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Gym Teacher, English Teacher Announce Engagement (Hour 1)
Mornings with Pat Kreitlow · Wed Aug 27, 2025
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Well, hey there, Wisconsin.
Good morning.
It is 6.06 on this Wednesday morning, August 27th, 2025.
Another beautiful morning to have you here up north, live from Lake WSOTA.
From wherever you're spending your mornings, listening across the Civic Media Radio network, or watching us on social media,
catching us by app, however you got here.
Nice to have you along.
I've got a question for you.
Can the work week be done?
Already?
There is just something about when a holiday weekend is coming up, like Labor Day weekend or, you know, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Parker Olson, we get to Wednesday and go, Oh, can we just go?
Can we just be done now?
a lot of stuff.
Yes, I will be again with the daughters in town will be, you know, that'll be the one day I take, you know, just for us to do some fun stuff together.
And so, yeah, I mean, our our live work week only has one more day after today.
But I could go now.
I mean, oh, yes.
You know, yesterday was as much as I complained about Sunday being gross.
Yesterday was the polar opposite without without the polar without the polar vortex or the Arctic Express or whatever it was I was trying to say the other day.
It was gorgeous.
Yeah, I actually I actually stopped work for a time yesterday afternoon and went out to my hammock.
Wow, I'm out there.
Well, in part because you know, the grandsons were out there and my daughter and I wanted to spend a little bit of time with them.
I can't just be working here the whole time.
But still, I mean, it was just perfect out there.
The day made even brighter by the brewers winning last night and Roger notes on Facebook.
The Cubs lost to the Giants out West five to two overnight.
So the brewers magic number is now 24.
Oh,
I
like that.
I like that.
That's really low.
Yeah.
So it was, it was a great day yesterday.
We'll get Britney Merleau's forecast about what else to expect for today and heading into the Labor Day weekend in just a bit.
Coming up, it would be enough for leaders from education, healthcare, labor, local services for all those groups to call attention to the damage being done
by the Trump administration on their own.
But imagine if you get them all together singing from the same hymnal.
Well, that's going to happen today in Eau Claire.
And it will include the national president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randy Weingarten, talking about the important work to educate the public about the ways that we will all be impacted by Trump's actions for many years to come.
Randy Weingarten is on a plane now heading to Eau Claire and I talked to her about an hour ago before she hopped on her flight and we will play that interview during the show today.
Also Wisconsin is the scene of a new lawsuit that is taking a familiar new approach to the impacts of a changing climate and that would be the harm to children.
We'll talk to Melissa Baldoff about these youth-centric lawsuits, what I guess you could call the literal cry of the next generation that wants all the rest of us to stop harming their future environment and health and maybe hand them a planet they can live in.
We will, of course, talk about the closest thing the United States will get to a royal wedding.
That would be Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey announcing plans to get married and whether the veteran football player and the billionaire pop star can make time for wedding planning between his new NFL season and her new album release.
Brittany's state forecast for today says it's going to be breezy today with a mix of clouds and sun are high today in the low to mid seventies, a west southwest wind at 10, sometimes 20 miles an hour.
She says showers are likely tonight.
Through all parts of Wisconsin, maybe a thunderstorm even lows tonight in the mid to upper 50s a southwest wind at 5 to 10 miles an hour Hey along the way if you would like to like Roger just did in Stevens Point You can give us your questions and your comments in several difficult several different ways.
You can use the civic media app
You can then bring up one of the stations where you're hearing the program and you can either use the text button or the voice note button and leave us a little audio note with your question or comment and of course run Facebook and YouTube that would be the up North news Facebook and YouTube pages and the civic media Facebook and YouTube pages and you can follow what my team is doing over at upNorthNewsWI.com as well as for the brewers and mentioning that they won last night
Yes for the second straight game the Milwaukee Brewers jumped off to a six-nothing lead and Still managed to make it a nail-biter both times but thankfully they won both times and last night the hero was Isaac Collins hitting a sack fly with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth to bring home the winning run nine to eight William Contreras hit a two-run homer Bryce Terrang hit a two-run homer
A lot of excitement, and again, had to have a little drama in there as well.
Game 3 of the series is also at 6.05 this evening on several civic media stations around the state.
And then tomorrow's game, the fourth and final game of the series, of course, on a getaway day, it is a 12.35 start time for the pregame here across the Civic Media radio network.
But if we're really going to talk sports, Parker Olson, we have to bypass the Brewers and the Packers.
We have to go right to the Kansas City Chiefs and whether their season has been detrimentally impacted by having a guy on their team who is a veteran player, but now is clearly distracted because he's got a wedding to plan.
And if there's one thing we know about guys,
is that we're always very distracted when it comes time to planning a wedding.
I mean, we, we, we sweat all the details and I'm not quite sure how Travis Kelsey is going to pull this one off, but I wish him the best.
Yeah, I
Oh, the
by all means,
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
The people are
This this is or his best,
because again, Taylor magic, you know, it could be or he could really screw up and get injured.
Don't get hurt, buddy.
Oh,
Well, don't break a leg.
Break a leg.
No, the guy.
The guy is funny.
Okay.
First off, he's got that podcast along with his brother, Jason.
Yeah.
And I've also seen clips where he's mic'd up like a training camp.
Sure.
And I mean, you talked about loose.
How much more loose could a guy be?
You know, you're marrying the one of the world's most famous celebrities who happens to be a billionaire.
Life is good, you know.
And she seems cool.
She's not
I have to say that, yes, I mean, obviously opinions on people can change, especially as they change as well.
And I did listen to the full two hours of the podcast that the Kelsey brothers do with Taylor Swift as their special guest, which was what about three weeks ago, something like that?
Like
And it was it was downright charming.
It really was.
I mean, look, you can anybody can fake it.
for a few minutes of an interview.
we've all we've all lived through that.
But I mean, this was a two hour conversation that, you know, had had all kinds of drama and history and feelings and everything else.
And it was and it wasn't, it wasn't like homework to listen to it.
It was like a really good conversation.
And you really liked the guys.
And she came off as, you know, extremely
likable, you understand her drive as a musician, but also her drive as an entrepreneur as well.
And, you know, she had the right perspective when she said that she and Travis Kelsey actually they have pretty much the same job description.
And that is to entertain football stadiums filled with people.
That's true.
Yeah, you know, when you when you kind of look at it that way, like, yeah, they're both doing their job.
Yeah.
they both get their their heads on straight.
And so, you know, I wish them all the best.
There's no life has no guarantees, especially when you add the factor of celebrity.
And, you know, just the show business world, the cutthroat business of music and of sports.
They're both a couple of attractive people making their way in the world, you know, in their 30s.
So, you know, it's not going to be all smooth sailing all the time.
And yet I feel like
you know, as well as any other couple, they are equipped to, you know, whether whether the things that rock a lot of celebrity marriages.
Well, in that case, the way they make time for each other sometimes involves global jets.
And yeah, remember like flying from what Japan to the Super Bowl or something and what did he fly to Australia or something like that.
So, you know, they
They do have the means to do that.
But I mean, that's how it works in that world.
No different than there are times that I showed up, you know, someplace where Sherry wasn't expecting me, you know, to provide support or whatever the case.
So, you know, everybody has their own little ways to bring in the romance.
You don't need a million dollars or a billion dollars to do it.
But they do.
But they have
Yep, I did I just have to say though I did enjoy when when the news came out somewhere around noon-ish our time yesterday Yeah, I mean I I said to somebody said did you hear that I said the internet just exploded Absolutely It came down I and get this get this the old guy here at courier newsroom The old guy here was the first one to put it on slack for our company
You know, we've got a little water cooler channel, you know, where people just put their random funny stuff or whatever.
And there, there are a lot of Swifties and I think all the Swifties were busy texting each other.
Hey, guess what?
Guess what?
And meanwhile, I was like, nobody else has got this up here.
Really?
Okay.
I'll put it up and then you get the, oh my gosh.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
now that, that you don't want to be that person.
I don't want to do that.
Again, I'm happy for them.
Yeah.
I'm not going to jump around and scream and look even somebody that you would jump around and scream with at one of their concerts while they're entertaining you.
That's fair game.
But I mean,
They got engaged.
Let's be happy for them.
If you're
In this big, crazy, often stupid world, we need these little moments.
And in this case, because neither one of those two have given us reasons to go, oh, God, what a jerk.
You know, we can legitimately be happy for them.
For at least this little moment.
And you know what?
That's
Yeah, and I do what I said earlier.
I'm not sure about how they do this wedding thing because she's got the album coming out October 3rd.
I know that because I listened to the two hour show.
She got that.
So of course, there will be the obligatory tour that goes along to promote the album.
He's got the NFL season.
I'm guessing it's going to be his final season here.
So I mean, there's plenty of celebrities, they get engaged and I mean, they stay engaged for
much do they just run off?
Do they just run off and do something quickly?
Really just very personal on Tahiti.
You know, it's something very
There will be people.
Yes.
And good for them.
Again, good luck kids.
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One of the state stories making news this morning deals with the case of Judge Hannah Dugan.
She's the judge in Milwaukee who's facing federal charges for
The way she handled a an undocumented immigrant in her courtroom who was being pursued by federal agents again in a local courthouse and the way that she
tried to avoid a kerfuffle in front of her courtroom.
The guy was later apprehended outside the courthouse, but it led the Trump administration to try to make an example of her and file charges of obstructing immigration officers.
Well, the case will proceed to trial at least for the moment because yesterday a U.S.
federal judge denied a motion from Judge Hannah Dugan's attorney to dismiss the case.
And
In a way, that's kind of good news in terms of, you know, strike one for sanity.
Here's what I mean.
Donald Trump currently has the US Supreme Court in his back pocket.
He appointed three of the justices.
You can argue that all six of those conservative justices are right-wing ideologues.
Occasionally, they have their moments where they appear to be more balanced than political.
But by and large, he's got three, four votes that he can count on every single time.
And it was this US Supreme Court that said in so many words, well, you can't really prosecute Donald Trump for things that he did while he was president, because if he believed them to be official acts of his job as president, well, then you can't prosecute him for that.
Which is fundamentally ridiculous.
And unfortunately, there's not a Supreme Court of the Supreme Court where justices could say to those justices, are you nuts?
Do you really think a president could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and say, well, I thought that was part of my official acts?
Or in this case, have a Navy SEAL team raid the home of your political opponent?
Or just the FBI doing what they did to John Bolton the other day?
Apparently, there are no guardrails.
There are virtually no limits.
Well, Judge Hannah Dugan rightly said to this federal district judge, hey, look what I did.
Those are part of my official duties.
And based on what the US Supreme Court said about Donald Trump, you can't prosecute for that.
Now, the judge, Lynn Adelman, he was a former Democratic state legislator.
So a lot of folks think he's going to be some kind of a liberal judge.
he hasn't been in several cases that have come before him.
He's actually looked at the rule of law and ruled based on that rather than partisan whims.
And he looked at Hannah Dugan's attorney making this claim based on the Trump defense and struck a blow for sanity essentially and said, no, no, that's not going to fly here.
You know, he didn't say this, I'm saying it.
He said in so many words, look, the US Supreme Court is a bunch of chuckleheads, and I'm not going along with it.
Now, what happened here is not necessarily part of your official duties.
Now, I hasten to add that he, the judge, Lynn Edelman, did not rule on the merits of the case on what Hannah Duggan did, only on this motion to dismiss the charges against her based on this flimsy
blank check that the U.S.
Supreme Court has given Donald Trump.
So where do we go from here?
Well, there is a chance that Judge Dugan's attorneys could appeal this rejection of the motion to dismiss the charges, okay?
And that could tie things up for months.
That's exactly the kind of thing that Donald Trump and others did throughout the four years of the Biden administration, was they appealed and then they appealed this, and then they'd make another motion.
And that would be rejected, but they'd appeal and then they'd appeal again.
Then they'd make another motion.
And that's why Donald Trump, a convicted felon, is currently not in some country club incarceration facility right now.
but is instead making the oval office look like a joke with all the gold leaf and trimming and we'll get into yesterday's cabinet meeting at some other point.
I mean that was just a three-hour vomit fest of cabinet officers falling all over themselves to, you know, lick his feet and talk about how great he is.
We'll save that for another time.
For now, we just wait to see if Judge Dugan does the same thing or if it just goes right to trial and a court rules on the merits one way or the other of what it was that she did that day in the Milwaukee County Courthouse.
We will have today's history lesson coming up and a visit with Melissa Kay from WFHR along the way as well.
I'm Pat Krightlow.
This is the Civic Media Radio Network.
Welcome back to today's history lesson starting with Jeff cook who was born this day in 1949?
passed away three years ago the lead guitarist and Fiddler for Alabama who of course has that hit and and so many more I Guess how do I describe Alabama to park girls in here?
no no the band the band They they were like Taylor Swift
But for country music, but it's so instead of pop their country and instead of an individual It's a group But they're everywhere on the charts and they win every award all the time year after year and
and pre-social media.
Well, yeah, they just were playing popular music and Year after year after year after year they'd win all these awards and it was finally a big deal like wait Alabama didn't win any awards this year.
I know it's interesting that you said that you did that without social media.
Hello Elvis Presley.
Anybody?
Yes, I know,
radio stations.
We had newspapers, you know, I mean, we had we had things before social media.
I know it sounds crazy.
But but it's it's how it is the way that we get into things now.
I totally get that.
It's all the little clips.
For example,
I would not have even thought of listening to that two hour podcast with Taylor Swift and Travis and Jason Kelsey Were it not for the little clips of it that I kept seeing on tiktok and on Instagram and Eventually, it's like it wore me down.
I think I like to listen to this
I think Well, I think you have to because I mean again
When we were growing up, you know, the way the way you found it was you only had three channels and you only had like three radio stations in town and they threw everything at you and eventually you
found out which things you liked and didn't like well here the the modern day equivalent is uh you got unlimited channels so you just got to scroll scroll scroll scroll and something sticks out at you yeah and i i i think that if alabama hadn't existed back then and we're around now with their talent and everything i think they'd still find a way to get famous in the social media age
the
Yes, that's exactly it.
Somebody told me I asked for career advice as a college freshman.
And I remember him saying, Well, you know, the cream always rises to the top.
So if you're good, if you're the cream of the crop, you will eventually get there.
Just keep doing just keep doing what you're doing.
Keep being good at it.
And I'm still waiting.
I'm hoping to get good at this someday real soon.
Yeah, close.
Let's stay in 1955.
Fats Domino made it into the top 10.
All right, here's
where, again, at the risk of sounding like a broken record, I'm again going to talk about another podcast that I listened to, a history of rock and roll and 500 songs.
And I say it because of this.
As the host, Andrew Hickey, keeps bringing up all these different songs and artists like Fats Domino.
And they, again, this is the 1950s, had to watch as over and over again, their original music was covered by some bland white artist and went farther up the charts.
As noted in today's history lesson, it reads like this, That's Domino's Ain't That a Shame hits number 10, becoming the first ever R&B song to hit the top 10 on the pop chart.
It would, again, it peaked at number 10.
Three weeks later, the version by Pat Boone would hit number one on the charts, and then he'll play the two songs back to back, and you're just embarrassed.
You hear Pat Boone trying to sound cool, and it's just, it's sadness.
It just really is.
So I feel like we're in a better place now.
So that.
Let's see, this week in 1964 Disney put out its newest movie, it was a live action part animated feature, Mary Poppins written by the Sherman
Brothers.
Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim Jim
Jim
know No, it's a classic.
I should
No, there's things you should have been ashamed of not knowing last week about new coke coming out Okay, we're still honest That you should have known I was not expecting with an ovary
I don't think I can agree with that.
Oh my again.
This was this was huge huge Coca-Cola
had
changed their recipe.
We're not doing this again.
Minstrels should still be singing songs of that.
What a terrible thing it was.
Anyway
So you're okay if you didn't know a movie that Disney released in 1964.
That is totally understandable.
Let's see, Roger puts up on Facebook.
Speaking of Elvis, this day in 1969, Elvis' milestone single, Suspicious Minds was first released.
It became the king's first Billboard number one hit in seven years.
It was also his 17th number one hit and his final number one hit as well.
So thank you, Roger, for throwing that one in.
Let's throw in Tracy Chapman next.
from her self titled debut album.
It raced to the top of the charts this week in 1988 in part because of a song you all know.
Who did the remake now?
Holmes.
When
Um, no
Let's see There is a I was just looking at a billboard article about this that said Luke com says Tracy Chapman pointed out a lyric mistake in his cover and Luke com says I wanted to crawl in a hole when I heard it
And it's it's not that big a mistake the the song's final line in there It says we got to make a decision and he's saying still got to make a decision Doesn't strike me as that big a deal.
No, but again the fact that Luke Combs could not have been more You know Praising of Tracy Chapman you could tell he really
loved her.
The album, like I said, really big back in 1988.
I have said many a time I don't get the infatuation with the remake.
He doesn't really
add
any value to it.
I'm still not sure why it caught fire the way that it did other than that it's, you know, a decent song.
And it did all right.
But again, the original was on an album, the debut album by Tracy Chapman.
It was number one this week in 1988.
Alright, let's move on to 1991, another debut album, this one by Pearl Jam, and they released their debut album 10 in 1991.
I believe that this was put in the history notes last year and it would be Greg Bach that needed to tell me that that was even flow because right now you could tie me to, you know, an ant hill and cover me with honey and I wouldn't be able to tell you that it was even flow.
In fact, here's how bad it got.
Last night we were playing a trivia game with our daughter and a couple of grandkids.
There's something called Jackbox.
They're games that
you can play
on your computer or TV.
we're playing that.
And one of the last questions was based on public opinion surveys.
What were the quintessential top three bands of the 90s?
Okay, and they'd list, you know, in sync and Backstreet Boys and Nirvana and all kinds of things.
So they list nine different things you're supposed to list the top three.
And all of us gave Pearl Jam zero votes.
And yet Pearl Jam came off as like number one.
of what people said, what is the quintessential 90s band?
So I am not in the Pearl Jam target audience, shall we say?
Yeah.
Here's my wheelhouse.
This next one is from 1977.
This would be Jackson Brown with a live performance.
You can steal here on the radio today.
This would be the title track from running on empty and here's the here's the Oh, no.
Oh, no, we've made Tony mad.
What how dare you not give pearl jam respect?
It's just
Oh, I just wasn't there at the time.
Okay.
It was the 90s.
We had two daughters.
I was it was nothing but Disney movies and Barney.
I'm sorry.
There was there was no time for Pearl Jam or Nirvana.
Anything like that.
Polaroid.
It was it was Aladdin.
It was Beauty and the Beast.
It was Little Mermaid.
It was Lion King.
That's it.
That's the list.
That's all I had time for.
What a not not Pearl Jam.
I'm sorry.
Getting back to Jackson Brown here, who is singing, running on empty in the background.
From that album had these live songs that had not been released as studio cuts before.
It's just one of those live albums that really caught on.
And it included the loadout and stay, which we don't have time to play because the loadout I think is like a 10 minute song or something like that.
But anyway, it was all recorded this day in 1977 at the Maryweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland.
is where this was recorded 48 years ago today.
Jackson Brown and Steve Martin just put out a new song along with Allison Martin and it is a song again that I saw just on social media I think on Facebook and it's a song about getting older and it's called Dear Time.
And boy, I'll tell you for somebody who's busy thinking about their retirement someday.
I'm like, oh boy, that was, you know, it's a reminder.
Time doesn't care.
No.
Time is not, you know, concerns.
Time has
Yeah.
Tony with a response.
Pat, where did you learn your love for flannel if not from Eddie Vedder?
Tony.
We're in Wisconsin.
It's, everybody knows I got my love of flannel from...
Sean Duffy.
No.
Oh, God.
Oh, I thought you were going to say like whole bunion.
Oh, God.
Thank you.
It was it was an it was an easy it was an easy shot.
I had to take it.
This day in 1991 is the Cold War was coming in its end phases here.
The European community recognized the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
And finally, a sad item to close with here.
On this day in 1990, 35-year-old Stevie Ray Vaughn died in a helicopter crash near East Troy after a concert at Alpine Valley.
Earlier, he had appeared with Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, and his older brother, Jimmy Vaughn.
So we remember Stevie Ray Vaughn as we go to break.
I'm Pat Critello.
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If you're looking for an alternative to the dumpster fire, formerly known as Twitter.
Yes, we're still on Twitter too.
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, all the social media joints.
We are there, including segments like these where we get to have fun with our friend Melissa K from WFHR and WIRI, home of just the nicest little parking lot party that you could want for the station's 85th anniversary celebration last week.
Melissa, how are you?
Good morning.
I am excellent.
What wasn't that fun?
It was fun.
We had such a great time.
Thank you so much for coming and helping promote our party.
Absolutely.
It was it was wonderful to be there.
Everybody was so friendly.
I've done a little write up on the website up north news wi.com, which you can go read.
But I can tell you I borrowed liberally some of the information that Melissa put in her write up as well, which you can find over at civic media dot us and on the W F h r
homepage that you would find there.
Just because there was so much history.
And I'd love that.
I'd love history anyway.
I love
radio.
So now you add radio plus history, and patches gets to nerd out.
You had all these old radios in there.
You had all these remembrances.
Oh,
yeah, I didn't send you those pictures yet.
Oh, that's
okay.
Oh, that's okay.
It was just it was just great to be a part of it.
And I'm sure the folks in the community had a lot of nice things to say while
they came
to visit as well.
Yeah, and we had so many nonprofits there that are regular guests on our show and The the outpouring of just everybody willing to come together and share the information that we need in our community There's gonna be more articles coming.
I hope I'm gonna cross my fingers on this but Pam Hilke who manages our office has so much history collected from over the years that there's opportunities for for more history articles Pat
That's because Pam's been there since 1977.
Yes,
this is true.
That's a man.
And there's a photo in your article and the one that we put up north news of her and James modeling the the vintage jackets.
Yes, the shiny shiny.
Those were all the rage and down in the basement somewhere is mine from the college radio station WEC.
There's there's one there from TV 13 as well.
That's what you had to have.
You had to have the shiny nylon jackets back
in the day with the logo.
Yep.
I mean, everything's coming around again.
So why not?
Well, sure, I could I could totally see doing that.
So you could see that, you know, all the newspaper clippings and
and the cookbook because it felt like every radio station, well, the hometown full service ones, had a cookbook back in the day and WFHR was no exception.
And in fact, that cover model from the 50th anniversary one 35 years ago was part of the festivities last
week.
He was.
Milt Steel was the cover model for our 50th anniversary cookbook edition and he was our celebrity judge for the staff dessert suite off.
Um, I didn't win, but that's okay.
Um, yes, we can we can talk about that.
Well, what did you make?
I made rhubarb juice.
Well,
no, I think I am a solid second.
I was second in both Milt's voting and the listener favorites, but no, it's it's fabulous.
It's something my grandma used.
My grandma Ruth used to make every summer when we were kids and I loved it.
It's
so good.
Does it have
bourbon in it or something.
I mean, what's, what's the
key to making it
not taste like rumen or like rhubarb?
It has jello, jello sugar and orange juice, but low tiny amounts.
It's mostly just rhubarb.
I thought you're gonna say little tiny amounts of rhubarb just so it
can
be labeled as such.
All
right.
But the cookbook we're excited about and we want to get listener submissions.
We have it on our website right now.
It's in the carousel.
So you have to like scroll through the carousel at the top of the webpage to find it.
We're hoping to get a static link that's just there.
But yeah, go there.
You submit your recipes.
You can just swing by with your recipe card and Pam will make a copy of it for you.
It's super easy.
We want to just gather all the recipes we can for our 85th anniversary edition, which is in November.
And it's very unusual that, you know, again, because it is
Kind of an older station with the older radios and everything.
It's actually not a copier.
Pam puts it on a mimeograph machine and just rolls the little drum.
Something
like that.
Puts the ink on it first.
Yep.
It always smells so good.
He's like, don't stay in the mimeograph room too long.
You'll pass out.
Uh,
you've got some live remotes coming up as well.
We do.
Our next one is the, uh, downtown grand affair on September 7th.
Um, we'll be there all day.
This is a big event for our downtown businesses to come out and, um, open their doors and invite people down.
Our downtown is really pretty with the bridge and the lights and the, and the, I don't know, I think old fashioned downtowns are just, they're cool.
Mm-hmm.
They are and then we have the lights of love in November and the rekindle spirit parade also in November so okay to get out in the community
and Folks of course are wondering when's Pat gonna get to the point?
How's Lelu?
We lose good We rearranged the cages now on the floor so that they can get in and out by themselves, and I don't have to pick them up
they're getting used to the new space, they found a new place to hide.
It's underneath underneath a little table over there.
So sometimes it's a find the leelu, because you can't really see them.
So, but for adjusting, we're working on things.
Well, that makes it really incumbent to watch where you're walking, you know,
um, well, not in there.
I do anyway.
And I'm starting to get that because once they're out and about, yeah, I'm going to have to watch where I'm walking all the time.
So I am cognizant of it.
But right now they're in a little locked in space.
So
Okay, now that works out well.
And how about your Labor Day weekend?
Anything coming up special?
I'm going to do more sewing.
I've really been getting into making these block patterns, and I'm still working on mine.
And it's, it's, it's a uphill battle.
like with a singer sewing machine type of situation.
I have a Husqvarna.
I don't even know if there are singer sewing machines anymore.
That's a big
one.
It used to be there was nothing but, you know, and now, now
brother, singer Husqvarna,
Husqvarna.
Elna.
Them is chainsaws.
I wouldn't sew with a chainsaw, but I suppose.
You know,
if you get the machinery
just right.
Yeah, good
point.
Melissa K can catch you at 105.5 WIRI and 97.5 WFHR.
Melissa, thanks again for having us out for the anniversary party and you
have a
great holiday weekend.
Yeah, you too, Pat.
All right, take care.
Coming up in the next hour, we're going to be talking to Randy Weingarten, the national president of the American Federation of Teachers.
Talked to her early this morning.
She's on her way out to an event in Wisconsin later today.
I'm Pat Crightlow.
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