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Hey there, Wisconsin.
Good morning.
It is 6.06 on this Wednesday morning, September 3rd, 2025.
It's another beautiful morning to have you here up north.
a little damp, but still beautiful live from Lake Wissota from wherever you're spending your mornings listening across the civic media radio network, catching us on all the different platforms that are out there.
Thanks for being along.
Here we are the middle of the work week already.
And I got a question for you.
What would you do with $1.3 billion?
Yeah, if you could get it and you wouldn't get it all at once you'd get it over a period of years if you won tonight's Powerball jackpot but still
1.3 billion.
What would you do with that kind of money?
It reminds me that there are so many people, more people than ever, for whom 1.3 billion dollars would be chump change.
In fact, in today's history lesson, we're going to be talking about the world's richest woman.
She became the world's richest woman on this day in history, and we'll tell you what she's done with the money since Jeff Bezos and she divorced.
So we'll talk about that in the history lesson and about the billions and billions and billions of dollars that some people have.
So for you, what would you do with your measly $1.3 billion?
Coming up on the program today, Vice President JD Vance is going to Minneapolis today, the scene of the recent church school shooting.
There was not a similar big visit to Milwaukee after the tragedy of the flash floods there.
Meanwhile, the president is talking about sending troops to Chicago.
These three things are connected, and I will explain coming up in just about 15 minutes or so.
Also coming up on the program today, along with talking about what you do with a spare billion dollars, if you could find it here, we'll talk about going back to school, not just in the classrooms, but in Madison and Washington, the legislature and members of Congress, they're all back in class as it were.
We're going to talk to Peggy Words Olson of WEAC about the bills that they're following in the legislature.
They range from big picture revenue bills for the entire state to micromanaging things like cursive handwriting and what kinds of flags can and can't be displayed at school.
You know, the stuff that really makes those legislators earn that taxpayer driven salary.
In our climate check, we will talk about the trick to writing good fiction.
Well, if you work in the Trump White House anyway the ability to pick and choose which scientific facts match up with your politics and That can help you create a very interesting work of fiction making the rounds in Washington DC these days a Trump administration report that calls the threat of climate change overblown
Then, of course, the scientists weighed in and dozens of them pointed out the many errors, the cherry pick data, the blatant misinformation that's in there.
And we'll have Melissa Baldoff telling us more about that coming up.
And we'll visit with Earl Ingram and so much more still ahead.
Jimmy Koska, Brittany Merlot, even that Parker Olson.
Yeah, he's here there.
He's right there.
There
is.
Madison Studio A2.
How are you?
I'm good.
I'm here.
I wasn't sure I was until he told me I was here.
So that's good.
I know.
Well, see, that's why I feel the need to occasionally reset and get us oriented the person, place and time.
We are just where we need to be.
So that's all that's coming up on the show today.
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Like talking about what you do with a spare billion dollars.
Tony up in Ashland puts on YouTube, I'd buy a pontoon boat so I can be like Captain Pat.
Well, trust me.
It's not a billion dollar pontoon, but it's a nice start.
You know, if you don't, if you don't have a pontoon, yeah, start with that or, you know, speedboat, a deckboat, a dinghy, whatever floats your boat, as it were.
Let's see, Alicia says, Oh, gosh, I would pay off my house, fix it up, pay off my kids college.
And I think pay for all of the Kimberly class of 2026 college as well.
Well, Alicia, there you go.
we're hoping your ticket wins now.
wanted my ticket to win.
But I mean, you've put it in writing.
So, well, hold you do this.
Yeah, you know what, I think she'd still have a little leftover after paying for the Kimberly class of 2020.
But that is that is a very cool thing.
So thank you for those ideas as well.
By the way, tomorrow on the program, Congressman Mark Pokan will be here.
As I mentioned,
Congress is back in session now, and Congressman Polkhan has had an interesting August, doing a lot of work in his district, a lot of work in Derek Van Orden's district, since somebody there's got to be doing the work over there.
And so we'll talk to Congressman Polkhan about that.
That's tomorrow morning here on the program.
Brittany Merleau, State Forecast.
Well, first we're looking at an area of rain and some embedded thundershowers, stretching from Iron Mountain, Michigan, through Shawno, all the way down to Richland Center.
Then cold air is surging in behind that front and temperatures, as she says, are going to feel more like October, well below normal temps on the way, wind chills even.
We've already had our highs for today at midnight and now that front is coming through and bringing the colder air behind it, temperature is going to be dropping by and large for a big chunk of the day.
Her forecast for the first part of the day, steady rain and thunder through midday in the southeastern half of Wisconsin as that line moves on.
Spotty showers are still possible everywhere else, breezy and much cooler.
Highs today only in the mid fifties in the northwestern part of the state, mid sixties southeast, a northwest wind at 15 to 25 miles an hour.
Clearing skies tonight and noticeably crisp, she says.
Brittany says lows tonight up north will be in the mid thirties.
to the low 40s south with a northwest wind at 10 to 15 miles an hour.
And again, Brittany Merleau will have more details coming up.
Tony adds on YouTube now about Alicia's promise to pay for college tuition.
Tony says YouTube comments are legally binding, by the way.
So Alicia responds, well, then I got to move on to Kokona.
Look at see now that's
You got to appreciate that if you're willing to pay for the college tuition for the kids and Kimberly and Kakana.
Well, that just says you have enough money to do that.
That's really all that that really says.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was a little late getting into into gear today getting the headset on.
Parker was only getting moderately nervous.
But remember how I said yesterday that September is build a better breakfast month?
did.
I built a better breakfast today.
Imagine breakfast wraps with some some ham and some cheese and some pre made scrambled eggs and you're you know, a little bit of hot sauce and you roll that up on a flour tortilla.
And oh, it's so delicious.
But please notice that I said pre made scrambled eggs.
And that is the key to this particular build a better breakfast because I went and picked up some groceries yesterday.
And I haven't done this for a long time.
But
just completely lost track of what bags I was carrying.
And as I put the bags down on the counter, I realized I put that one bag down a little harder than I probably should have.
And open it up and sure enough for the eggs had cracked.
Well, okay, there goes those.
Well, wait a minute, don't throw them away.
You can still do something with them.
So I quickly
you know, after putting the rest of the groceries away, scrambled up some eggs and had them waiting for me this morning to make those breakfast wraps.
So I built a better breakfast completely, completely by accident.
Forced myself into that and delayed pretty much everything else that was going on this morning, but somehow managed to get here.
You said you
Uh, that's how tired I was yesterday from, you know, it was, it was our first, uh, full day and full night after the kids and the grandkids had left.
Oh, sure.
And, you know, those, those had been some late nights and some early mornings when the three year old gets up with the six year old and you got to make sure that, you know, pajamas aren't wet and maybe they are and you got to get a change of clothes and all that fun stuff.
Find out, find out which channel is bluey on, you know, and yeah.
get get the kids entertained.
So yeah, last night was, I mean, I, I, when you wake up after eight hours, and you're still tired, you're like, how much longer would I have slept without an alarm?
that is that is saying something.
So I'm glad I got the sleep.
I could use a little bit more.
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In the newsletter today includes a link to an article entitled nine Wisconsin stereotypes that are actually pretty accurate, which, you know, makes sense.
Stereotypes are there for a reason.
And we'll grab a couple of them here.
Goodbyes are extra long.
You're familiar with the Midwest.
I am very guilty of the Midwest.
Oh, you're guilty of it?
yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Sherry is a master of it.
And I've just
tried to learn to patient because me when it's like you know if it's time to go you you slap your your hands on your lap and you go well oh yeah time it's time to go well time to go uh Friday nights are for fish fry and supper clubs uh yes again guilty uh deer hunting is uh a season it's essentially it's its own holiday in some school district yes very much so
brought fries are a way of life.
Yes.
And yeah, we really do love cheese that much.
Yeah.
So there are several others in there as well.
So through our newsletter, you can get to the website article and learn about those Wisconsin stereotypes.
Although, when I say, oh, yeah, I did not know this has been a thing for a while.
Okay, I'm a little late on this particular meme train.
But the phrase, the phrase, oh, yeah.
One of my daughters was showing me some either tiktoks or reels.
Yeah.
of the the Hoya challenge.
Now, there are many different ways to say that and many different ways to spell it.
I forgot.
I have I have after I think you you folks have heard me for years saying we got to get coffee cups back.
We got to get t-shirts back.
We got to find just the right thing.
It's going to be Hoya.
We're going to put Hoya.
because I realized as first she showed me that, and then for the rest of their visit, as something would happen, you think you're just saying, yeah, but you're saying, oh, yeah.
Oh,
yeah.
And
then, and then they'd go, oh, yeah.
You realize you start hearing it from other people as well, or it's, oh, yeah.
And now it's gonna bug the rest of you for the rest of the day.
I defy you to go through the entire day and not hear at least one other person.
When they think they're just saying okay or yeah, and they're going, oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
It's not, oh yeah.
It comes on like, oh yeah.
There's definitely an H, you know, and he got it again.
Spelling and pronunciation matters.
It's not, it's not Hoya.
It's not Hoya.
know, it's none of that.
it is it's just it's a it's an oh yeah it's an oh yes but it comes out oh yeah
and just go through the day you know just that's something we everybody does
it just is uh here in the midwest so that's that's what we've got that's that's one of our that's not a stereotype that's just part of the vernacular it's part of the experience
Yeah, to answer a little bit of trivia from the top of the program here, Mackenzie Scott became the world's richest woman on this day in 2020.
After her divorce from Jeff Bezos, he's still the world's richest man, but in the divorce, she became the world's richest newly single woman.
You have to stick around a little longer to find out just how much she started with after the divorce and how much she still got
even after giving away literally billions of dollars.
And also what J.D.
Vance's visit today to a Minneapolis church has in common with Donald Trump's desire to send military troops onto the streets of another American city.
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Welcome back at 622 on the text line here from Jim and Brookfield.
Good morning, Pat.
You look and sound well.
So the CPAP must be working.
Are you going through a lot of distilled water?
Thank you, Jim, for the note.
I that that's very kind of you.
I think the eight hours of sleep probably helped more than anything
Yeah.
Yeah.
But again, more sleep.
would be helpful.
But the CPAP, yes, it is working out great.
Thank you very much.
It is just, again, this thing I thought would be claustrophobic, and it has actually turned out to be just something almost comforting.
It's like, okay, you know, focus on your breathing and just fall asleep.
And what do you know, I focus on my breathing and I just fall asleep.
that thing I've been telling myself to do for 30 years, I just needed something on my face, just go, stay here, stay on the pillow and think about your breath.
And sure enough, it works.
As far as the distilled water for folks that don't know, and I certainly didn't know.
But yeah, there's a little water tank, you put a little distilled water in it every evening.
And that way it provides like a little bit of, you know, humidity in it, it regulates the humidity so you're not just
sucking in dry air.
And you have to remember to do that.
Because once or twice now, I've woken up in the middle of the night and was like, something doesn't feel right.
And you realize that the water tank has gone dry.
But again, I and I say all this, why are you talking about CPAP so much?
Because I talked so much beforehand about I don't want to do this.
I'm in denial, etc.
So if if you suspect sleep apnea is a thing, then
have somebody check in on it.
And yeah, I'll go through a gallon of distilled water every couple of weeks, small price to pay for getting a little bit more sleep.
So thank you again, Jim, for the note.
I appreciate it very much.
Again, tomorrow, Congressman Mark Polkhan will be joining us as will Sean O'Malley talking about your money and the markets.
We'll talk to Joseph Hecke tomorrow.
Todd Alba, Chad Holmes all going to be stopping by.
But of course, we have plenty to get to today.
including word that the vice president of the United States, J.D.
Vance, is planning a visit to Minneapolis, specifically, of course, to deal with and show some respect for the victims of the recent school church, church school shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church.
The vice president's office talks about, you know, meeting with some of the families, etc.
And of course, the vice president has also offered up thoughts and prayers.
Well, again, that's a choice that you make is to offer up thoughts and prayers rather than any concrete action that could make our kids safer.
there is of all the news coverage around it this this line I want to pick on because it it's rather emblematic of my hangups with the media today.
Okay.
The paragraph reads like this and it's from the website bring me the news.
The shocking incident, it's not that shocking in America these days, I hate to say, the shocking incident has sparked an outpouring of grief and demands for action with Democratic leaders in Minnesota calling for gun control measures, including a ban on assault weapons, while Republicans have criticized Democrats for politicizing the mass killing.
Now again, that's a choice to use that language.
Republicans have criticized Democrats for politicizing the mass killing rather than feeding into the Republican talking point.
That line could have just as easily said Democratic leaders calling for gun safety measures including a ban on assault weapons while Republicans have continued to oppose gun safety measures for about 25 years.
That's what that line could have said to in fact be more factual.
It's not fact-based to say Democrats are politicizing the mass killing.
It is fact-based to say that Republicans have been blocking gun safety measures since they got rid of the assault weapons ban back in around 2004.
And again, that's a choice that they make.
I took note, of course, that the vice president is coming to this church school in Minneapolis.
We did not see a similar high-profile visit to Milwaukee after flash flooding went through the city of Milwaukee.
What we're getting instead is all this tough talk from Trump in advance about, you know, not just thoughts and prayers, but let's get tough on shooters by putting troops in the streets.
And the troops in the streets have not made a damn bit of difference in Los Angeles or Washington, DC.
And they can say it all day long that they've suddenly made the streets safer.
They've been picking up garbage.
They've been wasting our tax dollars instead of putting resources into crime prevention and law enforcement.
Their idea of action is to put more guns on the street, to put more soldiers on the street.
And although Trump talked the other day about
putting troops on the streets of Chicago.
He's also talked about the same thing in Minneapolis.
So there'll be this very emotional visit by the vice president today.
But it will be followed up by the usual tough talk about, well, we got to put troops on the streets.
But more guns and more thoughts and prayers are not going to solve this problem.
And Democrats need to stop playing nice about this and need to call out Republicans for their perverted definition of the Second Amendment.
The meaning of the Second Amendment has been completely lost over the past 50 years or so.
You know, the well-regulated militia.
And instead, folks are afraid to do anything, even though when we actually did things like the assault weapons ban for 10 years, it worked.
Democrats, the people are on your side.
Talk tougher, promise strong action about getting weapons of war off our streets and keeping our children safe and calling out Republicans who only want to put more guns on the streets and more troops on the streets for offering up nothing real that will keep our kids safe.
Nothing real permanent troops on our streets.
Well, that's just a police state.
And I know the Milwaukee police union chief basically said I welcome the troops troops can come to Milwaukee That's because that's the tough talk thing you can say what he can't say is I'm sick and tired of Republicans in the legislature and in Congress Underfunding our needs in Milwaukee and America's other cities for partisan and racial reasons If you want to be more honest say that
because that's what actually exists in our country right now and it's not going to be fixed until we start giving the voters what they really want, which is not thoughts and prayers, not more guns.
They want action.
Today's history lesson is coming up next.
You're up north.
Sometimes history lesson can tell you what day it is today.
would be the temptations starting off with the 3rd of September.
The day I'll always remember in the song Papa was a Rolling Stone released this date in 1972 will not release this day but they sang about this date in 1972 when the song came out.
Welcome to today's history lesson.
out that way.
Yeah.
You know what?
It's every year after that.
You know, true.
And we should we could collect.
We've done this a few times with what was it?
The Oda Billy Joel.
We got Convoy.
We're going to get all the songs that reference.
Oh, we've got Earth, Wind and Fire coming up the 23rd night of September.
That's coming up, you know.
Let's work on that.
Let's put that on our to-do list.
Do you remember?
Do you
Was it 21st?
21st night.
Yeah.
It's early.
What am I going to tell you?
Let's be the Treaty of Paris was signed in Paris on this day.
How convenient in 1783, ending the Revolutionary War between the US and Great Britain.
On this day in 1929, consider this the final day of the roaring twenties.
Because on this day in 1929 the Dow Jones industrial average reached an all time high.
But then in the next month would come the crash of 1929 ushering in the Great Depression.
There are people that really wanted this to be the roaring twenties as well.
You know, where where everybody was just
carefree and life went well.
COVID kind of took care of that on the front half and other other current events, shall we say took care of it in the middle.
If we're going to have a roaring 20s, it's gonna have to happen in the second half of the decade.
Yeah.
Yeah, nobody nobody's going to accuse this decade of be roaring.
That's for sure.
The number one song this week in 1966 was by
Donovan.
Donovan's Sunshine Superman was the number one song for one week in 1966.
A lot of good songs as I was looking on either side of that that I'm sure will be hitting in the weeks to come.
Let's see, on this day in 1928, Hall of Fame slugger Ty Cobb recorded his 4,189th and final career hit.
The all-time hit record of 4,189 would stand until Pete Rose broke it in 1978 both Pete Rose and Ty Cobb Not real nice people Yeah, they could see ball hit ball in the baseball vernacular.
I don't even know which one you're
though.
That is because at the time, again, like a lot of athletes, you know, they people admired his abilities, but you know,
being a being a drunken brawler and being, you know, a racist and everything else would kind of get in the way of
some other
folks admiring them.
So again, see ball hit ball, not necessarily be a nice person.
On this day in 1957, Milwaukee Braves pitcher Warren Spahn set a record for a left hander with the most shutouts his 41st career shutout in a win over appropriately, the Chicago Cubs.
Warren Spahn still holds the record for the most career wins by a left-handed pitcher.
Wow.
That's amazing.
He was just, he was so good.
What was the old saying?
Spahn insane and pray for rain.
Milwaukee had, I mean, man, did they have a pitching rotation once upon a time.
Happy birthday to Al Jardine of the Beach Boys, one of the co-founders.
He's 83 years old
You're going, wait, I thought the Beach Boys were a bunch of cousins or siblings or something.
Yes, but Al Jardine was also a high school friend and football teammate of Brian Wilson, who recently passed away.
The late Glenn Bell was born this day in 1923.
I can't quiz Parker on this because he sees the notes ahead of time.
But I think I got Greg on this last year when I said, what was Glenn Bell known for?
And
if you consider the name Bell.
His last name is Greg Bell.
Or Glen Bell, I'm sorry, Glen Bell, who was born this day in 1923.
He founded Taco
figured.
Yes, it was Glen Bell who passed away in 2010.
Happy 30th birthday to eBay.
eBay, which stood for Electronic Bay, I guess, okay, was founded by Pierre Omidyar on this day in 1995.
eBay was such a thing in the early days of, you know, the dot-com bubble and everything.
And it's still around, but I mean, it was everything, once upon a time.
And so with Parker coming along after eBay had already been on the scene, I think it's a fair question to say, have you ever used eBay?
which at again at the time was, you know, life changing.
Like,
I can go to this site and I can, you know, bid a lower price.
And if nobody beats me, I get the stuff.
I mean, I have a I have a set of golf clubs in the shed when I thought I was going to take up golf.
I went on eBay.
I found some golf clubs.
It turns out the golf clubs are defective.
They're, they're just not very good.
the clubs.
Yeah, it's, it's the clubs.
got to be eBay's fault.
tell myself all the time.
Yeah.
I picked up some other things on there.
I picked up, uh, let's see.
I want to say it was an Eau Claire Braves scorecard that Joe Torrey had autographed back when Torrey was a manager of the Yankees at the time that I thought, Oh, this will be a nice thing.
It's still in the basement somewhere.
But I mean, other people made a living out of eBay.
I mean, they would, you know, collect various things, you know, they get people's antiques or rummage or other little knickknacks, put it up on eBay.
And I'm sure people still do it today, just not, not used, not to nearly the degree.
Like Tony says on YouTube, I used eBay a lot, but then Amazon replaced it.
Yeah.
And probably a Facebook marketplace, too.
Facebook marketplace probably played a role and and eBay got to like a lot of things that kind of lost its innocence.
There'd be either some scammers on there or just got, you know, kind of corporatized, I guess you could say.
But let's see.
What does Adam say here?
eBay is still a great place to buy items you might have missed out on like the Bob Euker commemorative pin from the celebration of life game.
Thank you, Adam.
Yes, see, eBay still has a role to be played today.
So I'm not saying it's it's not being used.
It is.
I'm just saying it was it was everywhere once upon a time.
And again, that was founded 30 years ago today.
Happy birthday to Don Brewer.
He's the drummer and founder of Grand Funk Railroad, talking about the Hodel Detective being out of sight.
Grand Funk Railroad still on my top 20 list of favorite groups.
If you were to get me, if I were to have to just listen to the same 20 CDs, well.
vinyl albums, whatever you kids call it today.
Grand Funk Railroad's greatest hits might be one of those.
I am shocked to inform everybody here on the birthday list.
Uh-oh.
Charlie Sheen has made it to 60 years old.
Yeah.
I did not have that on my bingo card of Charlie Sheen making 60.
That's bad.
That many years ago when he
I mean, he didn't just wash out of two and a half men.
I mean, he imploded.
He didn't burn bridges.
He napalmed those bridges.
And he is somehow still with us after all these years.
And he's younger than me.
But I'm like, happy birthday, Charlie Sheen.
You made it to 60.
club.
Welcome to the club.
Happy birthday to Jennifer Page, who had a hit half her life ago with Crush, but she's 52 years old today.
this day in 1935, Sir Malcolm Campbell reached a speed of 304 miles an hour on the Bonneville salt flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile more than 300 miles an hour this day in 1935.
Which is pretty impressive.
You think 1935 you're still thinking like Fred Flintstone,
know, it's all foot-powered cars and maybe a horse was pulling it, but no, no, you could do 300 miles an hour.
Again, technology, the technology was there.
From Tony on YouTube back to Charlie Sheen.
Could Dr. Lierley please explain how he's alive?
We'll put that on the list for her Friday visit, the physiological explanation about Charlie Sheen still being with us.
Let's see, Culture Club had a record release this day in 1982.
And let's see let's go up to 1990 where George Michael released his second solo album listen without prejudice and Let's see.
Let's I believe praying for time.
Is that what we have queued up on this one?
yeah Okay, well, let's let's do a little bit of praying for time.
really good album from George Michael and then he had you know much more of a pop hit with Freedom 90.
I want to caution you this is a clip off the George Michael album release to stay in 1990.
Todd Alba is not about to show up here in the studio.
I sometimes wonder how many people listening to the Todd Alba show when he starts off with this and just like, just play the song, play the full song.
Because I know people thought that when I used to play Stevie Ray Vaughn at the top of the hour.
It was like, right, look, could you not?
Yeah, just just let the song play out.
Please.
Yeah.
Todd, Todd Alba's not coming to the studio.
Melissa Kay is, however, the WF8 jar in Wisconsin Rapids.
Good
morning.
Good morning.
How are you?
I am okay.
How are you?
Very good.
So nice to see you.
How's Lelu?
You know what?
They asked to come out of their cage yesterday.
Like
asked, like passed you a little note or?
No, stood in front of the door because I had to leave in the middle of the day.
And when I came back, they came out of their little cave and stood in front of the door and just like looked around.
Oh,
just stood there.
And when I came close, they moved away and put in hid and I opened the door and then they came out like right away.
So I think we've making progress.
You are making progress.
Look at the bonding that's going on here.
This is awesome.
Hey, on this day in 2020, we talked earlier about Mackenzie Scott, philanthropist, ex-wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
Because of the divorce, she at that moment became the world's richest woman worth $68 billion.
And to date, she's given away at least $20 billion of that.
Imagine having the power to give away $20 billion with much more still to come.
It just leads into our question here, Melissa, with the Powerball jackpot tonight being $1.3 billion, what would you do?
What would be some of the first things you'd do if you wanted $1 billion?
Well,
I'd pay off all my debt, probably all my family's debt.
And yeah, I travel the world and then I'd sit down and start doing good things with it
Yeah, I mean wouldn't that be fun?
Yeah, the whole notion of being able to do good things with a big old pile of money
Scholarships for kids to go to school and put music back in schools and there's just so much you could do
Oh, and Mackenzie Scott's done a lot of that and has gotten a lot of credit, by the way, as well, for the way in which she's done it, with a lot fewer strings attached to those billions that she's giving out.
We're talking to Melissa K from WFHR in Wisconsin Rapids.
I'm Pat Crightlow from Lake Wasota.
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We are well into sports season now here for fall sports.
Baseball, of course, continues and the Brewers will be taking on the Phillies.
Coverage begins tonight at 6.05 on several civic media stations, but we're moving into football season as well.
The Wisconsin Badgers football season is underway and their second game of the season is coming up this Saturday afternoon against Middle Tennessee.
coverage begins at one o'clock on stations in Richland Center, Amory, Wisconsin Rapids and Rippon head over to the Civic Media website to learn more about that.
By the way, on the topic of sports, Don corrected me out of Waukesha.
Pete Rose broke Ty Cobb's hit record in 1985.
He broke the consecutive hits record back in 1978.
And I remember 1978 sounded weird with me at the time, but I forgot to double check my work.
And thank you, Don.
for doing that.
Melissa K is back with us from 1055 WIRI and 97.5 WFHR in Wisconsin Rapids, where has the has the hangover finally settled down from the 85th birthday parking lot party or do you still have other festivities going on?
Well, we do have the downtown grand affair coming up.
We're going to be out of live remote on Sunday.
in downtown Wisconsin Rapids where a lot of you know like businesses will have booths will have stuff for sale will have you know just like fun and entertainment and music and color guards gonna be there so it's gonna be a good time
nice uh as i was filling up the coffee cup something caught my eye in the kitchen i've got a visual for you that's maybe not so much use for parkering i know that's a great radio but i'm gonna describe what this is it's it's a
It looks like a metal mixing bowl with a long handle on it.
Yeah.
And kind of a strainer at the bottom of it.
So it's not really a mixing bowl.
It's more like a strainer.
And
a crank, a crank at the top.
And then you you turn this crank over and over again as these blades were at the bottom.
Can you guess what was made in the Krightlow kitchen last night using this contraption scrambled eggs.
No, this was not
Rice potatoes is a good guess.
But no, this is an applesauce maker.
and our neighbor gave us a bag of apples, which and Sherry made the most amazing apple crisp.
But then she also boiled a bunch of the apples.
And then you put the boiled apple mixture in here, you crank this thing.
And it strains out just the applesauce and leaves all the peelings and things like that behind.
And yeah, so we had we had
We had some delicious
made applesauce.
My mom had one that attached to the side of the table with a clamp.
Oh, yeah.
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah, my grandma had
almost like a meat grinder.
But yes, oh my
goodness, meat grinders.
Did you
my grandma did?
Yes, I remember that.
Oh, my boy, the stuff
your own hamburgers.
Yep.
Yep.
I haven't seen a good pasta maker in a while, though.
Some people have those big stand mixers and you
can put a
pasta
maker attachment on there.
That's what I do with my billion dollars.
There you go.
billion.
They already sell
Right.
Oh,
Adam notes the the apple sauce maker.
He says great for tomato sauce to Pat.
Oh, yeah.
I've never
even
thought
of that.
Making your own.
Oh, you know where
that gets me?
Oh, boy, you know, you know, making my own salsa.
I want to I want to make my own salsa.
You Yeah, but you don't really need me.
I guess you do need tomato paste for that.
But I don't know my mom did.
My mom used to make her own salsa.
be careful with the cilantro.
Oh, see, that's the point.
Sherry does not like cilantro at
all.
And I don't,
and I don't like my my salsa, you're like super chunky.
I want,
I want
flavor, but I don't necessarily want
the chunks.
I mean, if I almost want a paste, then yeah,
yeah, because I mean, if I want, I'll order, I'll get a side order.
If I want something chunky, I want salsa, which is more like a condiment, you know, exactly.
Boy, look what we're doing with our billion dollars.
Way, way to think big.
All right, let's let's think bigger for the billion dollars.
I mean, for me, the big one, once you set up the foundation, you know, to help other people, let's be self indulgent for a moment here.
First and foremost, for me, it's travel.
I mean,
I, I'll keep the house as a home base, but I'm not going to see it very much.
Put it that
way.
Right.
What about you?
Would you travel?
Oh, absolutely.
I would want to travel as much as possible.
See as much of this beautiful planet that we have.
Mm-hmm.
Yep.
Yep.
And then try to do things to help save it.
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
Enjoy a little bit and then save a little bit.
Parker, what about you?
Billion dollars?
Think big.
That's a
good one.
That's great.
No, I love that.
Now look, some people don't need a billion dollars and some people don't even need eBay.
And of course, I'm talking about Luke Mathers, who's on here talking about eBay, because we had one person talk about getting those Euker commemorative pins from the celebration of life a couple of weeks back, and he got that on eBay.
Mathers puts up here, who needs eBay?
My mom brought me one from the game.
And then later, Parker, you wanted, you want that sausage racing cribbage board?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And of course, Luke pops back up on the text line.
I have one of those two.
Of course he does.
Of course he
does.
Apparently Luke is the guy to know.
Yeah.
and generous mom.
That's the way it works.
What else am I missing from the Wisconsin Repertory that you guys are up to?
You know, it's just a lot of live radio and we've got more events coming up.
I don't have my list in front of me, but we have a parade.
There's always something.
Oh,
yeah.
Lelu was out and flapping.
Oh, see, again, we're taking credit for this.
This is,
I
mean, Lelu, you got earphones in, so I know Lelu's not hearing any of this, right?
Well,
they're just
hearing me.
Is hearing you and how animated you are talking to us.
And so once
again, we
are going to, we're going to take the credit for giving Lelu, you know,
some some reason to be out there flapping
away wanting to take part out of the cage.
Yes.
Yes.
Make it a very interactive radio show here.
Melissa K, you can catch her on WFHR and WIRA, WIRI out of Wisconsin Rapids.
And Melissa, thanks for visiting with us today.
Hope you have a great day.
Always good to see you.
Oh, always good to have you around as well.
Take care.
In our next hour, we will, of course, continue talking about some of the headlines that have been in the news today.
And we will also have our homeroom segment with Peggy Word-Solson from WEAC.
And then in our eight o'clock hour, we'll be talking to Melissa Baldoff with our climate check report.
From Lake Wissota, I'm Pat Crightlow.
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