seniors in this country rely on Medicaid.
So many of the folks in this country who live with disabilities, moms, babies, veterans, we can't wait until this hits home for the people that we love the most.
Look, it's got right now, and this is the Congressional Budget Office, which is headed by a Trump appointee I hasten to add.
The Congressional Budget Office has it at $1.1 trillion in health cuts, 11.8 million Americans losing their health care.
And they keep saying, oh, it's budget savings, budget savings.
No, it's not.
It's all going to tax breaks for the very rich.
This is an immense transfer of wealth where rather than taking the money out of your pocket, they're taking your health care that they would otherwise pay for and give that money to the rich.
By the way, it is taking money out of your pocket.
Again, from the CBO, the top income earners will see a tax cut of $12,000, a tax cut.
of $12,000 while the lowest income Americans will see their tax bill go up $1,600.
So when people say, why are they racing to pass this by the Fourth of July?
Why are they racing to pass this by the Fourth of July?
Because as more Americans learn about this steaming dung pile, they are not happy.
And their only hope is to pass this thing this week because you know it, Kristen, more people are learning what's in here and are saying.
This is not what I voted for.
Mm-hmm.
We're starting to see it over and over again.
And if you look at it from the other perspective, Ron Johnson initially objected because it would increase the deficit.
Well, it still does, even though he has caved, which we all knew he would, it still does increase the deficit.
I think the number I saw was $2.4 trillion.
Nope.
It's now $3.3 trillion that it's added to the deficit, where Ron Johnson said, I'm a no on it, but hey, rimshot alert here.
I was very happy with my social media post.
Somebody take Ron Johnson's spelunking, because he's caving again.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I'll be here all week.
And then you had Republican Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina vote no on a procedural motion that could have killed the bill if only one more Republican had joined him.
But it was only him and Senator Rand Paul.
And so it passed by one vote.
So Tom Till, very next day on Sunday, said, Yeah, I'm not going to run for reelection, because he already knows Trump is going to find somebody to primary him.
And we're going to talk to one of my North Carolina co workers coming up an hour from now.
But I just love how you know, Ron Johnson, I'm going to stand in the way he caves.
Lisa Murkowski, I'm going
to stand
up to Donald Trump.
She caved.
I mean,
The editorial cartoon of the weekend was Trump putting, you know, patting Susan Collins on the back and on the back, he's put a little, a little taped a little sign that says sucker on the back of her because I mean, really, you all think ripping healthcare away from 11 million Americans that we're going to buy the whole waste fraud and abuse thing.
Give me a break.
I just, I don't have any words honestly, Pat, because it is so, I see it so clearly and I know you do too.
But, you know, I was on a call with Senator Elizabeth Warren last week and she mentioned that only one in four Americans understood what this bill meant, but it's going to hurt every single one of us.
And that's why we have to have these conversations.
We have to reach out to our representatives, even if we feel like it's not going to make a difference.
And I definitely feel like it won't make a difference where I live, but I'm still making the.
calls because they need to know.
We need to use our voices.
Speaking of Senator Warren, she put up a post over the weekend, 10 ways you will pay more under this bill.
Your utility bills will go up as we lose clean energy investments.
Your rent will go up.
as predatory housing companies can jack up prices.
Your college tuition will go up as Pell grants are cut, your student loan payments are going to go up, your medical school costs are going to go up, making it harder to get doctors in your community, your grocery costs will go up as SNAP benefits are cut, your prescription drugs are going to get more expensive as co-pays increase, your Affordable Care Act marketplace insurance premiums are going to go up, your employer-funded insurance is going to go up, and you might lose health insurance entirely, meaning that trip to the emergency
room could actually bankrupt you.
And that's just ten of many ways that people are going to be negatively impacted by this bill.
Where does it go from here?
You know, they're going to have a voter drama today and eventually throw it back to the house.
And it is still possible, knowing what we know about House Republicans, it is still possible that all it takes is like two of them to go
No, we don't want to pass this.
And then suddenly it all falls apart.
So it's not a done deal yet.
That's why those phone calls work.
We even saw people like Marjorie Taylor Greene speaking out against aspects of this bill.
I mean, there is so much junk in this bill.
In addition to the big things that you hopefully have heard about, there is junk like the inability for states to pass regulations against AI for the next 10 years.
That's really scary.
We can't let AI run roughshod for 10 years.
What has happened in the last 10 years in technology in this country?
I can't even imagine what the impact would be on all of us.
Tony writes on YouTube, Kristen is making calls and posting on Congressman Weed's social media.
I
love it.
Well, when we were done debating during the campaign, we shook hands and he said, keep attacking me.
And I said, okay, I will.
So.
Yeah, I made a promise.
I got to keep
it.
You got you got to keep it.
Alicia noting my son is on Medicaid.
It's the best way to get the treatment that he needs.
And again, coming back to the original point, if if you still hear Oh, nobody who deserves their benefits is actually going to get their benefits cut a nickel from Derek van Orden, Tony Weeden and the others.
You are being gaslit.
Just read what's in there.
You'll understand.
That's
close on the positive side, the rock and roll hall of fame.
Oh my God.
Have you been there?
No.
Oh my gosh, Pat, it's everything.
So they've got this, the featured display right now is 50 years of music on Saturday Night Live.
And
you
walk in and they've got this montage of all of those things that you saw and you remember and are ingrained in pop culture.
And you're watching it and saying, Oh my gosh, I remember.
Oh, I remember that.
Oh, I
Remember that?
At one point, Craig said, James Brown was performing and Craig said, oh, every time I see that, I think of Eddie Murphy in the hot tub
and we turned around
and there's Eddie Murphy's robe from the hot tub skit.
And it was just thing after thing after thing.
And then you walk in and you see the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
And they had a big thing on Bruce Springsteen because it's the 50th anniversary of the Born to Run album.
Just all of those things that at the Everly Brothers, there's a tribute to 19.
84, the greatest music
in the
greatest year in pop music
history.
I mean, all of those things, even Craig, I had to stop him from singing.
He's not pretty good at it.
So I was like, maybe like quieter.
We were all thinking because you couldn't not.
Well, answer the answer this question about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame from Tony on YouTube.
Once, no, is there a picture of Pat in the rock section of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
No, no, Tony, it's I
should have brought one.
Not
yet.
Not yet anyway.
Speaking of James Brown and going back to CBS Sunday morning, they had a story on Maestro Michael Tilson Thomas, a very famous conductor, and he credits James Brown with part of his very animated conducting style.
Yes, he got to meet James Brown and was influenced by his music and just kind of took that style to his conducting.
So it ain't just rock and roll, you know, that's impacted by rock and roll.
And the things that are in the rock and roll hall of fame, I would, that would be very fun to see.
I'm very jealous.
And then by the time for the July rules around, you won't even be in Vermont anymore.
We're actually leaving today to go ride our bikes in New Hampshire, check out the Presidential Mountain Range, and then we're going to Boston for the 4th of July to
enjoy
fireworks with the Boston Pops.
So nice.
Wow, that's great.
Yeah, we just we just decided to do summer fest on the 4th of July.
Hey listen.
that you're not
slummin'.
It's an amazing lineup that weekend.
Oh my gosh, yes.
Yeah.
We'll talk more about that a little bit later as the week goes on.
But first, a reminder that coming up yet on the show, Selena Heller is going to tell us about her weekend with the Blue Angels, something that's become an annual tradition for her.
So she'll be joining us in just a bit.
Still to come, Jeff Mandel from Law Forward talking about the lawsuit against Elon Musk and billionaire bribery at election time.
But first, today's history lesson is next.
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Kristen Lierly did not lie in her last segment, referring to 1984 as one of the greatest years in music ever.
That would include the album Sports by Huey Lewis and the News that claimed the number one spot this week in 1984.
Here's the thing about 1984, the year that Selena Heller was born and she joins us now from Eau Claire.
In 1984, there were only five number one albums.
There were only five albums on the top of the chart because each one was so good.
It stayed at number one for so long.
They were, of course, sports.
And then the other four were Thriller, Purple Rain, Springsteen's Born in the USA, and the soundtrack from Footloose.
I mean, that is the Mount Rushmore of the year 1984.
Agreed?
As a young
person who doesn't know a lot of 80s music, that's crazy that I recognize all of those.
You don't know a lot of 80s music?
Oh man.
I'm
22.
We'll get
you there Parker.
Stick with
us
buddy.
Coincidentally, on this week in 1984, Bruce Springsteen failed at their first attempt to shoot a studio video for Dancing in the Dark, so they kind of pulled a bill of Riley, we'll do it live!
And they went to a concert at the St.
Paul Civic Center and brought in a doe-eyed 19-year-old actress, Courtney Cox, and put her in the audience, and then Bruce brings up Courtney Cox to dance with them, and that was the start of her career.
And that's how all white women my age learned how to dance.
Hey, it worked.
All right, let's go way back this week in 1939.
When you think of Frank Sinatra, you think of the older guy, you know, to get the voice way down there, you know, like Joe Piscobo used to.
But we all forget that he got his start as a really, really young crooner.
And so here's a little bit of him from when he first began with the Harry James Orchestra.
His first concert was this day in 1939 in Baltimore.
There
was a lot of crooning, a lot of swooning, the Bobby Soxers.
Oh, how they loved hearing that from Frank Sinatra.
Little Frankie Sinatra back then.
He did all right after
that.
On this day in... What's that, Parker?
Has Parker heard of him?
Frank Sinatra?
I
believe he's outraged at you right there.
You know what?
Fair question.
Absolutely.
On this day in 1559, France lost its king, King Henry II, because he was mortally wounded in a jousting match.
So if you're king...
maybe watch from the luxury box from now on, okay?
One way to go.
On this day in 1937, the world's first emergency telephone number is introduced in London, 999, compared to the 911 that we use here.
Happy birthday to the lead singer of the Little River Band, Glenn Shahrock, who is 79 years old today.
This is like Australia's version of Yacht Rock.
Yes, absolutely.
He was born in England, but he and his family moved to Adelaide, Australia when he was 10.
And yeah, they had a ton of hits as Australia's version of Yacht Rock.
And again, 79 years old today.
Boxer Mike Tyson, 59.
Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps is 40 years old today.
The first Chevy Corvette rolled off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan on this day in 1953.
And I know you're thinking, well, wait, wasn't Friday drive your Corvette to work day?
Yes, because it's always celebrated on the Friday closest to June 30th to mark that 1953 when the first Corvette rolled off the assembly line.
This is National Bunny Rabbit Week.
If you have rabbits for pets.
We
did.
We
had two
different rabbits
as pets over the years.
In fact,
one
year.
I had bunnies.
What's that?
I had bunnies, too.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, no.
I can't remember what year it was now, but the girls were still much younger.
And Sherry took the girls to Oakwood Mall in Eau Claire.
And I stayed behind.
I was doing housework or whatever.
And it either was my birthday or a couple of days prior like this.
And they come home with a bunny.
And they're like, I'm like, what is this?
Like, oh, it's your birthday present.
I'm like.
No, it's not.
That's not my birthday present.
That's how you're trying to sell it.
You're trying to sell it to me as my birthday.
Here's your birthday present.
You get the scoop rabbit poop for the next several years.
Congratulations, dad.
So it's national bunny rabbit week.
And finally,
this is International Day of Parliamentarianism, honoring the parliamentary system of governments, a unique and enduring system of
preserving democracy as the standard for political representation.
Otherwise known as a bunch of pompous old windbags gather around and say Mr. Speaker, as they launch into speech after speech.
So Selena, we're going to hear much more after the news, but you know, the next 60 seconds is all yours.
If I just ask you to comment for a moment on hanging out with the Blue Angels and the rest of the folks at the Chippewa Valley Air Show.
Oh my goodness, it was such a beautiful weekend, but weather-wise it held off, the rain held off, so we had a great weekend.
We had record turnout at the Chippewa Valley Air Show on Saturday, so it was packed, but it was beautiful, and our show went up.
The week last week was pretty sketchy.
because of all the rain, but it all happened.
It all came together and a lot of people had a fun time.
And so we're going to talk about that a little later.
Yeah, we've got several clips to play from folks, including somebody who first saw the Blue Angels for the first time at an Eau Claire show 27 years ago.
Yes.
Which means you may have covered it for this, you know, but you should go back into the old TV clips.
You might have interviewed this young man.
Yeah, that's possible.
I'll have to search.
So we're going to hear more about that as she continues.
Kristen, are you, can you hang along or do you got to get back going to riding your bike in Vermont?
I think we got to get to New Hampshire, Pat,
but
have a delightful day, everyone.
Yes.
Thanks for the visit.
Have a safe travels.
Have a lot of fun.
Bye.
All right, we'll see you a little later.
Selena will join us after the 7 o'clock news, plus Jeff Mandel and more on these mornings powered by UpNorth News.
I'm Pat Crightlow.
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