Abortion Ban Mockery (Hour 1)

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well, not exactly the Lake Basota studio, but hey there Wisconsin.

Good morning.

It is 6 0 6 on a Thursday morning, September 25th 9 25 25.

It's a beautiful morning to have you here in the state capital of Madison.

Thanks for being here from wherever you're spending your mornings listening across the civic media radio network or listening or watching on one of the many platforms out there.

Thanks for starting your day right here.

I got a question for you.

Why do I keep forgetting when I come visit Madison that I need to dress not for a nice, crisp fall morning, but for a sauna instead?

Here I am in a dress shirt because, you know, when you come to the big city, you think, oh, you know, I gotta, I gotta get gussied up.

I can't just, you know, be schlepping around.

And then I come into the hot box here where there's Park Girls and look at him.

He's very cool and refreshing looking in his little shirt with the limes on it.

And believe it or not.

We are sitting in the exact same room.

Doesn't look like it.

Anybody watching on social media would look at this and go, okay, well, let's see.

Barker's in his usual broom closet over there.

Yeah.

Pat appears to be on a Hollywood stage or something because of the lighting.

There's a big fancy monitor behind me.

This is, I got calls from both Todd Alba.

and Luke Mathers, each saying, Hey, we know when you've been an A2 before, there's a bare wall behind you and whatever.

So now we've got, you know, we've got lights and we've got a monitor and we'll put the logo behind you.

And I'm like, that's great.

And again, here in the first thing I see behind me is, is the wrong logo.

It's the old logo, but better than if we put the new logo up, it's got my mug on it.

Oh, I don't need me looking down on me.

I look down on enough people.

I don't need to look down on myself, too, for goodness sakes.

So we're here in Madison for a couple of days.

Basically, every so often, I have to make an appearance because otherwise they're going to take me for granted.

They're going to assume I'm just some disembodied voice.

We'll lock them out.

Yeah, exactly.

It's like touch grass.

Sometimes you get it.

touch your colleagues.

And I can finally touch Parker from across the way.

Yeah, it does.

Never mind.

But yeah, believe it or not, here we are in the exact same studio A2.

How are you?

I'm great.

You're

just happy

to

have somebody to talk to.

I really am.

It is a really weird feeling to actually be able to see somebody during this and not have to crank my neck to look over

here to see you.

Right.

And by the way, only the second time we've been in the same room together.

We went months having not been able to meet till I could get down here.

And I recall the first time, you know, when you see somebody that you've only ever seen on screen and you see them in 3D for the first time and it's not quite right.

And I looked and I said,

Have you always had glasses?

And he was like, literally every day I've had glasses on.

I cannot go without them.

Don't even think about that at a time like this, you know.

So anyway, it's really nice to be here.

And I'm, you know, visiting obviously some old colleagues and some friends who are down here taking a couple of days, simply because we haven't.

Not done that for a bit.

Alicia puts up on YouTube.

Oh, it's all fancy behind you

today.

Yeah.

So, and what does Tony say, Pat?

Are you a gamer in Twitch now?

Is that what this looks like here?

It looks a little bit like that.

I would believe that.

Yeah.

I think Tony's

onto

something.

All right.

So we, we are here.

Uh, and otherwise fairly normal show, uh, coming up ahead for you this, uh, this fine Thursday morning, we will be talking at 7 35 to state democratic party chair, Devin Remacher.

I mean, because I mean, you're, you're coming

to

Madison.

which everybody thinks is like this liberal bastion.

Well, everybody knows is this liberal bastion.

So, you know, you gotta, you gotta have the state democratic party chair on.

So we'll be doing that.

And we'll be talking about some primary concerns because 2026 is going to be an extremely busy year.

There's a lot of people that want to run for something.

Look at how many candidates are running for governor already, but we already have in multiple congressional districts.

There are multiple Democrats running for seats already in multiple legislative races.

There are multiple Democrats running for single seats.

So there are gonna be a lot of primaries and you're gonna hear me mention a lot between now and next August 11th.

Don't forget to vote on August 11th.

It's not bigger than the November election, but

It is big.

It's your chance to determine if you are a Democratic voter who your nominee is going to be.

So we're going to talk to Devin a bit about, you know, how is the party essentially an honest broker in all of this?

You know, do you take a completely hands-off approach?

Do you treat everybody exactly the same?

Even though in some races, you know, one person might be the clear

better choice and the other might be, you know, say a Democrat and name only.

How do you do that?

And how do you then, when the primary is over, make sure that however bitter it might have gotten, how do you make sure that that Democratic nominee has the resources they need to win in November?

And again, recall that this, this all happens on the Republican side of things as well, that you have these primary elections and if you come out of them, you know, two week, you don't win in November.

For me, the

The classic example goes way back to 2012 when nobody thought Tammy Baldwin had a prayer of winning that Senate election, but it was such a bruising primary that former Governor Tommy Thompson finally emerged, but the Republican Party was so beaten up and so worn down and had spent all of its money that Tammy Baldwin was able to, you know,

show the rest of the state of Wisconsin who she is and was able to win and has held on to that Senate seat ever since.

So again, a lot about the importance of primaries that we'll talk to Devon Remaker about a little bit later on.

It being Thursday, we'll talk to Joseph Pecky as well.

So I'm sure we'll have some of those same concerns.

And we're going to talk to Sean O'Malley about your money and the markets.

And how do I put this?

What are people doing?

He's looking at what businesses are doing.

He's looking at what potential employees are doing.

Girding I'm gonna go with the word girding everybody's just like girding for whatever's next because it doesn't feel quite right out there whether you're a job hunter or whether you're a business and on paper That kind of looks good.

Sean O'Malley is gonna explain how it's like.

Oh look inventories are up and everything's fine.

No, it's people basically Parker you have you have squirrels here in Madison.

This is the squirrels.

Yes, the squirrels up in Lake Wissota.

Yeah

are digging like crazy.

I mean, they are just burying things everywhere.

So your neighbors who give them peanuts are?

No, no, no, no.

They're grabbing the acorns.

We got some oak trees and other things, and they are, I mean, they are active.

We've shared, and I've said a couple of different times, like, what should we be thinking about winter here?

But I think when Sean gets here, he's going to be saying kind of the same thing, the line from Game of Thrones.

Winter is coming.

It's so economically against not, not a, not a scare tactic.

It's like, this is just what, what people are doing.

So, so all that and much more coming up here on the program today, coming down yesterday, Parker, I, I could not have timed that drive out any better.

I got in the Jeep right at the start of the Brewer's game in San Diego and it takes, you know, you drove from San Diego.

I did not, but I put the game on from San Diego and got pulled up to my college buddy's house down here just as the final out was being made and the Brewers were winners over the San Diego Padres to avoid the sweep.

Much needed one.

Yes, a 3-1 victory.

So the Brewers have reduced their magic number to one.

So between now and Sunday, the Brewers just need to win one game or the Phillies just need to lose one game.

and the Brewers will clinch the best record in Major League Baseball this year.

Isn't that crazy?

It is crazy and wonderful and lovely and a little nerve-wracking.

Because of some recent losses, the Brewers will still not get

to 100 wins.

They've never done that.

But they are now 96 and 63.

So theoretically, they could get to 99 wins if they were to sweep the Cincinnati Reds this weekend in the final home stand.

I'll come back to that in a minute.

But first back to San Diego, the Brewers could end up meeting them again in the playoffs.

The Padres entered the day.

They were trailing the Cubs by a

game and a half in the race for the National League's top wildcard spot.

And they would get to host a best of three series starting Tuesday.

That's if the current standings were to hold.

But as I was looking at them, things are extremely fluid, obviously not for the Brewers.

They know their destiny here.

But those wildcard races, both in the American League and the National League, it's going to be a busy nail biter of a weekend for a lot of

fans.

They're tight.

It's going to be really fun, actually.

I think we're both going.

to the A game this weekend for the Brewers.

Yeah, I'll be,

I'll be at Saturday's game as well.

And the playing against the Reds, the Reds are going to be really playing for something.

So

yes, they are.

That

might suck for a

game for us to be at.

Well, you know what?

But again, we're, we're in, I'm not, I'm not going to sweat it too much.

And again, just hope that, that people don't get hurt.

Although I, oh, yep.

Of course.

And Tony go Guardians because again, Cleveland coming.

It's not so much that Cleveland's coming out of nowhere.

It's, it's.

that Detroit ridiculous.

It is a collapse for the ages on the Tigers.

What were they like 15 games up?

I think 15 at one point.

They were 10 games up in the standings to start the month of September.

And they blew it all.

It's just unbelievable.

So yeah, people in Detroit and Cleveland will be watching that game very carefully.

Clearly Tony will be as well.

So the Brewers are off today coming back home for that game or for that series rather against the Reds.

Coverage will begin tomorrow evening at 6.35 on several Civic Media stations.

And so you'll want to tune in for that.

The Badger football team has the weekend off.

Thank goodness.

Mercifully.

And then the Packers will be playing at Dallas on Sunday.

They'll have Sunday night football.

And so the kickoff there will be, or I'm sorry, the pregame will kick off here on some civic media stations at about five o'clock.

So here, here's my quandary for the game on Saturday.

And yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm about to throw my, my buddy Kevin under the bus

here.

So, you know,

There's all these different ticket promotions, like BP gas stations, quick trip gas stations, things like that.

And I'd gotten the impression that he was arranging that.

And then I get a text going, hey, what's your price range for tickets?

I said, well, wait a minute.

I thought you

already

had the tickets in hand.

I'm going to get to it.

But in case that doesn't work out, where do you want to be?

I want to be at the game.

I want to make sure that we've got tickets to building is preferable to go to this thing Yeah inside the building, please but would be a wonderful thing So then we got to talking and you talk about overthinking like you want to go to a Saturday game

second to last game of the season.

So everybody's excited about the team.

So maybe it'll be tough to get tickets, but they've already clinched and maybe people are waiting to buy playoff tickets.

So maybe there will be a lot of tickets available.

And what is it to buy it through the MLB app versus, you know, your, your stub hubs and your ticket masters or, you know, whatever, all the different things that are out there.

And we were talking this thing to death.

And then I just, I just finally said, this is on you buddy.

It's, so he's, I will look.

forward to reporting about how we watched the game from the rooftop of the VA hospital, just across the way, or whatever it is that he ends up getting.

I, on the other hand, I'm in charge of finding one of the many places that have shuttle buses going to the state.

Oh, you're doing shuttle buses.

Because parking costs about $300 to hear him tell it.

Roughly.

And we've taken the shuttle buses before, but we have a mixed record on that.

We've taken a shuttle from one of the watering holes in Wauwatosa.

Only two after the game.

Not have the shuttle show up apparently.

Oh,

that's fun

They ended up using an unmarked shuttle that we did not know so we watched this one shuttle leave going no wonder what that's for turn out to be ours

Yeah.

And so we were like the very last people in the parking lot in American family field.

Now we need a walk.

And now we're waiting for any kind of a taxi to come by and take on refugees.

So I'm hoping to find, we're not, we're looking for both tickets and a reliable shuttle service to the game.

And I bet those civic media tickets are

already gone.

They're long gone.

I think you're using them for goodness sake.

They were snapped up so long ago.

That, that'll learn us.

All right, well, we're going to talk for a bit about the governor's race and Tom Tiffany trying to have it both ways on the issue of abortion rights.

From the heart of America is up north, you know, Wisconsin, including here in Madison.

Thanks for making this a place to spend part of your mornings.

I'm Pat Krightlow.

This is the Civic Media Radio Network.

weekend it's going to be.

So, Sharita Booker naturally is the person to talk to about some of the events that could be going on for you.

Just got to get in the car and get to one of these or the other.

Sharita, how are you?

I'm doing good, Pat.

How are you?

I'm doing good.

Thanks.

Hey, this first one is definitely one that more than a few people know about but there's always room for one more if you want to get yourself over to Warren's and that's near Tomah for the Warren's Cranberry Festival.

Tell the folks about that.

Yeah.

And this year, that small town of Warrens draws visitors from across the globe to attend its annual Cranberry Festival.

And this year it's celebrating its 52nd year.

And for three full days, which is Friday through Sunday, you'll find over 800 arts and craft vendors, 300 flea market booths, 100.

farmers market vendors, and more than 100 food booths, plus live entertainment, a big parade, and plenty of chances to shop for one of a kind souvenirs.

And of course the real star of the weekend is the cranberry.

You can sample it in just about every way with their cranberry cream puffs, cranberry funnel cakes, cranberry cheesecake on a stick with hot budged cranberry drizzle, deep fried cranberries on a stick, cranberry bubble tea, and pancakes with cranberry syrup at the festival's breakfast.

You can also take a marsh walking tour to learn more about the cranberry farm and history that makes the Wisconsin

tradition so special.

So for more information on that event, visit crayonfest.com

crayonfest.com and and I think you could call it the Super Bowl of Cranberries really.

And frankly, it's one it strikes me it's got to be one of the biggest, you know, craft vendor type shows around all the the booths.

I mean, you're going to get a lot of steps in

if you go to

this and I've I've said before

You know, you might see traffic backed up on the interstage.

Just so many people want to get into that exit and get into that tiny little town.

But it's worth it.

I've been there and it's a lot of fun.

So consider checking that out this weekend.

Or maybe if you're closer to Madison, you'd prefer something rather than cranberries.

You just want to go to cheese.

And there is something here called the Art of Cheese Festival, Sherita.

and that runs today through Sunday in Madison.

And it's not about just sampling cheese, it's about experiencing the whole culture behind it.

We're talking cheese maker-led tastings, farm and creamery tours, hands-on workshops, and even a chance to paint your own cheesy masterpiece while sipping wine or cocktails.

There are several ticketed events taking place over the course of the festival.

One of those include a tour of Crave Brothers' Farmstead Cheese and Waterloo.

You'll see how their milk goes straight from the farm to the creamery and takes their award-winning cheeses, followed by a chef-prepared lunch inside of a beautifully reclaimed dairy barn.

There's also the Wisconsin Cheese Ball at the Sylvie in Madison.

Emmy-winning chef and TV host Andrew Zimmern will be there along with live music from the pork tornadoes and DJ Shawna from the Milwaukee Books.

It's part concert, part gala, and the dress code is

Gallaglam with the side of cheese.

There are many there are many events to choose from and tickets are going fast like I already saw some of these events are sold out not the ones that I just mentioned but some of the other ones on the website are sold out already so head over to Wisconsincheese.com to get your tickets and more information.

Yeah, there's there's also Dan Jacobs, a chef who's been on Top Chef.

We've talked about him a lot on the program.

He has a Bruce City cheese tour and lunch and then the one that caught my eye here was called Spirited Pairing, a Wisconsin cheese and bourbon experience.

So

I definitely would have to learn more about that.

Again, Wisconsin cheese.com is where you hear more about the art of cheese festival in Madison.

All right, now up to my neck of the woods here.

If you if you come up to Eau Claire, and you come up, what we call the bypass, the Highway 53 bypass, you're going to come to an exit for River Prairie.

and River Prairie Park is the site of one of the more unusual but very seasonal fests this time of year,

Sherita.

The River Prairie ginormous pumpkin festival is back on Saturday in Altoona.

This is home to Wisconsin's biggest pumpkin way off where growers show off some of the biggest pumpkins you've ever seen.

The whole day is packed with fall fun things like great pumpkin 5k, an artist market, a pumpkin dessert contest, a pet costume parade,

pumpkin decorating.

And of course, the Grand Finale, which is a ginormous pumpkin drop where a massive pumpkin packed with candy is released from a crane.

And this event is free.

And for more information, head to visit Eau Claire.com.

Visit Eau Claire.com.

We'll get you that for the ginormous pumpkin festival.

I love that.

And I, I hope my dentist is there because

The craziest thing about my last dentist visit back in the spring here is when we talked about things that you're up to.

And he's like, I've really just gotten into growing giant pumpkins.

And I'm going to try to get one big enough to be a winner.

And I mean, it was the last thing I expected my dentist to say, because I've certainly taken to growing giant pumpkins.

But,

you know, I thought you were going to say that you had a lot of candy and you are having a cappie.

No, maybe too much pumpkin pie.

I can see where that would happen.

So we've given you some good options here.

But I'm going to throw in a bonus one simply for the novelty of it.

Sherita, are you familiar with beef arama in Monaco?

Not at all.

Beef Arama, if you want beef sandwiches, if you want to be part of the Rump Roast Run that's there, the Prime Choice Craft Show, all that and more.

So much is going to be going on Friday and especially Saturday up in the Managua area, including, look, if you want beef sandwiches, you can get a shaved prime rib sandwich at the Managua Lions Club Beer Garden.

The shredded beef sandwiches are at the Cross Country Cruiser Tent.

on Front Street or a beef brisket sandwich at the Lakeland Rotary Beer Garden on Chicago Street.

You cannot say you didn't get your fill of beef at Beef Arama in Monaco this weekend.

So I don't know where you go.

You got the cranberries, you got the beef, you got the cheese, you got the pumpkins.

I don't know how you choose.

so much to choose

from.

I think I would roll with either cranberries or cheese.

Yeah, I mean, it's just it's a lot of fun.

And I hope that everybody gets a chance to hit the road to go do something great this weekend.

Sherita Booker tracks that and all of our social media posts for us as well.

Over at Up North News.

Thank you, Sherita.

Have a great weekend.

You too, Pat.

Still ahead, we're going to be talking to Joseph Petke.

We're going to be talking to Chad Holmes.

Sean O'Malley talks about your money in the markets, and we'll get into what Tom Tiffany is saying now about women's reproductive health rights versus, you know, what his actual record is.

But first in today's history lesson, come on, get happy.

What are we talking about when I say those words?

If you watch old TV, you know today's history lesson is next.

You're up north.

Welcome

to today's history lesson.

It was on this day in 1970 that the Partridge family debuted on ABC.

So this is where we turn now to bridging the generations with Pat and Parker.

You were kind of bopping along.

You know, it's a happy song.

How can you not bop along?

Come on, get happy.

So was that the first time you're hearing this song?

Because I'm not gonna even pretend that you watched The Partridge Family.

I did not watch The

Partridge Family,

no.

I do think

I've

heard this.

Okay.

Well, it is.

It's one of the nicest little TV games,

you know.

Basically all about a family that decides to, you know, form a band and they get in this very colorful bus and go from gig to gig and hijinks and sue.

There you

go.

As it were.

I feel like we're getting a lot of shows and movies

about

bands.

Yes, although when I think of it now, you know, a family forms a band.

Basically, the shows that we grew up with are now the things you would pitch to the Disney Channel.

There's no way you're seeing a...

a broadcast network going, hey, a family is going to form a band.

All right, that's fine.

Now, when, when does, when does the drug cartel attack and you need NCIS to come rescue them?

You know, we can't just have happy shows anymore on network TV.

No, we can't have a lot of happy at all.

No, we can't.

So that's why we sometimes live in the past with the Partridge family and come on, get happy here.

Let's see, we've also got from the same day in 1970,

Janice Joplin was in a studio for the last time Sunset Sound Studios in Hollywood and this is what she produced.

Janice

Joplin recording me and Bobby McGee 55 years ago today

Sadly, nine days later, she would be dead of a drug overdose at the age of 27.

On this day in 1974, Dr. Frank Job, I hope I'm saying that right, performed the first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery, which was a big deal.

It has helped so many athletes over the years to have an ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery.

Do you think it's known as Frank Jobi surgery or Frank Job surgery?

No,

it's not named for the doctor who actually did it.

It's named for the first guy that was done on her, the first athlete, and that would be Tommy John.

And Tommy John surgery ever since.

I'm just sure Dr. Frank is like, really?

Am I chopped over over here?

I'm the

one

who did the thing here, guys.

He just got hurt.

Although I have to say side story reminds me now my wife has delivered probably thousands of babies at well Yes, definitely thousands of babies at this point during the years when I was anchoring the six and ten o'clock news up on channel 13 and Eau Claire She she often it was a running joke like she's like I am so sick of walking in and people go.

Oh your husband's wonderful I watch him every night and all that and at one point She's doing this delivery while I'm delivering news the

job

and the mother and the mother-in-law

are watching the news.

So I'm over a shoulder delivers the baby.

And at that point, the, the, the grandma and the grandma in law or whatever, like, Oh, your, your husband does such a nice job.

And she's like, I didn't drop the baby.

Different things going on here.

I'm working here, you know, with you.

Anyway, so Dr. Frank, we know how you feel about the Tommy John surgery.

The first Chicago marathon was run this day in 1977.

On this day in 1926, Henry Ford announced an eight-hour five-day work week for workers at the Ford Motor Company.

That was revolutionary for the time and again would not have happened on its own.

There wasn't the benevolence of Henry Ford going, oh, you guys should only work 40 hours a week.

It came with a lot of activity that led up to that point.

All right, a band was formed this day.

In 1976, Parker's going to play a little bit of one of their tunes, and then I'll tell you the story.

You can probably guess the band.

And I can definitely hear people right now going, did he say 1976?

Is you too that old?

Yes, it is.

It all started when Bono and David Evans, his brother Dick and Adam Clayton, responded to an ad on a bulletin board.

that was posted by a fellow student, Larry Mullin Jr., to form a rock band.

Bono, at that point, you're going, well, wait a minute, was he called Bono back then?

Because his birth name is Paul Hewson.

There's a trivia question.

Does anybody know that?

Paul Hewson.

Where did he get Bono from?

Turns out it was not like some rock and roll thing.

He was part of what he would call a street gang.

And everybody in the street gang got nicknames.

And his was originally Bono Vox.

which was like the name of, what was it, a music, a hearing aid store.

And Bonovox means good sound.

And so he just

shortened it to Bono.

That's actually awesome.

I know I was very impressed when I saw that story yesterday.

I did not know that and I did not know that you two dated all the way back.

I would have said maybe 1980-81 because I really started hearing about them in 82-83 but no 1976.

So yeah next year they will celebrate their 60th anniversary or 50th anniversary as a band.

On this day in 1961 was the premiere of the film The Hustler, starring Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason, the story of small-time pool hustler Fast Eddie Felsen challenging legendary pool player Minnesota Fats.

On this day in 2017 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers played a concert.

We're moving into Parkland.

Now again, much like Janice Joplin here, the story doesn't have a happy ending.

It turned out to be their last concert this day in 2017 at the Hollywood Bowl.

Petty would die one week later.

This particular show had been the last stop on their 40th anniversary tour.

On this day in 1990, Dave Grohl replaced Chad Channing in Nirvana, becoming the fifth and final drummer for the band.

Again, that was 35 years ago today.

On this day in 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first female justice on the US Supreme Court.

Got a lot of birthdays to get to today.

Let's get kick things off here with Will Smith, who turns 57 today.

Now, I am not the world's biggest Will Smith fan.

Really?

No, I mean, and this was prior to the Chris Rock slap, in part because so many of his tunes were, you know,

I wouldn't just say sampled, I would say plagiarized, like this Stevie Wonder 2 and I Wish, which became Wild Wild West.

But I say all this to say that there are things that Will Smith has done that I do like, and Wild Wild West, that movie, is one of them.

Again, just a great little weekend, you know, look it up, stream it if you've never watched it before.

Selma Hayek is in it as well.

Just a really nice film.

Can you guess that I have to say that I haven't seen

it?

No, I'm gonna have to watch

it.

I wasn't even getting that's why I'm just I'm just putting that recommendation out there Michael Douglas is 81 years old today He shares a birthday with his wife Catherine Zeta Jones Who is 56 today?

So yeah, Catherine Zeta Jones was born on her future husband Michael Douglas's 25th birthday Supermodel Cheryl Teague's 78 today

We're going way back into 70s TV and film now happy days Potsy Hanson Williams.

Yeah, Potsy is 76 years old today and Star Wars Luke Skywalker Mark Hamill hour in my wheelhouse 74 years old today.

Happy birthday to him Let's see ti is 45 his biggest hit was in 2008

had songs like whatever you like and live your life would both reach the top of the charts.

Again, TI 45 today.

The late Christopher Reeve, the original movie Superman, was born this day in 1952, passed away in 2004.

Heather Locklear is 64 years old today and that wraps up today's birthdays.

Let's see on the national day calendar.

Today is national cooking day.

I can get behind that.

I know you along with that is food service workers day.

Yes.

And not not just the lunch ladies, you know, everybody who works in food service.

Yes.

You're appreciated more than we could possibly say.

So thank you for that.

It is one hit wonder day.

We

At this point, One Hit Wonder used to be like this nice little novelty topic.

You're like, oh, I didn't know they were just, yeah, whatever happened to that.

Why were they just a One Hit Wonder?

But now, of course, over the years, there's been so many of them that it's almost a bigger deal now if you get two hits on the charts.

If you become someone that is actually known by a lot of people, it's very impressive.

Not just, oh, that song,

yeah.

Yeah.

But again, if you have a favorite One Hit Wonder group or singer where you want to say,

You know, I never understood why I never heard another song from that band or that person.

Throw it in the comment section.

Go on Facebook or YouTube, either for Up North News or for Civic Media or use the Civic Media app and send us a text message and tell us more.

Looking over at YouTube, back to how the segment started.

Tony up in National and Rights, the Partridge family with a drug cartel.

Sign me up for the Netflix series.

Yeah.

And the thing is that you could see the Danny Bonnie Ducci character, you know, completely toting a shotgun and saving the rest of the family.

I

just like the idea of a family band getting like stuck with drug cartels.

I think that could be

quite the show.

You know, it wasn't a family band, but what it reminds me of is, what does it meet the Millers?

Oh, yeah.

The movie there, the Jennifer Aniston movie.

I think so.

And

was that, that was Jason Sudeikis.

And

I don't

remember the kids.

That's all I know.

Anyway, so yeah, when a family, in this case a fake family gets mixed up with a drug cartel, seems to be the plot point nowadays.

And then finally today is National Binge Day.

I don't know if there's something you would binge.

I know that tonight we might be getting a Bucks Pizza here in Madison.

I would binge on that and I may not make it to the burgers game if I'm you have to roll me into it, you know, I believe I suppose I want to double check I believe it's national like binge movies

Oh, that kind of binge.

Yeah.

Oh, you kind of left out that detail.

My dad, yeah.

Okay.

No.

Tony right away saying about Meet the Mills.

You mean the Ed Helms movie?

Pretty funny.

Yes, Ed Helms has a role in there as well.

What do you got for entertainment news you want to pitch?

Entertainment news.

I just left those notes, Pat.

You

know, we're doing this at the same time every day.

You should be able

to.

Yeah, but then I wanted to fact check myself with the whole binge thing.

Here we go.

All right.

This is...

I don't know how much entertainment this is,

but very entertaining.

You're talking yourself out of a story before you even pitch it.

Yes, this is how I work that.

I

second think everything.

A teaching assistant in South Carolina has been arrested after causing $50,000 in damage to an air conditioning system.

Want to guess the

cause?

Well, we're in the entertainment section, so I'm hoping that somebody really didn't like maybe the serious finale of how I met your mother or something like that.

But why did this teacher assistant destroy an air conditioning unit?

Fart spray is what did the damage.

What?

Fart spray.

Fart spray.

Fart spray.

Apparently he was spraying it in a class and it literally like disrupted the class and some students got sent to the doctor because it was so terrible.

Okay.

It's not entertainment, but it's entertaining.

It's entertaining.

I might have to rename the segment here.

Parker's entertaining news pitch, but I can see where that would be a problem.

Did you think?

Yeah.

Why would you bring fart spray to class?

I don't know or at least test it out first and how can it be so potent that it does damage to an air conditioning?

Yeah, exactly All right, I've got from Roger in Stevens Point tainted love by soft cell was one of his most memorable one-hit wonder hits I

totally agree on that one.

Good, good, good call there, Roger.

All right, when we get going in our seven o'clock hour, we will have State Democratic Party Chair, Devon Remaker joining us to talk about a very busy 2026 election campaign that is already well underway.

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There's all kinds of show highlights and news blurbs and things.

Maybe a link to a website with some stories on there because Parker I understand that you have an article on the website and it got noticed here.

I believe it was, yes, it was Roger and Steven's point, putting on Facebook.

I would like to salute Parker for his article on train derailments.

It made me recall the Waiowiga train derailment.

It will be 30 years next March that this incident happened.

The entire city and surrounding area was evacuated for more than two weeks.

I remember it very well.

That was the very big story that we were covering back then.

So tell me more about this train derailment article.

Yeah, so we were, thank you, by the way, Roger.

TrainDior, we just wanted to take a look at how many TrainDior railments have been happening in the state of Wisconsin, really.

So we kind of just did a little investigation on that, going into the FRA's records from 2023 to now, made a map of all the railments in the state of Wisconsin.

Talked to some folks from the Railroad Workers United, which is the hardest union name to say.

Um, talked to them about kind of what could be causing that stuff and just kind of highlighted that.

I'm hoping to do maybe a little bit more on that.

Okay.

It's more answers.

So again, look, look for that over at civicmedia.us and sign up for the Civic Media Today newsletter, civicmediatoday.substack.com.

And of course I mentioned the up north newsletters, including, uh, you know, the Sunday mornings one, Tony puts up on YouTube.

Well, what am I supposed to do on Saturdays?

Where's the Saturday morning grumblings about kids these days with Pat Crichtlow?

That's next.

It's in development.

We're testing that out.

And Tony also says, we now have a newsman on the show.

Hey, I was a newsman.

He like his official stuff.

I know, but now apparently you need quaffed hair and a suit coat according to Tony to be, you know.

an actual news person.

Well, I have quaffed here.

You got to work on it.

I've got a guy.

We'll talk about it.

Good.

All right, let's talk about the governor's race here real quick because, again, on the Republican side, things have developed with, I always want to say, state Senator Tom Tiffany because...

He was a state senator for seven years, but a member of Congress for the past few and now with Congressman Tom Tiffany getting into the race the Republican field has a candidate with some name ID and Frankly, I at the moment have a tough time seeing what other Republicans would get into the race who would want to challenge him and make it for a big-time borderline device of primary so at the moment

I think that you could say that he is the prohibitive nominee for the Republican Party, but again, we'll see who gets in there.

And as I mentioned before, he has a record.

Okay.

He has a very conservative record.

It has served him well, coming from a state Senate district, you know, in and around the Minakwa area where he has been able to take.

basically, you know, far right positions on the issues.

And the same goes for the seventh congressional district.

The entire northern third is an area that is a Republican stronghold right now.

And that has always been part of the reason why I for one was not totally convinced that Tom Tiffany was going to get into the race because yeah, what plays well in your local district.

may not necessarily play well all the way across the state.

Remember, Democrats have won something or progressive candidates have won something like 15 out of the last 18 statewide elections.

And part of the reason for that is that you have so many Republican politicians nowadays and conservative candidates nowadays who do absolutely nothing to moderate their position.

Well, that's not stopping Tom Tiffany from trying.

He was asked about his support in the past for

uh, banning, you know, prohibiting women from seeking abortion care, restricting their reproductive health care rights to six weeks of pregnancy.

When many women don't even know they're pregnant at six weeks, but he would take away their health care options.

Uh, he has a record.

He has co-sponsored a bill in Congress that would prohibit abortions.

The moment a fetal heartbeat is detectable.

Again, when many women don't even know that they're necessarily pregnant.

Well,

Tom Tiffany was asked about that when he first announced his campaign on the Dan O'Donnell radio show.

Uh, and O'Donnell made clear, he said, you're, you're getting hammered from the left for your position on abortion.

Uh, he summarized that Tiffany stance as believing that all abortions after six weeks should be banned with no exceptions for rape and incest.

But Tiffany said, Oh, that's, that's not his position now.

His quote was I would just point back to 10 years ago when I was in the legislature We debated this and we passed a 20-week bill.

I voted for that bill It was signed into law and it is now the law in the state of Wisconsin I do support that law and I will uphold it as governor of the state of Wisconsin To which I would respond give me a break.

Yes, you can you can say you'll uphold the law as governor.

That's your job But to say that you will

What you didn't say is you will not seek a total ban on abortion rights and a six-week ban on abortion rights.

And don't tell me for a moment that if there is a Republican-controlled legislature and they pass you a total abortion ban, don't tell me, oh, I'm not gonna sign that law.

There's already this 20-week one.

Nobody believes you.

It's like Scott Walker with Act 10 or the entire conservative movement when it comes to Roe v. Wade.

Devon Remaker, State Democratic Party Chair, and much more in the next hour here.

We're live in Madison today.

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Hey, good morning.

It is 7 0 6.

Nice to have you back here.

In Madison, not the Lake Mesoda Studios.

I guess we could call them.

Well, Parker Olsen's here with me as well.

Is it the Lake Monona Studio, the Lake Mendota Studio?

I mean, we're on the Isthmus

here, so I don't know which lake

is technically closer

to

us.

We

could say the Isthmus Studios, but then the newspaper people

would get mad at us.

I would probably go with Mendota.

Okay, from our Lake Mendota Studios.

Welcome to Studio A2.

Brittany Merleau, meteorologist is here as well to talk about the weather, but first, Brittany, can you, can you believe we're in the same room?

Parker and I

can't even believe it.

It doesn't look like it.

Right.

I'm jealous.

I know.

It's quite, quite, quite the party here.

See, I'm, I'm over here on his, uh, the camera that you got out of a cracker jack box or something like that, where

it

always looks like Parker has jaundice or something.

And meanwhile,

yeah, I can't even argue.

Yeah.

Both

Luke Mathers and Todd Alba.

Apparently I badgered them a lot about the video quality.

coming out of this place.

I know it's a radio show, but if you're, if you're going to stream video, you know, right, you should

put, you should put a

little effort behind it.

They put a lot of effort behind it.

I mean, this thing is so Vegas looking behind me.

I am waiting for a cocktail, what John or Gordy should be dressed up as a cocktail waitress and offered to serve me something before I go watch Dean Martin and Don Rickles perform in the lounge down here.

This, this is a wild setup.

It is very bright.

It is very

bright.

I'm very complimented and, uh, more than a little intimidated at, you know, what they, what they're able to pull off when you just say, Hey, can we just not have a blank wall behind me?

It's like, all right, cry it low.

How about this?

A little bit of overkill.

But I like it.

Hey, coming up in just a moment, we haven't forgotten, it's our go for the green and gold text to win contest.

That keyword is coming up shortly, but we've kept Brittany waiting long enough.

So you all keep waiting for that keyword.

It is coming.

But first, Brittany, as I was driving down yesterday.

from Chippewa Falls and it timed out perfectly.

I got in the Jeep right when the Brewer game was starting because they had afternoon baseball and got here just as it was over.

It was such a gorgeous sunny drive.

We don't have the fall colors thing going yet, but I really could not argue whether wise with what we had how much of

that

carries over into today and beyond.

Oh, so much of it.

We have a beautiful forecast.

Once we get through this fog, a lot of thick fog scattered throughout the state this morning, dense in places, less than a mile visibility.

So if you still have somewhere to go, still trying to get to work, leave early, drive slow.

be safe out there.

It is pretty thick in spots that will lift by nine o'clock this morning.

That dense fog advisory from Ashland to Green Bay and of course north and east of that area.

The rest of the state, though, just patchy spots of it, especially in those low lying river areas.

Otherwise a bright and beautiful day, mostly sunny.

Once again, highs in the low to mid seventies.

A few of us will hit some upper seventies today and then we push repeat for tomorrow.

We get even warmer into the weekend where down south you're going to be hitting 80 degrees up north.

upper 70s.

We hold that trend for the entire weekend into next week.

I was trying to find rain in the forecast.

It doesn't look like it's going to be here until next weekend.

So we've got a long dry stretch of a ton of sunshine.

Gorgeous.

So the top might come down off the Jeep for a time.

Yeah, for a week straight, you can pull it off that.

I'm gonna do it.

All right.

Well, good.

That's good to know.

From Robbie says, good morning from Tigerton.

It is foggy and 52 degrees.

The visibility in Tigerton is a mile.

So Pat's Chippewa Valley fog that they've had the last few mornings, made it to Tigerton today.

I'm not sure fog commutes like that, but I get

the sun.

I like to think that it does.

Yeah, in some horror

movies, you know, the blob.

enough.

Let's see, Rob mowed five yards in the Tigerton and Wittenberg areas yesterday.

The weather was beautiful.

Today he's got five lawns to mow, so he's going to be busy.

Yesterday had a cheeseburger lunch at Rachel's Roadside.

Pat Brittany and everyone out there, you have to stop at Rachel's Roadside in Wittenberg for their great food.

Well, that's awfully nice.

Tony commenting on the background here says the natural light in Pat's home office can't be matched.

That's true.

That's the one nice thing I got going.

but then he goes on to say, if we're talking backgrounds, I'm still missing behind Parker the dear leader portrait of the handsome and capable Luke Mathers.

We did talk about that.

Where's

the portrait of Luke looking over your shoulder?

We should do that, actually.

That would be pretty easy to do.

You know what would be easier to do?

What?

We could get a slide and put it on the

Well, TV

behind you here.

Yeah.

We could do that.

Actually, what I'd like to do, but it might come off mean, so I'm going to go ahead and spoil it right now.

Oh boy.

We come out to a three shot like this sometime and you've got a portrait of Luke over your shoulder and there's one over my shoulder and there's one over Britney's shoulder.

It's just completely has that dear leader look to it.

Oh, that would be.

It

would all

be in good fun, Mr. Mathers.

I want to make sure that I emphasize that.

Oh, he says no, period.

Aw, okay.

Come

on, Luke.

Dang it.

That's why he's the boss.

Brittany, thank you so much.

We'll talk to you in the next hour.

Sounds

good.

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How simple was that?

Parker, we've we've had we've had non-perfect shows, right?

We've had days where we had to jump up that quickly.

But, you know, we've had our rough patch.

We've had a hiccup or so.

Have we ever caused 10,000 gallons of wastewater to be dumped into Lake Michigan?

Not that I'm aware of.

I mean,

metaphorically, perhaps, but not quite literally.

The story from Caitlin Luby and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel employee error causes wastewater overflow that dumped 10,000 gallons into Lake Michigan.

Apparently it happened during a shift change.

not sure where the miscommunication occurred, but an employee observed wastewater overtopping the emergency overflow structure at their south shore facility on September 23rd.

Let's see what the overflow lasted about 30 minutes and there is potential for human exposure through recreational use

of the waterway.

Apparently too much water came through a gate when it shouldn't have an untreated wastewater overtopped an emergency barrier there.

Corrective actions were taken as soon as it was discovered.

Oops.

Whoops.

Yes.

I mean,

in essence, oops.

I mean, every, every job has those things that you could do.

That to me is a pretty big one.

That's on par with like Homer Simpson working at a nuclear power plant, you know, and hitting a particular button.

So it raises this question.

Oh boy.

What have you done?

What have I done?

And I'm talking to the listeners.

Oh.

Yeah.

What have you

done?

I thought I screwed up and you were trying to get me

there.

Tell us a story about something that you've done or co-worker, but you gotta, you know.

protect people.

We're not, we're not here to slander people or get them in trouble.

So you got to be nice about it.

And I, mine isn't anywhere on the, on par with, you know, 10,000 gallons of wastewater.

But in this business, it is very possible to say the wrong thing and to have to then apologize on air.

And I did, I did that once in my first radio job out of college.

where somebody told me a story about something that had happened to their car in a car wash.

And it was a funny story.

I'm not even going to bore you with the details, but it seemed funny.

But I thought, well, you know, I'll try to make it as generic as possible.

Well, needless to say, the owner of the local car wash heard the story.

And, you know, construed it in a way that all the listeners would know that it was the local car wash, despite my attempts to say otherwise.

And I got to say that's the only time I've truly.

uh, cheesed off a sponsor and got read the riot act.

And I mean, truly read the riot act and having to apologize on here the next day.

Now there are a lot worse things that can happen in this business.

There's naughty words and there's, you know, slander and getting your facts wrong and all of that.

So I feel, I feel very fortunate that way, but you know, again, it's not 10,000 gallons of sewage.

So, uh, and we can't even ask you.

Mr. Parker to make a confession because I mean this is this is kind of early in your career and you

know

you you can't try to

think of anything that I did in college.

I don't really know of anything.

There were.

Wait, you told me there were like super issues, you know, where you put like the wrong word on screen or something like that.

I don't know.

Tony asking, how big are those FCC fines again?

Well, yeah, that's why we... Let's not talk about that.

Yeah, let's see.

Alicia, Navy Vets says she was on the flight deck 2005, moving jets.

I was in the cockpit.

The yellow shirt on the deck pulled an ordinance pin that had flares attached, arming the flares near the tail hook, almost took out two sailors working on the tail hook.

Oh, yeah.

See, that's, that's a story right there.

That's worse than anything we've probably done.

Uh, yeah.

Again, uh, haven't taken out sailors, haven't blown up a plane, anything like that.

Uh, Tony reminds us that, uh, Parker's still on probation.

Isn't he?

He can't really incriminate.

How do you know about that Tony?

I thought that the

background check was confidential.

Uh, I know, but you, everybody knows you're still relatively.

relatively new here.

So remind me of this next week when, when John and Gordy are on, cause John and Gordy have been involved in broadcasting for something like 78 years.

And I'm sure that they've got some stories to tell as well.

So we'll look forward to that.

Anyway, and you can continue to just share your stories, either get in the comment sections of Facebook or YouTube for either up North news or for civic media or use of the civic media app or.

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and

tell us the story.

I'd love to get more people using that, that voice note feature and tell us what happened.

Now, obviously we'll have to make

sure that

there, there isn't anything slander, libelists, anything like that, but.

Tell us a story about a big-time goof at work.

We'd love to hear that.

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And welcome back, it is just about 7.23 on this Thursday morning, September 25th.

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All right, there was another case of political violence in America yesterday in what is becoming a chilling sign of the times.

It happened at an ice facility in Dallas, which led to both a death and injuries from gunfire.

The gunman then died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

But I mean, even before anybody.

knew anything with certainty about the circumstances.

You had political figures, including the vice president of the United States, jumping to conclusions about, you know, who or what provoked this kind of violence.

And you had the president and others singling out the Democratic Party.

saying that that is, you know, that is where the nation's ire should be directed.

Which is, how do I put it, grotesquely reckless to first off be jumping to conclusions at all because I thought

These were folks that were very much pro law enforcement and let law enforcement do their investigation, but it has not been stopping people.

I mean, go back to the assassination of Melissa Hortman, the longtime Minnesota House of Representatives speaker when she and her husband were murdered.

Another legislator and spouse were shot and wounded and.

You know, again, you had people who were mocking Governor Tim Walz at the time, making, again, a very loose association to the alleged shooter in this case.

There is just this degree of recklessness or sloppiness, whatever it is that you want to call it, I call it political expediency, political abuse, to want to immediately

use political violence for political purposes and to not focus about bringing everybody together and saying that violence is wrong in any instance, especially political violence when talking about this case.

When you have a group that is singling out a political party and therefore the elected officials and candidates and associating them with violence, again, you're only

urging some of your more extreme followers on to violence themselves and that just should never be accepted in this country in any way shape or form.

Well, of course JD Vance, the vice president after having already jumped to conclusions, ended up getting into a social media spat with a few different folks on the left, some prominent figures there, which again gets back to this notion, whether it's JD Vance or Derek Van Orden.

Don't you have a job?

Don't you have something better to do than to first off even try to be the first to put something

on Twitter, I guess it's because you see yourself as wanting to frame a message.

You want that frame in there before, you know, the facts get in the way.

Think of it like the Mueller report, which did in fact draw connections between Russian involvement that benefited the Trump campaign in 2016, but

Bill Barr, Trump's attorney general at the time, of course, first kind of kept the report under wraps and then gave his spin on it, saying it completely exonerated the Trump campaign when it did nothing of the sort.

But the framing was already there and there are people that still believe it to this day.

And so to this day, there will be people that believe JD Vance and President Trump and others in saying that this was some kind of a, you know, a

Democratic Party operative that was involved in this shooting at this ICE facility in Dallas.

It would be a lot like claiming when, say, Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband was attacked that you would have people saying that this was a, you know, a Republican Party job all the way.

I would have really preferred back at that point if Republican politicians had been more widespread in condemning the attack.

And instead what followed was mockery and I mean, just morbid humor about the attack, which again, if you don't want to condemn the violence, that's your business.

But when you end up making light of it, that is tacit encouragement to others to continue the cycle.

We need to talk about the ways that some of these folks have.

easy access to guns, there are red flag laws that should be applied in these instances, and there should be every possible effort to bring down the temperature in the room.

And instead, by politicians getting on social media right away, or by politicians like Derek Van Orden spending days and days afterwards continuing to try to make political hay out of an act of violence, they're doing nothing to lower the temperature of the discourse out there.

And again, this isn't a partisan matter.

It's not like somebody should be calling on the entire Republican Party, but we should be calling on every conservative elected official or figure out there to say that we should be able to do better than this, to condemn violence in all of its forms, even if you think they were motivated by your side of the spectrum.

Your view of them should be basically get off my team, because that's not what we do.

We have to win based on our ideas, based on the things that we can do, not the violence that we can continue to perpetuate across this country.

When we come back, we will talk to State Democratic Party Chair, Devin Remaker.

We'll talk about Tom Tiffany's entry onto the Republican side of the governor's race and the many primaries shaping up in 2026.

I'm Pat Krightlow.

This is the Civic Media Radio Network.

Coming to you live on this Thursday from Madison Studio A2.

I'm Pat Critewell, Parker Olson here producing.