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Good morning.
It is 6.06 on this Thursday morning, September 11th, 2025.
It's a beautiful morning to have you here up north, live from Lake Basota.
from wherever you're spending your mornings listening across the civic media radio network or listening or watching us on all the different platforms that are out there we appreciate you getting your morning started right here.
September 11th has always been a little bit more of a somber day and this would have been a slightly more somber show anyway given the events of 24 years ago this morning but more so this morning in light of yesterday's act of political violence
and the aftermath.
So as I like to say most mornings, I've got a question for you.
How many Americans were the victims of gun violence yesterday in our nation?
One victim got most of the attention.
A few victims of a school shooting got a little of the attention.
But all of yesterday's other victims, who are also somebody's father, mother, son, daughter, spouse, friend,
So many lives were turned upside down yesterday from gun violence, but they are, in the larger picture, barely footnotes in this country's long and growing list of shooting victims.
Because there was a long list yesterday, and we already know there's going to be a long list today.
We will of course cover yesterday's murder in Utah of a conservative provocateur and reaffirm that political violence has no place in a civilized society.
Even as the congressman from Western Wisconsin jumped right into the fray overnight and implied there needs to be more violence or at least more political fireworks because nothing tones down the rhetoric like a member of Congress dropping F-bombs and saying the gloves are off.
We'll have more about this in just a moment.
First, let's pause and take a look at what else we're going to have on this morning's program.
Brian Kennedy will be along.
The mayor of Glendale is the national chair of the Democratic Municipal Officers Group.
This is the time of year that they start to see people expressing interest in running for office next year and they provide guidance, resources, training for people who want to run for local posts because national figures
get most of the attention, but it's the people who serve on our county boards and city councils, town boards, village boards, mayor's offices, village presidents, and other bodies who get so much done in our communities and perhaps it's your time to serve.
We'll talk to Brian Kennedy about that at 735.
Sean O'Malley gives us the latest on your money and the markets at 822.
Joseph Peck, he talks politics with us at 835, including Governor Tony Evers' appearance last night at Ideas Fest in Madison, talking about his legacy after two terms as governor.
Now, if you can't stick around to listen to all of this, get over to Spotify and follow us.
or Apple, wherever you get your podcasts, and that way you can listen on demand and catch everything that we do weekdays from six to nine a.m.
Parker Olson will be along in just a little while.
Brewers lose yesterday six to three getting swept in Texas the first time they've been swept in a three game series since the first series of the season way back in March against the New York Yankees.
The Brewers have a day off today.
They're home against St.
Louis tomorrow.
The Packers play at home tonight against Washington Thursday night football and you'll be able to hear the game across several civic media stations pregame beginning at five o'clock.
Learn more at the Civic Media website to find out the stations that are carrying tonight's Packers game.
Well, there's no way around getting to the big story and what it means to this country and the reaction to it.
First, the overview, because not everyone knows who exactly was at the center of yesterday's murder.
Charlie Kirk, 31 years old, started a network of groups when he was about 18 with variations on the name turning point.
He was raised in the Chicago suburbs and dropped out of college after being inspired by what the Tea Party was doing in 2010.
Charlie Kirk's legacy was established long before yesterday's events.
Charlie Kirk called Martin Luther King Jr.
a bad guy, awful.
He said civil rights laws had become too broad.
He said the problem isn't that we incarcerate too many Americans.
He said there's not enough that mass imprisonment would be beneficial.
Charlie Kirk was a straight-up racist, evidenced in quotes like, if I see a black pilot, I'm gonna be like boy, I hope he's qualified.
He called the COVID vaccine medical apartheid.
And there's no telling how many people died because they listened to his misinformation about the pandemic.
He made wildly unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud and helpful meant the violence of January 6th.
He was a regular spreader of false information about a changing climate.
Charlie Kirk called empathy a made up new age term.
He said parents shouldn't let their daughters take birth control because it, quote, makes women angry and bitter.
He opposed abortion ban exceptions for women and girls who were raped or victims of incest.
Just last year, Kirk went to his Bible and pointed to Leviticus, chapter 20, verse 13, if a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination, they shall surely be put to death, their blood is upon them.
And Charlie Kirk called that, quote, God's perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.
Anyone who disagreed with him, he called them indoctrinated.
And when it came to the Second Amendment, here's what he said two years ago, quote, I think it's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.
That is a prudent deal.
It is rational.
Now you can tell me Charlie Kirk was a doting father.
He had a three-year-old daughter and a one-year-old son.
I don't doubt that he loved his kids and I don't doubt that in his own perverted way he wanted a better country.
But I can say those nice things about a lot of people.
Like the people who attacked the United States Capitol and wounded scores of police.
or the people wearing masks now who are kidnapping people off the streets without due process in the United States of America.
I do agree that today is an awful day for those who know and love Charlie Kirk.
I agree that it's an awful day for the families of those who were targeted and shot in a Colorado school shooting yesterday.
There have been more than 40 school shootings this year already.
including the one at a university in Utah that claimed the life of Charlie Kirk.
But behind all of this, behind that man's legacy is this universal agreement among right-thinking Americans.
Violence is not politics.
There are no good intentions when it comes to political violence.
It's always counterproductive.
and only encourages reprisals.
It only encourages more violence.
There is nobody who followed Charlie Kirk, who's waking up this morning and saying, well, I guess I don't agree with his views anymore.
That's not how violence works.
Political violence triggers people.
People like Derek Van Orden.
Just minutes after Charlie Kirk was shot and still at the hospital,
the congressman from western wisconsin took to his primary constituency that would be the audience on twitter and wrote that this quote left-wing political violence must stop now whoever does not condemn this is part of the problem the gloves are off end quotes later after kirks death was announced
Van Orden went back to Twitter and claimed that House Democrats, quote, just shouted down openly praying for Charlie Kirk, we might as well scratch in God we trust from the rostrum on the House floor.
Van Orden, of course, was not sharing the full story.
As noted by reporters on the scene and in video of the event, there was indeed unity in a moment of silent prayer.
as has happened on the House floor after every mass tragedy.
But then Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert broke the silence and demanded a spoken prayer saying, quote, silent prayers get silent results.
I'm no expert, but I don't think her pastor would back her up on that one.
Anyway, Democrats quickly noted that the House held silent prayers after other shootings, but Boebert wanted special treatment for her favorite shooting victim, and shouting broke out.
A Republican from Florida, Anna Luna, started shouting F-bombs on the floor of the House and telling Democrats they caused this.
Anyway, this is just the beginning.
I'm going to need an entire other segment, probably in our next hour, to read everything else that Derek Van Orden tweeted out overnight.
Lots of F bombs from him as well, lots of hate, lots of rooting for a civil war as he further cements his place in radical ideology and not in line with the values of actual Wisconsinites.
In Wisconsin, we are right to abhor political violence.
We are right to abhor gun violence and we are right to remember
That about 300 people on average are shot each day in America and about 125 people a day die from being shot Charlie Kirk was one of them on one day one of 300 one of 125 And he was indeed part of the problem as is every politician or political figure or talking head who keeps this nation under the gun to put it figuratively
So if you can, please forgive me for not exactly mourning.
I'm angry.
I'm especially angry at whoever the idiot was who did this.
Nobody was supposed to murder this guy, no matter how repugnant his views and actions.
Nobody had that right.
Nobody had the right to drive the wedge a little deeper today between Americans.
And I also can't use the cliche here that, you know, somehow we will rise above it.
We won't, not right away anyway.
We will eventually put this behind us, just as we did with Columbine and the Pulse nightclub and Las Vegas and the attack on Paul Pelosi and the murder of a Minnesota legislator and her husband.
And whatever it was that happened at that Donald Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, we carry on.
And we hope that the people among us have learned to step back from violence instead of just being a derrick and fanning the flames.
And maybe, just maybe, some of the people who mourned for a man who was murdered yesterday, one of 300 who were shot, maybe they will start to think that maybe we do need to stop making it so easy to get guns and do bad things.
It would be, if that were to ever happen, a turning point that would do this nation some good.
Again, we'll talk more throughout the course of the morning about the events in Utah yesterday and the reaction from one Wisconsin congressman and many others who don't seem to have learned anything from the violence that happened yesterday.
We will switch gears coming up here and we will get back to life in Wisconsin.
It includes plenty of events to consider checking out this weekend when Sharita Booker joins us.
We will have today's history lesson and we will visit with Parker Olson as well.
Brittany Merlot is off today, but listen throughout the course of the morning for your updated local forecasts on your Civic Media stations.
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I welcome back.
We're talking to Sharita Booker, social media manager here about some of the weekend events.
I know we've mentioned a few of them, but here are a couple of more because there's no Packer game this weekend and the weather is going to be beautiful.
So everybody's going to be out and about probably except me.
This is the weekend.
We're going to scrub siding and, you know, get some house stuff ready for the fall.
Maybe I'll get to one of these things.
Hey, Sharita, how are you and how's your weekend looking?
Okay.
All right.
Good.
Well, let's start in Lake Geneva with Taco Fest.
What's that all about?
tomorrow through Sunday at Lake Geneva House of Music and that festival will include dozens of vendors serving up authentic tacos plus live music, cultural dances and fun for the whole family.
This year visitors will also get a chance to vote for who makes the best taco with the official award competition and some of the entertainment include the jalapeno and hot pepper eating contest, a Chihuahua beauty contest, a mechanical bull,
a low-rider car show, pinata smashing, midway rides, and games for the kids.
Admission is just $10 Friday in advance and $12.50 Saturday in advance and Sunday is free for everyone.
And for more tickets and information, visit LGTacoFest.com.
That again is LG for Lake Geneva Taco Fest.com.
It kind of gets away from the tacos here, but the pepper eating contest and you see the the hot one show with the hot chicken wings.
I love that show.
Could you could you do
Let me tell you something.
So my boyfriend loves the show.
I started watching it with him and we bought the last dab.
I think no, it's not the last dab.
It's the other it's one of them.
One of the last ones that they do and that's where everyone freaks out.
But I had it.
And oh my God, I almost puked.
It was so bad I could not handle the heat and went to run my tongue under the water.
I didn't know what to do.
I was freaking out for like 10 minutes.
I felt so sick.
Oh, no, no, I just can't I've said before, I'm like, I love spicy stuff like spicy for flavor, but not necessary.
And you know, a little bit hot.
But you know, those things that are just heat alone, they just don't
They don't do it for me, but clearly they do for some and some people are going to put a lot of hot sauce on their tacos this weekend at Lake Geneva Taco Fest.
And closer to my neck of the woods here in the Chippewa Valley, we have the Fall Festival in Eau Claire.
in the downtown area.
The celebration will be packed with over 100 street vendors, 20 food trucks, and live entertainment throughout the day.
There will also be a Kids and Families Zone with two free bounce houses, face painting, balloon art, and characters.
Adults can enjoy the reboot main stage, beer garden, and catch performances by some local favorites like Turn Turn Turn, Weapons of Brass Destruction, and the Woodland Spring.
The performing art stage outside the firehouse will be serving cold drinks.
While there are performances from Eau Claire Improv, a sneak peek from the Chippewa Valley Theater Guild, and music from Anticat and a drag show.
And if you're worried about parking, head over to Carson Park to hop on the free trolley shuttle to the festival.
For more information, visit Eau Claire Fall Fest.com.
Did you say one of the bands is called Weapons of Brass Destruction?
Yes.
That's awesome.
Love that.
Yes, all kinds of things here at Eau Claire Fall Fest.com for more of the details.
And now let's head over to Pepin for Laura Ingalls Wilder Days.
Yep, so celebrate the life and legacy of beloved author Laura Engle Wilders at the fourth annual Laura Engle's Wilder Days, happening this Saturday and Sunday in Pepin, the very place where she was born.
And this family-friendly festival is bringing the pioneer era to life with traditional craft demonstrations, fiddle contest, candlelight crafts on Saturday evening, kids' games, wagon rides, food vendors, and plenty of old-fashioned fun.
And this year's special guest is Allison Arngrim, the actress who played Nellie Olsen on The Little House on the Prairie.
and Allison will be making multiple appearances throughout the weekend, including autograph sessions, photo opportunities, and a special evening presentation.
Some of the highlights include pause fiddle showcase, a spelling bee, a medallion hunt, a pie eating contest, square dancing, a grand parade on Sunday, and a tomahawk throwing, and tomahawk throwing.
Families can also enjoy the barrel train rides, face painting, and activities at the Wayside Cabin and Laura Museum.
For the full schedule of events, visit laurdays.org.
And again, that's Laura's in L-A-U-R-A, like Laura Ingalls Wilder.
LauraDays.org.
I can't believe they've got Nellie Olson.
Who's coming there?
And I'm looking at the website and she hasn't changed a bit.
It's like growing up Nellie Olson is gonna be there from the old TV show.
That's wild.
That's something.
Are you familiar?
Have you read the books or even caught the old TV show at some point?
Prairie?
Uh-huh.
Did any of it motivate you to like, you know, churn your own butter or?
Catch your own roof or anything like that?
Same here, same here.
I mean, in the area of crafts, do you do anything like that, you know?
um knitting crochet so anything any task that would fit in a little house on the prairie if you were dropped into one
That's perfect.
That's, that's exactly how to do it.
My mom is teaching granddaughters how to sew right now.
And that's a skill you're always going to use.
All right.
So there are just some of the events that get covered.
Sherita Booker covers those for us and all of our social media posts over for Up North News.
Sherita, thank you.
Have a great start to the weekend.
You
Pat.
Parker Olson's with us now as well.
And I just want to pick it up from there, Parker.
Good morning.
Do you have any skills that you could translate if you were dropped into Little House on the Prairie?
Oh, that's about juggling.
Hey, see, we got something because back then they didn't have football.
Packers playing tonight against the commanders.
Short week.
It's going to be late.
I am predicting boldly that you and I are going to sound very tired tomorrow morning.
He's gonna be more
tomorrow.
Right.
Didn't take much to nail that one.
Coming up, we will talk about today's history lesson, including a birthday for Harry Connick Jr.
and another Beatles album hits number one.
When do these guys run out of hits?
We'll be back.
You're up north.
Welcome to today's history lesson for this September 11th.
It's a Thursday morning.
It's a foggy morning across many parts of Wisconsin once again.
So take care out there on the roads.
If you're about to head out, keep yourself nice and visible with your appropriate lights on as much as possible.
Those are the tunes of the Buckingham's.
Dennis Tafano, the lead singer, turns 79 years old today.
The Buckingham's sounds like one of those British invasion groups, right?
No, they were from Chicago.
Their original name was the pulsations, but the record company Parker wanted a more British sounding name, although I think pulsations would have been a great band name.
Yes.
Yeah.
And, you know, they were from Chicago while that name was already taken.
But anyway, Buckingham's had a couple of hits there and Dennis Tifano is 79 years old today.
Mickey Hart.
the drummer for the Grateful Dead, 82 years old today.
On this day in 1789, Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first secretary of the U.S.
Treasury.
Do you suppose they sang that song for him when he showed up?
Alexander Hamilton.
Hamilton.
You're right.
We've sprinkled those in a couple of times.
Here's one of the things I noticed though, in getting these.
Now, I'm not saying that it's an entirely adult play, but you really have to listen carefully.
They drop a few naughty words in the songs now and then.
They just kind of weave them in.
He's like, oh, can't use that clip.
Can't use that clip either.
out
me.
It does because that that one I know which one you're talking about and it is a very impactful phrase.
Yes.
Let's see on this day in 1916, the first true self service supermarket.
Because prior to that, prior to 1916, you know, you went to this general store and everything was on shelves behind the guy, behind the counter, kind of like going to a bar and ordering from the bartender.
And you go, I want some of this and I want some of that.
And the first truly self-service supermarket was a Piggly Wiggly.
That's the name that Clarence Saunders gave his grocery store when it opened in Memphis, Tennessee this day in 1916.
And now you
It absolutely is a thing.
And, you know, who would know that?
Nellie Olson.
We'll have to ask her about that from Laura Engels Wilder's days.
I hope she takes all this in good spirits after all these years.
That's just like,
Oh,
God, another another case where I got to pretend to be Nellie Olson.
I hope she has fun with it.
Happy birthday to Tommy Shaw from Styx, who is 72 years old today.
And Tommy Shaw is 72 years old today.
Actress Taraji P. Henson is 55 years old today.
On this day in 1977, it was a big day for little Pat Critewell, the real little Pat Critewell, not Kristen Lyle was little Pat Critewell.
The release of the Atari 2600, which revolutionized the video game industry with its little tiny plastic joystick that allowed you to play Pac-Man and other new games like Space Invaders and Asteroids.
Did you, by chance, I did put a link to the audio for Pitfall?
Did you happen to grab it?
little sample.
This is my favorite.
This was one of my favorite games, Pitfall, where you're basically running through the jungle.
You're like the stick figure.
You know, you have to jump over crocodiles and you have to grab the rope and swing over, you know, a pit or something like that.
Here is the action packed Pitfall as heard on the Atari 2600.
Roll it.
And let me tell you, you were sweating bullets the entire time, wondering if that crocodile was going to get you or if you're going to fall into the pit or some of the other, the other graph.
I don't suppose you looked at the, at the game itself, the graphics.
Oh, I watched the video of it.
Oh yeah.
Did you watch it?
Oh, that's right.
I only looked
Does that to you?
Does that, does that resemble like, like caveman drawings from prehistoric times?
I mean.
Yeah, I
but
yeah, I mean, things, things get better every year, but they had to start someplace and they started with the Atari 2600 Tony putting up on YouTube.
Ah, the memories from that sound.
Yes.
Yes, exactly.
Um, and I had to look at pitfall right away because it was one of my favorites listening back yesterday going, wow, I sure got excited about something pretty simple.
Didn't I?
Well, yeah.
Yeah, let's roll on with the birthdays today.
Harry Connick Jr.
turns 58 years old
today.
Harry Connick Jr.
in a lot of movies and TV shows.
But before that, quite a successful little career as a singer and a band leader from New Orleans.
Charles Kelly of Lady A is 44 years old today.
It was on this day in 1967 that the Carol Burnett show premiered on CBS.
And since I've already done my rant a few times lately about whatever happened to the gray American variety show or comedy show, I'll just let it go.
at that so that's the one i've
oh you have
i was watching
you were watching hogan's heroes last night
i like hogan's heroes see
Oh, I did too.
I never missed it.
You know, again, it was already in syndication.
You know, when I was watching it in the mid seventies, but yeah, every and there were no five o'clock newscasts back then.
So that was that was five o'clock.
Gilligan's Island was 430.
I think the Flintstones might have been four o'clock.
Oh, those were the days, you know.
Let's see.
Happy birthday to Ludacris born Christopher Brian Bridges.
Today he is 48 years
old.
On
his day in 2001, Jay-Z released his album, Blueprint, which featured contributions by Eminem and Kanye West.
Yes, I mentioned the Beatles have another number one album on their hands.
It was on this day in 1965 that an album went to number one and stayed for nine weeks.
This was the title track.
The tracks on there included you've got to hide your love away from me to you ticket to ride You're gonna lose that girl and more so help was the number one album 60 years ago today Little closer to home on this day in 1903 at the Milwaukee mile in West Alice Was held the first race ever at the Milwaukee mile 1903.
Oh, that's that's what makes this the oldest major speedway
in the world and still in use today.
It's like, dude, what?
Nobody ever raced before that.
Now, that is misinformation.
You know what?
Let me type that right in.
The first automobile race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Alice was held, 1903.
There we go.
Let's see.
This is National Make Your Bed Day.
And in honor of that, I did not.
Most days, yes.
Some days you're just so tired.
Yeah,
Are you a make-your-bed person or don't make-your-bed person?
the duvet.
Who came up with duvet?
Comforter.
Comforter sounds nice.
Comforter.
That's the one.
comforting.
And now we've got the duvet with the duvet cover duvet covers none of that.
Not from the people that invented like CD packaging, you know, and other things like that.
Makes makes no sense.
Anyway, so it's national make your bed day.
This is also National School Picture Day.
And although it's radio, I guess I should have dug up a couple of school photos just to give Parker a laugh.
Although
you have seen who Kristen Lyrely refers to as little pat quite low little pk and with the bowl haircut and the thick glasses and yeah, that was me.
So again, meeting him was just the most uncanny thing like looking into a time machine, you know, so that's that's what a lot of the school pictures looked like.
And then in ninth grade, which was 1978 79, I went from the bull haircut to putting a part
in my hair from from left to right parts over on the left side.
And it's been there ever since I I've only changed this hairstyle once since the 1978 79 school year.
A story I know I've told a couple of times, because of a consultant at the TV station who basically put me back at the bowl haircut, and really short, apparently to look like George Clooney on ER, it did not look like that at all.
And I went back to what I've had since ninth grade.
The only variation of it has been volume and now color.
Volume wise, I mean, back in the big eighties, there was a lot of hair there.
That's not
No, no, and that was, that was still getting it cut like every, I don't know, four to six weeks or something, but.
It just, it grew like crazy.
I was gonna say four or six
You really?
Yeah.
Yeah, well,
go down that road
There is that.
I mean, and some things happen rather speedily, either you quickly notice that you have less and less hair, or in my case, like they'd always been just a little bit of gray.
And then, you know, within these past couple of years, I don't know, maybe it was the show that did it, but the somebody hit fast forward on the gray machine.
And it's, we're getting pretty close to full out silver right now.
You look good.
I meant to ask I was gonna ask you and ask listeners as well when I was talking about the old Atari 2600 Was what was your first game console or?
What game console did you like best?
Do you remember most and I mentioned the Atari 2600 because there were other things there was Coleco vision and there were there were other things back at that time, but I mean the Atari was like that was
That was the thing, the hot thing when it was introduced in 1977.
And then Game Boy came along and, you know, Cube and Xbox and everything else.
So what, what someday when you're my age, young man, what will you fondly look back on when you think of video games?
I remember.
Scooby-Doo game?
Yeah, it
top.
yeah.
Okay, well, okay, I'm glad you said the Wii.
I'd forgotten about that.
So we went without.
video games, you know, when we raised our daughters, we just didn't.
They weren't video gamers and we didn't seek it out.
And then once we had grandkids, and we was like the hot new thing, we thought, well, let's let's get that.
So we did.
So we had years of fun with that.
And then it just finally walked and we haven't replaced it.
And I'm wondering, do we have to get like, you know, VR?
Is that the only way to go with video games going forward?
I'm not sure.
So what does somebody in their 60s get if they just want to play a few games?
Not go to war or anything like that.
Maybe Atari would be great.
One last note on 1982 on this day, Frank Zappa's Valley Girl reached its chart peak of number 32.
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Welcome back it is 652 on a Thursday morning here live from Lake Wissota across the Civic Media Radio Network 57 degrees right now here in the Chippewa Valley 57 in La Crosse 55 in Amory Oshkosh is at 61 right now and the cool spot in the state is at the Franklin Coffee House in Sparta where it is 50 degrees right now.
Parker and I here we're just talking in the last segment about
video game consoles and games and things that you play here.
Alicia notes on YouTube.
The first I played on was Nintendo.
We didn't have game systems in our house growing up.
She also says she gets her haircut every three to four weeks and says the silver is very nice, Pat.
We're talking about the hair here.
So thank you for that.
I appreciate that.
So we do want to know.
What what was either your first game console or your favorite one?
But also if you have any recommendations I mean are are there other grandparents out there listening going you know There's this there's something that I can play with my grandkids because I know I have tried the the VR goggles I did have you know grandson saying let's do this roller coaster one and another one's let's fly this plane and
even though you know it's virtual reality, you know, you're on that rollercoaster and your head's doing this and finally it's like, okay, all right, I'm gonna take this off.
There's
yeah.
Jumping into stuff.
Yeah.
Yep.
Oh, no, that happened to a family member who was, you know, swinging his hand around playing with the VR goggles and smashed his hand right into something that needed stitches.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, they there's a reason why they tell you to kind of have this wide open area where you can play.
Let's see.
Tony says that he had Sega and the often forgotten Dreamcast.
Yes.
I had forgotten about it.
Um, so last night, I, there was a little extra bonus pat time for better or for worse for the cap times idea fest, a ninth year that this has been going on.
And so I was hosting the intermission between speakers and the speaker that was going to follow was Governor Tony Evers.
And we'll talk more about his remarks here in just a bit But I wanted to lead into it by saying that we had set up a chat here at the at the radio place and Making sure that technically everything was working and that we were hitting things on time When to come from Madison the chip will falls and back to Madison when the hit commercial breaks all that and then there's a little light shit chat in there as well I You know we I said okay the governor is coming up next and then it was bedtime for me.
So I logged off
I went back and looked at the chat.
Oh, you didn't see that till today.
I did till this morning.
And then I, I laugh because you were part of, you were down there as well, right?
You were doing a little work last evening.
And now if people say a naughty word on the radio, there's this thing called the dump.
button.
It's how we got that seven second delay or I don't know how long our delay is here, seven or 10 seconds, whatever.
And so if, if Parker hears a naughty word coming from the, you know, a phone caller or even the host, that's been known to happen.
You hit that button and that way that naughty word gets covered up.
You have time during the delay.
So that's, that's the whole thing about a dump button.
That was just so tickled to look at the chat this morning and find a very intensive debate on standing by on the dump button for Governor Tony Evers because Mr. Aw Shucks and folks and all that holy mackerel has holy mackerel has dropped the BS bomb more than once and You know you you can't
put one on the radio, but the debate was about a different word that he said, which, which didn't get dumped.
And we're not going to get in trouble for it, but we're also not going to overuse the term,
alternative word for a donkey.
So when he used that, the chat back and forth, should we hit the dump button for that?
No, no, you can call somebody a jackbox, you know, or whatever.
No, you can BS no go, but
Donkey alternative.
Yep.
You go on it for no other speaker.
Would you see this kind of debate about the dump button except the folksy governor of the state of Wisconsin?
I couldn't believe
I thought that that was great.
He
Oh, really?
Okay.
He was like very loose last night.
It was awesome.
Look, there is there.
there is nothing like the feeling of the weight coming off your shoulders.
When you when you say on your own terms, I'm done with this.
And as you're
as
you're gliding things in for landing.
Now the alternative, of course, is you get fired, or you lose an election, you know, like I've done, that people get fired, that's soul crushing.
But if you can do it on your own terms, like I did at the TV station, it is very nice, you feel much more
Carefree shall we say and you know that that was something I'm sure that came out in what Tony Evers was saying so we'll maybe get to more of his remarks in just a bit but I did want to take one more note of something else that happened this week kind of in the the video game techie window and
That would be the newest announcements from Apple about their products.
The new iPhones, including now an iPhone Air, because everything has to be an Air.
There's a MacBook and a MacBook Air.
So why wouldn't there be an iPhone Air now?
Something that's thinner and smaller.
And I know there's no one right answer.
There's different phones for different people.
But I'm one of those who it's like, it is very possible for your phone to be too thin.
Yes.
as anybody would know who has put their phone in their back pocket and then sat down and mostly you catch it at the very last second you kind of stand up in much the way you're sitting down in the restroom and you suddenly realize somebody didn't put the seat down and you quickly get up before you get splashed.
The same goes with that feeling of that's that's a phone in my pocket.
got to get that out of there.
But for some people, that is that is their thing.
So there will be a new thinner iPhone coming out.
And then there's these new AirPods.
And I've been talking about, you know, the ones that I recently got.
And I love the noise canceling feature on them.
But this one does instant translations.
It's it uses AI and can instantly translate the kind of thing that again, you only saw in like the movies or cartoons or things like that.
And it's just a wonder where this is all going.
So check out the things that Apple's put out and then head over to my Amazon wish list and see if you can't send me some of these things for the holidays.
I'm kidding.
Of course, I'm kidding.
Look, coming up in our seven o'clock hour, we're going to talk about running for local office.
It
just might be the calling that you've got to run for mayor or city council, town board, whatever the case may be, to shake things up.
We'll have that with Brian Kennedy.
Coming up as we continue along on these mornings powered by UpNorth News, I'm Pat Critello.
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