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Well, hey there, Wisconsin.
Good morning.
It is 6.06 on a Thursday morning, July 17th, 2025.
It is truly another beautiful morning to have you here up north, live from Lake Basota from wherever you're listening and spending your mornings across the Civic Media Radio Network.
or watching us on social media, catching us by podcast.
However you got here, we're glad you got here.
I got a question for you.
I've asked this one before.
Western Wisconsin, Central Wisconsin, are you are you fully embarrassed by your congressman yet?
I got the newest example coming up in just a bit of Derek Van Orden doing Derek Van Orden things coming up in Washington DC right in front of reporters.
real classy guy.
My original question was whether you have a particular songbird in your area that starts off your mornings in the spring and summer.
I'm sure for a lot of people that's robins, maybe some of you only get crows or screeching blue jays.
Around here in Chippewa, we got cardinals.
Lots of cardinals.
Chi High even calls their team the Cardinals.
For good reason.
I mean, it's a pretty song and they love hanging around here up on the lake with the sunrise coming up and in fact, folks watching on social media know that I put up a new bumper slide, we call it today.
That's Lake Wissota this morning.
with the steam kind of rising off it, upriver a little bit up against the trees by the golf course.
It is just a very pretty day and great to have you along on this Thursday.
Coming up, we're going to be talking to State Senator Jeff Smith about the state budget because of something that wasn't in it.
help for homeless veterans and talk about what Republicans were thinking when they took the budget request from Governor Evers and put zero dollars in there.
A couple of facilities are facing closure.
We'll ask Senator Jeff Smith if that can be staved off.
We'll talk to child care provider Kareen Hendrickson of Nuclearis about something that is not in the state budget.
And that would be adequate help for the childcare industry.
And as a result, she finds herself at a bit of a professional crossroads and is going to tell us more about that.
In the latest example of the Trump administration being Watergate on steroids, the U.S.
Department of Justice is trying to meddle in state elections offices, including here in Wisconsin.
We will review some of the efforts to intimidate officials and get access to your private data.
Sherida Booker will review some of this weekend's big fairs, festivals and concerts.
There's one going on here in the Chippewa Valley right down the road to talk about.
The Jeffrey Epstein case.
That is a sad saga that has already taken far too long for those who deserve justice.
Unfortunately, it's a case of an infamous pedophile that has been caught up in politics for disgustingly partisan reasons.
Donald Trump and his allies made a cottage industry out of using the case for political gain and now the president's calling it all a hoax and his base is not happy about that.
We'll talk to Joseph Pecky about whether Trump has cried Wolf one too many times when he then tries to say that something is only a hoax.
Chad Holmes will be along from 98.9 WXCO.
about the stories he's following in Wausau.
Sean O'Malley has an update on your money and the markets.
Brittany Merleau has a forecast and so much more.
The 6am temperatures around Wisconsin, haven't talked about those in a while because it's been nice outside, but there's such a range to pass along.
64 degrees at Radio Park and other
Places in Wisconsin near the Illinois border.
Mid 60s there, but low 40s up north.
41 at Solon Springs in Douglas County.
It's 43 in Hayward.
59 in Richland Center.
52 degrees here on Lake Wissota.
Brittany Merlo's state forecast calls for calm and cool behind the storms and what storms they were.
More chances for rain pop up on the weekend and next week right now she says looks wet.
So for today, partly sunny, less humid, highs around 70 up north, 75 south with a north wind at 10 to 15 miles an hour.
For tonight, mostly clear chilly even, lows around 50 up north, 55 south with a light southeasterly wind.
That was some nasty weather.
as we turn things over to Parker Olson, who is producing this shindig from Madison Studio A2.
Stormy, scary weather for folks in the southern, what, third of Wisconsin, including young Parker Olson, who was, thankfully, we put him there in that broom closet that we call A2, and he is completely safe from pretty much anything in the interior of that secure building right near the state Capitol.
I am
mmm
And
one point
Yeah, I mean we're we're talking like maybe
a dozen areas of where there were either tornadoes or suspected tornadoes.
There were touchdowns in sock and dodge counties for sure.
Thankfully, you know, no deaths reported.
I've not even seen any reports here of serious injuries, but there were concerns about flash flooding and more.
It did, you know, I was looking at the radar as it was coming across and I know I checked in with you at one point during the day and
You kind of had that look out the corner of your eye going, huh?
What's this coming?
radar spectrum.
It's a little worrying.
I liked what somebody said.
It looked like the finish line of a color run.
all those colored powders around it.
That's
really
good.
Yeah, so again, things are a lot calmer here and Brittany Merleau will be along right after the seven o'clock news to tell us more.
Here's a little update on something that was supposed to happen last night.
We talked to state Democratic Party chair Devin Remaker about
a town hall that was scheduled.
The stormy weather yesterday led to its postponement until tonight to let residents around La Crosse and the rest of the third congressional district weigh in on that Trump mega bill that was supported by Congressman Derek Van Orden.
It's the bill that's going to make life harder for tens of thousands of his own constituents.
just to lower taxes for millionaires, that town hall will now be held this evening at 6pm, head to mobilize.us, mobilize.us and search for lacrosse to register.
There's another thing going on this evening up in Wausau.
I want to tell you about this is all under the umbrella of civic engagement.
Instead of just, you know, catarwalling about politics in the state of the world, you could do things about it.
You can go to this town hall and lacrosse this evening and, you know, help people understand that there are so many people unhappy with the direction this Congress is going in.
And then in Wausau this evening, the Wisconsin Fair Maps Coalition will have a forum.
They started a statewide Fair Maps community hearing tour last night in Green Bay and it's in Wausau this evening.
to shape the future of redistricting.
They'll tell you that Wisconsin has fair maps right now, and that's great, but they are temporary.
Without some lasting legislation ahead of the 2030 census, it is entirely possible that Wisconsin will slide back to a system where the politicians get to pick their voters and ignore the will of the majority.
So the Fair Maps Coalition has written a draft proposal and is looking for public input on a on their statewide tour It kicked off last night and you can watch what happened last night on YouTube for the channel of the League of Wisconsin voters of Greater Green Bay again the League of I'm sorry the League of Women Voters the League of Women Voters of Greater Green Bay They have a presentation there from last night on Fair Maps in Wisconsin
an outline of a proposal for an independent redistricting commission.
Doesn't that sound nice?
An independent redistricting commission.
And there will be time for some Q&A as well.
Tonight's forum is in Wausau at the Public Library, 301st Street, from 6 to 8 this evening.
If you want to register, go to fairmapswi.com, fairmapswi.com to register or to learn more.
Then the group has a forum scheduled for next Wednesday in Waukesha and others are being set up for Madison, Milwaukee, and more.
So again, not enough can be said about the difference that was made when the rigged maps that date back to 2011 were finally changed in part because voters helped overturn the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
That sent a message.
But
If, for some reason, Republicans hold the majority, even build on their majority in the legislature next year and win the governor's race, you can guarantee that they will monkey around with the maps yet again and try to lock gerrymandered maps in place for at least another decade.
Alicia writes on YouTube that you can also call your state legislators when it comes to helping homeless veterans.
and ask them to support a funding bill that was introduced yesterday by Senator Jamie Wall and Repsa Ryan Spaud and also Representative Rivera-Wagner, Ahmad Rivera-Wagner.
Yes, call your legislators, whoever they are, and tell them, look, I don't know how this happened, how you ended up with zero dollars in the state budget, but you can fix this.
So go fix this.
And again, we will talk to State Senator Jeff Smith around 7.30 on that topic.
Uh, Karine Hendrickson at about 7.10 talking about the state budget and the lack of support for childcare.
All right, real quick.
You say, uh, we asked you, we talked about the Derrick Van Orden Town Hall tonight in La Crosse.
I asked if you were embarrassed enough here.
He is.
Coming past Congressman Mark Pocan, standing outside the U.S.
Capitol as part of a press gaggle.
Pocan's talking to reporters.
Van Orden comes riding by in his Harley, revs it as he's going past the cameras because that's what any jerk would do.
And then after parking his bike, these two congressmen mix it up in front of reporters and it was all captured on camera last a minute or so.
Give a listen.
Hey there classy as always man.
We love it.
Thank you People read this
I
saw you're drunk and tweet at 1 30 in the morning last day.
No,
I got down
here Why don't you debate me why are you so afraid to debate anyone here we could do this the media?
Why don't you want to debate
so
big?
Beautiful
bill.
Why are you afraid to have a debate
on the bill?
I've owned a small business for 37 years.
Tony, you
own a small business.
That's a little work,
isn't
it?
And he fundals over $500,000 a year of his campaign money to buy signs from his company.
Okay.
Look that up.
Oh my God.
Are you drinking right now, Derek?
That's the real question.
All
right.
Again, Derek Van Orden walking up to Mark Bocani was talking to reporters hurling personal insults and making claims that, you know, he can't justify throwing out tired old talking points, saying to someone who's had a small business for forever that he's never held a real job.
That is Derek Van Orden in a nutshell.
And again, you can see why people will be showing up in La Crosse this evening to
Talk more about the bill that he supported and what other damage he's done so far as a member of Congress.
Again, mobilized.us search for lacrosse to learn more.
We have much more to cover in terms of the headlines on the day's news, all on the way.
By the way, Charlotte Scott from Spectrum News.
We want to make sure we get proper credit for that clip that we just shared.
From the heart of America's up north, live from Lake Wissota, thanks for making this the place to spend part of your mornings.
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The Sunday morning one includes a question of the week, which this week is garnering a lot of response about the direction of the Democratic Party.
There are folks who feel it being pulled to the left or
That sounds like it's against people's will.
There are people who very forcefully want the party to be more to the left.
There are others that say this is alarming.
It will turn off moderates.
There are others who say, hey, this is a big tent.
It depends on where you're living.
You know, an AOC can get elected in the Bronx, but not necessarily say the Seventh Congressional District in Northern Wisconsin.
But what about the party itself?
Which way should it be going?
And that's our question of the week, getting a lot of responses.
You can weigh in as well by email, head to radio at upnorthnewswi.com.
Send us an email with your thoughts on that as well.
From the text line here, Jim in Brookfield says, good morning, Pat and Parker here in Brookfield and Waukesha County.
We also have Cardinals.
I currently hear several.
as I'm sipping my coffee while sitting out on the patio, not unexpected since we live on Cardinal Crest Drive.
Says Jim.
Well, Jim, thank you for the info on that.
Yes, I mean, Cardinals can, you can find them all over Wisconsin, but I know when I moved here from, you know, having lived in some larger cities, it was a very refreshing thing to have such a beautiful singing, especially around sunrise and again at sunset.
You know, I'm here in this nice, comfortable home studio in Lake Wasota, but some of my other friends over at the Civic Media Radio Network, they are on the road.
They're waking up in unfamiliar locations and getting ready to have some fun.
Again, today, that, of course, will be Todd Alba, Jane McNair, Greg Bach.
They are road tripping this week.
They were in Oshkosh yesterday, and they are waking up somewhere in the butternut.
Park Falls area.
They're going to be broadcasting from up north today.
Matt and Aaron are begins at nine right after this fine program.
Kelly Meredith, the owner of Fanatical Fish Art Gallery, will be joining Jane and Greg just after nine o'clock.
And of course, you can catch Todd's show from two to four.
Now, it's going to be an interesting Maggie Dawn show coming up today from four to six slated to appear a state attorney general, Josh Call.
Just after four o'clock, we'll be discussing
one of his many lawsuits, this one against freezing education funds.
The Trump administration is trying to put the U.S.
Department of Education out of business, freezing money that's designed to go to educate children in Wisconsin, and Josh Call and other state attorneys general are suing.
This is one of 24 different lawsuits that
Josh Call has been involved in some of them already successful in trying to keep Donald Trump from acting like a monarch when it comes to deciding what happens with our tax dollars.
Maggie Dawn also talks to Mia Ivy Rubly from the Center for American Progress at 430 discussing the impacts of the Trump mega bill on the disabled.
So again that all coming up on the Maggie Dawn show where you could you could say a little bit of news was made.
on the show yesterday when she was talking to state Senator Chris Larson about, you know, things that include the 2026 elections.
And I know that at some point, Senator Chris Larson said something on the Maggie Dawn show that, you know, raised a couple of eyebrows about Governor Tony Evers and running for a third term or not.
Parker, is that a little snippet of audio that we have here, or is that something that we can catch on the news later on?
Do you have it there?
now.
All right.
Let's give a listen to what state Senator Chris Larson of Milwaukee had to say.
A bit of a kerfuffle over the last hour or so about whether or not Governor Evers is running for reelection.
Some sources saying he's going to announce that he's not running for a third term.
And his spokesperson then responding on X within the last, I don't know,
that's not an actual thing.
Your reactions to all the hubbub, sir.
Yeah, I people have been talking about this for quite a while, but yeah, I mean, I guess we'll find out whenever they make an announcement.
For our part, I would hope that Tony Evers does read the room and is ready to pass the baton to the next generation to be able to make sure that we actually have people we're ready to fight for our safe.
So there you go.
There's State Senator Chris Larson from Milwaukee saying that he believes reading the room, the room indicates that Governor Evers should not run for a third term.
Needless to say, there are other Democrats who say that is not the temperature of the room at all.
Would Senator Chris Larson be one of those candidates for governor if Evers decides not to run for a third term?
Certainly can't rule that out.
But again, it's an announcement the governor is going to make on his own schedule.
And you heard Maggie Dawn alluding to the rumor mill yesterday.
And it's not really based on anything that is properly sourced, shall we say.
You don't know if it's based on knowledgeable information or if somebody is projecting their wishful thinking.
It really is just a...
a matter of keeping it tuned right here and when there is official news coming from the governor's office, we will let you know.
All right, well, the Brewers are gonna get set to get back in action.
They are heading out to the West Coast back to Los Angeles for a series with the Dodgers and that weekend series begins tomorrow.
So we've got some late night West Coast baseball on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Pre-game coverage tomorrow for the Brewers and Dodgers begins at 8.35.
So 8.35 on a Friday night.
Get your baseball fix as the Brewers take on the Dodgers there.
Coming up next, we're gonna hear from
our social media manager at UpNorth News, Sharita Booker, some great events that you can take part in this weekend all around Wisconsin.
We've mentioned some of the fairs and festivals.
She's got a few more.
That's all coming up right after the Midwest Farm Report here on the Civic Media Radio Network.
I'm Pat Crightlow.
a little bit more about things that you can do across Wisconsin this weekend.
Every summer weekend is a great one to see something new in Wisconsin.
So maybe put one of these on your calendar.
You'll hear about them from Sharita Booker, our social media manager.
Sharita, how are you?
Good, Pat.
How are you?
I'm good.
Thanks.
There's just so many great options out here that we're going to do.
Let's see.
The three we're picking today will take us to Northwest Wisconsin, Western Wisconsin, and then down to Southeast Wisconsin.
Let's start with the one that got going yesterday, and that, of course, would be the Lumberjack World Championships up in Hayward.
and athletes from around the world will compete in 24 events over the three days to claim the world champion title.
Now some of those competitions include sawing, chopping, speed climbing, log rolling, boom running, a standing block chop and more.
The festival will also feature vendors, food trucks, the swinging axed beer garden and live music.
General admission tickets start at $24 for adults and $19 for children.
five through 12.
And for tickets and more info on that, visit lumberjackworldchampionships.com.
I would like to call attention to one thing you said there that I did not think would ever happen in my lifetime.
What did you call it, the Swinging Axe Beer Garden?
Yes.
Okay.
For most of my life, I associated swinging an ax around beer with Lizzie Borden.
And now we're encouraging it.
Have you ever been to one of those bars where they have ax throwing as a game and would you take part in it?
I've heard of them and I would.
I have been to the Chuck E. Cheese version of one where the dartboard is all plastic and it's like a rubber mallet or whatever.
But I have not been to one of the ones with the real, the sharp implements.
You know why?
Because they're real sharp instruments around people with alcohol.
But hey, more power to the folks that
do it, enjoy it, and come out with all their digits still attached.
So lots of fun to be experienced up in Hayward this weekend.
Now, meanwhile, in the Chippewa Valley, it is country jam time.
And I know it's been a little while now, but I always feel like
saying again, Country Jam is in a new location because maybe people don't go every year.
It was along the river down on the south side of Eau Claire for the longest time and now it's got brand new digs up in the northwest corner right off of Highway 29.
What are folks going to see a Country Jam this weekend?
So it'll kick off with the lineup that includes Bailey Zimmerman, Chase Rice, David Lee Murphy, Josh Ross and Kaylee Bell.
Friday's lineup will include Cole
Swindle, Dylan Scott, Sarah Evans, Mark Chestnut, and Casey Ashton.
And Saturday's lineup will feature Sam Hunt, Jake Owen, Craig Morgan, Dylan Marlowe, and Tiger Lily Gold.
There will also be boo trucks, craft beer, whiskey bars, and more.
And one day general admission tickets start at 119 and a three day general admission ticket starts at 179.
So to grab your tickets and get more info, head to countryjamwi.com.
Yep, this is all at the new Eau Claire events center where there are plenty of other things that go on there as well.
Lots of room for camping and more.
So a lot of folks come into the Chippewa Valley this weekend for that.
Let's go down to the southeast corner of the state.
Another one of the big festivals that takes place in the Milwaukee area.
It is time for best deal days.
Yep, best deal days is kicking off today and that festival is one of North America's largest outdoor French festival, which also is free and attracts over 250,000 visitors each year.
There will be live music, an international marketplace, French and Cajun cuisine, and a signature 43-foot Apple Tower replica with hourly light shows.
The annual storm, the Bastille Days 5K Walker Run, starts tonight also at 9 p.m.
and will wind through downtown Milwaukee's historic Third Ward.
Registration for that is still available and it's $40 for a ticket and you can just head to easttown.com slash Bastille dash days slash to get your registration ticket.
There you go.
And again, as somebody who was just down there for summer fest, I can tell you that there's so many other festivals besides that in that area.
And Bastille Days is without a doubt one of the biggest and one that is most enjoyed.
So that on top of all the county fairs and other things that we've been talking about this week.
So you got no excuse to sit on the couch this weekend.
Sharita Booker, thank you so much for running those down.
We'll talk to you later.
Talk to you later, Pat.
And by the way, so many fairs and festivals, including Barron County Fair up in Rice Lake, the Dane County Fair, gets started today at the Alliant Energy Center.
County fairs for Fond du Lac, County Green County, St.
Croix County, Trepolo County, Waukesha County, the La Crosse Interstate Fair.
All happening today, you got no reason to be a couch potato.
Well, from the Washington Post yesterday comes evidence that
As a lot of us suspected, President Trump, having gained the reins of power once again, is setting things in motion that could enable him to hijack the 2028 presidential election.
The U.S.
Department of Justice, according to the Washington Post, has hit states, including Wisconsin, with broad requests for voter rolls, election data, and more election clerks from both parties.
that have already been facing harassment and lawsuits over Trump's lies about the 2020 election are worried about efforts to examine voting machines and more.
Now keep in mind the U.S.
Department of Justice has always been a quasi-independent entity.
It's now being used in a way that our founders always feared could happen, which is why you had that bit of independence.
being used by the president of the United States for political harassment.
And the U.S.
Department of Justice has now taken the unusual step of asking at least nine states for copies of their voter rolls.
They went to a mix of Republican and Democratic-controlled states and, uh, and Jacobs, chair of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, told the Washington Post she worries the federal government, through Trump,
could try to use the information to justify new rules that would make it harder to cast ballots.
She notes that the sloppy use of this data could result in inaccurate matches that would give election skeptics a reason to tout exaggerated claims, or shall we say lies, about ineligible voters appearing on the rolls.
She says that voters deserve answers.
About why the administration wants this information and what they plan to do with it She says is this a backdoor way to get access to data that the statutes have said they're not entitled to have The administration's efforts fueled by Trump's ongoing claims that the 2020 election was somehow stolen have been rattling officials from both parties They feared that the administration could try to build a national file
that includes personal information about voters or that they could impose rules that would boot eligible voters from the rolls and make it harder to cast a ballot.
That's happening right now in the Trump administration in the United States of America.
Here's something else that President Trump is doing that has an impact on Wisconsin There is going to be an opening on the seven circuit Court of Appeals as Diane Sykes moves to senior status But from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Lawrence Andrea and Dan Bice say that Unlike most of the time when Wisconsin's two senators or Republican Ron Johnson and Democrat Tammy Baldwin Worked together to provide a list of potential nominees to the White House.
The White House has moved off on its own
and has already been conducting interviews for that seat on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Sources tell the Journal Sentinel they've interviewed a handful of conservative candidates on their own before Johnson and Baldwin's offices could vet, interview, and submit names to the White House.
At least five have traveled to Washington D.C.
to sit down for interviews with White House staff in mid-May, according to multiple sources.
Here's what a White House spokesperson had to say.
We welcome the feedback from outside groups, but the final determination is from the president after consultation with senior staff.
We welcome the feedback of outside groups.
You know, like Congress, like the United States Senate, to them is now just an outside group.
Now, should we read anything into any of these candidates?
Well, one of them,
is currently representing former Dane County Judge Jim Trupas.
Where have you heard that name before?
Oh yeah, he's facing state charges in the fake elector scheme from Donald Trump back in 2020.
And by the way, the Trump administration did not review and interview any currently sitting judges.
Oh, but wait, there's more.
This one from Wisconsin Public Radio.
Do you remember
the superior refinery explosion from seven years ago.
Well, the next Trump budget is coming and it proposes to eliminate the agency that investigates things like the refinery explosion in superior.
And yes, we are talking about a new budget bill.
The thing that passed a couple of weeks back was a budget reconciliation bill for the current year.
But a new federal budget is required for the next fiscal year, the one that starts on October 1st.
And so one of the first items being reported about Trump's new budget plan is the elimination of the U.S.
Chemical Safety Board.
That's the panel that investigated the explosion at the Husky Superior Refinery in 2018.
It's not the first time Wisconsin Public Radio notes that Trump has proposed getting rid of the agency, but Superior Mayor Jim Payne
told WPR, that would be a mistake.
He said that if the Chemical Safety Board had been better funded 10 to 15 years ago, they might have been better able to educate the refinery and superior about how to prevent the explosion that ended up happening.
Had that been prevented, not only would people not have been hurt, the refinery could have saved millions of dollars in the rebuild.
These agencies are good for the industry.
The WPR report says that in the last five years, nearly 500 serious chemical incidents have occurred in 43 states.
Eliminating the chemical safety board would save less than $15 million.
And of course, it wouldn't actually save money.
That money would just go into tax cuts for billionaires.
You'll recall that during a visit to Superior three years ago to celebrate passage of the bipartisan infrastructure law, President Joe Biden cited the refinery incident when he was announcing funding to replace the aging Platonic Bridge that connects Superior to Duluth.
He said, you know, when the Husky Oil refinery exploded back in 2018, that bridge was one that many of you took to get your families to safety so you know it matters.
Yes, it does matter.
I just told you a lot of that over the past, what, three, three, four minutes.
I think it would be enough just to say President Trump is eliminating getting rid of the US Chemical Safety Board.
It's not exactly something that the industry is seeking, at least not the good actors in the industry are seeking, but that's where we're at.
One more.
President Trump really stepped in it yesterday, giving fresh material to those who think the 79-year-old is starting to make Joe Biden's mental missteps look like baby steps.
The president was raging against Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve Chair, during an Oval Office press gaggle on Wednesday, complaining.
He's been complaining for months about the head of the central bank not cutting interest rates as quickly as he wants them to.
Trump said, he's a terrible Fed chair.
I was surprised he was appointed.
I was surprised, frankly, that Biden put him in and extended him.
However, as the Daily Beast notes in its article here, it was Trump who appointed Powell to lead the Federal Reserve during his first term.
And in his November 2017 announcement, the President praised Powell's leadership, judgment, and expertise.
Only the best people, until he's used them up, until they stop being yes men for whatever he wants.
Which is exactly what an authoritarian strongman would want, and not the way a democracy works best.
Today's history lesson is next, as we always do.
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You're always going to know a Vince Garaldi tune when you hear it.
The jazz pianist was born this day in 1928.
That, of course, one of his signature tunes, Linus and Lucy, and so many other tunes that he composed for the Peanuts cartoon series, all the specials, especially a Charlie Brown Christmas and more.
Vince Garaldi was born Vince Delagio in San Francisco.
and passed away far too soon back in 1976 at the age of 47.
Here's a big birthday today, and I can't even surprise Parker because he sees the list ahead of time when I say, do you know whose birthday this is?
I
have
looked yet.
You've not looked?
How would you get the music?
didn't read through all the stuff.
Oh!
I hold up my Roy Kent coffee mug normally on Fridays used today because actor Brett Goldstein, 45 years old today.
Did Greg Buck leave that button for you on Brett Goldstein as Roy Kent blowing his whistle?
No, I don't
so.
Okay.
I'll have to look into
Roy Kent did not want to have a whistle when he was coaching the team.
So he just shouted.
Whistle!
Whistle!
Whistle!
He is also in the Apple TV series Shrinking and I talked about it yesterday for its Emmy nominations.
He's really good in it.
He is nothing like the Roy Kent character.
It's a serious role and he's good.
Shrinking is good.
Highly recommended.
All right, let's move on to more birthdays born this day in 1939 was Spencer Davis of the conveniently named Spencer Davis Group.
Now, this is one of those cases where, you know, much like Carlos Santana, his name's on the label, but somebody else is doing the singing.
Stevie Winwood sings, give me some lovin' in this one, but Spencer Davis was born in Wales this day in 1939, passed away in 2020 at the age of 81.
Got a royal birthday here.
Queen Camilla turns 78 years old today in the UK.
On this day in 1975, Bob Marley and the Whalers played a historic concert in London that featured a version of No Woman, No Cry that became an instant classic.
Born this day in 1952, the late Nicolette Larson, who had a couple of hits in the 70s.
Nicolette Larson again gone far too soon in 1997 at the age of 45 The Hoff is 73 years old today David Hasselhoff means nothing to you right because I mean the the big Baywatch years It's just a name.
Yeah, it's just a name, but you know the the Hoff is Getting older, but you know, I'm sure he's still willing to wear that Speedo out on the beach if you ask him to David Hasselhoff 73
Yeah.
The Disneyland, the original opened in Anaheim on this day in 1955, opened with a live broadcast on ABC, which was a big deal for back in the mid 50s.
Finally, a birthday of somebody who's still with us.
Happy birthday to singer Regina Bell.
She is 62 years old today.
On this day in 1984, the national drinking age in the U.S.
was changed to 21.
This really annoyed a whole lot of people who were caught in the middle.
They were looking forward to turning 18, and then it was raised to 19.
And then just as they were about to turn 19, it was raised to 21.
Yeah,
I'm sure he's never stopped talking about it.
Nope.
Has not.
Uh, one more birthday here and that would be country singer Luke Bryan is 49 years old
today.
All
right, here's, here's where I get in trouble.
Uh, Luke Bryan is extremely popular.
I get that, but I mean.
His voice is almost a parody of country music to me.
It just is.
It's just so... I don't know.
I just think it's one of those that you're going to look back on and go, oh yeah, that was a style that you were only going to hear during that time.
That was the country boy.
That was a country boy back then.
Luke Bryan, 49 years old today.
On this day in 1968, the Beatles fourth film, Yellow Submarine, debuted.
And the movie Endless Love debuted in 1981, starring Brooke Shields.
Nobody remembers the movie at all.
It was just a complete dud.
But the theme song to it was a duet by Lionel Richie and Diana Ross.
And it spent nine weeks at number one and earned Lionel Richie an Academy Award for best song.
All right, we've got a melancholy one to pass along and we were first told about it by Roger on Facebook saying a very sad to hear of the passing of Connie Francis She recently had an album cut called pretty little baby that went viral on tiktok and so pulling up the the New York Times story from
Late yesterday, Connie Francis, whose ballads dominated 60s pop music, died at the age of 87.
did not cite a cause of death according to her publicist.
She had, according to the New York Times, a petite, pretty easy and fluid vocal style, a powerful set of lungs in a natural way with a wide variety of material.
She had three number one hits, including Everybody's Somebody's Fool.
My heart has a mind of its own, and don't break the heart that loves you.
Again, Connie Francis passing away at the age of 87.
In the next hour, here live from Lake Wissota on the Civic Media Radio Network, we're going to be talking to Karine Hedrickson, she's a daycare provider from the New Glarus area who is at a professional crossroads.
because of what was and what was not in the state budget when it came to dealing with the crisis of affordable child care in this country.
That's right after the news and then later in our next hour, State Senator Jeff Smith, all about the lack of funding for homeless veterans in the new state budget.
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