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Well, hey there, Wisconsin.
Good morning.
It is 6.06 on this Monday morning, July 14th, 2025.
It's another beautiful morning to have you here up north, live from Lake WSOTA.
From wherever you're spending your mornings, listening across the Civic Media Radio Network.
or listening to us by podcast or watching us on one of the different social media platforms, Facebook or YouTube.
Thank you for starting your day and your week right here.
I got a question for you and it's from our Sunday morning newsletter that we put out at Up North News.
The Democratic Party going too far to the left or just right?
Turns out when I asked that question in yesterday morning's newsletter it provoked a lot of response from people who are looking at some of the candidates like the fellow who just won the New York City mayoral primary and it's either causing them great happiness that Democrats are no longer being so squeamish or great alarm that it's turning off moderate voters.
I'm not saying there's one right answer or another we won't know until the next election days that come up But clearly people have opinions on it So that's one of the things that we will talk about this morning here on the Civic Media radio network.
This is for personal
reasons, a big show for me.
It's our 600th morning show together across most of the stations of the Civic Media radio network been doing this for two and a half years now.
But the 600 show for some of you is the first show for a couple of others and some new places around Wisconsin.
So we're happy to be heard in parts of the Fox Valley this morning.
So at the risk of being redundant for some of our longtime listeners, we'll give a bit of an intro, a little radio
101 is to what this show is and what we've been doing for the past 599 episodes before a few other folks joined in as neighbors and friends.
As we always do on Monday mornings, we'll talk to Dr. Kristen Lyrely from the Green Bay Area and OBGYN who is fresh off a meeting in Washington DC with a focus in part on preserving options for rural health care in Wisconsin and all across the country.
Also, I had some Wisconsin members of Congress are getting rightly criticized for taking shots at Canada.
You see, when your neighbor's house is on fire, it's not really a great time to send a letter complaining about the smoke.
And yet, that's what these Republicans did, people who don't have their own stellar record when it comes to forest management.
Now, we're going to talk about a big weekend for the Brewer's with Jimmy Koska.
They enter the All-Star Break.
The Brewer's do.
with just a phenomenal record, a historic team record for the All-Star break.
And we will talk later with Green Bay Area State Representative Amado Rivera-Wagner in part about what's he doing now?
The state budget has been passed to much consternation, but it's all done.
What do legislators work on now?
I mean, I know the answer being a former legislator myself, but we're going to hear from his point of view.
how things go from here.
We'll check in with a few other folks along the way.
There's John and Gordy from our Madison Station, Jane Mattenair, who show heirs after this one across the Civic Media Radio Network, Up North News reporter Selena Heller, meteorologist Brittany Merlot and producer Parker Olsen all along the way.
Let's see from Roger and Stevens Point on Facebook.
Happy 600.
Thank you, sir.
The Brewers after their 96th game yesterday are two wins improved over last year.
The only fly in the ointment is the Cubs are 11 wins improved, which we've said several times that Greg Council didn't have a great first season with the Cubs, but they seem to be firing on all the right cylinders.
Now, whether it lasts, we'll have to see after the all-star break.
Along the way, we would love to have you join us.
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Coming up in just a bit, but let's bring in the aforementioned Parker Olson from Madison Studio A2 to join us when last we left, Mr. Olson.
On Friday, he was about to work a doubleheader after the Madison Mallards were rained out.
But it looked like there was going to be rain on Friday as well.
So did you have a triple header at some point here?
How did how did how did the weekend go?
Oh, the weekend went past.
We had the plans for the double header.
Luckily, the Northwoods League knows that that's a lot of baseball.
So they shortened those game to seven innings.
We got in five.
So not the 14 that we were slated to get in total on Friday night.
OK, so.
I only worked on Friday, though, and there were no more home games for the weekend for the Mallards or the nightmares.
So pretty late weekend for me, oddly
enough.
Good for you.
Well, I wouldn't say light.
I think you still did some kind of house project or something, I'm sure.
Well, yeah, we did have, oh, probably like a week or so ago, we got water in the basement.
So we were finally removing the furnitures and the cave down there.
So.
Gotta get it all back right.
Okay.
Well, you know, that's part of the theater of seasons we have here is, you know, one moment you're getting rain in the basement, the other you're hiding inside all weekend because outside it's downright unhealthy with all the level of smoke up here.
It was like living next door to Canada.
That's how thick the smoke was yesterday.
It was just crazy thick.
And, you know, we stayed indoors till the very near, near sunset when the smoke had finally lifted.
But it was it was really noteworthy throughout the course of the day here.
Yeah.
Happy 600 happy 600th episode says Alicia, one of our regular commenters on YouTube.
Thank you.
We appreciate that very much.
Meanwhile, on the text line, we have our usual share of well, is how do we call them?
They're not fans if they're hate listening.
But they're but they're there and they want us to know that they're there and we acknowledge that they're there while at the same time not reading their comments and giving them you know the oxygen that they so desperately crave but they keep listening and they keep writing in and we appreciate we appreciate your You're being a fine customer
boosting our numbers, even if you don't want to.
I got to love a good hater, you know.
Yeah, exactly.
Did you think prime days are all over for Amazon?
Did you get yourself something real nice off Amazon?
Or are you just happy to not hear about prime days anymore?
Yeah, no, I've never been much of a shopper in any capacity.
I am fairly utilitarian of I need the things I need and I don't.
Don't want things
you need it what you're gonna whittle it yourself if you need it or I
probably could I mean I wasn't a Boy Scout or anything, but I could probably figure that out.
All
right, so it's good I did that was so Sunday.
We were shut in because of the smoke Saturday We went out to the Twin Cities to see my mom and she likes she likes that we play games when we go out there She not only likes Scrabble.
She loves Scrabble
And so she got something called super scrabble with an extra large board and two or three times the number of letter tiles.
I mean, if you, you end up.
That's a three hour marathon.
I was going to say, that sounds like it would take forever.
It does, but it's what makes her happy.
And so we do that.
And, you know, and then she'll she'll make you make us some lunch.
She'll say, you know, my number, my numbers, my doctor says my numbers aren't really where they're supposed to be.
And then she proceeds to serve us this delicious cake.
and some homemade soup with stuff that maybe isn't supposed to be in there.
But it makes her happy, and it makes us happy.
That's all that
matters.
That's all you need in life.
Just be happy.
Are you listening
text-align haters?
Be happy.
Yes,
be happy.
Do the thing that makes you happy.
If it's sending nasty grams, that's fine because you know what, we get a lot of love too here and we appreciate that very much.
Over at Up North News, we put together a daily newsletter.
We'd love to have you as a subscriber for our unabashedly Wisconsin news.
You can sign up over at Up North News WI.com.
uh let's see there is uh on the on the newsletter today i want to pull up our latest edition uh we've we've allowed henry the intern to take over for the summer here and he's put together some really nice stories for us uh today oh yes he talks about uh trenny kasnarek uh now trenny kasey sports broadcaster who recently completed her leg of the ms run the us a coast to coast relay
where runners each cover a section of the country.
And Trunney's legs spanned 160 miles from Platteville, Tosa, as part of their MS Run and Rock Fest, a community event in Tosa to raise awareness and funds for those living with multiple sclerosis.
So yeah, I said she did 160 miles, basically running six marathons in six days.
And along the way, she raised an incredible $69,000 for the cause.
Also in today's newsletter, I'll link to one of our articles on the website, 10 books by Wisconsin authors for your summer reading list.
You can find that on the website as well as a way to subscribe to the newsletter.
Head over to upnorthnewswi.com for that.
All right, let's talk a bit about the brewers here.
All-star Freddie Peralta carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning yesterday.
and gave up only one run while Jackson Churio and Bryce Durang, Homer, back-to-back, and the Brewers extended their winning streak to seven games with an eight-to-one victory over the Washington Nationals, ending their pre-All-Star break homestand with a 6-0 record.
The Brewers now have 56 wins at the break, the most in-team history.
How far they've come since...
Well, some of us might have been ready to give up on them as early as May 17th.
Back then, you'll recall they'd been shut out for the fourth time in five games, shut out twice at Cleveland, and then shut out twice at home against the Minnesota Twins.
And at that point, the Brewers were four games below 500, 21 and 25.
Since that time, 35 and 15
20 games above 500 ball and the best record in Major League Baseball during that stretch.
So a sweep of the Dodgers, a sweep of the Nationals, but unfortunately a sweep of the leg for right fielder Sal Free that caused him to leave the game after making a sliding catch on the warning track in foul territory.
The team said he had left hamstring soreness.
You can be sore in a lot of places Parker.
Not your hamstring.
That's, it's tougher.
You go, Oh, hamstring story on us.
I'll be better tomorrow.
Well, not necessarily.
So yeah, if there's one person who's thankful for the All-Star break right now, it is self-relief because the Brewers are off until Friday.
Well, the ones who aren't competing, of course, in the All-Star game, but everybody else has a much needed, much anticipated break before we end up playing the Dodgers again.
this time in LA coming up later this Friday but tonight of course it'd be the home run derby tomorrow would be the all-star game a lot of baseball to come this week and then the Brewers back in action on Friday and when they are back in action you can hear the Brewers on several civic media radio stations
including stations in Oshkosh and Richland Center.
We're seeing Kenosha, Park Falls and the newest Brewers affiliate that of course would be WBZH up in Hayward, all kinds of places to listen to the Brewers across the Civic Media Radio Network.
Well still ahead, we'll talk a bit about this program and Up North News and this host.
600 shows in, we've got some new listeners, so it's a great time to reintroduce the
the Civic Media Radio Network, what it is that we do around here, what it is that Up North News is that makes us so different, and why I enjoy being a bridge between both places, and happy to welcome you from the heart of America's Up North.
Live from Lake Wissota, thanks for making this the place to spend a part of your mornings.
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All right.
What's happening here?
Who's who's this?
Who's this guy?
Well, let's tell you first off that civic media, the radio station network you're listening to, and up north news are separate entities to relatively new digital media outlets to great digital outlets for Wisconsin news and information.
All right, digital outlets.
What does he mean by that?
It means we don't have a printing press.
here.
And for Up North News, it means we don't have a broadcast tower.
We are all online.
Digital is the online part of it.
And there's a lot of it.
There's the website.
There's all the social media platforms, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok.
There's newsletters that are emailed to you.
All the different ways that you can provide information in this modern era.
For civic media, that includes, I think, now more than two dozen stations in three different states with news and information on a network of 11 stations across Wisconsin, which includes Green Bay and Oshkosh, Waukesha for the Milwaukee area, Madison, Richland Center, Wisconsin Rapids, Wausau, La Crosse, we cover the Chippewa Valley here in Chippewa Falls, Hayward and Amory.
And then of course music stations all over the state as well.
So that's all civic media.
A lot of great shows, a lot of great people.
And then I'm here on behalf of Up North News, which is part of a national group called Courier Newsroom.
And we started up operations for Up North News all across Wisconsin in January of 2020.
Courier Newsroom has state outlets in Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Arizona,
Nevada, New Hampshire, Texas, Virginia, and it all features values driven journalism.
In other words, there are some places where it's very obvious where where they're coming from in their news and information, most of it in the far right media ecosystem.
But there are a lot of places that advertise themselves as independent or neutral or mainstream or whatever you want to call it.
You don't really know what their values are.
You don't know what really is guiding them.
You don't know if the local newspaper editor, you know, or the publisher has an axe to grind or is influenced by certain advertisers.
With us, with values driven journalism, we tell you the values that guide our reporting, our fact based reporting on the issues that are important to the communities we serve.
You just go right to the About Us page at Up North News.
And you'll see the the issues and the values that guide us with reporting that is rooted in facts and in science and in the values of the communities that we serve there is no guessing where we come from and We welcome the feedback as a result of it.
It's what has helped us build our newsletter from
an initial circulation of six, the six people that were in the room at the time when we tested it out to, you know, the six digit subscriber base that we have now and everybody that catches us on social media.
And now through this radio show as well, where Civic Media invited us to help share some real estate here for three hours every weekday morning and talk a bit about what we're doing at Up North News, a bit about what we're doing at Civic Media.
and help you appreciate the very best of both sites.
As far as the guy who's yapping at you here, if you've missed some of the descriptions before, I am a native of two hometowns, Eau Claire and St.
Paul.
That's what happens when your parents divorce at a young age.
And then attended UW Eau Claire,
and was pretty smitten with Wisconsin from that point on probably having something to do with meeting a cute farm girl from near Manitowoc and we now have two adult daughters and four grandkids across a couple of different states.
My own specialties are something named for the hometown here called Chippewauffles.
which are waffles they used to make for all the girls sleepover friends and for company when they come on the weekends, a little bit of cinnamon, a little bit of chocolate chips, brandy old fashions, and anything I can put together in my Instapot.
I'm part of that cult in the kitchen.
I have lived in Eau Claire.
I have lived in Rice Lake.
I have lived in Madison.
I've lived in Milwaukee as a reporter for radio and TV stations.
I have worked seemingly everywhere or been throughout the state, then as a state senator, and then as a candidate for Congress up north in the Seventh Congressional District.
There's hardly a place where I haven't done some kind of work of one sort or another, and I'm in love with it all.
and I love being a bridge between our biggest communities and our smallest because I've lived or worked in them or have family or friends in all of them and love to help people understand that we have common values and that the real threats aren't so much about urban versus rural.
The real threats come from those who would exacerbate the differences that there are between us.
Now for me,
Government isn't a them.
Government is us.
Government works.
It works when service-minded people run it, and those who hate government the most should be trusted least to run it competently.
So here you will find headlines and analysis and commentary.
Life.
From a guy entering his 60s, there'll be a little too much yacht rock here, and a guy tired of right wing media getting a pass from traditional outlets, so a lot of fact checking here as well.
It's wonderful to have you along, and we'll continue with the program right after this break.
For the Midwest Farm Report, we're live from Lake Wissota, here on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Dr. Kristen Lyrely joins us from beautiful northeast Wisconsin on the text line.
Congratulations on 600 informative shows.
Pat, looking forward to many more to come.
Jim from Brookfield.
Thank you, Jim.
Appreciate that very much.
And Kristen Lyrely has been on about 587 of those 600 shows because she's got stories to tell and news to share and some great stories of her time as a college mascot.
But we'll skip those for today because you were doing more of the serious stuff this time around.
You were in Washington DC last week as part of your work with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists or ACOG.
How was your DC trip?
It was really good.
It was really, really hot.
It gets hot here, but it is so hot and humid there.
I went for a walk on the National Mall yesterday, and when I came back, I was completely soaked.
Oh, I believe it.
Washington DC is one of those places where, you know, everybody tries to get out of there for the summer for good reason.
And if you, if you can't, you, you pay the price and you need to plan accordingly, especially for somebody like you who's got to be either walking or biking or doing something out there.
So you also told folks about the, the look is different around there these days.
A little bit more fortified.
or paranoid or however you want to call it.
What was it that you saw around the White House?
The vibe, the look, it's entirely different.
And it's all of these, they're a little little, I wouldn't even say subtle, but like different.
places like a USDA building.
There's a huge banner of Abraham Lincoln on the right hand side.
And then that stern Donald Trump face on the left hand side.
And the juxtaposition is just really uncomfortable.
Wait a minute.
Is that a real thing?
It's
real.
That there's a big old banner with Abe Lincoln in front of the egg building, which is a massive building and a thing of Donald Trump.
See, I've seen that and usually in memes.
And usually it's being mocked in some way or another.
And I didn't want to believe that that was actually real, that the guy is narcissistic enough to have a massive portrait of himself hanging on a government building.
That's real.
You didn't believe that.
It is
real.
I didn't want to believe it.
When
I saw
it with my own eyes, I thought, yeah, this is the world that we're living in.
It actually felt very authoritarian, which is what many
of us are feeling.
Oh, it's got Dear Leader written all over it, absolutely.
Yeah, but
the Dear Leader piece, Pat, I couldn't believe it.
I've been to the north side of the White House many times.
It's one of those places where every time I'm in DC, I have this path that I like to walk just to inspire me.
And I read the quotes and it's just like to think about the sacrifices and the history there is so incredible.
But when I went to the north side of the White House this time, I was standing in Lafayette Square and the fortifications around the White House keep moving back.
The perimeter keeps moving back.
So now there's this big, beautiful open space behind the White House, not directly behind, but like there's a directly behind, then there's a street, then there's a square.
All of that is fortified.
You can't even get across the street.
to the gate that surrounds or the fence that surrounds the White House.
It is so weird.
I've never seen anything like it.
And then there are just police everywhere.
It is uncomfortable.
People are talking in hushed tones.
I talked with a police officer.
He didn't know why the fortifications were there.
It's just bizarre.
It seems like a lot of it is symbolism, you know, again, to underscore the importance because we've
We've come through many administrations in this modern era.
Look, I get it.
This isn't Harry Truman.
Okay.
Harry Truman can't just walk out the gates and go for his little morning constitutional, you know, before beginning his day.
But overkill certainly comes to mind on this and by design to make themselves sound important.
And it's one of the many distractions.
that are out there.
I mean, we may or may not even get into, you know, the Epstein files and the controversy about that this week, but like take his threatening to revoke the citizenship of Rosie O'Donnell over
the
weekend, which again, we're not going to spend a lot of time on except to put it in perspective.
It's one of those shiny objects that, oh, don't think about this.
Think about this instead.
Think about Rosie O'Donnell and my taking shots at her.
which, by the way, she had the perfect response for it, along the lines of, hey, still living inside your head, feels really good, even from way over here.
But in terms of the work that you were doing out there, I know when you were heading out there, you said one of the things that the folks at ACOG are talking about is rural health, which it's obviously not just OBGYNs, but rural health overall, was already on a troublesome trajectory.
for demographic reasons and so forth.
Now you've got an administration hostile to rural health care with all of these Medicaid cuts and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if you said that the tone about rural health care from an OBGYN standpoint is alarming.
Alarming doesn't even begin to cover it.
50% of our obstetrical patients who live in rural areas
are on Medicaid.
They can't afford the insurance to take care of themselves while they're pregnant to get routine pregnancy care and to pay for their deliveries in their hospitals if they even have a hospital that they can go to because here in Wisconsin we've lost over half of our rural obstetrical units in the last couple of decades.
So it's this attack on us as
patients in rural communities, and it's an attack on the places where we receive health care, the clinics and the hospitals.
But I was really heartened by the acknowledgement, the recognition, the leaders that I was with are people from all over the country and many of them work in big cities and in academic centers.
They're in those places where we're doing the research and we're training the students to send out to rural areas and they're starting to get it in a way that city people kind of don't get, country people sometimes.
So, and I'm so proud to be a voice at the table.
So they have committed to being a part of this solution.
And you know, by design, OBGYN practice, women's health is DEI.
Taking care of just women, that is under the umbrella of DEI.
But we recommitted ourselves to the full scope of the work that we do out of necessity.
And the irony is, as we were doing it, the headquarters for our organization is literally right across the street from ICE headquarters.
So I was listening to the conversation and looking out the window and thinking, okay, this is our mission.
You're right that obstetrical care
is very much you know isolated by gender and we're not supposed to allow that anymore.
I would not be a bit surprised if Robert Kennedy Jr.
outlawed obstetrics because you know it only takes care of women.
We've had goofier things happen already out of this administration.
It doesn't make any sense, but neither does much of the stuff that they're doing.
So when people want a default to common sense like that would never happen, it doesn't make any sense.
I know it doesn't make any sense, and it could certainly happen, and it may.
Yeah.
And the thing is, again, obstetrical care is not the kind of thing that lends itself well to some aspects of, you know, telehealth, for example, there's a lot that you can do that way.
But you need those rural clinics, you know, in in Rice Lake in Managua in all of these places.
Because again, you can't get everybody driving two hours.
when they first experience you know labor pains or you know what what might be a miscarriage or something like that you've got to have people in these areas and that's tough to do when you also have as a part of this bill and I know you put together a video the other day about this as well you've got a bill that just passed that along with all the cuts to Medicaid and everything they're talking about limiting how much
people can borrow in student loans through government sources to further their education, their graduate education, meaning medical school.
And what that's going to do for people, you know, like my wife who grew up on a farm and didn't have a lot of means but wanted to be a doctor, and you're cutting avenues to the next group of Wisconsin farm kids or anybody from a lower income family that wants to go into medicine.
that Kristen raises her hand.
The girl from the family, not of means from Kakana, you know?
Right.
I'm a first generation college student.
There's no way.
I have no parents.
So there's no way I would have been able to go to medical school without student loans.
And I had kids.
So a lot of my student loans went to pay for my childcare.
Something that could attend classes.
But now they're capping it at $200,000 total.
And that is a lot of money.
And I'm sure it sounds like a lot of money.
Like, why can't you get that done?
When I graduated from medical school nearly 20 years ago, I graduated with over a quarter of a million dollars in debt, $250,000, and that was 20 years ago.
So capping it at $200,000 is really gonna limit the number of doctors and the type of people who will be able to go into not only medicine, but other professional areas as well.
Now, there are folks saying, well, that's just the government loans.
You can still go to a bank and get these things.
Well, if you can, yes.
But keep in mind, the requirements are going to be much more stringent there.
And of course, that
is just further proof that what this administration is doing is forcing people into essentially the for-profit, corporate, sometimes predatory lending sector as opposed to making it say a national priority that we want people to have an education.
And so here are lower interest loans to do that.
You're good to pay it back.
You know, how many, how many people again who
Did not come from from a family of means like me with Pell grants who have paid back their student loans many times over and have become taxpayers paying higher rates as a result of that higher education I mean, that's the way it worked in this country for generations before an administration that said well
You go to the bank, you go to Wall Street, and if they deem you worthy, they might take a chance on you.
Or it might not be worth your while, because again, of the higher interest rate and everything else.
So obviously a lot for you guys to talk about and process there.
What have you been processing as a weekend show host?
What was on the Dr. Kristen Lyrely show last weekend, and what you got coming up next weekend if you know yet?
Well, Green Bay family.
Can I just first say I'm so excited to be on the air in Green Bay because you know how much I love Green Bay and
northeast
Wisconsin.
Yes.
And I talk about it all the time, but you guys don't get to hear it.
But now you do.
So it's so good, so, so good to be on the air here.
Last week on The Dr. Kristen Lairly Show, we talked with Pete Silsky and Jeremy Pingle.
They are homeless.
outreach care coordinators for the City of Green Bay, they are working with all of these organizations all around the region to solve our unhoused problem, to help those folks who you see living under bridges and in parks and who you don't see because they're living in cars and just trying to figure out how to make it to the next day.
The conversation is personal.
It's beautiful.
And they are really helping these people by surrounding them with resources to get into a housed situation.
You're not going to want to miss it, especially if you're in Green Bay, but it doesn't matter anywhere around the country.
People who are unhoused are everywhere, and it's not as easy as just putting them in a place where they can live.
They need ID cards.
They need food.
They need jobs.
They need connections.
They need support, and that's what this program does.
All right, so that's where you'd find the Dr. Kristen Lyrely show.
Weekends on stations in Green Bay and Oshkosh, and of course the Civic Media app, Civic Media Network, and a pingle, you say.
I may have to see if this is a relative.
Really?
My mom's maiden name is Pingle, yes.
Well, he grew up in Nina.
Could be.
I mean, there are more Pingles and Krightlows than I ever thought.
Turns out, you know, we're everywhere.
We just kind of lay low until the time is right.
Then we pop up.
on the radio or wherever you least expect us.
So
it's really scary.
I know, I know, which gets us, which gets us into all the 23 and me horror stories, but we'll save that for another discussion as well.
One of the things that we will let me.
please share one more text from Joe and Superior.
Congratulations, Pat.
We're so fortunate to have the Civic Media Network up North News and Mornings with Pat Krightlow.
Joe, we appreciate that sentiment very much.
One of the things we do here is a daily history lesson with music and other things that maybe you learned in class and maybe you're learning for the first time.
We do that mornings here, powered by Up North News on the Civic Media Radio Network, and we'll do that next.
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Alright, there's four people on this screen here on this radio program.
There's me, there's producer Parker Olson, there's Doc Kristen Lairley, there's Selena Heller, reporter from Up North News and Eau Claire.
Which of the folks on this screen strikes you most as a motorcycle rider and willing to be part of the movie Easy Rider, which opened this day in 1969?
Who are you pointing at?
Are you pointing at Selena?
Selena.
OK, because you should be pointing the other way on my screen.
Yeah, I think it's kind of weird.
She's actually over here on
mine.
Yeah.
OK.
I see.
Good Brady buns.
Yeah.
All right.
Selena, we nominate you.
What's your motorcycle history?
I've been to Sturgis.
I've been to the Harley anniversary.
OK.
Well, congratulations, Kristen.
You nailed it.
So.
Easy Rider opened this day born to be wild was there Peter Honda Dennis Hopper as motorcycle riding free spirits The soundtrack sold over half a million copies and of course Steppenwolf's tune continues to be played today Let's see on this day in 1967 the who launched their first large-scale American tour They were an opening act back then in 1967 playing the first of 55 dates opening for
I want to see if you're shocked as you were last year when I told you this.
Herman's Hermits.
Oh, yes.
The Who opening for Herman's Hermits.
Which, apparently, they learned a lot from each other.
The stories
go afterwards.
I'm Henry VIII.
I am Henry
VIII.
I am I am.
You know that, Parker, right?
No.
No.
Parker.
Come on, Parker.
Sorry.
Parker
for the uninitiated is 14 years old and is just a whiz of a producer even at his tender young age.
Actress Jane Lynch is 65 years old today.
Happy birthday to a very funny lady as sarcastic as they come, which might be why I love her so much.
Over the weekend in 1964, 61 years ago this week, the Beatles released this little ditty.
On this day in 1980, the Republican National Convention was held in Detroit to nominate Ronald Reagan.
The organizers set up an all-American theme with Pat Boone and Donnie and Marie.
The convention opened with Glenn Campbell and Tanya Tucker performing a duet with the National Anthem.
Glenn Campbell would later admit, quote, we were higher than the notes we were singing.
It's a great family values convention there.
The number one song this week in 1979 was by Donna Summer.
This is Helena and I's theme song.
Yes.
There's Donna Summer tooting and bee peeping her way to number one.
This is 46
years ago.
Let's see.
Let's talk about Michael Jackson's tune, Beat It, specifically the guitar solo in the middle.
Let's play a little of Eddie Van Halen.
Again, something he just kind of wandered in and played, but it was on this day in 1984 at the Jackson's victory tour stop at Texas Stadium.
where Eddie Van Halen joined Michael Jackson on stage to finally play that guitar solo live from Beat It.
Not a bad little
diddy.
1984, our greatest year in pop music history.
It was, yep.
Do you
know?
Can I add in there?
I'm
right
now talking about joining on stage.
The Chippewa Falls Choir got to join Forner on stage at the Northern Wisconsin State Fair over the weekend.
Do I
want to know what love is?
Yes.
That's
so cool.
Were you
there?
Well, no, I was
there.
I know I saw you at the fair on Friday, but OK.
And Saturday, Saturday had a friend saying, I can hear foreigner from my house and his house is miles away on the south end of Chippewa Falls.
That sounds like Sarah Palin talking.
I can hear foreigner from my house in Chippewa
Falls.
But had the local choir on stage.
That's
awesome.
What an experience.
And the band even urged people to vote for legislators that funded arts programs.
Oh,
I love that.
Good for them.
They played in the Twin Cities the night before.
And I know somebody was there and said, they sounded great.
So good for them.
I used to be of an age where I mocked all these oldsters who were singing.
And of course, you heard me last week going on and on about Chicago and some of the other acts that we saw.
So foreigner, congratulations, you old men.
You still got it in you.
Pretty soon we're going to be doing Daniel O'Donnell's greatest hits.
No, not Daniel O'Donnell.
I so draw the line there.
Sorry, Parker.
Yeah, I'm just long for the ride.
It's fine.
Me too.
Of course, this is Bastille Day, the storming of the Bastille in Paris, this day in 1789, which showed the widely spreading discontent with the monarchy.
On this day in 1874, the Chicago fire burned down about 50 acres of the city, destroying more than 800 buildings, killing 20 people.
That wasn't the only thing known as the Chicago fire.
Apparently they had to burn down a couple of different times before they figured out how to get it right.
And this is national mac and cheese day.
Here's my question about that.
Mac and cheese, homemade mac and cheese is really good, can be, can be really good.
And it's one of those things I still haven't attempted yet for fear of it just absolutely failing and being like really bland or overdone or whatever.
Anybody here make a homemade one yet?
Sure.
Today is the day to be brave, Pat.
Okay.
So you're not volunteering that you've done it.
You're volunteering me.
Costco
makes a
great mac and cheese.
Yeah, maybe that's where I need to go.
And again, for the other things we do on the history calendar, it's usually some kind of a day, a recognition day or whatever.
Some of them are awareness days.
It's fine to be aware of certain, you know, diseases or historical events.
But instead of lasagna appreciation day, the people behind this one named July as lasagna awareness month.
So
again,
we ask you, are you aware of the your lasagna?
Where is it?
Where is the lasagna?
Is it in your cupboard?
Is that making it this time instead of mac and cheese?
Who's to say?
What is it doing?
Yeah, what is it doing?
And why do we have to be so aware of it?
So much more coming up in the next two hours here as we do mornings powered by Up North News live here on the Civic Media Radio Network.
I'm Pat Rightlow.
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