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Well, hey there, Wisconsin.
Good morning.
It is 6 0 6.
On this Tuesday morning, it's August 5th, another beautiful morning to have you here up north live from Lake Wissota from wherever you're spending your mornings listening across the civic media radio network or on the app or catching us on social media.
Later by podcast on Spotify or Apple.
We're very happy that you've started your Tuesday right here.
I got a question for you.
Did you miss Parker Olson?
Don't worry, he came back after an extended weekend.
He's down there in Madison studio.
A2, welcome back, Mr. Olson.
It wasn't much of a vacation.
I mean, you were listening to the show yesterday morning.
I was listening.
Yeah.
I mean, I wouldn't listen to me if I didn't have to, but it's the sound that comes out of my pie hole here.
So, I mean, I've got to, whereas you did it by choice.
I was
wanted to see how
did.
Thanks.
Don't worry.
Okay.
Yeah, great.
Very nice.
What did you do?
You had some extended family time?
A
of fun.
Oh,
It
How did you do?
As far as I know, pretty good.
As far as you know, yeah, well, so here do you keep score or so here's the thing it's scramble so you all four you hit you play the best ball Okay, we I think we shot four under Which is like you did pretty fun.
We know I know we did I know we shot four under
okay,
Okay.
And just the way you said that, I mean, you probably have no idea who Jack Benny is, much less watch any of his stuff, old, old timey comedian, but he just has.
They don't even know if we won or lost.
It's great.
Perfect timing here.
Alicia thought that you were working, noting that you were commenting during the show.
She was on YouTube.
I swear he was working.
Tony posts up from Ashland.
Oh, thank goodness.
That replacement guy clearly had no idea what he was doing.
Greg, I think his name was.
Complete amateur.
Great.
We kid because we kid because we care.
It was nice to see Greg yesterday.
I had a great
Thank him and Dom for filling in and glad you made it back with absolutely.
No idea of how you actually did.
Thank you.
Yeah, but it's that you had fun and that's that's what counts, right?
it was
good time That's really what I say anytime about golf is that it my only hope is that it turns out more fun than I hope it'll be yeah Cuz I'm not a golfer
hope.
Okay.
Here's what's coming up on the program today.
The case of Texas legislators leaving the state in order to delay rigged Republican congressional maps is evoking memories of what happened here before Act 10 took, uh, took hold in 2011.
But the similarity actually goes a little deeper than that.
States are in these positions of what I call corrupt cartography.
because right-wing justices on the US Supreme Court a few years back would not step in when Wisconsin Republicans rigged our own maps right here during the Scott Walker administration.
You have to wonder if there is a path forward that doesn't involve a race to the bottom when it comes to politicians trampling on the rights of voters who, I mean, all they want is fair elections.
That's seriously all it is.
It's part of our question of the week in our Sunday newsletter.
Should blue states match red states to offset gerrymandering?
You can sign up for our Sunday morning newsletter over at upnorthnewswi.com.
Also, some progress is being made in Wisconsin communities that want to create a local network to ensure access to high speed internet service.
It's taken a little time because of restrictions from a Republican led legislature, but in our seven o'clock hour, we're going to talk to the mayor of Superior, Jim Payne, the latest hometown to get a project started.
Also, last month, America marked 60 years of Medicare and Medicaid as a lifeline for the elderly and vulnerable.
And then not long after that, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
to ensure racial discrimination would find no place in the future of America's elections.
And yet here we are in the future and racism in elections is back thanks to a politicized U.S.
Supreme Court and an all-out assault by a sitting president on anything resembling racial justice.
We're going to talk to Civic Media News Director Shaly Pittman to find out how recent events play a role in Wisconsin's elections too.
as we watch the slow dismantling of the Voting Rights Act.
Chad Holmes will be along from 98.9 WXCO in Warsaw.
Dan Hagen will be joining us from NewsWatch 12 and Rhinelander as well.
All that coming up throughout the course of the day.
And of course, you can join us as well.
If you're watching us on social media, on Facebook or YouTube, you can just put a little something in the comment section there.
We'll see it and maybe pop it up on screen here like we did for Alicia and Tony.
You can also use the Civic Media app.
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From meteorologist Brittany Merleau, our state forecast, she says high pressure is still in place, but
The jet stream is shifting.
It's shifting our winds to kick up from the south and that's going to kick out a lot of the wildfire smoke.
Hallelujah!
However, those south winds are going to start turning things hot and humid for the second half of the week.
Partly sunny is the forecast for the state today.
Highs in the low 80s.
A southeast wind at 5 to 10.
partly cloudy tonight lows in the upper fifties to low sixties a light easterly wind just all in all a really nice not perfect summer forecast you know what with the smoke and everything but this is mighty darn close to it this is really a great time to you know do your your golfing parker camping biking whatever the case may be it's all good out there this time of year
See, now when you said tingling, I thought you were thinking about the Brewers, watching them in Atlanta last night.
I'm tickling
That was fun.
Quinn Priestor surrendered a first pitch home run, and you're thinking, oh, well, maybe it was a good run while it lasted.
No, no.
After that.
He allowed just one other hit and Isaac Collins hit a three run homer.
That was the difference as the Brewers beat Atlanta three to one on Monday night.
All-star Trevor McGill picked up his 25th save of the season for the Brewers after pitching a perfect ninth inning.
A Quinn Priester struck out four, walked two, throwing 90 pitches as the Brewers improved to a Major League Best 68 and 44.
That is 10 wins in a row for Quinn Priester.
Yeah, that's somebody who if you'd have told me when the start of the season started that a guy named Quinn Priester would be one of the heroes of the team and pitch 10 wins in a row, I would not have believed you.
of
the
the year.
That's exactly what it was.
But but he and all these others, Isaac Collins, rookie of the month, you know, they just they've they've all stepped up as they got here.
We've made them feel good.
We've made them feel welcome.
Maybe it was the pocket pancakes.
I don't know.
The TV, the TV guys were making note of that yesterday and saying, you know, what about a wallet waffles?
Where does this go from here?
Brewers were played Atlanta again this evening and then again tomorrow evening 540 both evenings.
The pregame will get started on Civic Media stations in Hayward and Park Falls.
We're seeing Kenosha, Oshkosh and Richland Center.
I also noted from a couple of different places the the delight that Brewers fans are taking in the way the Chicago White Sox are picking up like as many former Brewers as they can.
JR Radcliffe writes this in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The Milwaukee Brewers have been the best team in baseball for more than two months.
The Chicago White Sox have not.
Though they're trying to capture some of Milwaukee's magic by acquiring everybody leaving Milwaukee.
The latest move was to claim both of the Brewers relievers who were designated for assignment shortly after the trade deadline left hander Brian Hudson and right hander Elvis Pagaro.
The White Sox have rostered six other players with recent Brewer's Ties, and J.R.
Redcliff writes, not since Bud Selig tried to buy the White Sox and move them to Milwaukee in 1969, has there been this much of a pipeline between the two organizations?
And in my mind, it predates this, but in my mind, it is all about Aaron Savalli.
saying, I don't want it.
If you're going to put me in the bullpen, you got to trade me.
I don't want to be here anymore.
Send me somewhere else.
Fine, buddy.
Go to the White Sox.
We'll get Andrew Vaughn and suddenly he'll kick it into gear.
You brought
Yep.
And it ain't working.
It ain't working.
It works here.
Other former Brewers now with the White Sox include Adrian Hauser, Tyler Alexander, Bryce Wilson, Vinnie Capra.
So hey, if you're missing any of these players, you know, you just have to head down the road now and you can still see them with a team that's not.
doing so great.
Maybe.
Maybe they're hoping some of that Pope magic will sprinkle on them.
Tony writes, if you can't create chemistry, just import it from the best team in baseball.
Very typical Chicago, he writes.
Roger on Facebook says the White Sox have already surpassed their win total for last year.
So hey, they got that going for them.
Look, I'm again, I'm just enjoying the ride because I want to put this one caveat in here.
It's great.
But
you know, all the national talk is, oh, I guess we have to take the Brewers seriously.
Here come the Brewers.
And it's great and everything.
But I just want to get out of the first round of the playoffs first, before I get any sense of giddiness over here.
I was
thinking this morning, I really hope that the Brewers start to scuffle a little bit soon, because I don't want them to be ridiculously hot for too long, as they have been, I think, now.
And then totally go dead bats, nothing to do when they get to the postseason.
I'm really hoping they can get hot again during the postseason.
Yeah.
I just want to see how they, we saw how they bounced back when they had a rough first month or so of the season.
And I just want to know that they still have it in them, given how many roster changes have come since that time.
But in the meantime, I'm going to enjoy the victories.
Don't don't get me wrong.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
So there will be a lot to talk about throughout the the rest of the show today.
Of course, we've got today's history lesson coming up where we wish a fond farewell to Lonnie Anderson from WKRP that and the rest of today's music history news and notes coming up as well.
And we are followed later by Matt Nair on air Todd Alba.
Host of the conveniently named Todd Alba Show will be joining Jane and Greg at 9.30 this morning.
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On the text line from Jim in Brookfield saying good morning Patton Parker.
My wife and I had a nice day at the State Fair yesterday.
Outside of the Expo building we ran into of all people Congressman Tom Tiffany.
I recognized him because of an aide who had a team Tiffany t-shirt.
When I asked if he was going to run, ostensibly for governor here, he said, I'm thinking about it as he extended his hand for me to shake.
When I told him that I do fist bumps, he told me that Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio also does fist bumps.
I was not pleased to learn that I had something in common with Jim Jordan, again, from Jim and Brookfield.
Don't worry, Jim and Brookfield, you have a lot less in common with Jim Jordan than a lot of folks.
would like to think.
Jim Jordan is, you don't want certain things in common with him.
There's a part of me that still believes there is justice for people like Jim Jordan.
But for now, they're sure enjoying the, you know, the ride on the Maggar roller coaster while they can.
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Akilah Hughes' guests on this latest edition of How Is This Better are Tara McGowan.
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The other day I was talking to...
I want to say it was Key of the Keel or maybe it was our Week in Review panel.
We were discussing familiar names in the news and we talked about Beto O'Rourke when we were talking about the Texas redistricting and I suppose that means Beto O'Rourke is going to start making appearances again.
Well, it turned out he was making one right in Wisconsin.
He was in Wisconsin last Saturday holding a town hall at the Washington Park Senior Center in Milwaukee.
part of a series of community conversations around the country held by Beto O'Rourke's voter organization group, Powered by People.
Speakers last Saturday included Devin Remaker, the new chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, and former Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes.
A lot being said there about the direction that the Democratic Party needs to go in.
And as I mentioned before,
Part of that direction is determining if, in heavily democratic states, they need to sink to the Republican level in engaging in gerrymandering to offset the corrupt maps that are being considered right now in Texas.
And we'll talk a bit more about that in our next segment.
We're also going to continue our discussions throughout this morning and throughout the weeks and months ahead about
who Wisconsin's next governor should be and the qualities that make up that governor.
But before we get there, there are still plenty that is being said about the current governor, Tony Evers.
And whether he, you know, fought hard enough for Wisconsin, for progressive values, for things like that, there was a column by an awkward brewing company owner Kirk Bangstead recently.
that was titled Governor Tony Evers, Wisconsin's savior who refused to lead and why Democrats can't choose the most inoffensive candidate again in 2026.
Now anybody that knows Kirk Bankstead knows that he does not have any problem whatsoever attacking Democrats as well as Republicans if they do not meet a certain benchmark the way that he sees it.
And he has repeatedly called out Governor Evers.
He has repeatedly called out Democratic Attorney General Josh Call and others.
He has certainly called out Democratic legislators.
Let's just say there's a reason he doesn't appear at Democratic conventions and things like that.
He is an equal opportunity offender.
There's a lot of times when his heart is in the right place, when he's fighting for the right cause.
But it's the manner in which he does it that rubs some people the wrong way and this latest essay about Tony Evers You really saw that reflected in the comment section on Facebook now again Bankstead has his fans and supporters, but there are also plenty of people this time around Who said you lost me on this one or who said, you know, I'm still a supporter, but you're completely off base on this one There was much less
Yay, you go Kirk in this one.
And much more pushback from people that said, what do you want from a guy who's got a gerrymandered legislature dominated by Republicans?
For most of his time in office, he had a state Supreme Court that was dominated by right wing justices.
And sure, you can speak up more loudly on behalf of progressive causes, but in terms of actual action.
There are a lot of people that think the best thing that Governor Tony Evers did was what he could do.
And that was use his veto pen, essentially as a goalie stick in hockey and prevent some truly awful things from taking place in Wisconsin that are taking place in plenty of other states.
And that, yes, perhaps the next governor needs to be of a different brand, maybe more of a fire brand, maybe a bit more forceful.
But as we've discussed here, that may also mean that that particular candidate may turn off enough moderate voters and hand the governorship to the Republican Party.
The upshot of it seems to be that people do appreciate Tony Evers.
He's never been a political animal.
But for what we needed, somebody that could beat Scott Walker and then fend off the worst Republican traits, mission accomplished.
The Midwest Farm Report is next here on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Tomorrow, of course, we'll have our weekly homeroom segment and we'll be talking to Denise Gomer Hutchison of the Wisconsin Public Education Network, Laura McCoy of the Green Bay School Board and Green Bay City Council member, Alyssa Prophet, on how you can follow their lead right in your own hometown and push for better taxpayer transparency when it comes to the true cost of voucher schools and your property tax bill.
So be listening for that.
It's 7 30 tomorrow.
Tony reminds us on YouTube this comment.
Bernie Sanders would win more moderates and non-voters than the average Democrat is his claim.
He says it's not about where you are on the spectrum.
It's how you will impact voters lives and if you will fight for them.
And Tony believes that's what people are seeing in folks like Bernie Sanders and others.
So again, your point of view always welcome on Facebook or YouTube.
or again use the Civic Media app to text us your thoughts as well.
All right, for folks who might have missed it in our last hour or 8 a.m.
hour yesterday, Monday, we talked a bit with Sean Fetaplace from Main Street Alliance.
That's the small business group that advocates for better public policy for Wisconsin entrepreneurs.
We talked a bit about our mutual friend, Karine Hendrickson, as a symbol, as she's closing her childcare center, of the struggles facing entrepreneurs in our state and small businesses overall.
And I started by asking him to simply affirm that this has not been an easy first six months of the new administration for small businesses in our state.
That's right.
on January 20th, the day after the Office of Management and Budget dropped a bomb, which was that they were cutting grant programs all across the country.
That impacted folks who were ahead start here in Dane County, it would have impacted a thousand families actually.
But we also had a lot of members who were part of programs that benefited from government funding.
And so that's been huge.
We actually have now sued the administration seven times because they keep breaking the law, whether it's federal layoffs,
They've laid off huge amounts of the SBA staff.
They're gutting our civil society.
And we're fighting back our organization, our members like Kareen, who thank you for all you've done to highlight her story, really are working to make sure that we're holding the administration accountable and we're holding elected officials like Derek Van Orden and Brian Steele accountable as well.
Yeah, because again, for folks that haven't, we haven't talked about Main Street Alliance for a while here, but this is not your big business agenda here.
And between a lack of access to healthcare, the childcare crisis, rising tariffs, a lot of what's happening through the Trump administration may be good for, say, a Fortune 100 company.
But their view of their workers and of what they need from government
is not the same as what businesses on Main Street need and that's a big part of Main Street Alliance's role is reminding state and federal lawmakers that you've got a whole bunch of members that have a different mindset than the big boys on Wall Street.
That's right and you know it wasn't small business owners standing behind the president like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk and others during the inauguration.
Apparently our pocketbooks aren't
big enough to be able to do that.
And so our membership, we have about 2000 members in Wisconsin.
And they're being absolutely decimated right now, whether it's the tariffs or something that your listeners really need to be aware of is that
A lot of the bad stuff and the big, ugly law that passed, they essentially put the goodies on the front end, like the cuts, and then getting rid of benefits and stuff later on.
Medicaid, for example, is one of those programs.
However, the enhanced tax credits and the Affordable Care Act marketplace where tens of millions of people get insurance in this country, those cuts are going to affect open enrollments in November, and the actual cuts go into effect in January.
And for many, many folks in the state, that's going to raise their premiums by as much as 97%.
It's going to mean tens of thousands of people in our state losing coverage.
And we're going to make sure that people know who's responsible for making that happen.
And it's good that you raise that point that everything in the Trump mega bill is on its own different timeline when these cuts happen, when all these things unfold, there will be ways throughout the coming years that will point back to this Trump mega bill as having that kind of an impact.
them and so that explains why you've been convening you know these forums across the country with small business owners with advocates as well to tell them what that the you know the mega bill may have been signed and everything but that's that's no reason to just say well I guess that's that and walk away there there's always action to be done either to undo this or to fight for something else right
Yeah, I think that the first thing is that the Republicans when they come back from their August vacation to DC is There's all they're arguing cold feet on some of these cuts on the affordable character marketplace because they realize that if tens of thousands of people lose coverage in their districts or if their coverage Goes up by twice what it cost before It's gonna be very easy to point out who did that Derek von Orden is a perfect example
Because of the way the marketplace is done, more rural areas tend to get more generous subsidies for technical reasons.
And so you could see folks see the premiums go up per year in this district by between two and four thousand dollars a year.
And that is real money.
That is money that folks will not be able to afford.
And so
Looking ahead, I mean, that's going to be something that we're really going to pound the payment on.
We've been organizing folks, not just in Wisconsin, but we, I recently went to Iowa, went to Minnesota.
We have folks from Virginia and Virginia and North Carolina and Michigan through our 1000 Main Streets program to bring people together to learn about this stuff.
So we're working to make sure that folks are aware of what's happening and they know how to contact and impact their lawmakers.
While those voices are small, there are so many more.
small businesses then there are the big ones and it really is just a matter of helping all of these entrepreneurs understand that putting their voices together they can fight for these things that should be higher priorities in in Madison and in Washington.
So you've talked about at the federal level
holding Brian style and Derek Van Orden, you know, to account for them.
Does that include, I mean, will there be like public events or is it more just outreach and asking people to, you know, write to their member of Congress and let them know their dissatisfaction with what's happening?
Yeah, so I would say, I'm not on you, right?
Okay.
What I would say is for the two of them,
To Brian's credit, he did hold a town hall.
He got a year full the other day, but at least he held one Derek is in is what might as well and be the witness protection program.
He doesn't show up for anything and so Yeah, I definitely show up when people have public events right op-ed right LTE Talk to the local media about how you're being impacted If you get connected to us we get our website and sign up.
We've been really at the forefront
fight against the tariffs and against the healthcare cuts.
Our members have been featured and seen by over 15 million people in the last a couple months across the country on these issues.
And so getting into the press, getting into be able to talk to them directly and then getting involved in local elections.
We're talking to Sean Fetaplace from Main Street Alliance.
You can learn more at MainStreetAlliance.org.
One of the discoveries that small businesses are making, some of them who had been, say, Trump supporters, was thinking that everything that they were saying about tariffs was somehow going to be good news for them because they're a small business.
And if more people buy American because of the tariffs, it would be good for them.
And I'm picking on one particular business, the Montana Knife Company, because their CEO was so, I think, illustrative of where we're at right now.
Taking that view of oh, yeah, the tariffs are gonna be great for small businesses till you realize he's got a he's an American manufacturer Yeah, but he's got to import the steel that he's using to make these knives and suddenly realizing oh wait a minute These tariffs are gonna hit everybody in some way shape or form
Yeah, he also asked for special treatment for his business, which I thought was pretty interesting Considering that you know you look at smooth howly which caused the arguably help push us into depression
you look at these current tariffs.
One thing that was extremely frustrating for me in the early days of like post-liberation day and the sort of very chaotic, you know, very, I would say, impulsive announcements that have been made ever since with Besant and hard luck in cheerleading the president's economical literacy is that the way this is being done is really dumb.
These tariffs, like there's a time and place for tariffs for national security reasons.
China is a bad actor and they've done a lot of things that
that's stealing intellectual property or other things.
And there needs to be some accountability there.
However, doing a carte blanche, 30%, 50% tariff, a lot of profit margins, if you look at Walmart as an example, which is a very big business, right?
They have huge production, huge scale.
Their profitability is around six or 7%.
And that has to be disclosed to shareholders.
And so if they're only that profitable and you look at 30% tariffs,
that the math doesn't math.
And so what's been happening is that people have been selling the existing inventory and so they haven't had her jackup prices yet.
And they're also in a wait and see period.
And if you look at the jobs report that just got released last week, it showed essentially that part of the reason why the jobs data was not good is because so many businesses closed and didn't respond to the survey.
And so that
shows that this is having a huge impact.
It's starting to show them the data and it's only going to get worse as we head towards the holiday
season.
Sean fed a place from Main Street Alliance.
Great to catch up with you, Sean.
Thank you so much.
I'm glad you were free today.
Alright, thanks, Pat.
Take care.
All right, let's talk about what's happening in Texas now where Democratic legislators have left the state for a time to call national attention to the corruption coming out of their state capital as Republicans on the demand of President Donald Trump try to rig their congressional map further to squeeze out more Republican districts in a bare-knuckle effort to win control of Congress, not based on whether the voters like them or not, but on how they can move lines the way that Donald Trump uses a Sharpie on a hurricane map.
The fact of the matter is this all comes back to Scott Walker as so many things too when you had a series of corrupt Republicans running our state right after the 2010 elections.
And let me explain how.
Look, gerrymandering has been a thing for a long time in this country.
Jess Bidgood has a good article about it in the New York Times and notes that last year just 8% of congressional races were decided by five points or less.
But she also notes that a key moment came in 2019 when the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled that federal courts were powerless to hear cases about partisan gerrymandering.
Chief Justice John Roberts acknowledged that the results of excessive partisanship reasonably seem unjust, but that ultimately the issue was political and not constitutional.
The court washed its hands of the issue and left it to states.
The dissenting justices warned
that the consequences for democracy could be dire.
Justice Elena Kagan wrote, the practices challenged in these cases, imperil our system of government.
But with the federal courts now taken out of the business of reviewing partisan gerrymandering, it was up to state laws and state courts to determine what was allowed.
And there, Republicans had an advantage.
And how did they get that advantage in large part?
Yeah, through gerrymandering.
So by the 2022 redistricting cycle, Republicans controlled congressional mapmaking in 19 states, while Democrats did so in just seven, according to a 2022 analysis by the Brennan Center.
Now, Democrats did aggressively gerrymander in a couple of states, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada.
But in several other states where Democrats are in a position of power, including Arizona, California, Colorado, and Michigan, voters have established independent commissions to draw fair maps, which will make it harder to try to cancel out Texas's gains by drawing new maps elsewhere.
And that is the sad lesson that we must learn for all of that.
For all of the times that Democrats played by the rules and did the things that voters were expected, folks like Scott Walker, Donald Trump, Republican legislators, Republican members of Congress took advantage of that fairness, took advantage of the playing field and said, well, gosh, if we cheat, we can win this game.
And if we convince just enough voters that we're the tough guys and doing this on their behalf, we'll win.
And it's worked right up until the moment of say, you pass some kind of a big bloated boondoggle of a budget bill.
And those voters start to realize that for all your bluster, you were never on their side in the first place.
And maybe that's why all this will perhaps come back and bite Republicans in the butt next year.
Today's history lesson is up next.
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Today is kind of a bittersweet history lesson that we bring you today.
Today would have been Lonnie Anderson's 80th birthday.
The mainstay of the 70s sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati died on Sunday at the age of 79 after what the family said was a long illness.
She played receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on the series and the one who was
really running things behind the scenes rather than her bumbling boss, Mr. Carlson.
The show only ran for what, three, four seasons, but it made an impression on an entire generation of idiots who went into radio like me.
Not Parker so much.
Did you even know what it is?
I know you haven't seen it because it never ran in reruns or anything.
of
thanks.
Was the Thanksgiving turkey bomb.
The turkey drop, which is, which is, of course, a landmark TV episode.
And one of those when when we're watching it live for the first time, you think you're going to wet yourself.
You're like because you don't expect.
them to take the tragedy of the Hindenburg and turn it into a failed radio contest promotion.
And not only do we not see reruns because most shows have to run like about five seasons before they show up in reruns, but also the original series, they played
you know, the actual music of the time that was on the radio, music rights, as we've talked about on this program are expensive as they're just crazy expensive.
Yeah.
And so you could not possibly pay for the music rights to run all of this, which is a darn shame.
So if folks ever, you know, do get a chance just to
you know, catch clips on on YouTube or Tik Tok or whatever.
It's worth your while.
It was it was a nice series and happy trails to Lonnie Anderson.
Let's go to 1957.
It was on this day that American Bandstand, a local Philadelphia program went national when it aired for the first time on ABC.
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you, Pat.
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No.
I had a 1962 show intro queued up and had it started at the very familiar theme.
Well, again, familiar to geezers like me that understand the American Bandstand theme.
But, you know, what are you going to do?
It was a local Philadelphia show.
It would run for five years and then head to Hollywood.
And it would stay there until 1987.
But on that first afternoon, the first song the kids danced to that day was That'll Be the Day by Buddy Holly.
All right, on this day in 1884, the cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid at what is now known as Liberty Island in New York Harbor.
The first electric traffic light was installed in Cleveland on this day in 1914.
And this is the anniversary of the birth of rock and roller Rick Derringer.
Rick Derringer, somebody else that we just lost recently.
May 26th, he passed away.
Of course, his big hit, Rock and Roll Huchiku, was from 1970.
Prior to that, he got started in the music business early.
He was the leader of a band at age 17 that was brought in at the last minute to re-record the lead on what would become the 1965 hit, Hang on Sloopy.
On this day in 1972, music mogul Clive Davis happened to catch Aerosmith.
A nice young band that was playing at Max's Kansas City restaurant in New York on this day in 1972 and immediately signed them with CBS Records.
On this day in 1975, Stevie Wonder signed a record deal for what was then the largest contract for a single artist, $13 million.
That's a big chunk of change in 1975 to serve seven years and seven albums with Motown and Tamela Records.
The number one song this week in 1978 was by the Rolling Stones.
On this day in 1962, Nelson Mandela was jailed by the apartheid government in South Africa.
for being a political opponent.
He would not be released for another 28 years until 1990.
Think it can't happen here?
Look at this week's headline that the Trump administration is now investigating former special counsel Jack Smith.
On this day in 2012, the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting took place in Oak Creek after killing six victims of the perpetrator, then committed suicide after being wounded by police.
Happy birthday to singer Samantha Sang.
She is 72 years old today.
Her big hit emotion with the Bee Gees came in the mid 70s.
She's a native of Melbourne, Australia.
Her birth name was Cheryl Sang.
Marcia Brady, Marine McCormick is 68 years old today.
Country singer Terry Clark is 57 years old today.
Oh, let me fix that math on there.
Marine McCormick is 59.
Oh my gosh, Marcia Brady is almost 70 years old.
That's crazy.
Let's see.
It is National Oyster Day.
Which got me thinking okay.
There's oysters.
There's clams.
There's mussels They're all kind of in that mollusk section of the menu.
I love mussels I do when they're made up in a you know fried up in just the right way and like a Wine sauce or whatever garlic and butter so good oysters and clams I'm gonna pass on those.
never
I suppose not here in the Midwest.
They're not Yeah, you don't you don't find them anywhere.
You know, and if you do you might be worried
Yeah, yeah, you might be so okay Well, maybe folks will have their own opinion on whether I know are they are they an oyster person a clam person a muscle person?
What is it?
And of course it's national night out so there will be events in your communities like Selena Heller talked about in Eau Claire There's something going on at Carson Park this evening so much more ahead for two more hours as we do on these Tuesday mornings powered by up north news here on the civic media radio network We'll have Brittany Merlot's forecast and much more after the seven o'clock news hang around
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