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Well, hey there, Wisconsin.
Good morning.
It is a Wednesday morning, August 13, 2025.
And it's 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 catching us on the app, watching us on social media, listening later by podcast.
We appreciate you starting your day right here.
I got a question for you.
What's the mathematical equation for calculating baseball's magic number?
And I know Parker was told there would be no math or quizzes as part of this radio show, but we'll try one today to come up with the mathematical equation for baseball's magic number, which is a thing now because the Brewers have now won their 11th game in a row.
Parker Olson is producing this little shindig down in Madison Studio A2.
Can you taste the free hamburgers yet?
Or will our hopes be dashed on the rocks like the last 11 game winning streak?
Mr. Olson,
well, yeah, that's just terrible.
They can.
They just have to know that they would have to lose this afternoon.
Given what they did to the pirates last night, winning 14 to nothing, feeling pretty good about those burgers from George Webb.
now, yeah.
Mm-hmm, yeah.
Yes, the Brewers were winners by two touchdowns over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Over Paul Skeens, one of the best pitchers in baseball, and for the second straight time at American Family Field, the Brewers chased him after four innings.
to
Oh, yeah, another leadoff home run by Sal Freelike.
I don't even know how many that is now, but he's just, I mean, they're tearing the cover off the ball.
There were five home runs yesterday.
This was allegedly not a home run winning, a home run hitting team.
Turns out they do.
Every now and then.
They do.
Yes, they've had that eight game winning streak, the 11 game winning streak, now another 11 game winning streak.
So this is pretty fun.
season.
And it says actually what it is is the Brewers.
And if you look at just the National League, the Brewers are the first team in the National League with multiple winning streaks of at least 11 games in a season since the 1935 Chicago Cubs.
So these guys are pretty good.
the Brewers lead the major leagues with home runs since the start of August.
23 home runs since the start of August.
Just remember, the Brewers are undefeated in the month of August at this point.
They haven't lost a game since last month.
And that includes six home runs this month by Bryce Terrang alone, three more by Andrew Vaughn, who
Did not join the Brewers until July 7th after coming our way from the Chicago White Sox.
Thank you again, Aaron Savali, for demanding that trade very, very much.
Couldn't appreciate it more.
Might put up a statue for you after that.
Andrew Vaughn got here July 7th.
He has 32 RBIs since then.
That's an insane pace.
Yeah.
Yeah, so they'll do this again this afternoon to wrap up the three game series at American Family Field.
Coverage begins at 12.35 this afternoon on some of your favorite civic media radio stations all around Wisconsin.
Here's what's coming up on the program today.
Well, probably more brewery chat because it's just so exciting.
Also,
Naturally, the headline writers, they have to be brief.
They might leave out some context.
And so you may have seen the headline, Evers vetoes portable benefits for delivery drivers.
Well, the real story is how the governor vetoed a bill that would preserve the ongoing imbalance between how corporations treat their workers and abusing the loophole with gig workers, independent contractors,
part timers.
We're going to talk to former state representative Dana walks, who has a lot of experience as a trial attorney in worker misclassification.
And we'll also talk to him about another bill that he worked on when he was in the legislature about bringing greater transparency to property tax bills about the true cost of voucher schools.
It's something that's now happening in Green Bay.
It could eventually happen in other local school districts, but it should have happened statewide a long time ago, but Republicans did not.
get on board Dana's bill and continue to try to obfuscate the taxpayer cost of voucher schools.
We have this week's climate check with Melissa Baldoff.
Wisconsin was the first state in the country to use President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act as a way to put money back in people's pockets for projects that made their homes more energy efficient.
Well, two years later, it has paid out millions in rebates.
And we'll talk to Melissa about the program's success compared with what the current administration is trying to do to shift all that money back to company executives involved in oil.
gas and coal.
We'll check in with Civic Media's Jimmy Koska and Civic Media reporter James Kelly in the Chippewa Valley as well.
Brittany Merlot is off today, so stay tuned to your local Civic Media station for the local forecast here.
Though, Parker, I do have to say that a little bit before the show, I had to swap out shorts for jeans.
This is the first time I've had jeans on in a while.
It's a 57 right now here on Lake Wissoda.
That's all chilly.
Still gonna get up to 79, 80 degrees over here, which is just downright pleasant.
I can keep the top down on the Jeep for at least, you know, another day, but no longer oppressive.
Although I guess, I guess the smoke is supposed to start rolling back in again from Canada.
I know.
Yeah, so at some point may have to close the windows and turn on the air conditioner again, just not quite yet.
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I was going to tell you about a
project that I was working on in the garage here, but it actually dovetails into a side project that I had to do in the garage.
I created a puzzle for myself, a puzzle, nearly 30 years in the making.
right.
I finally had to work on it.
In my garage, there's an old five gallon bucket.
And it's I mean, it's it's a metal bucket.
So it's it's a it's a rust bucket, quite literally.
And
Over time, it had collected, let's just say leftover hardware.
Let's say you're putting something together and then there's some extra odds and ends, nuts, bolts, screws, whatever the case may be.
It just gets tossed in there and I always said, you know, I'll get around to it.
I'll get around to sorting this thing.
I'll get to it.
Well, you see these lights Parker on the shelf behind me?
Remember my mentioning?
Oh, Ikea gave you the option of using tape
or
these little teeny tiny screws.
And I went with their adhesive strips, which were not adhesive, not nearly enough.
And so a couple of different times, these little spotlights hanging above the bookshelf came crashing down.
And I knew it was going to be time to eventually screw those little buggers in.
I could not find the little screws.
I just could not.
I looked in, I looked in the places where you should put them.
You know, I've got these little tiny drawers, you know, almost like a fishing tackle situation.
Oh yeah.
And all kinds of organized nuts and bolts and screws.
And I just wasn't seeing it.
And so out of the corner of my eye, I see the rust bucket and I think, did I really toss them in there?
And I think what I do such a thing and then I
I said yes, I would because I didn't want to do the little teeny tiny screws, you know, that's that's annoying.
So I'm sure I just let I'm never going to use these.
Yeah.
And so the time had finally come.
And I had no other way to do this is just to turn it upside down and empty it all out on the garage floor, get on my hands and knees and start sorting.
So the job that I'd been putting off for about 25 years
Finally, that was how I spent my Sunday afternoon, was getting all of those things in order, in the workbench, in the places where they belong.
And it was such a pleasant day, and the beers were on the radio and everything, that it actually wasn't a hardship.
But this should be a story of shame on you, that'll learn you.
But I was putting off something I did not want to do until the time was right, the time was right.
in the midst of all that debris, so much of it that got thrown away, and I don't know why it didn't go to the trash can in the first place, were these eight teeny tiny screws, which finally got up on the step ladder, and I feel like I need a nice pack on my shoulder because, you know, you're just wrenching these things in there.
It's not like there's a pilot hole or anything in there, but they're in, they're in.
And they look great.
And I
say that now.
Because, thank you, yeah, I think they look all right.
But I say that now because if and when the crash comes again and we hear it all coming down, we'll know that the Ikea folks made those teeny tiny screws a little too teeny tiny and that they did not get the work done, but at this point it appears that they do.
that this hasn't led to
this on video.
Oh gosh, I thought about it.
And then I realized I, I engage in enough self-deprecation, you know, as it is already.
And that's fine.
I, you know, I don't mind.
But sometimes you have to draw limits and go, okay, this is, this is a bridge too far.
I will tell people about the rush bucket.
Maybe I'll take a picture later.
All right, here's your answer.
To calculate the magic number of a baseball team, you add up the number of wins for the first place team and the number of losses by the second place team.
And then you subtract that total from 163 because that's one more than the number of games that there are in a season.
So for the Brewers, you're now at 75 wins.
And then you're at 51 Cubs losses.
And so that's 126.
You subtract that to 160.
Oh, look who did the work already.
Roger did on Facebook and Stevens Point.
75 wins, 51 Cubs losses.
Add those together, subtract it from 163 and you've got a magic number of 37.
So any combination of 37 Brewers wins and Cubs losses
will give the Brewers the National League Central Division title, which I hasten to add is not guaranteed.
There is still plenty of time for the Cubs.
They are seven and a half games back, but guess what?
We were six games back at one point.
And that worked out pretty well for us.
So.
Yeah, we'll keep trackin' that magic number as long as we can make it last.
Let's enjoy the ride, kids.
Live from the heart of America's Up North, thanks for making this a place to spend part of your mornings.
I'm Pat Crightlow here on Lake Wissoda.
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I'm Pat Krightlow from UpNorth News on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Marker, according to Roger, he says that as of this morning, according to Tankathon, whatever that is, the brewers still have the fifth toughest schedule remaining.
The Cubs have the third easiest schedule remaining, so take nothing for granted.
Or as Cassandra puts it on YouTube, whoa, we're already looking at that.
Well, yes, we are.
We're having fun with it.
Well, there is that and the Brewers continue to be severely underrated.
Somebody pointed to an article somewhere that said, how's this?
The Brewers have the best record in baseball and yet.
have no players on the current list of the 100 best players in Major League Baseball.
I saw that.
I thought that was a little odd.
That seems a little odd, yes.
Uh, 624 the time right now.
Do you have Hulu?
Do you have the Hulu?
I do have
yeah.
Do you have to?
I guess it'll be time to say goodbye to it.
pretty soon.
As Disney, you know, rolls it into Disney Plus.
And I was going to share with you a very interesting article that I found online about it about what, what does this mean for streaming as some of these other streaming services, you know, they started as one thing, but then through corporate changes, you know, they, they belonged to other companies.
And then they're combining their package to hear all this bundling, you know,
And I would have loved to have shared this article.
It was in the Houston Chronicle.
And then I went to go look at it again.
Well, you want to look at it again, it's going to cost you.
Dear Houston Chronicle, I'm not subscribing to your paper to read one article.
Maybe make it available someplace else.
And by the way, I'm the guy that tells people subscribe to newspaper, subscribe to the New York Times or the Milwaukee Journal or the Wisconsin State Journal or the Eau Claire Leader Telegram or whatever.
But when you get these far flung places and you see a story and you want to share a little bit about it, then you can't.
It's like, well, you've really kind of limited your audience here, you know?
especially when
something
going to come
And it's what I said years and years ago, and that was that when...
When Apple figured out iTunes and to charge 99 cents for a song, you could have done something very similar, you know, 25 cents to read this newspaper article or something.
And people at the time said, Oh, no, no, that's just that.
That's too small and never make money off it.
Apple did fine.
Yeah.
Meanwhile, all these newspapers are going out of business.
So the announcement by Taylor Swift then so we'll just have to switch gears and say all right, P Hulu.
Taylor Swift announcing this new album on on Travis and Jason Kelsey's podcast announcing that it's coming has has the world of Twitter.
No pun intended there.
That woman has mastered album anticipation.
Has she not?
kind of
It is, but you know, I've heard her talk about it, about the notion of building anticipation and putting what are called Easter eggs, you know, little coded messages and things to build up suspense and then to, you know, make the announcement.
And the thing is, she didn't, all she announced was the title of the album.
She didn't give her release date.
We don't have any like samples of the songs or anything like that, you know?
But it raises, raises this point.
Okay, so Taylor Swift, she has nailed album anticipation.
Have there been other albums in history that
have also had a high level of anticipation.
Now, that's different than an album that becomes a juggernaut, okay?
Fleetwood Max rumors, for example, just took off Michael Jackson's thriller.
I mean, everybody knew Michael Jackson was talented, but nobody knew that that album was going to do what it did.
Jagged Little Pill or 21 by Adele, they all took off, but they weren't necessarily anticipated.
And so I want people to get in the comment sections on Facebook or YouTube or email us, radio at upnorthnewswi.com, use the Civic Media app to send us a text message, use the voice note feature.
Was there an album that you anticipated highly before it came out?
Near as I can, just a couple examples would be, for example, Van Halen, when David Lee Roth left and Sammy Hagar was coming in, so 5150.
That was pretty well anticipated.
Never mind by Nirvana was another one was going to be their their follow up their second album.
For Fleetwood Mac, everybody I was anticipating Tusk, which was the follow up to Rumors.
But near as I can tell from what little research I've done, prior to Taylor Swift, I don't know if anything, no, any album was more anticipated than
The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
And again, that even predates me.
I was three years old at the time, okay?
But what about you?
Were there albums that...
you couldn't wait to get.
And by the way, for the really younger members of our audience, an album is a collection of cartoons.
Hang on.
We know
is.
On this 12-inch vinyl disc or an eight-track cassette that you would clunk into this player in your car.
I will not put up with the slender.
I know an album.
Now, wait, is that an EP?
Is that an LP?
What is that?
It's a collection.
What have you anticipated from somebody that you could not wait for it to come out?
Yes, Cassandra nailed it here, Adele's 25.
And then she ended up seeing her in concert for that tour.
That would have been the only other one I would have added to this list was 25.
everything else that she did from there.
Roger and Stevens Point in 1984, the Jackson's had the overhyped victory album.
and the Victory Tour.
Yes, that was very anticipated.
And yes, it very much was overhyped.
So keep those suggestions coming in as we talk about highly anticipated albums.
But coming up next, we're going to play back a segment you might have missed yesterday, Jeff Renneke from the Friends of the Apostle Islands about boys out there on Lake Superior, a little network of them to make for safer boating.
After the Midwest Farm Report here on the Civic Media Radio Network.
More of your nominees for most anticipated album coming up in just a bit.
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There's a story about a couple of new full-time staffers at American Family Children's Hospital in Madison.
And these two new staffers have tales that they love to wag.
There's Jimmy the Labrador, a Labrador retriever mix who works with kids in neurology and orthopedics.
Cache is part golden retriever, part poodle supports nutrition patients.
His presence makes it easier for staff to have conversations about complex topics like moving from feeding tubes to solid food.
It's all part of the hospital's canine health and medical pals program.
Again, canine health and medical pals.
That's the acronym is CHAMPS.
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Tomorrow on the program we have another new candidate for Wisconsin State Senate.
There are going to be a lot of legislative races next year and that includes Democrats pushing to take control of the state Senate.
Democrats have not controlled the Senate or the Assembly since 2010.
and are anticipating with new and fairer maps a chance to do that.
And so as candidates have been declaring, a lot of them have approached us about coming on and telling people about their new candidacies.
And we will have one of those candidates for you tomorrow morning.
As well, we'll be talking to Sharita Booker about some of the big events happening around Wisconsin this coming weekend.
Todd Alba will be joining us.
Joseph Peckie, Chad Holmes from 98.9 WXCO in Warsaw, and Sean O'Malley will be talking about your money and the markets.
That is all coming up here on our mornings powered by Up North News on the Civic Media Radio Network.
All right, so for most anticipated albums here, Roger notes that Bruce Springsteen is born in the U.S.
say, I guess we could say yeah, that was pretty well anticipated.
That was 1984.
It was, it was a bit of a departure.
You know, he was he moved more into top 40 territory and nailed it completely.
And let's see, he also but he also had, I saw somewhere in Rolling Stone, a list of the the greatest second albums of all time.
because you know there's there's that thing called the sophomore jinx or some people
you
know hooting hooting the blowfish always comes to mind who uh a lannis morse set they could not get that same magic with their second album but uh springsteens uh and the name of it escapes me it's it's got the east street shuffle in the title was also very um anticipated and popular uh and then we get from adam here limp biscuits chocolate starfish and the hotdog flavored water
and says, just kidding.
You always thought that was a strange album title, to which, of course, Parker and I, who are so tied into pop culture, I mean, limp biscuit fans all the way through.
But we had to double check.
And of course, Parker took all the abuse from Adam, who- Well, I wasn't even sure limp biscuit was a thing.
Oh, Lord, Parker is a baby.
We need to do some education there.
So you have to brush up on your limp biscuit.
both
Let's see.
Thomas Newberlin said ACDC's Back in Black was widely anticipated.
From David Newberlin, he also puts Back in Black by ACDC, third stage from Boston, walk on from Boston, and adrenaline by Def Leppard.
All very good nominees for anticipated albums.
And again, I don't think any of them were of the level of, you know, what
Taylor Swift does, but we're also in this internet social media era where you can build up so much more anticipation.
You can make things buzz worthy where it was very tough to get buzz back when, you know, you had three stations on your TV and one of them was playing entertainment tonight updates by Rona Barrett in Hollywood.
Okay, it was really tough for a new band to compete with a Hollywood gossip columnist.
But we definitely want to know what your thoughts were on that.
And I've also put out a little note on my own Facebook here asking for nominees and seeing what people think.
And so from Joel, a friend of mine here on Facebook says, in the New York City area where I grew up, Springsteen's darkness at the edge of town was eagerly awaited.
There was a three-year gap between born to run and darkness, and folks were getting really antsy waiting for the new record.
which reminds me there is another album that is highly anticipated and has been anticipated for years and years and years and that is whatever the heck Rihanna is gonna do next because I guess it's one of those where they keep saying she's gonna make another album and instead she makes another baby and then they go okay no she's pregnant again not that you can't make an album but
Obviously, she's got her priorities right now.
Yeah, she's a little more
that.
A new album is not one of those things, at least not at the moment.
So her fans just continue to have to wait.
And Dave corrects the Deaf Leopard one, Adrenalize, said his phone auto corrected, which is good because that phone auto correct, who knows what that album could have entitled otherwise.
In our way up north segment yesterday, in case you missed it, we talked to Jeff Renneke from Friends of the Apostle Islands and
We learned about a system of boys that are out on Lake Superior near the Apostle Islands, their usefulness for safety, and so much more.
Jeff Renneke, how are ya?
I'm doing well, Pat.
Thank you.
I'd rather be out boating, but I'm glad to be here talking about
it.
Exactly.
If it helps other people to boat safely, then that's just fine.
So the WaveWatch boys are a joint project between UW Madison, the Friends of the Apostle Islands, and the National Park Service.
And so tell us about these five different data boys deployed in strategic places around the island.
What is it that they do and how do we benefit from them?
Well, first maybe a little background.
I always chuckle when I see that Minnesota license plate boast about 10,000 lakes because Wisconsin actually has 15,074.
And we border the two of the Great Lakes.
And so we have some of the greatest boating in the world.
But with that, of course, comes some dangers.
In 2023, Wisconsin unfortunately set a record with 28 boating fatalities.
We average about 19.
And so the WaveWatch buoy project is a way to show folks that safe boating is informed of boating.
And with the buoys, we can help people make better decisions as you were talking about a moment ago.
And so you do that in these boys that tell you about the things that they measure.
Sure.
So there's five boys out there in strategic places that are important to boaters in the Apostle Islands.
Every 30 minutes they send back information on wave height.
wave frequency, which is the time period between the crests of the waves, the wave direction, and water temperature.
And then it's refreshed every 30 minutes, 24 hours a day, seven days a week through the entire boating season.
So it's not a forecast.
It's even more important.
It's real time information right for where the boaters are going, right at their fingertips.
So this is information at your fingertips.
Is there like any kind of a charge to access this information?
I don't think boating safety should have a price.
And so use of our WaveWatch program is free.
People can just go to our website at friendsofdeposalislands.org and ask us to send them a QR code.
And what I do as a boater myself is part of my preparation process in my boat is before I slip the lines, I take my phone, I scan the QR code and I check conditions to where I'm going.
So the use of it is free.
Now, of course, there is a cost in the process.
And so we appreciate donations to try to keep this project going.
And those donations as well can be made at our website.
But safety should be for all of us and it should be free.
Yes, because as noted, it's a roughly $17,000 a year contract with UW Madison.
So sponsorships are greatly appreciated.
Are there also ramifications when it comes to, you know, measuring our changing climate with these boys?
Yeah, very much so.
Lake Superior is the largest lake in the world by surface area, as many people know.
And so it's very, very fragile to the changes in climate because it has such an incredibly large surface area.
And also, like all lakes, of course, it goes through what they call upwelling or flipping.
And so the recording of temperatures, surface temperatures, can be very important.
We had an event last year
with the buoy out by Myers Beach which is near the sea caves where the temperature literally dropped something on the order of
25 or 30 degrees in a matter of a very short period of time when the lake flipped.
Now that information is not only important to boaters because of course cold water can be a very dangerous situation if you're not prepared.
But it's also important to climate change researchers to understand how our lake is reacting to the changes in water temperature and the extreme conditions that climate change can bring about.
And then finally, how's been the reaction to it, to having this kind of a rather sophisticated safety program out there on the water?
Oh, people love it.
They call it, if for some reason we've had 98.7% connectivity on the buoys, which is incredible, because if I was floating around in Lake Superior from Memorial Day to Labor Day, I wouldn't have 97.
8% connectivity.
But as soon as it goes down, my phone starts ringing.
People are using it.
We've had more than 30,000 hits on our website last year for this, and people are getting used to it.
They're checking it.
It's even become kind of a recreational thing.
People who are not even going boating that day, sometimes wisely because of strong winds, will check on the buoy in a place like
the flats near Long Island or Devil's Islands just to ooh and ah about the size of the waves.
So it's become a very important tool for safe boating in the Apostle Islands.
Oh it sounds like it and again to learn more head to friendsoftheapostleislands.org and learn more about the WaveWatch Boys and much more about the group as well.
Jeff Renneke representing it for us on our weekly Way Up North segment.
Hey it was great to talk to you again Jeff.
Thank you so much for the time.
You're welcome.
Let's all be safe out there.
We appreciate that.
You can catch our way up north segment on Tuesdays at seven fifty two here on our mornings powered by up north news on the civic media radio network from David New Berlin also hell freezes over by the Eagles was kind of a big deal.
Yeah, that's that's that's putting it mildly.
When the Eagles got back together after
14 14 year break.
they were on a break, you know.
And yes, that album, especially the new version of Hotel California was outstanding.
My great thanks to my friend Chris Earl, who's down in Kansas now, and mentions this list, third stage by Boston, he adds, hysteria by Def Leppard.
He says, bad by Michael Jackson should be listed as one of the most anticipated.
And then he totally reminds me of one of my own.
I was a big Huey Lewis and the news fan back in the day.
And four was I believe the follow up to sports and everybody was waiting for that one as well.
I thought you
Right.
Some of my greatest karaoke hits.
So my my album of hit for that one karaoke song I sang that one time.
But it was Frank Sinatra and it was good.
And as they like to say in the news stories about fatal wrecks, alcohol may have been a factor.
in all of that.
So tell you what, instead of having to even think about me singing any karaoke tunes here, why don't we pause and listen to some real music coming up next in today's history lesson.
And then in our next hour, we'll be talking to former state representative Dana walks in our homeroom segment about transparency on property tax bills about the cost of voucher schools, and also the intentional misclassification of workers and how that carries over into today's gig economy.
That's all
All ahead here on these mornings live from Lake Wissota on the Civic Media Radio
Network.
I know what you're thinking.
Is he really going to just play Free Bird here?
Yes, we're just going to go out for breakfast and let this thing run.
Because Leonard Skinner released their debut album, pronounced Leonard Skinner this day in 1973, a rather impressive set with Simple Man, Tuesday's Gone, and oh yeah, Free Bird.
We're not playing Free Bird, we're not playing the album.
We've got
big, more important things to handle like a visit from our friend Melissa K at WFHR in Wisconsin Rapids.
Melissa, how are you?
I'm good.
Good morning.
I'm good.
You know, it's so great that normally we ask you what's new in Wisconsin Rapids.
Do you have anything going on there?
And for once, I get to be the one to make a big announcement about Wisconsin Rapids.
Because you're having like this 85th anniversary parking lot party next week, aren't you?
Yes.
Yes,
we
are.
August
20th.
Yeah, and guess what?
This show will be broadcasting live from WFHR next Wednesday morning at 6 to 9 in the morning as part of the shindig.
Oh,
that's
awesome.
Wait, did we not get the memo to you?
No.
OK.
Surprise.
Memo sent.
Memos.
I'll put the memo at the bottom of Lelu's cage.
And yeah, Lelu told us what they thought of that.
I have some exciting news about Lelu, too.
Oh, my goodness.
Go on.
So, you know, I've created this little pigeon playpen over here for them.
Yes.
And I've started just leaving their door open in the morning.
And they flew out by themselves.
Wow.
We're getting adventurous.
Three
times.
No.
Three times.
See this is this is great.
Roger gives us a big woohoo on Facebook there.
I'm telling you we're getting close.
Do you have the pirate hat yet?
Get the pirate hat because I'm telling you the day will come and I'll bet it's on this segment where Lidl who just flies around lands on your shoulder and looks perfect there with the pirate hat.
Hmm.
Well, they can't really fly fly yet, but they are getting stronger.
So maybe maybe someday.
I just say never never say never exactly.
All right, let's get back to today's history lesson.
The number one song this week in 1966 was by the Lovin' Spoonfuls.
On this day in 1964, Diana Ross and the Supremes walked into a record studio at Motown Studios, recorded a little song called Baby Love.
It did all right.
See, we mentioned the Beatles before.
This week in 1965, they released Help along with the title track.
It included Ticket to Ride.
On this day in 1889, William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted a patent for a coin-controlled apparatus for telephones.
In other words, the pay phone was patented this day in 1889.
Do you ever think we'd see the day where
There weren't pay phones on, like, every corner
anymore.
There's, like, one left,
I think.
Yeah.
And now it's... I don't know of any.
You probably have never used a pay phone, Parker.
Oh, they were everywhere.
Absolutely, yeah.
Happy birthday to Danny Bonaducci.
He's 65 years old
today.
Happy singing.
Come on, get happy.
Do you think there's still a copy right on that song?
Can we use that as our theme song instead, tell everybody to get happy in the morning, Melissa?
I don't know.
You just look it
up.
It seems like the kind of thing that you'd have on a show.
It's just very happy stuff.
We were all swaying to the music.
Yeah, exactly.
Let's see, the late Dan Fogelberg was born in Pura, Illinois this day in 1951.
That's Dan Fogelberg's hard to say that he's gonna come in on here in a second.
I passed away in 2007 of cancer at the age of 56.
All right, I've got one more here that I know I play every year and that's because I just think that she deserves her due.
Her name is Willie May Thornton and on this day in 1952 she walked into a studio in Los Angeles and recorded the original Hound Dog.
It
was a big hit that summer but then in three years later Elvis Presley covered it and he had his own big hit in July of 1956 and then finally Beyonce's album break my soul or I'm sorry her album renaissance went to number one this day in 2002 with a single single including
You can do it.
You can do it.
it too.
Do you want me to read it?
I got it here.
Beyonce's album Renaissance goes to number one, including the single Break My Soul, with the footnote that her follow-up album, Cowboy Carter, her eighth album, also debuted at number one.
Today is National Left-Hander's Day.
This is Filet Mignon Day.
It's Prosecco Day.
And it's World Calligraphy Day.
Just the people that do calligraphy.
I tried it for a little while.
I had
a
book and everything.
Yeah.
It is for those who can do it.
But I mean, they don't even, I hate to say, I don't mean to have a big blanket.
Do they teach cursive writing anymore?
Yes, they do.
They're bringing it back.
Oh, are
they?
Yes, they are because it's proven that you learn things better if you write them down.
Now, that makes sense.
And some of us could really use some help with our handwriting.
Me.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's really kind of so.
Anyway, Melissa, any other quick announcements from Wisconsin Rapids other than the big party?
Excited to see you at the party.
That's going to be fun.
It's
going to
be a busy day.
It is.
Next Wednesday, so be looking for that.
Katie Cruz is going
to be there, too, I heard.
Who?
Katie Cruz.
Oh, and so it's Todd
Alba.
This star studded is the term you're looking for.
Thank you, Melissa.
We'll talk to you later.
Bye.
All right.
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