Fireworks from Packers and Brewers (Hour 1)

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Now, from our Lake WSOTA studio, here is the founding editor of Up North News, Pat Craiglow.

Well, hey there, Wisconsin.

Good morning.

It is 6.06 on a Monday morning, August 4th, 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 catching us on Facebook or YouTube or by podcast or on the Civic Media app, which, speaking of the Civic Media app, I want to thank the person who sent us a voice note, but I don't think I can play it yet.

And to explain my quandary, pinching for Parker Olson today, let me

bring back to the show our friend, our colleague, our pal, our buddy Greg Bach Boys and Girls joining us on this Monday morning.

Mr. Bach, good morning.

How are you?

I'm doing quite well.

Good morning.

It's Monday.

I'm awake and you're kind of

ever so ever so slightly.

Yeah.

Long night.

I'll explain later.

But anyway, this is the part we talk about how to join the show.

You can send a text, you can, you know, put something in the comment sections.

Did you get a chance to listen to the voice note that just came in?

Not yet.

I just saw it come in and I didn't want to listen to it in a way that others could in case it wasn't what they call FCC compliant.

Well, and see, that's the thing.

You can't, you can't put up naughty words, obviously.

But you also can't, you can't.

put up stuff from another language without really clearing it first.

You don't want to like knowingly put up naughty words either.

So this, this, this is either Russian or Polish and we'll, we'll screen it later and play it.

It just made me laugh because then at the end of all of this, uh, Russian or Polish or something, it then just says, go Philadelphia Eagles.

You know, everyone's

got their team.

Everyone's got their team.

You know, it could, for all we know, it could be like, I think your radio show is the worst thing in the world and you, you just spew garbage and poison.

Go

Eagles.

You know, just from an Eagles fan, I, you know, I would appreciate that.

I would expect

it from an Eagles fan.

Yes.

Alicia calls for the sound effect of raucous cheering.

Hold on.

Let's see.

Let's see.

Let me find the old, let me find the old buttons here.

Oh, no.

I'm just kidding.

Yes.

There it is.

There we go.

And we are underway.

Parker is having an extended weekend.

He will be back tomorrow.

He was doing something with family.

Lovely.

Yeah.

He's a lovely boy.

He's a lovely young man.

I mean, big fan of Parker.

We miss you.

We're glad

you

get to sleep in a little bit later.

You have so much fun with Matt and air on air.

Yeah,

Greg and Jane Monday mornings, nine to 11.

So the media radio network.

Nice.

But but yeah.

But no, Parker has been just a wonderful addition as has Dom, Dominic Lee, who's down the hall from you working on the other show.

And we occasionally hear from him now and then.

So

who's ever in charge of hiring those youngins is doing a good job, and you and I haven't scared them away.

And

whoever's in charge of hiring the oldins, I don't know what to

tell you!

I don't know.

I don't know about that.

I

shake my cane at the wind.

It's not been put out to pasture yet.

So I will take it that way.

Let's see, over the weekend, anything fun before I get, maybe you watch the Packers, maybe you watch the Boomers, but before I get to those two teams and their respective fireworks, do anything else?

Not really.

We just kind of

hung at home this weekend, you know, with the club being temporarily closed or just, you know, without location at the moment, more news coming soon.

It's been a lot of this summer of just trying to be home as much as possible, especially on the weekends and enjoying those Friday and Saturday night off.

You know, that those times, it's just, it's very enjoyable.

So I kind of don't do much, but if we do, it's usually running errands, seeing family, that kind of thing, but nothing crazy spectacular.

How about yourself, Mr. Sleepy Pants?

I had a good, good weekend, a very, a very full weekend.

Yeah.

Um, but just around the house, uh, doing, doing a lot of fun stuff, uh, whether it's, you know, we dropped the top on the Jeep and made a run for some, you know, for some sweet corn and nice.

It is now officially August.

I know the calendar says August 4th.

It officially became August yesterday for dinner.

as we were having our sweet corn or locally grown from

up

at Clinger Farms.

So that was nice.

I got out on the pontoon.

Lovely day for a ride there.

The smoke is had lightened just enough to make that enjoyable.

Now the bad news.

I also forced my bride to go to a movie with me and I told everybody to do it.

I told everybody it was homework.

I'm now rescinding the homework assignment.

If you haven't seen Naked Gun yet, don't feel compelled.

Really?

And this is an appreciation post to Leslie Nielsen and the Zucker Brothers.

It is not a dig on Liam Neeson or anybody else who tried to put that movie together.

It was a fine movie.

Let's use that.

Let's use the F-40.

It was fine.

if you remember the original police squad, and I mean, it was just like, it was machine gun humor.

Yeah.

It was just like, rat-a-tat-tat-tat, another line, another line, another line, and they had a couple of winners.

Yeah.

But then there was, you know, and I'm trying to be fair here going, well, is it just because, you know, I'm older, I'm more cynical, I'm jaded, it's been 30, 40 years since the original.

It's like, no, I think if you compared the two of them, I'm quite certain the...

the original writing would stand up better.

So

I have not yet seen it.

My friend who my friend saw it and he said he loved it.

And for me, when he loves a movie, especially when he sees in the theater, that's a big deal.

So I'm surprised to hear that you are giving it a a two and a half out of five stars.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

That would be it.

Again, I would I would not

I would not, if somebody was already planning to see it by all means do and then feel free to send a note later going, Pat, you're just a grouchy old man now, you know?

Maybe that's, maybe that's all it is.

I've come to the realization at my advanced age and hips that

what I like is

fine and what you like is fine.

And if you don't like what I like, it's fine.

And if I like what you don't like, it's fine.

It's, and I've, I've, I've shaken off the, the whatever of

If you don't if you know like I saw that movie.

Do you like it?

I didn't like it.

What do you mean?

It's like I don't have the energy No, and I don't and I am I gonna convince you no, I'm not so yeah, I understand that I understand that especially with comedies especially spoof slash parody comedies That's a very hard genre to nail and I feel like there hasn't been a good one since the movie black dynamite You know, we've got we've had like scary movie blow all that all those movies and they're they're terrible and

I've never even heard.

Yeah, there's oh, it's a wonderful film.

It's a it's a it's a it's a spoof take on Blacksploitation films and it does exactly excuse me.

It does exactly what makes airplane and the naked gun great.

It never winks to the camera.

It never it never acknowledges the comedy.

It's always playing serious.

It's always playing for the the the genre and for the tone, which is, you know, Blacksploitation.

So it's always funny.

Got it.

Okay.

I will definitely want to be looking for that.

Yeah No, it was a really nice weekend got a lot done around the house and yet also got a little bit of time in the hammock We've got the new lake steps are finished

and so

we had to had to do the the trimming of some of the you know The branches that hang down after the guys are all finished.

Yeah building the thing and so I'll hold the branch down I'll pull it down and then Sherry will take the you know the pruning

Not the shears, but whatever the big with the big long arms on there the

chopper

the chopper and chop the branch and Yeah, I I I'm still I still I'm stuck in Warner Brothers cartoons.

I've been watching bugs bunny cartoons You know 60 years expecting when she's gonna cut one of those times it's I'm like gonna be launched into the lake, you know and going I

I, I, uh, I know exactly because when you were talking about it, the only thing I think of was just like something messing up and the branch is going, oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's happened or one time, you know, you don't place yourself just right and as you're pulling down on it and it cuts, you know, it hits her in the face.

Like,

no,

it wasn't supposed to go that way.

Sorry.

Sorry.

No.

But somehow we managed to not wound each other too much.

So that was a good thing.

Then there was the thing I was going to talk about, the the Brewers and the Packers.

Kristen Lyrely is going to be along in a bit and was definitely going to be at Packer family.

Family night, I was gonna say family fun night, whatever it is.

Family fun football night.

Yes, he was at the Packer family thing.

Yeah, and she will talk about the fireworks there.

We will get to the fireworks from the Milwaukee Brewers.

Setting a record for the number of hits in a three game series as they pounded the Nationals in Washington.

But I like that.

Yeah, the Brewers are getting a little bit more attention still, the best record in baseball with a bunch of who are these guys.

But I love that

Pat Murphy.

He's the star now.

It's not Yelich.

It's not any single.

It's not even it's not Mizorowski who sadly went on the injured list over the weekend here.

It's the manager.

You know, it's it's

a

crusty older guy.

He's great.

Who got national attention for the Friday night game, which was on Apple TV because the sideline reporter or whatever on field reporter asked about his in game snack and sure enough, he pulled a pancake out of his pocket.

So Pat Murphy's pocket pancakes.

We're getting some national attention.

Pat Murphy's pocket pancakes at Joe's today, Friday.

And of course there's already people already have t-shirts that they're making up from it as well.

I mean, I, I believe in other places they call that a frittata and you can, you can make other things with it.

But you know, up here in the Midwest, we just get some pancakes.

I just liked it.

I'd like it for a time.

Oh, you mean a pocket pancake?

I'll get you a pocket pancake.

That's not a problem.

Uh, if I may make a quick plug for Matt and Aaron air, uh, regarding our conversation with Paul noon in last Thursday, exactly.

He talked about the brewers and gave a really wonderful explanation as to not only why.

they are the Brewers winning, but why this is not a fluke.

This is about good planning, good, good acquisitions and good rotation versus just like the bats are alive or what it's not just like, oh, we're having a good moment.

It's about a concerted effort to get good players in the right spots and it's paying off.

So yeah, last Thursday in the second hour, he definitely breaks that down.

It makes me feel better as a Brewers fan because you know, when you're a Brewers fan, you're like, all right, cool.

When's this all going to fall apart?

Yeah, that's exactly where we are on this.

And yet, again, it comes back to Pat Murphy, who was, you know, working there with, you know, under Craig Council, who

he

had coached in college.

Yeah.

And then once Council, you know, turned coach, it was, you know, all the Murph show and he has completely taken it and run with it.

I love that people are calling it Murph Ball, or, you know, as far as their, their own brand of small ball, it's very aggressive.

And now food tips too, as Alicia puts up.

on YouTube.

Oh gosh, I love it.

Pocket pancakes.

Oh, I love a pocket pancake.

Just take that pancake and put any pancake can be a pocket pancake if you have pockets.

Right.

So good for Murph.

Good for the Brewers.

Again, they continue to have, like I said, the best record in baseball.

And they're now taking that to Atlanta.

where they will be playing starting this evening.

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Head over to civicmedia.us to learn more.

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And I asked about gerrymandering.

because if you were listening on Friday, you know how in Texas Republicans are at the behest of Donald Trump taking one more step toward autocracy, taking their already gerrymandered maps and looking to gerrymander them further to add five more Republican seats so that in a state that is

Let's be generous and say 60% Republican, although it's probably more like 55, but they want to give themselves at least 80% of the congressional seats.

That's corruption, kids.

That's not politics.

That's not, oh, everybody does it.

It's not.

It's corruption.

So then there are places in other states, California, among them, saying, well, maybe we need to monkey with our maps to help basically protect democracy.

you know, fight fire with fire.

In my question of the week, I simply say, what do you think, you know, should they do it?

Because if Democrats don't do it, it's kind of like taking a knife to a gunfight, you know, or should it be don't do it, don't stoop to their level, you know, just win elections fair and square and then clean up the system when you get back in power.

And again, a lot of responses, a lot of

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And now Greg, I see that our Russian speaker

didn't send something in English.

Did you give a listen to that one by chance?

I did.

And it wasn't English.

They said, this person did say she was working for Russia.

It says, it says, I work for Russia and yes, go Philadelphia Eagles.

Yeah.

Happy to be on your show.

I'm listening from Tyler, East Texas.

And referring to an honor.

I don't know what

to do with an honor to listen to your show too.

So

there you go.

Let's see from the text line from Jim and Brookfield.

My daughter who lives in DC went to the Brewer's Nats game Saturday night.

She was careful not to be too obvious that she's a Brewer's fan.

Oh, trust me.

At Nationals games, you can be a fan of the road teams.

You usually will outnumber Nationals fans because, you know, Washington's an international city.

People are there from also the

Washington

care.

Yeah.

Um, she texted me that instead of the racing sausages, they have the racing presidents.

Have you ever seen those?

I saw, I went to a nationals games last year and they are horrifying to look at.

They are very weird.

They are very, it's, they're very head heavy.

They're very,

I don't

understand how they can run.

And also literally just, I was going to take a moment of 15 seconds of Greg griping.

Um, I don't like this whole like race, there's the racing, there's the racing presidents.

There's a team that has racing tools.

And there's the racing parochies.

I think that every time they do that, they should have to give 10% of their revenue to a charity of the Brewer's Choices for starting this whole thing.

Amen.

Until we go back and realize that maybe we stole it from somebody we did not we invented this we invent if that's the case we

invented sausages and racing and baseball and All of that

and I

don't know like Pat Murphy We

did it all as for the game itself.

I mean it really wasn't even fair

Putting one of the hottest teams in baseball up against one of the doormats the Nationals no match for the Brewers who set a club record for a three game series with 56 hits over the weekend Friday's victory was 16 to 9 Saturday's was 8 to 2 and yesterday 14 to 3 That's 38 runs kids on 56 hits over three games.

I don't know who said this

But they were like, Oh yeah, and we're playing the we're playing the nationals this weekend.

So you know how it's going to go.

And I go, Hey, we don't get cocky.

I didn't realize how

bad the nationals were.

When I said we're playing the lowly nationals, you know, I know that can always come back to bite you.

It did not come back to bite me this time.

Bryce Terrang hit two, two run homers on Sunday and get this little nugget.

Throughout the three games, every batter in the lineup reached base.

at least once.

So nobody went nobody went over on the Brewers all weekend long.

Now, not all the news was great.

While pitcher Logan Henderson did well.

The reason he was called up is because all star rookie Jacob Mazurowski was put on the 15 day injured list with a left shin bruise.

And of course, Jackson Churio is still out as well.

But

Let me give you one more of those quirky baseball stats run differential.

Yes.

Remember when the Brewers started the season 0 and 4?

Mm-hmm.

Well, I know we're trying to forget, but their run differential at that point was minus 32.

Yeah.

They're outscored 32 runs total in those first four games.

They now lead baseball with a run differential of plus 119.

We're doing okay, kids.

That's one of the

things we talked to Paul Nunez about.

He breaks that down too as well.

It's great.

I love it.

Love it.

Yep.

Brewers in Atlanta, Quinn Priester pitching tonight.

And then they're off on Thursday before a home series with the New York Mets.

The Midwest Farm Report is coming up next.

Then Dr. Kristen Lierly here on the Civic Media Radio Network.

It's 6.35 on a Monday morning across the Civic Media Radio Network.

I'm your announcer, Pat Critello, here to introduce this morning's edition of Bach in the Dock.

Take it away, Kristen Lyrely and Greg Bach.

I'm going to go to breakfast.

I'll see you all later.

Bye.

Ta-da!

Good morning!

There she is.

That

was

great.

It's

going to be a good week.

I'm feeling it.

I'm

feeling like Monday optimism.

Yes.

What?

Boy, do I need that.

Tell her.

I learned I learned to lesson the hard way kids last night.

What was it?

You've yelled at your kids about this and yet you've also done it yourself.

I never yelled at my

kids.

Yeah, you have because it's at some point you you hear a noise and you go, what is that noise?

And in this case, when I finally went to go investigate the noise, I realized the thing we yelled our kids about, empty your pockets.

Here's what used to be my AirPods.

Oh,

no.

Left them in the pocket.

Here's the thing.

Look at this little green light comes on.

The case apparently is still working.

One iPod seems to be working.

The other one seems to be trying.

Oh, put it in rice.

Put it in

rice.

I don't think it

works that

way.

I

don't

know.

Like, could it hurt?

I mean, well, I shouldn't say, I did it for my phone once.

I shouldn't say that I know anything about the Air Buds pod, but whatever they are.

So there's your lesson.

It doesn't matter if it's your kids or yourself empty your pockets before you go to the

laundry.

I don't yell at my kids for that because they do their own laundry.

And so when things like that happen, they just hide it from me.

I don't have to yell at them.

The amount of the amount of chapsticks that I have washed in my life, I could.

Oh yeah.

So many tissues, especially when somebody leaves tissues in their pocket.

Yeah.

And then that all shreds and everything.

So you get, you get extra duty working on the lint filter when that one's all said and done.

But

anyway,

that, that was one of many weekend adventures.

How was yours, Dr. Lyley?

Did you get to Packer Family Night?

Um, we went to Mile of Music in Appleton.

We went to Packer Family Night, which was fantastic and so much fun.

We did the wave like, I'm not kidding, probably six times at practice.

It was so much fun.

The wave, it's still a thing.

Again, time for grandpa to tell a story.

I remember the way was brand new.

The Houston Astros were in the baseball playoffs in 1979.

You

don't say.

And they don't say.

I was listening to the game on the 9th, Victoria.

And it was just fun.

The the the announcers were just like giddy watching this thing.

They just couldn't believe like this.

This new thing called the wave.

And now I just kind of look at it like, are we still doing this?

But obviously, if you're in the middle of it, it's a fun time.

We had balloons.

We were there fireworks.

It is just a big party, you know, there's there's more space to move around because it's not quite as packed so Lots of little kids jumping around the bleachers.

It's just a totally it's not like a game, but it's fun Mm-hmm, but let me tell you about the highlight of my weekend.

Yes, please

So all of my kids were here including my oldest son Abe and Abe just happens to be a longtime Counter strike guy counter strike is a video game.

Oh, okay

And yesterday morning was the Super Bowl of Counter Strike in Cologne, Germany.

So we all sat in the living room and watched these two teams play Counter Strike.

for about four hours, which I don't sit for anything for four hours, but it was because the boys were there.

And here are the observations that I made.

It was the ESL cologne.

So ESL is the eSports league.

Abe said, I like watching this because no one gets hurt.

And if they do, they hurt their wrist.

And that actually really does happen.

This is like a major injury in eSports is a risk injury.

So they've got this giant.

It's like it's like the beginning of a football game where they've got the music and the fire and like the fans are like

and the wave

and no wave, no wave.

But, you know, it's all this enthusiasm.

And then these teams walk out and they are the nerdiest group of people who do not look like they feel comfortable.

Yeah,

it's ever shows.

Yeah.

Just like, OK.

And, you know, people are like fist pumping them and they just cannot wait to get to their game chairs so that they can do their game thing.

It is, it is really an experience.

Dr. Lyrely, you weren't one of the kindest, most supportive, inclusive, all of the good words people I've ever met in my entire life.

I just want to go back to almost the beginning of this story where you said, where two

teams and just that that pause of just like golfing gulping down all of your all of your like you know pride observation

to

show respect to I mean they're there when I watch those events like when I see clips of those events or like very niche very very niche sports events I'm like

Can't get these people to come to a comedy show come on man seriously like you really a thousand people will go see a guy throw suction cup at another suction cup And I'm like I can't get people to come see a comedian what what so

different drugs for different folks I mean it was team mouse versus team spirit and there was like one team was Russian and one team was German and they barely spoke English But they spoke enough to do the interviews and just watching these kids and how excited they were and then the fans were hilarious at

point they showed all the beer cups from the stadium that they had all put together the way you put cups together you know together and there was like a big

a worm of cups that people were parading around the stadium.

It was thousands of cups just nesting in each other.

And the crowd was cheer.

It was a whole thing that I do not understand, but the kids loved it.

So I was writing their momentum.

Never do you see so many people handle each other's dirty dishes as you do when they're making a cup chain at a sports event.

And yet they're willing to do it there.

If I could

just give a shout out to 17 year old Russian MVP Donk, who really nailed it.

Donk.

Yeah, he picked up the trophy or one of his.

This is teammates picked up the trophy, which kind of looks like the Stanley Cup and suddenly realized that he couldn't handle it as it was like falling back and actually like hit him on the

head.

You know, I was going to make a joke about that, but you just took it and made it work in real time.

I didn't have to do anything with that information.

Great.

That's, that's classic right there.

It

was just, it was delightful.

I learned something new and I spent some time with my children and it was a good, good day.

I'm wondering if our listener in Texas who works for the Russians was invested in this at all.

Uh, and

she's

like, you're like, go Phil, go Eagles, go Donk.

Oh boy.

So it was, so it was a good weekend around your house.

Very active.

Mile of music.

Don't tell us what you liked about that.

Have you been to Mile

of Music?

No, it's on my bucket list.

It is so good.

Wisconsin Public Television just did a documentary about it, so if you are curious, watch that documentary.

This is a four-day-long music festival that features smaller bands.

They play original tunes, they do short sets, and it is

all up and down College Avenue at the Lawrence Chapel in all these little venues.

These musicians come in, they are fed, they are housed, they bring in dentists, they bring in massage therapists, the musicians are happy, they teach them how to do financial planning and the musicians play for these diverse crowds.

There were little kids there, there were people with walkers, it was for everyone and the music was outstanding.

This is a beautiful celebration of music, of community.

I just can't recommend it

enough.

that you can take care of our artists, you know, the starving artists.

They're basically, this was the Waigu beef of musicianship, that they're, they get massages, they get financial planning, they get dental checkups.

All the things that the community has decided to do for these unsigned acts that they, they keep coming back and other musicians come back and the community gets this great entertainment celebration out of it.

It's just such a win-win it sounds like.

It is and the food and the beer and the fun.

My cousins were actually sitting in the window at Cleo's, which is a famous

bar in

downtown Appleton.

And they're like, we walked by, I missed them.

They Facebook message me afterwards.

But just, you know, bumping into all of the people that you bump into because everybody goes there because it is such a fun time.

Yeah.

Hey, let me cover some of the day's news here and we're going to start with a clip from this particular radio show because I've noticed over time.

that and this I don't even remember the original date of this clip now but we're going back maybe a month where we play a clip from the US Secretary of Agriculture Donald Trump's Ag Secretary all about you know getting able-bodied adults you know off Medicaid and then we kind of reacted to it and throughout the course of the month I continue to see you know oh this post got a comment this post got a comment this post got and I'm still getting it from that one particular post you never know what makes a particular post

Oh, what?

You never know what makes Pat just magically disappear, but he did.

He magically disappeared right there, folks.

But he'll be right back, but he's actually talking about there's a clip on the civic media and with Pat's show.

There he is.

That was weird.

Russia.

Hey, welcome back.

Donk was

listening,

and he does not like who he had to say about him.

I am sorry,

Donk.

I apologize.

On behalf

of

Pat and Dr. Lyrely.

We do the show here on a platform called StreamYard and suddenly up comes a screen going oops

Streamyard detected something went wrong.

I'm like, well, make it go back.

I was like, oops, Streamyard made something go wrong.

Yes.

Yeah.

Click the try again button.

And here I am.

So anyway, this this clip is now racked up over half a million views and so many thousands of comments.

And so I just wanted to share one of, you know, again, who knows what makes a post go viral, but people have really responded to this one.

Let's run it.

There are 34 million able-bodied adults in our Medicaid program.

There are plenty of workers in America all

day.

Here's the thing, Secretary Rollins and Derek Van Orden.

If those people are out there, it's time for you to name and shame.

And I don't mean one or two folks.

I mean, you better name and shame the 34 million bums that you say are out there.

Or otherwise, as usual, you're just making stuff up.

There you go there and there's this back and forth on you know Are there really these many millions of able-bodied people?

You know who are on Medicaid and badger care and everything who are just sitting on the couch playing Counter-Strike, you know things like that or could it be that they're you know They're wishing that it was like that and by projecting that narrative on other people it justifies making all these cuts Which again aren't cuts that save money.

It's just a transfer of wealth for you know

tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.

I think that the reckoning is coming.

I think for a long time it was just rhetoric and it sounded good.

You know, cut government, lower taxes, all of those things.

They sound great.

Love that.

But when it actually is happening and rubber is hitting the road and you're starting to realize all of those things that you didn't recognize

were

parts of that.

It feels real.

And the other thing too is that that whole able-bodied commentary is so just full of malarkey in my opinion.

I don't like that.

And also, Secretary of HHS and definitely not a doctor, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

said in a press conference that people who are scamming Medicaid watch an average of 6.1 hours of TV a day.

And we still can't figure out where he got that information from and why he said it out loud.

because you didn't get it from any place.

Yeah.

Well, they don't back anything up.

They don't cite anything.

It is just like stuff that comes out of their mouth.

I've definitely noticed this on my social media posts when people say things and I ask for a citation.

They don't respond because

it's

not out

there.

Yeah,

right.

But

I

can cite everything.

I don't post anything unless I can back it up.

Yeah.

And yet to this day, you know, things like the The New York Times and others are still, you know, hedging with their their language.

Let's see, I had I had one recently here.

Let's see in Oh, when with Trump firing the head of the agency that collects unemployment statistics, the president underscored his tendency to suppress facts he doesn't like and promote his own version of reality.

So he's lying and making stuff up.

Just say that stop with the

five dollar words.

The president is lying and making stuff up.

Don't give him the benefit of the doubt.

That's

all we ask.

Are you ready to hear about some combines crashing into each other?

A

little combined

demolition derby action.

Yeah, you're

gonna get that.

And today's history lesson from up north news.

Selena Heller all ahead here on the Civic Media Radio Network.

I'm Pat right now.

and give me a kiss to build a dream on.

And my imagination will thrive upon that kiss.

Start with a little Louis Armstrong for today's history lesson, a kiss to build a dream on from the sleepless in Seattle soundtrack.

Satchmo was born this day in 1901, passed away in 1971.

Kicking off today's history lesson.

Kristen Lierly still with us, and Selena Heller from Up North News is with us as well.

Once again, the only one who actually dresses for the show this week, it's a Jackson County Fair t-shirt that she's sporting, and is going to tell us more about the Jackson County Fair.

She only has a theme, Greg, that's what I'm saying.

Don't get worked up over

there.

I'm just like, I didn't realize I'd go to home and get

my fair shirt.

It was not required, although, I mean, Kristen will more often than not have some packer gear on if she's doing something related to the packers.

She's got her packer mug.

I have my

homemade civic media coffee mug here.

Greg, you do often dress the part, though.

You typically... Slubby?

Yes, I know.

No, but like a t-shirt, some sort of a meaningful t-shirt.

Although today, you are looking very teal.

I look like you could

shoot

any kind of special effects on me, like a movie background.

He

is our green screen today.

Yes, and Whiskers has shown up as well, taking up most

of

Selena's calendar.

Happy birthday to former President Barack Obama.

He is 64 years old today.

Film director Greta Gre...

Your wig is 42 from Barbie and Lady Bird and others.

And where are we on Meghan Markle, the former Duchess of Sussex?

She is 44 years old today.

Like, don't like, don't care, Greg.

Indifferent.

Thank you.

Yes.

Also indifferent.

Indifferent,

okay.

But you recognize that there are people that have very strong feelings that they're like Team Markle or Team William and Kate or something like that.

These are people who should learn.

Counter-strike or some other video game

as

a better use of their time.

You do you people.

That's right Let's see the number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart this day in 1958 was from Ricky Nelson

I love Ricky Nelson.

As I say, you're popping

a little too much here to Ricky Nelson.

Well,

there's Ricky Nelson and there's Tracy Nelson and there's Nelson

guys,

his twin sons who are still touring.

I

was going to

say, you strike me as definitely a young lady who had a Matthew and Gunner and Nelson poster in her bedroom.

I did not.

Oh, I did like them.

I can't live without their love and affection.

Do

you

do that?

Do you do that after the rain?

Oh, I got nothing to add to that.

Here's what's significant about Ricky Nelson having the number one hit on the hot 100 this day in 1958.

It was the very first Hot 100 chart.

It was on this day

that

Billboard combined all of its different music charts.

They had music charts for store sales, for jukebox plays, for radio plays, for sheet music sales, and they turned it into one master chart called the Hot 100, and Ricky Nelson was the first one up there.

Happy birthday to former President Bartlett or actor Martin Sheen.

Take your pick.

He turned

85

years old yesterday.

Martha

Stewart.

turned 84 years old yesterday.

On this day in 1972, the movie Superfly was released along with a soundtrack by Curtis Mayfield.

I mean,

come

on!

I feel like I should have brought this up sooner when Greg was going on and on about black dynamites.

such a genre.

On this day in 1984, the Purple Rain album hit number one and would stay there for 22 weeks.

Whoa.

Yes.

The number one hit this day on 1975.

So 50 years ago today, the number one song was by the Eagles.

Yeah, you know this

one.

I love the Eagles.

On this day in 1987, the Federal Communications Commission rescinded the fairness doctrine, which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues fairly.

In other words, don't make stuff up.

It went away in 1987 and gave rise to an entire media ecosystem that relies on making stuff up.

Happy anniversary, death of the fairness doctrine.

Perfect.

Hey, if I can do nothing, I can hit the post.

There's still a little DJ in me.

It's like a Russian nesting doll.

There's a little DJ inside here.

It's time to get out.

Let's see, one more music clip.

It's from Mariah Carey, who on this day in 1990, so wow, 35 years ago today, landed her first number one hit on the Hot

100.

Yeah, this was her first

number one.

There would be 18 more, and that is still a record for a solo female artist.

So when people go, how did Mariah Carey get to be such a diva?

The 90s show in the 90s, you know?

Yeah, she

did.

Also, just let everyone know, red light, green light after slow skate.

Red light, green light after

slow skate.

Couples only right now, everybody.

Couples up.

Doc, Doc, I'm looking at you.

This is the birthday of the U.S.

Coast Guard started this day in 1790 by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton.

Alexander Hamilton.

Never heard of him.

You can't help it, can you?

To enforce tariffs.

The chocolate chip, it's National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day.

Oh!

Yeah.

Why haven't we been talking about this the whole

time?

We'll get to it.

I want to talk.

Yes, I want to hear all about your, what makes your cookies special.

Oh,

my chocolate chip

cookies.

My chocolate chip cookies.

They're pretty good.

I have special cookies, too.

Not good.

OK.

See, Selena, are you think special about your chocolate chip cookies?

Well, hers lately, we make like tigers and things for the school bake sales or pause with chocolate chips and all

the shapes, shapes

and themes.

Anybody else just feel like whiskers is staring death into your eyes right now?

You're watching the

live show right now, folks.

You

just know

what I'm talking about.

Whiskers was like shut up when my mother's talking.

That's no different than any other look we get from whiskers.

It's just always the.

But but

very loving very gentle Thanks, I try to be nice to you one

time

Oh,

wrong one.

Darn

it.

That's my first.

We missed that a

lot.

There it is.

Darn it.

Selena Heller will be back, God willing.

And if Whiskers doesn't rip her face off to talk about the Combine Demolition Derby at the Jackson County Fair and much more, still ahead on this Monday morning across the Civic Media Radio Network.

I'm Pat Krightlum.

They're 34 million.

Live, across Wisconsin on Civic Media, you're listening to Mornings with Pat Kratlow powered by Up North News.

Now, for my Lake Mesota studio, here is the founding editor of Up North News, Pat Kratlow.

Good morning, it is 7.06 now on this Monday morning, August 4th.

2025, nice to have you along here.

Parker Olsen has the day off, but Greg Bach is joining us here.

And so is Dr. Kristen Lierly.

And so is Up North News reporter Selena Heller.

And so is meteorologist Brittany Merleau.

Brittany, how are you?

Good.

How are you?

Good.

It was, you know, a weekend where the smoke, again, depends on where you are in the state, but it had dissipated.

just enough yesterday that you could do some of the things you want to do outdoors.

It wasn't like as bad as Thursday Friday was, but it is still, it's definitely still something that's lingering around here.

It's gonna be, I mean, kind of one of the weather stories of the summer, I suppose here.

Yeah, it sure is.

Here, Robin Tigerton puts it this way, Mike the farmer who leases my family farm has told me that crops are doing well, busy bailing hay, but the smoke blocking the sunshine has made it rough with the morning dew.

We noticed that as well.

You can't get out and mow the lawn as early as you normally would because, again, that that sun is just not burning through as much as you'd like it to.

No, it's not.

You've got patchy fog to all over the place.

Definitely down towards basketball camp Douglas this morning.

A lot of southwestern areas and northeastern spots of the state.

got this high pressure system right and moved in from Canada.

It's been sitting over us all weekend.

Um, and it is still going to stay here today.

It's kind of slid over to Michigan a little bit, but another one builds in behind it and long story short, it's going to be a dry day and another smoke filled day.

So of course we have that air quality alert that expires at noon.

But it could get extended one more day.

I think by tomorrow we should for sure be in the clear from this wildfire smoke.

The winds start to pick up out of the south about 15 miles per hour.

That should be enough to kick it on out of here.

And then of course, as we go to later in the week, that whole jet stream shifts and active weather moves back in.

We've got the pattern just kind of shifting out of the south and bringing in more storms, more heat and more humidity too.

So right now it is still crisp, it is still comfortable.

temperatures are at about 48 degrees in Tomahawk, 72 degrees into Waukesha, and highs today will climb to the upper 70s to low 80s all across the state.

It is still going to be comfortable dew points.

But by Wednesday, it starts to turn muggy and by Thursday, we're getting hot and humid.

Now rain holds off until tomorrow.

We could see a few isolated showers possibly far north.

And that's about it.

As we go into later in the week, we'll see more storms.

Okay, from Taggerton, from Rob, good morning, fair and hazy, 55 degrees.

Today I have Moine Jobs in Wittenberg.

Whenever I hear Greg's voice, I can hear him saying, drink my water.

It's almost like you could hear him saying it right now.

Drink your

water, Rob.

Drink your water.

I mode Saturday and real Taggerton got stung by a bee.

and uh swelled up around his elbow, had to ice it down.

Uh let's see he's got another note or two here from us.

Oh he had a cat at my house who had kittens in the garage where I keep my truck and lawnmowers.

I now have an army of cats outside that stay in the barn.

Uh we talked about Mike who leases his family farm.

Mike told me to say hi to Kristen.

He supports Kristen and her fight.

So there you go.

Thanks Rob.

Hi Mike.

I know you just

got.

Oh, and Rob also noted, I love Brittany's videos on social media from the adventure.

I was going to mention that to Brittany.

Did you do more than one?

I saw one on social media over the weekend.

Yeah, I've been slowly putting them all together, so they're more and more coming out.

But yeah, got a couple of

them.

OK, well, great.

So again, look for Brittany there on social media if you want to see what all she was talking about with the camping and the rain and the exhibitions.

The

camping and the rain and the planes.

Good Lloyd.

So

much.

Brittany, thanks.

We'll talk to you next hour.

Sounds good.

Hey a reminder that if you miss an episode of our show at any point there's a great way to make sure that you can go back and listen and that would be to pod this program head over to Spotify or Apple wherever you get your podcasts and follow the show that way you can also do it over at the Civic Media website civicmedia.us uh all right so Selena the Combined Demolition Derby I know we've we've talked about this at least once before maybe maybe a couple of times

because I don't know that they necessarily invented it at the Jackson County Fair, but they sure have perfected it.

Oh, you're on mute.

Yes.

No, it's it's been around.

And, you know, we got to thinking about it.

And they've been doing it for quite a while, a lot of years.

And but it's in other county fairs.

It's in a few other states, as I was kind of looking at it a couple of years ago, where they've done combine demolition derbies.

But like a couple of years ago, they had 17 combines at the Jackson County fair.

So that was a pretty big deal.

That's a lot of combines.

Yes, it is.

And you talk to a couple of folks who tell us kind of more of the basics about it all.

Yeah, so Mark Emerson, he's 66.

He's all these farmers and Sam McNulty, their buddies, and they kind of get together and do this every year.

There's a lot of farmers and their kids now are in it and nephews and things like that.

So they're kind of all egg related.

If they're not farmers, they have businesses that are egg related or something like that.

So it's just a fun time for them.

And it's at the Jackson County Fair and there's a demolition derby, a regular derby with

and trucks and gosh, back in the day, my brothers did it.

So I got to paint the cars and then there's a powder puff.

So with girls driving too.

So my brothers always thought I should drive, but I never did.

Nice to know you have boundary someplace.

You're not gonna

drive the demolition derby.

Well, and it was the year and my friends wanted me to, I was on the Miss Jackson County Court and they're like, you have to drive in the demolition derby.

You have to do it.

I'm like,

Oh boy.

I

don't know.

Oh boy.

Oh boy.

Did not know you were on the court.

I was back in the day, yes.

What about you, Kristen?

Were you in the running for Ms.

Kokana or anything like that at some point?

I'm just trying to clear this picture of Selena driving a Combine, or maybe Whisker is driving in a very Tunisist kind of way.

Tunis is the Combine driving cat.

It always ends

poorly.

Well, let's put the helmet

on.

While we play with those visuals, let's hear from Mark Emerson, who tells us more about the Combine demolition derby at the Jackson County Fair.

Well, we get a bunch of guys together, we take combine, we beef them up some, we got to take the windows out, the glass, all that stuff, and we got to just beep the heads up so the heads stay on, and we go out there and smash into everybody just to see how much damage we can do.

The last one standing is the winner usually, but we'll have heats today, so they'll take the top two out of five or six or whatever we have in each glass and run in the final, then there'll be six in the final, then the last

This one's standing as a

winner.

This is a big spectacle.

Yeah, yeah.

And we make a lot of noise, a lot of crunching and stuff, banging and stuff.

The one that Sam Clingey's been tipped over twice now.

He got tipped over in Marshfield and he got tipped over in Galesville two weeks ago.

but they didn't get hurt or anything so that's a good thing and he's back here now

again

so he's going again with the same one so yeah we've been taking some of these same ones for many years I think this one I think I started 20 years ago with this then it sat for like five we didn't have any demolition and we started black over and you know so we've been here for at least 15 16 or more

and these are pricey machines but these aren't ones that

are in like

functioning

no they were they were out before we buy them

and unlike a lot of them, like his, you'll fix them up and then take the engine out after they're done and sell the engine and get the money back out of it and stuff so you actually don't really have much in at all invested in them.

So we have a little fun and we all get together.

We all get along really good.

Until we're out on the track.

Yeah, when we're on the track, we're competition.

But when we're done or before, we'll help each other out and when we're done, we'll help each other out.

Yeah, when we're out there, we're all all for ourselves.

I'm assuming that was Sam that we heard in the background there.

Is that Sam McNulty?

Yes, I talk to them every year.

They're the best.

I love them.

I love talking with them.

And Bill McNulty was actually the winner this year, Sam's brother.

So, and Bill is 66 also.

So, it's fun.

So,

Sam gets, they get tipped over, but they don't get injured.

You're getting tipped over in a combine.

This isn't like mythical cow tipping.

This is actual combine tipping.

And they're not getting hurt.

Yeah, they have to beef up the cages around them.

Safety is a priority.

They move the gas tanks inside.