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Well, hey there, Wisconsin.
Good morning.
It is 6.06 on a Friday morning, September 19th, 2025.
It's another beautiful morning to have you here up north.
live from lake wassota from wherever you're spending your mornings listening across the civic media radio network, catching us by podcast or through the website, or maybe watching us on social media right now, which is concerning to some people.
I will explain in just a bit.
But thanks for wrapping up your week right here.
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On this morning's program, we'll talk about Jill Underly, Wisconsin's Superintendent of Public Instruction, not exactly sugarcoating the current environment in her annual State of Education address Thursday at the Capitol.
We'll have Keeva Keel from Courier Newsroom talking about some of the week's big stories along with our Week in Review panel.
which has some thoughts on the latest capitulation from corporate media and how it has emboldened Donald Trump to outright threaten the license of broadcasters simply for not liking what they say about him.
And we'll ask the panel what kind of role can journalists and their readers, listeners and viewers play in pushing back against this latest example of a wannabe dictator doing whatever he wants, including making a mockery of the First Amendment.
That coming up in our seven o'clock hour in our eight o'clock hour for struggling families on lower incomes.
There are food banks, but some of those families are also in need of basic household items like diapers.
There is a diaper bank in Southeast Wisconsin that is holding a special campaign this week where donations are being matched and doubled.
We'll talk to our friend Kate Duffy from Motherhood for Good and the Milwaukee diaper mission.
which also helps women with basic hygiene supplies as well.
Dr. Kristen Lierly will preview her weekend show and Mike Clemens will get a set for the Packers at Cleveland and the Brewers spending the weekend in St.
Louis.
First, however, the
Weather from meteorologist Brittany Merlos says a soaking weekend is on the way for some parts of the state as a slow moving massive system has moved in, sending waves of rain over the next couple of days.
The state forecast for today breezy and cloudy on and off rain, maybe some thunder highs in the upper 60s up north mid 70s south and east wind at 15 to 25 miles an hour.
For tonight, the rain will be ramping up and could be heavy at times lows tonight.
in the mid fifties up north, around 60 to the south with an east wind at 10 to 20 miles an hour.
She'll have four full forecast details less than an hour from now.
But looking at the radar, you can really get an appreciation of this system.
Essentially, it looks to be sitting somewhere over maybe south central Minnesota right now.
And so Wisconsin, Minnesota, the eastern Dakotas, most of Iowa, parts of northern Illinois, big old spiral of rain.
And it's one of those where, as Brittany said yesterday, it's going to be tough to predict exactly who's going to get rain, you know, when.
But it's just a whole lot of spotty rain activity.
And so you just have to plan that you're going to be getting some rain at some point or another off and on throughout the course of the weekend.
And again, Brittany has further details on that coming up in just a bit.
But first we head down to Madison Studio A2, where we see the concerned face of one
Parker Olson and concerned.
Yeah.
And then Alicia, too.
Alicia puts on YouTube.
Oh, what's in the honeycomb design on your shirt?
Be not afraid, people.
I was little.
I actually do own shirts that do not have plaid designs on them.
I do.
Is this the only one?
So much because you're going for comfort.
Oh, no, no, there's plenty of them.
But today just kind of felt like I could put this one on, which is it's got a white base.
It's a short sleeve dress shirt.
It's got a white base, but then it's got all these, I don't know, hexagons or whatever they are, kind of has a honeycomb thing.
And so it's got a kind of a beach theme.
Some of them look like they have little palm fronds in there.
Is that what they are?
Yep, we're just you know the the colors of the Caribbean I guess you could say so It's a bit of a little a little festive Friday fun.
Yeah
with the
wardrobe style in a little here Yeah, I mean there's many a time where I reach for something like a solid.
I've got I've got this solid orange shirt.
It's very it's very bright It's very colorful, but it's six o'clock in the morning.
It's a bit much.
Yeah, I appreciate actually avoiding that
And as I've said before, again, between being a news anchor and being a legislator, I wore, you know, just the standard suit and tie, a lot of different ties, a lot of different suits, frankly, but a lot of solid color shirts for years and years and years.
So to be at this age now and have this job now where, you know, the plaid shirt is kind of the requisite uniform, I'm okay with it.
You know, I still like to dress up now and then.
But I do like dressing comfort is important.
So
yeah.
No, I am very,
very appreciative of how laid back we are here.
There you go.
Laid back is it what's on the docket for this weekend
for you?
Not a whole heck of a lot going down on Sunday.
We're hanging out with a couple of friends watching the Packer game, hoping to have some wings.
I hear we're stopping at a wings place, which I'm very excited about.
You're excited about a wings place?
I am more excited about the wings than I am about watching the Cleveland Browns play the Packers.
Oh, well, okay.
Does that include watching the Badgers as well as they take on Maryland tomorrow?
Yeah, that'll probably be part of my Saturday too.
Yeah.
You don't sound too jazzed up about it
though.
No, I can't say I'm exactly thrilled on that one.
And
that might be second
thing
that's why we got why we got civic media here for you We have saved a lot of people well the Badgers have saved a lot of people the time of actually sitting glued to a TV watching the football team.
Yeah, and Basically put it on the radio and listen in the background as you do everything else that you want to do and that's what you'll get is the Badgers open the Big Ten season tomorrow hosting Maryland
You can hear the pregame starting at 9 a.m.
on civic media stations in richland center amery wisconsin rapids and rippin And of course the packers as parker mentions sunday.
It's a noon game against cleveland pregame begins at 10 a.m.
Sunday on Stations in richland center park falls we're seeing kinocha and watoma So it'll so you'll be watching the packer game with friends this
weekend.
I'll be watching the packer game with friends The badgers will probably be second screen content
Yes, because there's a lot of seconds.
So you will do two screen viewing of things.
Oh,
yeah.
We last weekend, my dad and I, um, we have the TV in the basement and we have my TV from my room.
I brought my TV in my room down to the basement so that we could have two things going.
And I'll tell you what, whitewater plays against the number 16 in the country tomorrow.
And that will be the first TV content while
the
badgers are on the other TV, kind of off the corner.
not being thought about nearly as much.
I'd be curious to know what percentage of the population is is used to watching two screens at once.
and and how often they do it.
And I mean this in both the TV way and the social media way.
For example, I mean, I'm very much a dual screen watcher, let's say the Academy Awards.
And
then on the other screen, I'm either watching, you know, social media comment on things, or I'm yapping back and forth with my friends about it.
But then there's the dual screen, the TV stuff.
Yesterday last night being a perfect example.
Uh, as often happens on Thursday, we go to our local watering hole and meet up with some friends and neighbors there.
But this, this particular bar, like a lot of places does not have, they, they depend on dish or one of the other places that does not have an agreement with fan dual sports,
formerly
ballet, formerly FSN or whatever the heck it is.
Because that group has been at an impasse with dish network and other things for years now.
And I that's why I could never have something like like say a dish network because I mean, if you can't watch the Brewers, why bother?
So while a lot of people are watching the Cubs and the Reds up on the TVs because they were part of a national TV game on Fox last night, other folks are gathered around me on your phone on my iPhone because I've got the spectrum on there.
I just turned that puppy sideways.
I said it on the bar in front of me and I had people watching there.
Yeah, you and I are the same, Pat.
We used to do that a lot while we were eating dinner and white water.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yep.
So there's, there's a lot of dual screen stuff.
Now, speaking of that Bergen, Quinn Priester starts the game last night.
Perfect.
Perfect through four innings, 12 men up, 12 men down, including six straight strikeouts to begin the game.
And he still got a no decision in this one, which was really rough.
The Brewers would eventually come back to win.
And that's the thing, even though he got a no decision, when Quinn Priester is pitching, whether he gets a decision or not, the Brewers have won 19 in a row.
Yeah, when you start the game like that, that really helps.
Yeah, it's pretty helpful.
I think I read yesterday that if the Brewers get one more win with him starting,
Um, it'll tie a Roger Clemens record of 20, um, wins when they
finish.
Yeah.
That would be cool.
Yeah.
And Christian Yelich, he's not doing so bad.
He just, he hit RBI number 100 yesterday.
100 runs batted in.
First time he's done that since 2018 when he had 110 ribbies and was named the National League MVP.
So here he is.
Triple digits.
once again for him.
So that
come
back from back surgery.
And again, I'm one of those.
I was one of them with the back surgery.
I thought, well, that's it, you know, Viacadios have a good retirement.
I was wrong.
I'm glad you were wrong, Pat.
I am too, very much so.
Jacob Mizorovsky will start tonight in St.
Louis and that will get us going on a three game weekend series for the Brewers against St.
Louis and the pregame will get going at 640 on stations in Richland Center, Oshkosh, Racine, Park Falls and Hayward.
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All right, very quick, because we're going to have Keva Keel coming up next, and then today's history lesson.
Just a quick note that Dr. Jill Underly, the state superintendent of public instruction, held her state of education address yesterday at the Capitol, as reported here by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinels Cleo Creche.
And the poll quote out of it is quite simple.
This year, the biggest schoolyard bully in our public schools is our own federal government.
She was talking about the hostility that the Trump administration and the Republican Congress has.
And frankly, with Governor Tony Evers stepping back, look for Underly to be in a secure position to give the most unvarnished review of how the legislature is treating our children and undermining our public schools.
She criticized the use of the US Department of Education funding as some kind of a bargaining chip.
And of course, she came back to the near generation of short changing our public schools by the legislature, forcing school boards to ask local taxpayers to hike their own property taxes just to cover basic operating costs as the legislature passes the buck.
Underly had a lot more to say.
We are going to hear about it from her directly next Wednesday in our weekly hometown segment at 7.30 from Dr. Underly.
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All right, let's get into it part of our week in review as we do Fridays here on the show when you have a keel career newsrooms National political editor joining us back home in Los Angeles.
Kia.
Hello.
How are you?
I'm good past couple of weeks.
You you've been on I was gonna say on the road.
Well, no, it wasn't the road.
You were in the air.
You were overseas.
You were you were over in Europe.
Where was it?
Vienna and Munich were the highlights.
No, I went to
from the state of the news I'm very much an advocate of travel and getting away from the headlines for a while because you got to plug back in you can't you can't unplug
full time.
And that's always my biggest fear is that too many people have unplugged and said, well, you can't change anything anyway, even as, you know, the First Amendment is being shredded and things like that.
So, so now that you're back, let's get into things here.
And, boy, last week,
I would have said the overarching theme because of the Charlie Kirk murder was this wrestling of how do you talk about the legacy of somebody with so many negatives and yet be against political violence.
That to me seems to be a distant memory now because the
Tour of Vengeance that Republicans have gone on have now taken us on to a completely different plane of freedom of expression versus what wannabe autocrats want to do.
That seems to be the overarching theme this week to me anyway.
Yeah, I mean they're completely shredding the First Amendment and any arguments that Trump, JD Vance, all these guys, top to bottom right wing activists have made about free speech or paid speech or freedom of expression
you know turned out to be total BS and that's not shocking to me and to be clear there are some voices on the right who are principled and you know pushing back on this just all out assault on teachers college administrators college students airline pilots journalists political pundits people.
Everyone who are saying things you know that are you know, maybe ugly and celebrating Kirk's death and that I find distasteful to folks who are quoting his own words and just posting that they didn't like his views and you know Condemn his death, but didn't like his views all those people are getting doxed fired harassed investigated by the government from Texas to Ohio to Virginia all over the country and it's
a modern-day McCarthyist red scare.
It's cracking down on people's freedom of speech.
You can disagree with that speech.
And look, I'm not going to pretend like the left has always gotten that completely right either.
You could probably point to some overreach, but we've never seen anything like this under Democratic leaders where they're using an arm of the state and working with
really extreme activists online to harass and target and essentially encourage people to snitch on others for their posts online.
And it's extremely ugly.
It's extremely concerning.
And then even worse is we now have corporations who are censoring.
whether it's Jimmy Kimmel, his late night show being pulled off the air, whether it's, again, reporters being fired or benched or whatnot, or companies that are just afraid of how to cover this in terms of not engaging with his views or whitewashing them.
It's terrifying the moment we're in.
This is the sort of thing I read about in history books growing up and being like, oh gee, I'm glad we're past that.
We turned out out, you know, we're not past it.
It's roared its ugly head, reared its ugly head again.
And
You know, I think most Americans probably think this is too far and find this to be.
I think most people broadly don't like political assassination.
Don't think he should have died.
Maybe had a lot of people disagreed with him.
A lot of people agreed with him.
But I also think most people do not think this crackdown is appropriate.
But that doesn't really matter.
We're not in a majoritarian country anymore.
No, and when you mentioned McCarthyism again being from Wisconsin, who did who did thought we'd we'd well a lot of us would have thought we'd have the next McCarthy coming from Wisconsin that in Derrick van Orden, but of course you monitor, you know, all the courier newsroom outlets around the country.
And so while he may be very special for the hundreds upon hundreds of tweets that he's put out, I'm sure that in plenty of the other states, like like you're hinting at, there are members of Congress or other elected officials who I think in an equal measure, history will not be kind to when we look at, you know, defending our freedom of speech in this country.
celebrating the firing of teachers, college professors, students being expelled because they made like a distasteful video.
Again, like these are public institutions.
They are covered by the First Amendment.
Those are lawsuits waiting to happen.
They're going to get sued for a lot and they deserve it.
You know, if and when the court still
uphold the First Amendment, which I think, depending on which courts you wind up in, some will and some won't.
But, you know, I think at the end of the day for as far gone as the Supreme Court is, you know, if you invalidate, if you essentially say the First Amendment doesn't apply, then you're asking for something much uglier than what's happening, right?
You're asking for people pushing for a new constitution, a constitutional revolution, like you can't say the First Amendment doesn't apply.
And that's what they're saying.
Yeah, although I perhaps the most chilling thing I would have heard all week, you just uttered when you knew you dropped the little phrase, depending on which court you go to.
Yeah, you never thought you'd have to say that about First Amendment rights in this country.
This week was supposed to be about other things.
We are still careening toward another government shutdown.
The budget hasn't been resolved.
The Epstein files remain covered up.
I mean, there's still actual work to be done in DC.
And I'm
Betting you're going to say very little progress was made on any of it this week.
The government shut down.
We're barreling towards in a little under two weeks.
At this point, I'd put money on the fact that it's going to happen.
You have Republicans who have no interest in negotiating, even though they need Democratic votes.
You have Democrats who are sort of on the same page, but not, you know, not exactly presenting a like really strong argument.
So it's just a mess.
There will be a lot to cover over these next couple of weeks.
And again, now as the career staff grows and the team grows, we'll have Cam Stevenson coming from Washington, DC, Capitol Hill, every Tuesday for us.
And Kia, the keel helping us wrap up the week on Fridays.
Kia, thank you as always for everything.
Glad you're home safe.
Have a great weekend.
Back with today's history lesson in just a moment.
You're up north.
Seems I hear your voice calling, it's all
right.
Today's history lesson, we start with Brooke Benton or Greg Bach doing his best, Brooke
Benton.
Brooke Benton born this day in 1931.
He had several R&B hits in the 50s and 60s.
He actually put 50 songs on the Billboard charts as a singer or a songwriter, but then he had a comeback hit in 1970.
with Rainy Night in Georgia.
Listen, listen.
I could listen to that voice.
Here we go.
Listen to this.
Come on.
All
right, I'm done admiring singers for the moment.
Here's Greg Bach.
Greg, how are you?
Hey,
there we
go.
There are pretty good.
All right.
Oh, you got any big plans for the weekend?
No, not really
good.
I love
hearing that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Honestly, like I'm thinking because yeah, it's it's good.
I'm going to try if the weather is is is handling itself.
I'm going to try to do some stuff out in the yard and kind of start to wind those projects down.
But if not, then I'm going to sit and hang out with my wife and my dog.
Always fun to do, you know.
Let's see.
I'm supposed to ask Tony asks if if you're still using your CPAP machine and how you're feeling.
Oh, good Lord.
Of course I am.
I use it.
I use it.
Here's the thing is, if I don't use it, it's because I've fallen asleep and I didn't get a chance to put it on.
But it is a part of the every night experience.
Very nice.
Very important.
Samesies.
Thank you.
Good.
Good.
You guys are
good
sleep.
Yeah On this day in 1796 George Washington delivered his farewell address on this day in 1982 was the first documented use of emoticons Which was simply a smiley face made with a colon and a dash in the parentheses And it was used on the Carnegie Mellon University bullets and boards system because apparently nobody thought to do that on a typewriter I mean
Yeah, I'm calling BS on that
one.
I don't like the hyphen for the nose.
That makes me a little uncomfortable.
Well, that's because you see, young kids like you, you grew up in this era where emoticons, I mean, you get the whole emoji.
You get, it's animated, like the little face winks at you and everything.
Back in our day, we just had to type a colon and a dash and a parentheses.
And that was all we got.
That's all we got for choices.
Colon
parentheses.
That's where
I stand.
Oh, okay.
Just don't want the note.
You're anti-nose.
I'm anti-nose.
Or you just
type in the, you type in the, whoa, you type in the letter.
I'm smiling at you right now, which is very
weird.
I just type out laughing out loud.
Everybody knows what I'm talking about.
I send a voice note of me laughing.
Let's go to 1960s, 65 years ago today.
The number one song was by Chubby Checker.
That
song had some staying power.
It came up the charts again two years later.
It would become the first single ever to hit number one two different times.
Probably because it's the only dance most of us can do.
It's just swivel your hips.
There's like it.
Yeah, there's
he's got
Let's twist again, the twist.
Yes,
slow twist.
The peppermint twist.
The
peppermint twist.
Oh
yeah.
He has a lock on the twist based economy when it comes to
music.
Twist based economy.
Yeah, you just, you ride that horse until it can't run no more.
Yep, good for him.
On this day in 1893, New Zealand became the first country to grant all women the right to vote.
Happy birthday to singer Bill Medley from the Righteous Brothers.
He is 85 years old today.
Talk about the singers with deep voices.
So Bill Medley and the late Billy, Bobby Hatfield from the Righteous Brothers.
Bill Medley grew up listening to Ray Charles, Little Richard and BB King.
In fact, the term blue-eyed soul
Was coined by a Philadelphia DJ to describe the sound of Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield Wow And Medley said the the name righteous brothers came from a group of black marines at the El Toro base who liked their style and referred to them as righteous brothers Here's the thing about Bill medley.
He just turned 85.
Yeah earlier this year as an 84 year old He released his latest album.
He's still recording albums
I've done nothing with my life.
Well, no, hang on, Greg.
This might be awful.
We don't know.
Is this a
good album?
Why would you say that about a 85-year-old music legend?
We have
already talked about how some of the guys have to hang them up, and they don't hang them up.
They still tour.
I'm just saying.
This just in Parker
hates old people doing music.
I would like to write my formal apology to the FCC.
Yes,
I understand.
Please, before we get yanked here.
You upset an old white guy.
You're in trouble now, pal.
All right.
Greg, I'm going to play from this next birthday.
I'm just going to ask Parker to start the music.
Parker's moving around.
Is there a mouse running around your feet?
What's going on
there?
Honest to God, I'm pretty sure a spider was just crawling up my leg.
I
don't even know how to respond you you almost jumped up on the stool like you know like in the cartoon when there's a mouse in the house Your house dress
Okay, I'm sorry you want
you want the song?
As I was saying Greg, yeah, I'm gonna have Parker now that he's composed himself I'll play this next one our next birthday boy And I just want to see if you can how long it takes you to guess
who this is based on the guitar stylings and then the singing.
So Parker hit today's birthday boy.
I give it just a second wait for the lead guitar here.
It's about to come in.
There we go.
Now, if I tell you it's chic, does that help?
Yes, absolutely.
Yeah,
who are we talking about?
Nile Rogers.
Nile Rogers is 73 years old today, member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
He was with Sheik, then he became a legendary record producer.
His records have sold more than 500 million copies.
Now Rogers is 73 today.
He's still amazing.
Yeah.
I have not won not two but three notes here about the year 1970.
It was on September 19th, 1970 that Diana Ross after leaving the Supremes got her first number one solo hit Parker.
You got to hit the button here.
I'm pointing at him.
He's looking for the
spider, Pat.
He's looking for the spider.
There ain't no mountain high enough for Parker to get away from the
spider.
Man, that FCC joke really came back to bite me quick.
I didn't know they
could send in something just like this spider.
Yes.
Okay.
So there's Diana Ross with Ain't No Mountain High enough her first solo hit this day in 1970.
Also on this day in 1970, again, we're back to doing series premieres here.
The premiere of the Mary Tyler Moore show.
And I didn't know if whether we want to do a single on Greg.
Let's see, and happy birthday to Frida Payne, the singer is 83 years old, and she had a 1970 hit Band of Gold.
Happy birthday to Trisha Yearwood, who turned 61 years old today.
If
she and Darth Brooks been married now, I bet that's solid.
Yeah.
Or as he refers to himself, Mr. Yearwood.
I love that.
Mr.
Yearwood.
Yes.
Yes.
Let me see.
How long
have Garth and Trisha been married?
I love that, Google.
Thank you very much, Google.
19 years, almost 20 years.
Good for them.
That's fantastic.
Oh
my
goodness.
All
right.
There you go.
Longer
than I
thought.
Good.
Here's another birthday today.
Jimmy Fallon is 51 years old today and still employed, at least for another day.
You
never
know.
Yeah.
Up this day in 1985, you remember this one, Greg, when Tipper Gore and other political wives formed the Parents Music Resource Center to get labels on albums that had explicit language?
Yes.
Meanwhile, Frank Zappa, John Denver, and others testified at congressional hearings about obscenity and rock music?
D. Snyder.
D. Snyder as well.
That's right.
Yep.
So that's that's why you have labels is because Al Gore's wife and others said we got to we got to slap a label on these things
And they fought it tooth and nail and they really like it was it was a big deal And then what they come to find is that when you put the labels on the records it would sell more
Exactly they figured that out like they stopped fighting it.
We're like, okay, this will work.
Yeah, sure We'll put a label on everything
On this day in 1987, the Grateful Dead hit number 10 with Touch of Grey.
Their only song to hit the top 10 on the Hot 100.
On this day in 1989, a new series began with Neil Patrick Harris as a teenage physician.
That's right, Dougie Hauser MD premiered this day in 1989 on ABC and is still around.
Dougie Hauser or Neil Patrick Harris, he's got some staying power.
Absolutely.
Well, he went away for a while.
Everyone's like, oh, who's he?
And then he came back.
We're like, oh, we love him.
It's always what happens.
Yes.
There's a star.
They're amazing.
We love them.
We're sick of them.
We say, no, thank you.
And then we act like we never saw them.
And then we're like, oh my gosh, where did you go?
And they're like, yeah, you stopped booking me.
So also that's on you.
two things.
I feel like if you took a picture of Parker when he was younger, like he was 12, he would look very do go do
very do.
Yes.
Yes.
Also
Parker, there's a spider on your shoulder.
Oh, my egg.
Shaking
One more one more tune here on this day in 1999.
The chicks became the first group in the history of the Billboard 200 album chart to have a country album
debut at number one with the album Fly.
Yes.
Fly not only had this song, Cowboy Take Me Away, it had Goodbye Earl.
If I fall, you're going down with me, ready to run, and Sin Wagon.
I'll still listen to that album front to back.
Yes, I was gonna say I believe that I believe I love all of the chicks music.
I celebrate their entire discography.
But I think Fly may be a perfect album.
Oh, without a doubt.
And it Yeah.
And no wonder it debuted at number one.
They were writing the A Wave of Popularity and people took to that album right away.
On this day in 2011, one of those TV things that you don't know if it's going to work or not, Ashton Kutcher debuted on two and a half men replacing Charlie Sheen.
And it worked a hunger on for like I think four more seasons.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And a weird show.
And one year ago today, Shohei Otani created the 50-50 Club.
He became the first player in baseball history to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a single season.
That guy's better than you and me and everybody else.
Yeah, but the
burrs swept them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They can't take that away from us.
Today is National Butterscotch Pudding Day.
I haven't had Butterscotch Pudding since I was like 10 years old.
Wow.
Today is, this is both Concussion Awareness Day and National Overthinkers Day.
Coincident?
Of course.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Wow.
That's a
real thinker.
It is a real thinker, yeah.
And finally, Greg, it is National Talk Like a Pirate Day.
I bet you there's pirates who talk like me.
Just like, hey guys, would you like to go plunder the booty over there?
We'd like to get some.
I knew Greg was just not going to go along with this.
We're going to steal
this ship and all its wares.
And frankly, I don't like the misrepresentation of me in TV and films.
Thank you very much.
I may be a pirate, but I'm also a person.
I'd love to see him go, Hey, you guys, we're taking over your ship.
Okay.
Oh, let me squeeze past you.
My name is,
my name is bluebird.
I'm here to take you stuff.
Yeah.
Greg Bach.
You can hear him on mat and air on air weekdays, nine to 11, right after this program on the civic media radio network, much more ahead of the next couple of hours of these mornings with pack right low powered by up north news.
This is the civic media radio network.
Are we
gonna
listen to this for a full minute now?
Oh, no.
On behalf of Civic Media, we'd like to apologize to the spider that caused such disruption that we couldn't even go into the commercial break without busting out.
Did you ever find the little bugger?
Turn your microphone on, Parker.
And I
forgot to turn my mic.
I am.
Oh, it is
Friday.
You are having a
day.
Wow.
Jesus.
If there's anybody listening in the Madison studio, please bring Parker some chamomile tea.
We're going to
call the day.
We're just going to end this whole show right now.
Whistle!
Whistle!
Thank you.
There we go.
Yes, we have the right Kent coffee mug.
It is Friday.
Shall we?
Well, let's first do the, what's that thing called?
Free Ticket Friday.
See, it's happening over here too.
Free Ticket Friday.
Let's get that keyword out there.
You could win four tickets to see the Brewers again Cincinnati next Friday night.
text us the keyword blue B L U E like the color text blue until nine o'clock.
Greg, would you would you guess hazard a guess that you'll have a keyword as part of matinee on air a different keyword later on?
Oh, most definitely, we will have a keyword for you at when we're on the air.
Well, we're on from nine to 11.
We generally, you know, we like to tease it a little bit.
But yes, just like with Pat's show today this morning, when we give you our keyword, you're going to pull out the civic media app and you're going to text it in via the civic media.
Yeah, remember spelling counts.
Yes, it does.
B. L. U. E. Blue is the keyword until nine o'clock this morning.
All right.
I got my got my Harvey Levin oversized mug here.
Let's pretend that this is the TMZ newsroom as Parker pitches the entertainment story of the day.
Parker, what have you got?
Star Wars Starfighter.
Aren't you so excited, Pat?
We got a new Star Wars movie coming out and it's Star Studded, which is really weird for Star Wars.
It has Ryan Gosling starring in it.
What?
Mm hmm.
Yeah, that makes me I'm gasoline and Star Wars.
Yeah.
And it's also got a
bunch of others too.
And is that the name of it Starfighter?
Yeah, Starfighter.
It
takes place like five years after the most recent trilogy.
And
so five years after Rise of Skywalker.
Yes.
Okay.
All right.
That's what they're doing now with these with these some of these properties.
They're doing like it's five years after return to the Jedi.
It's five out five years after the well.
Also, it's a long, long time ago.
So five years means nothing.
The galaxy far, far away.
We're time is a flat circle.
What's five years anyway,
where they can conjure the science to fly through space and have laser weapons.
They're like, when did this take place?
Long time ago.
Far
away.
You got attention.
She's like, what?
Ryan Gosling.
Yeah.
I assume that that is a good thing that she's expressing.
Here's hoping.
But a new Star Wars, she says.
Maybe not so much the Ryan Gosling.
Maybe yes on the Star Wars.
OK.
So all right.
So we'll get a feel for where people are on a star studded Star Wars star fighter.
Is this something that is just.
getting going in production or they already shot it and we know when it's coming out.
Um, it is in production.
I think right now I saw a picture of Ryan Gosling on
set
and it feels as weird as you would think it would feel for him to be in a Star Wars costume.
I don't know what you're talking about.
There's a lot of Star Wars movies and TV shows with, with stars in it, with, with known actors.
I was going to say from the beginning, Alec Guinness, you know, as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the, in the original movie.
Okay.
He was
a huge star.
Yeah.
I
guess I just was $95
million off of that movie from the back end deal.
He did with the points.
He's a smart, he's a smart Jedi.
All right.
All right.
What else we got?
What else we got?
Well, uh, Stephen Colbert made a little pitch to potential employers while he was at the Emmys.
Uh, he brought a head shot and he asked if Harrison Ford could get the head shot to Steven Spielberg and maybe get some, uh,
Get some jobs lined up for him.
Stephen Colbert is the next Indiana Jones.
No, no, I don't think I'm I'm not getting that one.
All right.
Maybe we'll workshop it maybe.
So what what do we think between Stephen Colbert now Jimmy Kimmel and John Stewart?
Do we think that any of them are coming back to like a network TV show or
might we see some kind of like an independent project going forward?
Greg, if you were especially let's take Jimmy Kimmel out of it because Stephen Colbert and John Stuart have more of a history together.
Well, what are the odds that they don't just say, Well, you know, I guess we're retired, we'll cash the checks as opposed to coming back with something.
I think that John Stuart likes his gig at the Daily Show right now.
He only has to work one day a week.
Yeah.
And I think Stephen Colbert still has something in him.
I think he still has something to say.
I don't know if it'll be, I, I know it can easily be a podcast cause that's just the easiest pivot, but I'd like to see him on television or something about Stephen Colbert, especially on network television.
That's it still has some.
push for me personally.
But I think the easiest thing for Colbert to do is say, All right, pack it up, pack it in.
And here we go.
We're gonna go start a podcast.
Yeah.
Alicia writes, Wait, what has John Stuart been canceled to?
No, no, no, I just meant because John Stuart is only working that one day a week, that, you know, maybe they could do something.
Tony puts up no more corporate media.
Well, I mean, yeah, the mega corporations.
I
for
one am happy to be working with the corporate media that is civic media.
That's a fine corporation, a public benefits corporation.
May I
add as well?
I really enjoy working for civic media and really all of its affiliates.
Exactly.
Yeah.
All right.
So we got Stephen Colbert.
You want one more?
One more entertainment story to close out the week.
Oh, did you realize that Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift are engaged yet?
No, you didn't know that.
Well, now you know, that's not your story.
No, it's not the story.
It's not the story.
All right.
Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the NFL was asked if Taylor Swift might be a halftime show.
And he said, just maybe, which I think is kind of baffling.
Well, you think you think he was taking a dig at it like she might not be good enough?
I think it's weird that she hasn't done one yet, given she's been a massive star for like decades,
a
decade.
kind of doesn't need it.
I mean, she's she's had her own thing going on.
Also, the
logistics of it all, I wouldn't be surprised if it just didn't work out.
And also, I think that people would lose their minds if she did like there's such a there's such a weird like, like, I need
I need tough and cool for my halftime
show.
Can you imagine though that if she was and all these Swifties got tickets to the Super Bowl, but just for her.
So like during the Super Bowl, they're all in the concourse and milling around and scrolling on their phones.
And there's like half empty stands for the Super Bowl.
And then they all come rushing back in for the halftime show.
And then
after Taylor's done, out they go again.
That would be an amazing scene.
And it's exactly what would happen.
That's why Tay Tay is not doing the Super Bowl show.
Greg Bach.
We'll see you at nine o'clock for Matt and Aaron air.
If you don't mind.
Absolutely.
I'd come on.
All right.
We'll be happy to you have a wonderful weekend.
We've got our weekend review panel coming up right after the news.
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