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Hey, good morning, 7.06.
Nice to have you here up north on this Monday morning, July 14th, 2025.
Parker Olson producing this show down in Madison Studio A2, and Selena Heller, Up North News reporter standing by on Eau Claire, Dr. Kristen Lyrely in the Green Bay area.
and meteorologist Brittany Merleau will be joining us as well to talk about the forecast for the start of this week.
And Brittany, we'll just get right into it because the forecast for yesterday, it didn't matter what the forecast was, you're going to get smoke.
no
matter
what up here it was super heavy and it was just best not to even try to go outside until later when it dissipated and we'll talk a bit about that about some members of congress writing a letter of complaint to canada i mean talk about the case of old man shakes fist at cloud but right the the larger concern for us here is while it has certainly dissipated you know since its peak yesterday afternoon are we kind of
past that peak or I know these things kind of come and go in cycles.
What are we looking at from that stand front as we head into the rest of the weather forecast for today?
Absolutely.
So one of the main things, I don't know if you've noticed, it seems like either we get a stormy, hot and humid kind of day or we get the more comfortable but wildfire smoke hazy days.
And that's happening because high pressure system.
So as the high pressure system moves into the area and we've got a prevailing wind mainly out of the Northwest.
from the Canada direction, it starts to pull in that air right to Wisconsin.
And then the high pressure system actually sinks and calms the air.
So it's pulling everything way up high in the atmosphere down to the ground and allowing it to settle.
And that's where we are really bringing it in and feeling those effects.
So today, yes, we still have a high pressure system covering a majority of the state.
A lot of the bad or worse air quality is staying stuck to the east side and far up north.
So pretty much by.
the lakes right now.
We are still seeing it kind of wanting to increase to a moderate to unhealthy level still through this afternoon and into this evening, again, especially north and east.
So statewide that wildfire smoke, air quality alert is still in effect and we can expect another sunny but hazy type of day.
It will be warm, but it will be dry.
Highs will hit the mid 80s all across the state and it's going to be slightly sticky and humid, especially off to the west and right where this front is draped.
We have a stalled front over northwest.
Wisconsin right now, and it's going to ever so slowly nudge in towards central Wisconsin, more north central by this evening.
Some showers, maybe a tiny isolated storm could spark from that.
Chances are very, very low.
That is the chance, and that's kind of that front there.
So once that moves through, we'll start to see some better air quality conditions.
But for now, especially south of that front, it's not looking too good today.
All right let's check the mail bag here from Tigerton.
Rob says good morning.
It's sunny and hazy and 65.
I got my lawn jobs in Wittenberg today battling the smoke.
I had a mowing job Saturday afternoon after getting six tenths of an inch of rain Friday night.
It's the 30th anniversary of the 1995 heat wave that hit Wisconsin from July 12th to 15th.
Seven people died there.
I says congratulations Pat on your 600th show and letting me be a part of it.
It is must listen radio
every weekday morning.
He says today is my sister Debbie's birthday.
She is 54 years old.
Well, you may not get another birthday now after sharing your sister's age on the radio like that.
That's that's okay.
Uh Rob also said as part of lasagna awareness month.
He made lasagna yesterday for supper.
and he does try to cook there.
He said he took a picture of the sunset Saturday with the smoke and haze and it made Channel 2 in Green Bay.
That sunset last night up here through that smoke, I mean that sun was huge and so red and gorgeous.
to be honest, but I was
going to say that's the only positive of the wildfire smoke I feel.
Yes, that that really is is exactly it.
Let's see.
Alicia says happy 600th episode here.
Let's see from Joe in Superior.
Oh, we talked about in our last episode, get the who as an opening act for Hermann's Hermits back in the day.
Joe says my wife from Babbit, Minnesota attended the Hermann's Hermits who concert in Duluth as a young girl and she was shocked when they smashed their guitars.
I don't know who was doing that at the Herman Hermit show.
I guess, you know, that would be a shocking thing coming off of Herman's Hermits.
A text from Rosemary and Aliva, what three states the civic media now broadcasting from.
We mentioned earlier about civic media expanding and now has stations in Michigan and Minnesota as well.
So the empire just grow.
Brittany has so many more places where she's got to do a forecast for.
I know,
but hey, it's nice because Minnesota, we always get their stuff, so it's easy.
Yeah, so it's like pre-casting for
all of us, you know.
You're
up to the challenge.
Thank you, Brittany.
We'll talk to you next hour.
Sounds good.
All right.
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And it's the consternation over the winner of the Democratic mayoral primary in New York City, Zoran Mamdani.
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So which is it for Democrats?
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Selena Heller does some of that reporting for us at UpNorth News and one of the stories she's been working on lately deals with farmers who have been watching President Trump's trade war with our trading partners, allies and friends.
Because why wouldn't you declare war on your friends, right?
And the uncertainty that's brought to farmers.
Now, Selena, the
The White House promised 90 trade deals in 90 days with 90 countries.
And the correct answer so far is almost one.
There's one trade deal that is almost official and not much else.
And Selena, you talked to farmers who would certainly like a little bit more certainty when it comes to their ag export markets.
Oh my goodness.
Yes.
And, you know, I talked to them.
like in the fall too, and it was kind of the same message is things need to be stable and not all of this uncertainty and changing and what can we plan for?
It's so hard to plan for the future and buying their supplies and for their fields and I mean just everything, they just need some certainty.
And there are so many variables in farming like the weather.
So they'd like just like something to be
something that they can grab ahold of and plan for.
So, yes.
And so you talked to, are we hearing just from one Chippewa County farmer in this clip?
A couple
of them.
Les
Danielson is from Cadot and then we were at the Peck family farm which is just outside of Chippewa Falls and that is Jeff Peck and he talks about all of that too and Tammy Baldwin, Senator Tammy Baldwin came for a visit to the farm and they talked to her about kind of all of the problems that can, they can potentially have with all of this uncertainty.
So here's a little two-minute clip compilation of the people that she talked to about
the uncertainty that Wisconsin farmers continue to face today.
As you disrupt our trade, it's a huge problem.
You can't emphasize enough.
It takes a long time sometimes to build those relationships, but you can break them pretty quickly.
You got to be a good neighbor.
It's still business at the end of the day, so we have to have good business deals, but you also got to go about it the right
way.
U.S.
Senator Tammy Baldwin toured the Peck family farm in Chippewa Falls and talked with local producers and farmers about how Trump's trade war is hurting their operations and causing uncertainty.
You know, farms are usually a very narrow margin, and sometimes, unfortunately, a negative margin.
So anytime you have uncertainty and prices jumping around, that
just is an
extra challenge
that we would prefer not to have.
When you look at Wisconsin, the northern part of Wisconsin, the central part of Wisconsin, a lot of the money that comes into these counties comes from ag commodities, whether it be corn, soybeans, or beef.
That's what keeps these small towns in business, like Thorpe, Stanley, Gilman.
You know, that's what they survive on, is the farmers doing well.
So it's really important that we maintain these trade agreements that we're able to export our our egg products and keep the prices up because that's what supports rural America.
In the first months of his administration, President Trump launched a trade war with Wisconsin's three largest trading partners, Canada, Mexico and China, increasing input costs, cutting off export markets and making it harder for farmers and producers to plan for the future.
The biggest problems we have is we don't know the cost of our inputs, whether it be our fertilizer, our crop.
protection products like our chemicals.
A lot of those come from China.
A lot of fertilizer comes from Canada.
And on the other end of the scale, a lot of our products are exported.
20% of our soybeans last year went to China.
5% of our ethanol goes to Canada.
And as we have disruptions with our major buyers, we're going to sell our product.
The president campaigned on bringing grocery costs down, bringing other costs down.
And the policies that he's put forward have been producing just the opposite result.
I didn't think we'd have this many problems with our allies like Canada and Mexico.
I'm not surprised some of the other countries, but do we have any friends?
You know, is it America first or is it America alone?
And I think that was the perfect way to end this.
Is it America first or America alone?
And people are seeing that one thing that Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail is turning into something a little bit different here.
And now with that recent trade deal deadline passing,
We still don't know what's next.
Do they extend the deadline?
What does this mean?
And again, if you're trying to plan, you know, say, what are you going to plant next year or how many cows you're going to milk, anything like that, there's still nothing new from this White House that helps farmers know what they can expect for a business plan.
Yeah.
And of course, they knew all of this was they expected all this.
to come just exactly as it played out and like I talked with last last fall and it was kind of like I talked to him that day and he said and I said you know this is exactly what you expected and he said yeah unfortunately that's the case but anytime they can kind of try to get the word about how important farms are no matter who it is uh to anybody anybody any legislator that will come they will try to tell the importance of uh
farms in a community.
And by the way, it's not just farms.
Kristen and I have talked about things like occupations, tourists, medical students with tourism down, international tourism is down, international education is going to be down, which and then the limits on loans, Kristen, for student loans, there's
absolutely nothing there that indicates anything but a continuing shortage in many areas, medicine right up there at the top of the list.
It's true, but I want to go back to farmers because we all come from farmers.
I mean, Pat, your wife.
grew up on a dairy farm.
My mom grew up on a dairy farm that my uncle still owns.
Selena, we are all from farmers and what do you know about farmers?
They're not political.
They're incredibly practical and they will roll with the punches until they just can't roll anymore.
And that's what they've done for generations and generations.
And they have hit a breaking point right now where our leaders are not supporting them.
Just lip service.
All they're getting is lip service.
They need support because if they don't get support,
We don't get food.
We have to support our farmers.
Yeah.
Selena Heller, Up North News reporter, Dr. Kristen Lierly here as well.
A local update is next for some of you, and then we'll continue along here live from Lake Wissota from the heart of America's Up North.
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Let's talk Milwaukee Brewers for a bit here at just about 723 on this Monday morning.
Freddie Peralta carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning and gave up only one run while Jackson Churio and Bryce Durang homered back-to-back and the Brewers extended their winning streak to seven games, including 6-0 on this most recent homestand with an 8-1 victory over the Washington Nationals yesterday.
The Brewers have 56 wins at the break, the most in team history.
recalled that the Brewers were 21 and 25.
Back on May 17th, four games below 500.
They'd been shut out for the fourth time in five games.
Since that time, the Brewers have the best record in baseball 35 and 15.
There was some bad news yesterday.
Right fielder Sal Friedlich left the game in the third inning after making a sliding catch in foul territory.
The team said he had left hamstring soreness.
He's got a few days to try to heal up and get better because, again, of the All-Star Break, the Brewers will be back at it on Friday in Los Angeles.
Once again, against the Dodgers, you can catch the Brewers on stations in Ritzland Center, Oshkosh, Racine, Kenosha, Park Falls, and Hayward.
Head over to the Civic Media website to learn more, civicmedia.us.
Before we pause, we were talking to Dr. Kristen Lierly and Selena Heller about some of the farm
Some roots that folks have, some lasted longer than others.
My family's farm roots go back to South Dakota.
And one day, and I don't remember what precipitated it anymore, but I remember my grandpa packed up his wife and the four kids and said, that's it, we're moving to Minneapolis.
And there was great consternation, but he was just, he was done, moved to the Twin Cities and had been there ever since.
Others lasted a little bit longer, in part because in South Dakota, there ain't nothing to raise but dirt.
But Selena, yours was what?
Beef cattle, horses, pigs, things like that?
Yes, all of those things.
Okay.
We were
down at a horse show last weekend, last week, just kind of getting back to the roots.
Well, when I saw you at the Northern Wisconsin State Fair on Friday, you were on your way to the animal barns, if I recall.
Yes, we love, we love the animal barns.
Um, there
was no, wait, wait, wait.
Do we love the animal barns when you were taking emery or, or not because I know when my mom used to take me to the barns at the fairs, I'd be like, I don't want to throw such a.
feel like I don't want to go on the rides.
I want all the all the sticky food.
But nope, you had to go to the animal barn.
So it was a Maria willing participant in
this.
Absolutely.
She has to go to the barns and see all the animals.
We, um, one of our days last week, she was in a horse camp also.
So she got to ride horses in her horse camp and it was the best.
All right.
And Kristen, you're, you know, again, you've got roots in Kakana and you, you see all the folks around you working
and so hard every day to not deserve this kind of uncertainty that they're getting right now.
Yeah, but my mom grew up north of Fond du Lac in Pebbles, if you're familiar.
And their family had a dairy farm, family dairy farm, and all my uncles and I mean, historically, those are my people.
So I got to see the hard work.
Although for me, I loved the animals, but my grandpa never really let me milk.
So I just mostly played with the cats in the barn.
But she got to be
there.
Alicia writes in on YouTube, I loved the barns when I was a kid and still love them.
And she says about
all the talk from politicians, yep, it's all lip service and it makes me beyond furious.
And, but again, I would add, by the way, for the folks that go, well, farmers deserve what they get for supporting Trump, blah, blah, blah.
No, they don't.
There were a lot of people that voted for Trump the first and the second times believing that he was going to do some of these things that he never had any intention of doing, but he, you know, he made it sound good and it's, it's understandable that there are people now going, wait a minute, the guy that said he was going to, you know, fight Wall Street for me now turns out to be just another Wall Street guy.
And it's tough to learn that the hard way, but look, that's what happens in campaigns is some people hear the promises.
And I know you, Kristen, you've talked to people, they want to believe the promises that are being made to them.
Even if some of us would have told them, no, no, no, don't believe that.
People want to believe.
I think they're just looking for something different.
And they see Donald Trump and his promises and the way that he markets himself.
And they think maybe he's going to do something different than this government that I don't think is working for me.
And frankly, it hasn't been.
When you look generationally at how things have changed over time, the baby boomers have it made.
They've created a society that works for them.
They have Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security.
What does Gen Z have?
What do they have to look forward to?
Government has not provided for them.
It is not surprising to me that people in places like rural areas where they don't have resources and they're looking at their towns, their small businesses moving in the direction that they don't want to see, it's not surprising to me that they voted for something different.
But what they were sold and what they are receiving is entirely different.
Yes, and look, it's not just Donald Trump, the representation that they were expecting from somebody like a Congressman, Derek Van Orden, who, again, yesterday was nursing his Twitter addiction as of 8.30 last night, he had tweeted more than 30 times.
I don't know.
what else
something better to do like actually work for the people or spend some time in his district talking to people
you would think I mean and the same thing up by you with with Tony weed who is not April if it tweeterer but again you know could be doing something else other than supporting a bill that they're then warning people about when they come back home
And just frankly, again, in your district up there in the eighth, the third over here, the seventh up north, folks just deserve a little bit better than the usual promises that they're getting.
But our members of Congress, and I can think of two of them from here in Wisconsin, recently signed a letter to Canada and said, Canada, you're on fire.
You need to do something about this, which is really not.
necessarily the best course of action when your neighbor's house is burning down is to send a letter complaining about the smoke.
So we are going to discuss that in our next segment.
We'll also get into a bit about the EAA air venture, which starts in Oshkosh.
One week from now, Up North News reporter Selena Heller.
Thank you for the update on your story from the farms here around the Chippewa Valley.
Have a great day.
We'll talk to you a little bit later on.
Thank you.
Talk to you later.
All right.
So much more still ahead first the Midwest Farm Report across the stations of the Civic Media Radio Network.
We'll be back in a bit.
I'm Pat Crightlow.
735 back here on the Civic Media Radio Network or perhaps you're listening later on as a podcast or watching us later on on Facebook or YouTube.
Well a reminder if you're not one of those people potting us you can head over to Spotify and sign up to follow our show as a podcast.
You can do it at Apple as well or any of those other places where you get your favorite podcasts and I know that there's at least one new subscriber on Spotify because in visiting my mom yesterday
Kristen and Parker.
Patrick might one of my sisters set her up on her iPad with Spotify
so that she could
she could listen to her to her music, meaning the 50s and 60s, you know, there you go.
And so I said, oh, let me see that.
Looked at her Spotify.
Clicked a couple of buttons and said, congratulations, you're my newest subscriber.
Padding
your stats.
I like it.
Yep.
Hey, I'll come to you.
I will come to your house too and do the same thing if you like.
Let me know.
That's probably
like that, Pat.
He's on the radio again.
Well, she normally listens over, you know, like Facebook and stat or something, but now she's got a new way to do it.
So good.
Good for you, mom.
Good job.
Lady and your son, borrow that iPad for just a moment here.
I mentioned a minute ago that there were members of Congress, including two from Wisconsin, who felt the need to send a letter to Canada.
That would include, let's see, it was Tom Tiffany and Glenn Grossman.
who joined with some other members of congress from minnesota sending a letter to complain about wildfires smoke and they blamed the quote the lack of active forest management for the spread of the wildfires and the letter goes on to say
Our constituents have been limited in their ability to go outside and safely breathe due to the dangerous air quality the wildfire smoke has created.
In our neck of the woods, summer months are the best time of the year to spend time outdoors recreating, enjoying time with family, and creating new memories.
But this wildfire smoke makes it difficult to do all these things.
I might have added some dramatic.
flair to that.
But how do you suppose that letter was received by the Canadian Forest Service, Kristen?
It's so embarrassing.
It is.
It's just, it's embarrassing.
And it sparked a robust response from the Premier of Manitoba, who accused the members of Congress of trivializing the efforts to battle the fires.
And he writes,
This is what turns people off politics when you've got a group of Congress people trying to trivialize and make hay out of a wildfire season where we've lost lives in our province.
I have shaken the hands of American firefighters in Northern Manitoba who are helping us out and I would challenge these ambulance chasers in the U.S.
Congress to go and do the same and to hear how much the American firefighting heroes who are here love our province.
I mean, it really was about the least neighborly thing you could expect Tiffany and growth men and the others to do.
First of all, if you have a breathing disability or disorder, please take care of yourself.
The air quality is not good.
So seek shelter, wear a mask, stay in your house where you have filtered air.
This will pass.
Second of all, oh, Canada.
I'm so sorry.
Did you see the ad that the Quebec Tourism folks put out about America?
No.
Oh, it's beautiful.
It's a fella who's checking into a Quebec hotel and she asks, where are you from?
And he says, I'm an American.
And she goes, and she hits a button under her desk and the desk opens and she walks out and just gives him a hug.
Americans, you are welcome.
Please come and visit us here in Quebec.
And it is so beautiful because they know, they understand every Canadian that I've talked to understands that this is not how Americans are.
It's how our leaders are acting and it is just it's embarrassing and it's so so wrong.
Yes It is our leaders and just just enough Americans and many of them are at the turning point conference over the weekend to again put on a display worthy of our Apologies to Canada and others Congressman Tiffany put up on Twitter Another weekend of Canadian wildfire smoke and air quality warnings across Wisconsin and Minnesota with today's modern tools
to prevent wildfires, this shouldn't keep happening.
By today's modern tools, I think we know what Tom Tiffany means by that.
You know, Captain Clearcut, or Captain Extraction, who probably believes that the next step for Canada should be a series of strip mines.
Because after all, you can't have forest fires if there are only holes in the ground where the forest used to be, right?
Pretty smart
guy.
It's so hard to believe that this is a fella who represents a part of the country that depends on forestry as a primary industry.
It is either the first or second most important economic driver in the state of Wisconsin.
So Tom Tiffany should be smarter.
turn to the foresters and learn what this means.
Yes, there is responsible forestry management, but if that doesn't mean clear cutting, that doesn't mean that all the underbrush needs to go away.
That seems meat.
If you are somebody who lives in a suburban area and wants to clean up your yard, but that's not how forests work.
So maybe Tom Tiffany needs a little education.
I suspect quite a few of our Congress people do.
Well, that they their education is just, you know, what does industry want?
And let's just
give that to them and that will take care of our problems.
No, it will create a whole new series and we don't need to talk about what they want to do to groundwater.
Let's just be concerned about what they want to do to our forest to get to the groundwater.
Yes, and industry actually, much of the forestry industry is into conservation.
They work
hand in
hand with conservation efforts, with the DNR, because they recognize that they have to have sustainable forests if they're going to have a future in the industry.
So don't be fooled.
They are not actually even representing forestry as a profession and as an economic driver in the state.
Yeah.
Hey, uh, EAA Air Venture starts a week from today down in Oshkosh.
Is that, uh, I have not attended.
Have you?
Once.
Once?
I'm
not really
an airplane person, but it is a huge deal.
It is a very huge deal.
And I was looking at the Oshkosh Northwestern here and they've already got a preview for the 72nd edition.
Justin Marvell put it together for the Northwestern.
Said that two, Count them two Goodyear blimps are set to make their return to air venture.
All the air shows will begin coming up next Monday as well.
Let's see, there will be 700.
Wait, look at
Parker's face.
Parker's like having a moment right
now.
Yeah.
Did you say there's going to be two blimps?
there?
I said two Goodyear blimps marking your Centennial anniversary of flying airships.
Aren't there like seven blimps in the world?
That's how blimp worthy this event is.
It's a blimp worthy.
I mean,
yeah, it's a big deal.
Yes, that's wild.
It's described in his article as essentially flights Disney World with the pomp and spectacle of the aeronautics industry from flying cars to fighter jets and flight simulations.
It's
really cool.
Even if you're not into planes like me, it's still really cool.
Yeah, there will be 860 exhibitors, 98 countries represented at least.
And like I said, about 700,000 visitors.
And you know, I should let this go at this point because you know who's going to really want to talk about.
it in less than 30 minutes is going to be Brittany Merleau, who like camps, like literally camps there, you know, when she can.
Is
an EAA fan girl?
Yes.
Alicia writes on YouTube, I got to find the photos from my first EAA air venture.
And Shosa says, I think we need to sit these members of Congress down to watch the Lorax talking about, you know, what's happening with the forests in Canada and everything else.
I think they could understand it on that level.
whatever it takes, frankly, at this point to try to get some kind of a message through to them.
Over the weekend, again, you were traveling and just got back.
So I'm guessing you have not seen the new Superman movie that came out over the weekend here.
No,
tell
me more.
Well, I was just looking at the weekend box office here and it says that in a bid to kick off a new era for DC Studios, James Gunn's Superman opened with $122 million in US and Canadian ticket sales over the weekend.
The roughly on target opening was the third largest of the year so far.
And the first of the DC Comics to surpass $100 million in its opening since Wonder Woman back in 2017.
But here's the thing, ticket sales were relatively soft for Superman overseas.
In 78 international markets, it grossed only $95 million, including in China, just $6 million in sales.
Because, of course, it is a quintessential American character.
And the America's image taken a bit of a beating here because of our own little Lex Luthor in the White House right now.
Oh, I like that analogy.
See what I did there, huh?
So you had Superman at 122 million, Jurassic World rebirth at 40 million, F won the movie at 13 million, how to train your dragon raised $8 million and Elio at $4 million over the weekend.
Thought about that yesterday that you could go to a nice air conditioned theater, not have to worry about the wildfire smoke and go see a movie.
Would had to get off my butt to do it and there was just too much to get done around the house and it actually was nice I mean it was it was it's one thing if it's like a rainy stormy day or there's a blizzard or it's really cold and you go all right This is this is a day for getting stuff done around the house Yesterday instead it was like well it it looks really bad out there.
It's sunny
It's breezy, but that's smoke.
I mean, you'd step outside for a second and you'd swear it was like somebody put a whole bunch of campfires in the lot next door.
And we said, no, let's just let's just get things done around the house.
And it's amazing how many little things that you've neglected around the house you can get to when the circumstances warrant it, you know,
and you're given permission to stay in the house like probably
not
a great idea to be outside as much as in the summer.
I want to be outside all the time.
But on days like this, yeah, I think I might
actually be able to empty my inbox today.
One more note about the weekend marked the 40th anniversary of Live Aid.
And I have not asked you if Live Aid was something that you tuned into, were you a part of?
It seemed like this global phenomenon at the time, but, and I'll share my story in a minute, but do you have a Live Aid story?
Oh, it's not a story.
I was just glued to the TV set because I loved all of that.
That actually might be part of the reason that I do all of the philanthropic work that I do because of what they did and why they did it.
And those were all my heroes who were doing it.
So they were modeling it for me.
They were.
I mean, again, it was extremely altruistic.
You're feeding hungry people in another part of the world.
And you're doing it through two different concerts on two different continents, including
Who was it?
Was it Phil Collins that played both, both Wembley Stadium and, and was in Philadelphia?
Oh yeah.
Didn't he get on the Concorde?
Yeah.
On the Concorde.
Yes.
You know, and it was just amazing.
And my story is I was living, you know, going to UW Eau Claire at the time.
It was taking summer classes and living just off Water Street, which was not particularly.
a good thing to do if you are going to be studying over the summer, but somehow I managed to make that happen.
And so my, my housemates and I, there were six of us living in the house and we decided we were going to tape the whole thing.
on cassette tapes.
And that way we were going to have, I mean, talk about a box set.
We were going to have cassettes with the entire concert.
And it was funny to watch this like hour after hour, like whose turn is it to replace?
Oh, wait, do we not have enough tape?
Well, we'll tape over this one.
Yeah, we don't need this Huey Lewis in the news.
We can buy a new one of those.
We got to tape live eight.
And it probably lasted six hours tops before we all just like.
Forget it.
Okay, let's just let's just enjoy plus it was a nice day outside So we we would kind of come in and out so we weren't glued the entire time But it was it was an event.
I mean especially for people your age my age.
We were glued
We wanted to watch that.
And like you said, it it just made us feel better.
Like there is a difference to be made out there in the world.
And fortunately, now there's YouTube so we can watch great things like Freddie Mercury and Queen and Radio Gaga.
Amazing.
We don't need my cassette tape player.
Exactly.
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Fantastic, man.
I love this time of year.
It's a, you know, I know that a lot of people are looking forward to football, which I am obviously eager anticipation coaching wise.
It's football season never ends, but you know, this is an exciting time of year because we're kind of in that, you know, we're fully in baseball mode, but.
I tell you, it's just a great time here because it's summer, you're outside, you're doing stuff.
I love this time of year.
Well, especially it helps if you can sweep the Dodgers and then sweep the Nationals and carry a seven game winning streak into the All-Star break.
Brewers are the hottest team in baseball at the moment since late May.
Beating up on the Nationals again yesterday, it was just so exciting heading into the All-Star break.
And we've talked about the game a couple of times here, but let's talk about the All-Star break for a second because
This fuss over Jacob Mizorowski being named to the All-Star roster after pitching only five games in the majors.
Let's be honest, if he weren't pitching for the Brewers and on any other team, somebody had pitched only five games, I think we'd all be like, really?
Is that supposed to be the case?
It's just that Philadelphia being Philadelphia, they weren't really like, really?
They were more like, ah, that sucks.
What a jerk.
I enjoy Jimmy the pushback that Philly's getting over Jacob Mizorowski being named to the All-Star roster.
So
first of all, I want to take it back to last week.
I think everybody knows Stan Patrick, veteran sportscaster, one of the best in history at what he does.
He talked about what has happened in sports media and how instead of
ratings which nobody cares about people are driven by eyeballs and clicks and what's going to be the next viral moment, right?
What's going to get you that eight second viral reel on Instagram or TikTok?
That's what sports media is devolved into, right?
Well, sports in a way has kind of become that too in this never ending chase for attention from sports viewers.
And what Jacob Izarowski brings is interest for people that maybe aren't as interested before.
You have 102, 103 mile per hour throwing a fastball guy.
from Milwaukee, who's come into the league and he's taken on some of the biggest pitching names of the game, gone toe to toe with them and come out on top in most of those appearances.
So you have this amazing story happening, right?
You have this rookie phenom, you know, future star.
This is, this is what sports has become, right?
So I don't fault.
Major League Baseball or the Brewers or Jacob Mizorowski for any of this, right?
This is what sports and in general, like even with sports media, it's what it's become.
We're in this never ending chase blinding this, this clip, this thing that's going to hook people in.
And this is, this is a big hook, a rookie that's thrown a hundred and three miles per hour.
Like, come on, that's pretty amazing.
I know here in Wisconsin, obviously, we know we're loving this, right?
But you got to look at this thing for the context.
So what is, what is the all-star game ultimately there for?
It's the.
to bring in the best, the most interesting players in the one spot to compete.
And I would be hard to argue having a rookie that throws 103 miles per hour with the early success he's had.
I don't know what else you're going to find as interesting as that.
From a guy who's had, again, five starts, as you said.
And of course, you got the youthful enthusiasm as well.
Kristen, you're a mother of four boys.
Thought of you when they talked about, it turns out that one of his big loves is Pokemon.
That's adorable.
That's not what I would have heard about the baseball players when I was growing up.
It also didn't exist back then.
But again, it makes him very relatable and it again highlights his youth, which is certainly something that we want to embrace the next generation of people coming on board.
It's just a great story top to bottom for this kid.
Yeah, I'm thinking who's his favorite Pokemon.
Is he a Pikachu kind of guy?
That's the only Pokemon I can name.
I
don't know.
I'm very relatable to the Pokemon thing.
I'm very relatable.
I have two kids that are big into it.
I myself have been big into it.
You know, it's funny.
The Brewer's and the Angelic Baseball have tapped into that a bit and it's great timing for them.
They're actually hosting a Pokemon theme night next week.
So that'll
be pretty
fun.
Yeah, it's funny.
It's Pokemon Go, the game that
took over everything nine years ago, um, a game of which I play very, very consistently, uh, which I maxed out it.
Cause I also am a Pokemon guy.
So, uh, I'm a big fan of that for him too.
But again, you go to the point of the brewers and where they're at this time of year, having Mr. Rowski, uh, Peralta and Megal there.
You have three brewers, pitchers.
You could argue the brewer should have four all stars of free like it's a fantastic week.
Uh, when you talk about the brewers, uh, and also the fact that here at the all star break, they've set a record for the most Wednesday had at this point in the season with 56.
So it's all.
Good things right now in Milwaukee.
It truly is.
And yes, it would have been nice to have Sal Freelick on the All-Star roster.
At this point, we just want him on our roster later on this week after making that sliding catch and leaving the game with what is called left hamstring discomfort.
That does not make me feel good, Jimmy.
That's something
that would put me on the injury report, not a professional athlete.
Yeah, so
I'm really.
Come on, guys.
Rest, ice, compression, elevation, rice.
Back on the field.
Listen to this.
The doctor's like rub some dirt on it.
It'll be just fine.
So here's hoping because the Brewers will be back in action Friday in Los Angeles against the Dodgers.
And you'll be able to hear those games on several stations across the Civic Media radio network.
Jimmy, there's also the Major League Baseball Draft going on.
What can you tell us about the early Brewers picks?
Sure.
So the Brewers have had five picks in the first three rounds.
I get two of those picks for losing for agents last year.
And the first one,
The first round, they took Adrian Fisher, who's a corner infielder out of Tennessee.
They took a quarter in Fielder out of Tennessee last year.
They took Andrew Fisher this year, who was projecting more as a more as an offensive guy, a guy with some pop.
And then with their competitive balance pick, the one they got for losing Willie Domus, they get Brady Ebel, who's a third baseman, shortstop high school player, whose father is actually a coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
So so that's who they get in the first round.
They then pick three pitchers in the next two rounds combined, two lefties and a righty.
So they they've
They've addressed things that they normally do in the draft.
Their first round pick, by the way, with the Andrew Fisher on the Tennessee, is a guy who's going to come in under their slot value, which is why one of the big reasons they draft it in, that means they can use some of that money to sign some picks, including Evil, a little bit over their slot value in the Major League Baseball draft.
MLB draft is a lot different than NFL and BA draft.
There's a lot of guys picked.
There's a lot of weird rules.
But the Brewers so far have done Brewers things in the draft.
And we love that.
Jimmy Koska, thank you so much.
appreciate it.
We'll talk to you on Wednesday.
Thanks guys.
Talk
to you soon.
All right.
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