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Well, hey there, Wisconsin.
Good morning.
It is a Tuesday morning, 6.06 the time.
It's August 26th.
2025 it is another beautiful morning to have year up north live from Lake Wissota from wherever you're spending your mornings listening across the civic media radio network or listening or watching us on all of our different platforms here.
We appreciate having you along.
And we're following right off the top here a little bit of breaking news.
And that's all about a visit coming up later.
from Vice President J.D.
Vance, and at first we thought it was going to be on Tuesday, but it turns out it's not going to be on Thursday, is going to be the visit to a steel fabricating plant in La Crosse.
They did not say specifically which one yet, but it was first reported by Axios
and then by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as well, that he would be coming out initially, like I said, it's said on Tuesday.
So we're still waiting on some of the details of this, but we'll get into a little bit later, you know, what's really behind this.
And it's about propping up a big bloated boondoggle that Trump got passed, a mega bill, whatever you want to call it, anything other than beautiful because it's not.
And this is an effort not just to prop up the bill, but an unpopular congressman.
And it just seems a bit of a stretch to prop up a grouchy congressman by sending a grouchy vice president.
But hey, grouchy white guys unite.
That's what they're going to do at some point when the vice president comes to Western Wisconsin.
Also coming up on the program today, we're going to be talking about
the rural economy and things that the Wisconsin legislature could be doing to help.
And for that, we'll talk to Sheila Everhart of the Wisconsin Agricultural Tourism Association.
We'll talk to our friend Hans Breitenmoser, a dairy farmer from the Merrill area.
And also we'll talk to Gene Bonn of the Farm View Event Barn.
about some of the things that the legislature could do to be more helpful.
State Representative Angela Stroud from Ashland is part of our way up north segment later on.
We'll be talking to Chad Holmes from 98.9 WXCO in Warsaw about the new stories that he's following there.
Not far away from there is a Rhinelander.
And News Watch 12, WJFW, Dan Hagen anchors the news there and he'll join us to talk about more stories up north that they're covering.
And we'll wrap things up with Dan Schaefer from the Reconbobulation Area talking about some of the things and making political headlines.
And also, for the start of the school year, we'll talk about the increasingly popular topic of banning cell phones in the classroom.
Now, since that wasn't a thing,
not just for me or for my kids.
My daughters are now in their mid-30s.
And I have to admit, I kind of thought that was the deal already.
So I don't know.
I need a young person to talk to about this.
Hi.
Parker.
Hi, Parker.
How are you?
Good.
How are you?
Good.
Did you have cell phones like with you on your person while you were supposed to be listening to the teacher?
That's yeah, that's just kind of just how it was something it varied classroom to classroom There were some teachers I think that would have you put that had a lockbox that you would put them in But I don't know if anyone had mandatory you cannot have your phone It was it was more of it if I see it I'm taking it kind of thing But you usually got a couple of warnings because it was kind of a little politics thing within the school as you may have guessed
I, I, I am, I am surprised to hear this.
I legitimately am.
I thought all this time, because I mean, that'd be like, let's go way back.
That'd be like my generation taking a transistor radio and trying to listen to the, to the, to the day game for the brewers, but I've got the volume on really, really low at my desk.
earbuds, I don't think.
So like we weren't doing any volume or anything.
We weren't watching videos.
At least we weren't supposed to.
But yeah, I don't know.
There were some teachers that were just like, you know what?
If something happens, you might as well have your phone on you so that you can.
And that's the other thing if something happens and we know the undertone of that remark Alicia says on YouTube in my kids schools, they used phones for school, which I mean, yeah, I mean, we had to buy, we had to buy a calculator.
We don't have to nobody buys a calculator anymore.
So
I think I'm right on that.
I just, I really always thought that all this time there was a, like, it's got to be in your locker or put them on the shelf here by the door or put them in a basket or whatever.
I never realized they were this widespread in use and I kind of want to go back in time and go, go, why are you doing this?
Because if, if, I could say, if, if I were a teacher, if I had the power to do this,
I would have done that from the get go because I know kids, especially elementary, middle school, high school, they got the attention span of a nat.
Yeah.
If you give them anything that's going to distract them, you know, or just the temptation to look.
I mean, I'm not in middle school, and I still get a look when I'm looking at my phone at at the dinner table or breakfast or whatever, because it's there.
You can't just you can't help but peek over at it.
You know, yeah.
Alicia says the middle school had QR codes everywhere for their syllabus.
I can, again, I can totally see the usefulness of it now.
But back then, when it was just, you know, phones and, and, you know, YouTube and God only knows what you find on YouTube.
And by the way, I hate sounding like an old man right now.
But this is just, I'm...
was
will say
Well Then don't allow them Well, we've pretty much given away the Dan Shaffer segment later on but we'll see what Dan says about more districts that are going after the cell phones and saying no these can't be there and and me saying
Yeah, how is this a thing?
But it is.
So all right, well, let's let's get over to the forecast for meteorologist Brittany Merleau right now or state forecast for today says gradually getting more mild before another cold front drags in some rain midweek and then back to feeling like fall all ahead of a hopefully warmer and dry Labor Day weekend.
Well,
I hope
so.
Here's that phrase again, written fingers crossed, you know, mostly sunny, slightly warmer today.
She says upper 60s up north low 70s south, a northwest wind at 10 to 15 miles an hour, a few clouds and cool tonight are low tonight in the mid to upper 40s with a west wind at five to 10 miles an hour.
I mentioned the daughters are visiting this week with their kids.
One has arrived from Texas, where she is very relieved that it is not 97 because apparently it's 97247 in Texas this time of year.
But she's like, this is winter for her in her world now.
This is what winter feels like.
And I'm like, it kind of feels like winter for me too.
I mean, we left the windows open overnight.
And really,
You know, got up and like, okay, I'm glad we had them open overnight.
But the first thing I did is I closed it all up so it didn't get much colder.
You know, so we got kind of got things sealed in.
It's comfortable here.
And then pretty soon I'll open it up again.
But 40s is for it's 47 right now in Chippewa.
Oh,
August.
Yeah, exactly.
Uh, let's see what else we have here from, uh, Scott and Madison.
Did you really think under pit goal teachers were enforcers of all things?
Um, I just thought, yes, teachers were enforcers back in my day.
Uh, it was, it was a different time back then back then.
Boy, oh boy, this old man stuff is really new to me back then.
If the teacher said
You know your kid did this your kids in trouble for that You turned on the kid and said what is going on here?
What are you doing wrong?
And it just seems there's there's a whole lot of if now it's They're turning on the teacher and going what are you doing wrong?
My my precious baby would not possibly be doing anything wrong, you know, and I hate that but
On the other hand, I can't give teachers all the benefit of the doubt if they were letting phones in the classroom all this time.
in
I guess so.
Let's turn our attention to the sports here.
I was listening to Mike Clemens give the update there about how the Packers have to trim their roster today from 90 down to 53.
Now again,
I'm much more of a baseball fan.
And so I'm used to hearing about a few cut downs here and there.
But the prospect of 37 of your players, you know, getting cut today.
That's that's a miserable day.
Yeah.
At least it's misery loves company.
You're there with three dozen other people who are packing their bags and leaving.
Yeah, there's
It's a tough day for the team, too.
I don't know if you're familiar with Andrew Brandt.
He used to work with the Packers doing like contracts for players and stuff.
And you like some of his stuff is like, yeah, no, this is the absolute worst time of the year.
And it just sucks.
It is not fun for anybody at all.
It's
a lot of hard
hard
Yeah, so obviously Michael follow that and have details later today and tomorrow of course to the brewers There were two five run rallies in yesterday's game the first one fun the second one not so much The brewers broke a scoreless tie with a five run third inning and Arizona was behind then six nothing
before they got a five-run rally in the sixth inning and made things interesting, but then Caleb Durbin homered for the second straight game.
Andrew Monasterio also went deep to help the Brewers beat the Diamondbacks seven to five last night.
Monasterio had two hits, Christian Yelich had two hits.
They each had two runs bad at end.
Of course, the Brewers still on top of the National League Central Division.
Oh, William Contreras also had two hits.
And coming up tonight would be Game 2 of the series from American Family Field.
The pregame can be heard starting at 6.05 on several civic media stations.
We're seeing Kenosha, Hayward, Park Falls, Oshkosh, Richland Center.
Head over to the website to learn more, civicmedia.us.
Park, the other thing about cell phones, I just realized as a learning tool.
I actually had, I had to use my cell phone as a learning tool to answer this question the other day over my breakfast.
How do they make corn flakes?
Like, what is the actual process of making a corn flake?
And of course, now on YouTube, you can find anything.
And I realized my phone and YouTube have become, now again, you didn't have Mr. Rogers growing up.
Now, Mr. Rogers had this thing called picture picture.
And it was a, it was just a picture frame on the wall, but you know, there was a, it was actually TV.
But then you'd look into that and you'd see these behind the scenes, you know, things like in factories and how things are made.
And I realized that, that the phone and YouTube is now, is now just my picture picture.
It's my Mr. Rogers.
So I, and Luke Mathers is texting in not that long ago, phones weren't allowed for him, he said.
But with he and his friends went back to visit, the phones were allowed.
and said it was a very weird feeling.
So, Luke Mathers, welcome.
It's good to have you here in the Metamucal Crowd.
Enjoy your time here.
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Coming up on Thursday in this time slot, we'll be hearing from Sharita Booker, who tells us about some of the many fairs and festivals you can attend, some deeper specifics on a few of them, but allow me to just go through a quick review, a quick list of all the things that are happening around Wisconsin, not all of them, but a big chunk.
I love to talk about the county fairs that are coming up.
I love a good county fair.
And opening up tomorrow,
or the county fairs in Shawno and Walworth counties.
Then on Thursday, the Iowa County Fair and the Sheboygan County Fair get going.
And then on Friday, Calumet County and Portage County have their fairs going on.
Tomorrow in Appleton will be the third annual Food Truck Fest.
And then let's see, there's the Prairie Duchenne Cow Chip Arts and Crafts Festival.
Cow Chip Arts and Crafts.
in Prairie Duchenne, coming up Saturday.
Excellent.
They have the trout festival Friday and Saturday.
The taste of Madison is this weekend, Friday, Saturday.
Balsam Lake has their corn on the curb days, Saturday, Sunday.
Cedarburg has Maxwell Street days this Sunday.
Eagle River has their sausage fest on Sunday.
I guess the women aren't allowed.
Anyway, moving on.
Prentice Progress days, Friday through Monday.
which would be Labor Day and of course Shell Lake Town and Country Days Saturday through Labor Day as well because it's Labor Day weekend coming up.
Have you made any big plans for the long weekend?
might do a little
Yeah, please.
Alicia has the text of the day already.
Cornflakes are made with cardboard and sadness.
I guess the comment section is closed for the rest of the day because Alicia's nailed that.
Good luck topping
that.
Yep.
All right, so we also asked in our Sunday morning newsletter a question of the week that says, should Wisconsin keep or get rid of mail-in voting?
given the recent attacks by President Trump on it and claiming he's going to get rid of it, which is something he does not have the power to do.
But hey, there's a lot of things he says he, you know, he has the power to do, even though he doesn't have it.
But as long as Congress or a Supreme Court let him get away with it, look at what he's doing with our trade wars right now.
And our tariffs and our international relations, you know, the tariffs are supposed to
basically have congressional oversight.
Well, but that's taking place.
It's not popular.
And as a result, Vice President JD Vance is coming to lacrosse at some point this week to prop up fellow grouchy white guy Derek Van Orden, as well as the big bloated moondoggle from the Trump and Republican Congress mega bill.
Apparently, this is also designed to boost
Derek van Orden.
I mean, you pick lacrosse for a reason.
You don't go to reliably Republican Waukesha County for this.
If you're trying to talk up the bill, well, then you're going to come to a place where you've got an incumbent that's in trouble.
And there's no doubt that Derek van Orden is in trouble in large part because he can't shut his mouth or turn off his keyboard.
His caustic comments are getting in the way
of addressing any concerns about what these tariffs are doing to manufacturing and farming in the Third Congressional District.
But again, that's par for the course from Wisconsin's current congressional delegation.
You've got, for example, Tom Tiffany, who yesterday put up one of these, I mean, it's almost boilerplate now.
It's like a requirement you have to occasionally put up a tweet like this, just out of the blue.
from Tom Tiffany.
The left opposes secure borders, affordable energy, lower crime, cutting government waste, revitalizing manufacturing and tax cuts for workers, seniors and families.
Did I miss anything?
Well, gosh, Tom, you missed the obligatory the left wants dead babies and no more jobs for white guys and socialism.
But I suppose you couldn't fit all that into a tweet as well.
But at least by him putting it out yesterday like he did I can I have something to hold up To again when people say what's wrong with our politics today?
I would just point to that tweet from Tom Tiffany the left Meaning your friends and neighbors who don't have to agree with you on everything the left opposes secure borders No, not true never been true wanted immigration reform your guy blew it up
The left opposes affordable energy.
By that he of course means burning as much coal and oil as possible.
Now affordable energy is actually the next generation of cleaner energy sources.
The left opposes lower crime.
Now we oppose school shootings and other forms of mass murder.
The left opposes cutting government waste.
No, nobody opposes cutting waste.
It's just that your definition of waste
is the things your constituents want and need and pay taxes for.
The left opposes revitalizing manufacturing.
Again, where would you get an idea like that?
Now you're just making up stuff.
Tax cuts for workers, seniors, and families.
No, I think of like all the times Governor Evers actually fought for tax cuts for workers, seniors, and families, and yet Republicans kept wanting to put the tax cuts all toward the very wealthy.
So yeah, you missed the other stuff like socialism, but I can understand why you wouldn't want to talk about socialism right now, Tom Tiffany, because imagine what you'd be saying if a Democratic president like Joe Biden suddenly announced that the government had taken over 10% of Intel, the computer chip maker, in exchange for favorable treatment.
I mean, that's exactly what just happened.
You've got a Bloomberg headline saying, Trump seems pretty socialist these days.
because he is.
It's being criticized by conservative commentators like Eric Erickson, senators like Rand Paul, you know, conservatives who look at what Trump is doing and saying, there's nothing conservative about some of this stuff.
This is just stuff you're doing because you want to be an authoritarian, a dictator, which is way past socialism and way past anything that would
clearly be defined as conservative behavior.
In other words, the man wants to be the dictator beyond day one.
Today's history lesson is next.
You're up north.
I know what you're thinking.
It's like, wait, is this Friday?
Is it Yacht Rock Day already?
No, no, not quite there.
That song is actually part of today's history lesson.
Before we launch into it, let me tease it by saying, in today's history lesson, what's the common bond between Chris Pine, a well-known actor today, and Macaulay Culkin, a well-known child actor from decades ago?
Think about that as I take you into today's history lesson for this August 26th, 2025.
It was on this day in 1972, so now 53 years ago today, that Looking Glass had their one hit wonder.
Brandy, you're a fine girl.
Hit number one this week in 1972.
This is 19th Amendment Day.
The 19th Amendment took effect this day in 1920.
giving women the right to vote.
This is the anniversary of the birth of former vice presidential nominee and congresswoman Geraldine Ferrero from New York who passed away in 2011.
She was Walter Mondale's running mate back in 1984.
Happy 79th birthday to Valerie Simpson of the songwriting team of Ashford and Simpson.
Ashford and Simpson, maybe not the most well-known songwriting husband and wife team.
I mean, there's certainly Gerald King and Jerry Goffin and others that are out there as well.
But Ashford and Simpson, they did all right.
They had the one big hit there solid, had a couple of other hits, but it was songwriting that was their claim to fame.
They were put in the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002.
You don't know the songs?
How about this?
Ain't no mountain high enough?
I know that one.
You're all I need to get by another great Marvin Gaye Tammy Terrell hit ain't nothing like the real thing Also Marvin Gaye reach out and touch someone's hand and One from Chaka Khan called.
I'm every woman Pretty good tunes right there.
Those are from from Valerie Simpson and the late Nicholas Ashford Valerie Simpson is 79 years old today
On this day in 1967, the number one song was from a movie soundtrack and it was sung by Bobby Gentry.
I
was always surprised Bobby Gentry did not have many more pop hits.
Had some country tunes as well, but Ode to Billy Joe was
The number one song this week in 1967.
That would be.
But Billy Joel did not jump off the Tallahatchie Bridge.
No.
As it turned out, I don't even know if Billy Joel's been to Tallahatchie.
But no, Billy Joe.
Billy Joe jumped off the Tallahatchie bridge.
Frankie Valley's Grease, the title track to the blockbuster film was the number one song this day in 1978.
Let's go over to 1972 where there was a novelty song on the charts by Nielsen.
It peaked on this day at number eight when something like this.
This gives
me back to my point of we just we just don't hear novelties.
You just don't hear people singing about coconuts anymore.
There's not a lot of songs
coconut.
Or just or just any other goofy stuff that comes up, right?
Brett.
Branford Marsalis is 65 years old today musician and actually the first band leader for Jay Leno when he first took over the Tonight Show from Johnny Carson and then he was replaced by Kevin Eubanks eventually.
But Branford Marsalis, plenty of hits on his own in the jazz world, 65 a day.
Actress Melissa McCarthy is 55 and that is just one funny lady.
I mean, her playing Sean Spicer during early in Trump's first term was just so good.
I forgot about that.
Oh,
And the thing is, it didn't start that way.
You know, Vanessa and I got to start 50 years ago and Chevy Chase would play the role of President Gerald Ford.
He looks nothing like President Ford, but the whole bit was, you know, you're a guy playing him.
So you bought into it, but now it's like you have to make everybody look exactly like the character.
And it works.
It just it wasn't always that way.
Happy birthday to Shirley Manson.
She's 58 years old today.
It's it's been a while since we've heard from the band Garbage.
See, John Mulaney is 43 years old today.
Kiki Palmer is 32.
The late Leon Redbone was born this day in 1949.
He passed away in 2019, but we still get to hear him every Christmas with baby.
It's cold outside from the Elf soundtrack.
Mother Teresa, the nun, the missionary, later Catholic Saint was born this day in 1910, passed away in 1997.
Let's see.
Let's get back to some music here.
The number one song this week, 30 years ago today was a movie soundtrack by Seal.
That
was Batman Forever, which was, I want to say the Val Kilmer one, not the George Clooney one.
I should have pulled that up.
There's only been 700 Batman movies, so you can't blame me for remembering them.
too
No, it was Val Kilmer because it was also Nicole Kidman.
And yeah, I remember the video and Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones.
Drew Barrymore was in there.
It was it was a big big hit.
Yeah, he was the Riddler and Tommy Lee Jones was Harvey Lee Jones was Harvey Dent before he became what the Joker?
If you haven't seen Batman Forever the 1995 film, I highly recommend that.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was it was before the films turned really dark with like Christian Bale.
and everybody who's done it from that time, you feel like you want to bring a spotlight with you because the movies are
all
so dark.
I can't see anything in there.
You know, these are like movies that you could just go see and you could see all the characters doing everything.
And they still were very, you know, dramatic.
But yeah, Chris O'Donnell was in there playing Robin as well from that movie again 1995 is when that was the number one song in the country.
Alright, let's see.
Catherine Johnson.
Now, I've never seen the full movie.
Is it Hidden Figures?
Yeah, Hidden Figures.
Catherine Johnson was born this day in 1918.
Physicist, mathematician, profiled in Hidden Figures in the book, which inspired the Oscar nominated film.
But Catherine Johnson later went on to receive the National Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2015.
She passed away in February 2020 at the age of 101.
And is it Taraji P. Henson who plays her, I believe, in the movie?
And again, I've never actually sat and watched the movie, but I've seen lots of clips of it that come through on TikTok and Reels and all that, because clearly it's a film people like Kevin Costner's in there.
And I really do want to sit and watch that thing front to back.
is a
that's when that was first coming out.
On your phones, did you have to look at your phones?
Yeah, we watched our
On this day in 2009, kidnapping victim J.C.
Duggart is discovered alive in California after being missing for over 18 years.
And on this day in 1978 at a papal conclave, Albino Luciani was elected to succeed Pope Paul, and he chose the name Pope John Paul I, and he served for about a month before passing away.
and sparking conspiracy theories that last to this day.
I don't
You know about the Pope who was only Pope for about a month?
I did not know
Oh, yeah.
And then of course, because he passed so suddenly, it's at the remember the Da Vinci code.
Well, no, of course, you don't know.
It was a big time movie.
I've watched
Okay.
I believe Dan Brown, among many has done some kind of a twist of, you know, a pope being murdered.
So that gets tied in all the time.
Because this marks the passage of the 19th Amendment.
Today is Women's Equality Day.
Today,
is also this one says national dog day.
But I'm going to be honest with you, folks.
I feel like if not once a week, once every couple of weeks is some variation on a national dog day, or national be nice to your dog day or national feed your dog day or national labradoodle day or whatever.
So you know why that
Why?
Because they're man's best friend.
have to
I know.
And this one just says national dog day.
So
There you go.
Like you weren't going to be nice to your dog anyway today.
Today is cherry popsicle day.
I haven't had cherry popsicle in forever.
No, I haven't had a popsicle.
There's so many other treats out there now.
I
not.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Love those.
And this is National Toilet Paper Day, which I bring up every year.
even though it's an early morning radio show, because there are just things that we do take for granted and that we did not always have.
Wisconsin became a leading supplier of toilet paper when the technology, when the manufacturing got to the point that you could do that.
It was a Wisconsin plant that advertised the first get this splinter free toilet paper.
tell us you something about the the advances that we have here.
So appreciate appreciate your shaman boys and girls.
Oh, Oh, Alicia, thank you for correcting the record Harvey Dent was two face in the Batman movies.
Yep.
And and then a couple more birthdays I asked what do Chris Pine and Macaulay Culkin have in common.
They were born the same day.
They're both 45 years old today.
It's just that Macaulay Culkin was in home alone when he was, I don't know what, 10 years old, something like that.
Yeah.
And you know, Chris Pine, we didn't really see him till much later, but they were both born this day in 1980, making them both 45 years old today.
So there you go.
Oh, Michael and Tulsa, Michael and Tosa, you you were
You were just a bit behind Alicia.
Alicia got hers in on Facebook.
You got yours in on the text line.
Harvey Dent being two face.
Thank you very much for that.
See, I like this.
I got the best listeners here.
This is great crowdsourcing.
they do.
They keep us on the straight and narrow here.
So still ahead, we're going to be talking in our seven o'clock hour to Hans Brighton Moser, our friend from up in Merrill area of Lincoln County.
And we'll be talking to Sheila Everhart from the Wisconsin Agricultural Tourism Association.
along with another guest talking about so-called wedding barns, event barns, the kinds of things that were really dealt a setback in the last legislative session.
And so now they're hoping that lawmakers will, you know, see their mistake and rectify things so that the rural economy can continue to have farms diversifying their income with things like this.
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Let's see, right now it's 47 degrees here in Chippewa Falls.
It is 49 in Oshkosh.
LaCrosse is coming in at 50 right now.
And in Medford in front of the new Ziggy's Coffee, it is 44 degrees there as I'm poking around looking for other headlines around northern Wisconsin, places like that.
And I saw this note about this new Ziggy's coffee shop going up in Medford.
It's supposed to open today.
Hopefully they got off the ground.
But it's definitely this family business situation where they had the groundbreaking months ago.
And you just see the little kids and then as the place is being built, the kids are running around and they're pretending to serve coffee out the drive-thru window, you know, except they're handing over like dandelion.
Here's your dandelion latte.
You know, it was it was adorable.
So
So I hope things went well for them out there today.
They got that Ziggy's coffee going there.
There's another chain called scooters.
I want to say they recently opened up one in at least one in Eau Claire.
And I believe I saw them going up somewhere else not too long ago as well.
So I don't know if that's is that a relatively new chain or is it just new to Wisconsin?
I don't
I'm not sure.
I
is rare for
One of those where, you know, it's just it's basically it's just a drive through, you know, and that that can make you a little crazy.
Because we we built it not we built but in Chippewa there was recently a caribou coffee that went up over by me.
and went up with the, there's a festival and a quick trip and it covers making it the most Wisconsin interchange ever.
Right
off Highway 29 at Seymour Cray.
And there's this little caribou and a Taco Bell.
And shortly after it was built, was reaching out to somebody about, you know, getting a cup of coffee.
And we said, well, let's just meet at the at the caribou there, that brand new one, and we'll sit inside for a while and we'll get some coffee and we'll catch up.
Yeah, got there and realized no, it's a it's a drive-through only situation.
I knew it was small.
It was a small building, but like no no inside service whatsoever and it wasn't a great day either so We both just kind of got our thing we sat in in our cars and kind of talked to each other out the
window
windows Yes, because it was looking like it wanted to rain or something like that like and there was no place else closer the culvers wasn't done getting built yet
So
though?
It was that or go inside the festival and just like walk up and down the the canned goods aisles as we're as we're talking politics or whatever the case may be.
That's awesome.
I know.
I mean, these coffee places that, you know, they are just they're they're springing up like like.
crazy.
Alicia is telling us on YouTube, we've got a scooters in Darboy.
Hey, if you're in Darboy, I mean, your place is not Darboy is is just outside of Appleton.
I've
never heard that Darboy was known out in that area for having basically a wedding hall dance hall, the name of which escapes me and I'm sure Alicia's gonna put it on YouTube there but was right at the main intersection in little Darboy.
And of course, my wife is from that part of the state.
And so
everybody had been out to Darby for a wedding at some point or another is one of those where there was a reception hall on one level.
And then a on a lower level as well, because it was on kind of a slope.
So there was parking down below as well.
And I just could not believe when I saw it being torn down one day, I thought is have weddings and traditional wedding receptions and things, have they fallen that far out of style that, you know, a wedding hall can't make it anymore?
Luke notes that most festivals in their area have a bar where you can grab a table and eat now.
I've seen festivals where they have tables where you can go up and eat, you know, you get something from the deli.
Yeah, now a bar.
I know high V has has bars in there as well.
And once again, here we are doing alcohol talk at 6 57 in the morning.
There, that's fair enough.
Yes.
Uh, we've, we've talked about, uh, friends of ours who have retired, but then it just didn't hold.
They just couldn't, they wanted to do something else.
And I know one particular doctor, uh, when he retired, he finally took a job as a bartender in a high V just to have a little something else to do.
which was a heck of a way to meet your former patients, you know, to see the double take.
Cause you know how it's like, if you see somebody not in the setting you're used to seeing them in.
And yeah, you're not expecting it.
Well, first off, you're not expecting to be ordering a whiskey sour in a high V. And yet there you are.
So why wouldn't it be coming from your, your doctor, right?
Yeah, exactly.
Let's see, Charles from Eau Claire texting in the wedding hall, I believe was literally called the Darboy Club.
If I remember, I haven't been there for for quite some time.
That that could very well be but yeah, been been to a lot of weddings there.
And we've I've done, I've done the chicken dance more times than I want to tell you, except the very first one.
The very first wedding where the chicken dance was played on that the very first but one of the first was a relatively new song our wedding our wedding 1986 the chicken dance was like this new popular thing and it was we danced every song at our wedding reception every song except that one that's when we took a break to cut the cake.
Okay, good.
And then it was right back out there because we had a polka band and we had extended families that they just wanted to dance and we just wanted to dance.
And it was a great day.
And our feet, they hurt so bad the next day.
But you know what?
Our faces hurt too.
Our faces hurt from smiling all day.
There you
go.
That that is that's a nice problem to have.
All right, coming up in our seven o'clock hour, we will talk to meteorologist Brittany Merleau and get the full forecast.
We'll talk more about the brewers beating Arizona yesterday.
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