Turning Their Backs on Those Who Serve (Hour 1)

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We're back here on the shores of Lake WSOTA and beautiful Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin on a Friday morning.

October 10th, 2025.

It's nice to have you along from wherever you're listing all across the Civic Media Radio Network or catching us on YouTube or Facebook, either the Civic Media sites or the Up North News sites.

We appreciate you wrapping up the week right here.

Alicia right away on YouTube saying welcome home.

Thank you, Alicia, very much.

Certainly appreciate that.

I got a question for you and it's a slam dunk.

Is there anything like sleeping in your own bed?

It's nice to travel.

Don't get me wrong, especially when you're seeing family.

But after several nights away, boy, did I sleep like a baby last night.

Part of the reason being, I just did not have confidence that the Brewers were going to pull it off.

And they most certainly did not pull it off last night.

So we go to an elimination game.

One game, winner take all, Brewers Cubs coming up Saturday night at American Family Field.

Let's check in with producer Parker Olson and see if once again he stayed up way too late for the disappointment of a brewer's loss in Chicago.

Nope.

He looks a little bit more awake, just entirely disillusioned.

Mr. Olson, good morning.

Is it a good morning, Pat?

I don't think

it's

a

good morning.

For me, I slept in my, when I went to bed and whatever, whatever, I don't forget what the score was four to one or whatever at that point.

And I just, I had, we didn't score, Pat.

or for nothing.

Yeah,

whatever it

was.

You're right, because I went to bed thinking, you know, I'm guessing my guess was that I was going to wake up and find out that the final score was 11 to nothing.

And

it

wasn't it was six, six, nothing, right?

And, and that was enough.

So it just, I mean, when you see Freddie Peralta, you know, again, much like, you know, Quinn Priester just not able to hit their points.

And it's not like they haven't played at Wrigley Field before.

So why are you letting the, why are you letting the Cubs crowd get to you?

But they did.

And, you know, the Brewers bats didn't have any answer.

And so those two games that Wrigley are as forgettable as they come, unless the Brewers lose tomorrow and then they won't be forgettable, we will always be talking about messing up those two games at Wrigley Field.

Yeah.

There were a couple of times last night where the birds had a couple of like decently hard hit balls, but they were straight at somebody.

And to me, that's kind of just like the signal that it's not going to be your day, because that tends to be how the Brewers work.

They put the ball in play, something happens, they get on base, they manufacture runs, but that was absolutely not working yesterday.

And to your point too, yeah, the pitching, for whatever reason, that first standing is such a bugaboo.

And Freddie Peralta, he's not, I've said this before, he may be a little bit of a Cy Young candidate, but he's not exactly a pleasant watch.

No, I mean, no matter how they call him fastball Freddie for a reason, but it's just not to it.

It's not consistent enough that he might get some votes for the Cy Young Award, but he's not going to win it.

And it's

I don't think it's so much the inconsistency.

I think he's doing exactly what he wants to do.

He said that last night.

Yeah, he said

he's entirely

uncompetitive when he's ahead in account and it's frustrating as

all get out.

Yeah, so that that's what happened That's that's the short version of what happened and Mike Clemens will be along at 835 to talk about that To talk about you know the deciding game five tomorrow at American Family Field and I can tell you right now that Because it's it's the last game of all the league series.

There's there's an American League Elimination game tonight So that's at seven o'clock and in the National League Elimination game will be tomorrow night.

So that one is now at seven o'clock

And so coverage will begin Saturday at 6 30 on several civic media stations across the network.

As for the other series, we'll just cover those real briefly here.

It was a case of finding out that, you know, either the cubs or the brewers are going to play the Dodgers, the Dodgers move on on one of the craziest, most frustrating, dumbest plays that

will haunt Philadelphia Phillies fans for the foreseeable future, where the Dodgers have a runner on third.

The Dodger hitter, it's a comeback or two the pitcher, but he bobbles it.

He could have either thrown to first and got the third out or threw it home.

He chose to throw it home after bobbling it.

And I mean, he threw it just a bit outside.

And that was it Dodgers score on a on a weird

Muffed throw it had to go what 20 feet from the pitcher to the catcher.

Yeah,

and he just he missed the catcher wildly and the Dodgers advance so that was so hard to watch I felt so bad for that guy

Oh, for him and for all the fans.

So the Dodgers move on and wait to see if they play the Brewers or the Cubs because it also determines home field advantage.

If the Brewers win, then the National League Championship Series will start in Milwaukee on Monday night and the Brewers will have the home field advantage.

If the Brewers lose to the Cubs, then they'll take on the Dodgers, but the Dodgers will have the home field advantage starting on Monday.

Meanwhile, in the American League, like I said, there's a clinching game tonight that will be Detroit at Seattle.

Tigers versus Mariners, seven o'clock tonight.

The winner will travel to Toronto for the American League Championship Series Game 1, which will be Sunday night.

So any chance we can get Brandon Woodruff back by tomorrow?

That's I'm just thinking about our pitchers.

That's the other stupid thing about it is it seems like once Woodruff went down, everything went out the window.

Nothing is going well.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The the air just went out of the balloon.

It felt like not entirely because obviously we still have had some big innings.

Yeah.

But pitching pitching wise, it just hasn't been.

everything that we would want it to be.

While we're on the subject of sports here, of course, we've got high school football tonight on several stations across the Civic Media radio network.

And then, of course, we've got Badger football tomorrow, the Badgers taking on Iowa.

And again, let me clarify, because I said it wrong multiple times this week, the Badgers are home.

against Iowa.

It's homecoming in Madison.

Coverage begins tomorrow at four on several civic media stations.

And then on Sunday, the Packers are back in action, taking on the Cincinnati Bengals.

Coverage begins at one o'clock for a 325 kickoff on several civic media stations.

Again, head over to civicmedia.us to learn more.

Gonna be a little weird for the Packers to face Joe Flacco again.

Since they faced him as the Cleveland Browns quarterback a couple of weeks back and now they're facing them as the newly acquired Cincinnati Bengals quarterback

I wonder how many times This has happened that a team has played against the same quarterback twice in a season, but not on the same team

Not much it can't be right.

I mean no midseason trades of a quarterback

Don't happen much and within the division and to be a starter and be a starter.

Yeah, just that is That caught everybody's attention and certainly does that help the Packers because they've played them already, you know

Who's to say because he's he's only one of 11 people there behind the ball.

So badger women's volleyball.

They are seventh ranked in the country.

They will travel to Penn State tonight to take on the Nittany Lions there.

And so we'll follow all that and have some results Monday morning for you along the way.

We mentioned that Mike Clements is coming up.

Also ahead, we're going to be talking to Dr. Kristen Lierly.

And again, forgive the strong language here, but we're going to talk about another

Stupid thing said by Robert Kennedy, Jr.

somehow connecting autism to circumcision via Tylenol in baby boys.

And there is a meme in like the movie airplane where first

one person one person puts their their face on their on their head, and then other people do and then like the entire theater audience puts their hand on their head.

Yes, I felt like that was the entire medical community yesterday.

And that was just one of several things.

I mean, let's just say Dr. Lirely is is what's the phrase loaded for bear.

She is ready to

talk about this.

So

I have yet to see this clip and I am a little worried.

Yeah, we should be.

We'll also have, of course, our regular week and review panel with journalist Mark Jacob and Jennifer Shulsey and former US Attorney Jim Santel.

And of course, one of the big topics this week deals with President Trump being able to send the military into cities just willy-nilly.

And let me put it to you this way.

How do you think people in Oklahoma, let's say Tulsa, how do you think people in Tulsa would feel if a Democratic president sent the Illinois National Guard into their city?

So troops from Chicago basically invading Tulsa because that's essentially what's happening in reverse with people in Chicago as red states are complying with President Trump's desire to play soldier, to play general.

Well, we can say that out loud, but you know who else said it out loud?

A top Republican official in the state of Oklahoma.

One of the few Republicans speaking up going, that's not how this country is supposed to work.

That's not how our system of federalism is supposed to work, where the president can send troops from one state into another state without that governor's permission.

This isn't a case of oh, there's there's some kind of insurrection There's some kind of national emergency Trump says there is except for this one problem.

It's there's not He's sending people into Chicago that just had a summer with the least amount of murders since 1965 Okay These are made-up things that distract from the shutdown where they're trying to inflict maximum pain

distract from the ongoing coverup of the Epstein files and distract from the fact that inflation is still very persistent for the American consumer.

It's a distraction from Americans who are just now starting to realize how much more expensive their health insurance premiums are going to shoot up because

Republicans in Congress voted for that big bloated boondoggle, which removed the affordable from the Affordable Care Act.

But the president has figured out a way to make this all about, you know, make all that go away.

And let's talk about whether troops should be in Chicago and in Portland and in Memphis and in Washington DC and every place else.

So we will talk to former U.S.

Attorney Jim Santel about that, along with Mark Jacob and Jennifer Schulze.

You go over that and some of the other stories of the week.

Now, of course, we've got stories that we're following here at Upfront News.

I'm putting together our weekend newsletter, and that will include our question of the week, which this past week was all about, you know, who would be your first choice in the Democratic primary for governor?

Well, needless to say, this Sunday's edition is going to be kind of a reset on the race because Josh Call decided not to run for governor.

Missy Hughes jumped into the race for governor and there are still other rumblings out there, names like Mandela Barnes, names like Ron Kind that are being bounced around.

So to what degree is the is the field set yet?

We'll kind of give you a reset in this weekend's newsletter and we'll come up with a new question of the week.

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But gosh golly, do we love having this partnership every weekday morning from six to nine across the stations of the Civic Media radio network.

So a lot to cover here, including

In just a bit, we're going to talk about, again, the hypocrisy of saying support our troops and thank you for your service when that's not really what's happening.

That's coming up next.

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Welcome back.

It is 6 20 just about 6 23 now on this Friday morning.

I was just sipping some coffee.

It's so good.

Not just sleep in your own bed, but to have your own coffee.

Again, just all the comforts here.

My chair feels better.

The lighting feels but my Parker my face now has a color that appears in nature.

Once again, you do look better.

Thank you.

I feel better compared to the weird lighting in hotel rooms and guest bedrooms and things like that.

Still gotta work on yours over there, man.

I mean you You are as I as I discovered being there a week before last you are a handsome young man Shucks, you'd never know watching this show.

It's it's not your fault at all.

No, we'll we'll talk to we'll worry about that later But it's nice to have things everything is back where it needs to be my my Roy Kent coffee mug for Fridays is here

coffee takes better, yeah.

You know, what else is better is being back into the regular routine of checking things on my own computer, which includes Civic Media's new daily newsletter.

It's filled with lots of links to show highlights and more.

Head over to Substack.

Specifically, go to CivicMediaToday.Substack.com.

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and be a part of it all.

Let's see, Roger in Stevens Point brings up the news that is rather sad, especially for college basketball fans.

Sister Jean Schmidt, the Loyola basketball superfan and team chaplain, died at age 106.

She became a sports world celebrity at the age of 98.

as the number one fan for Loyola University during their Cinderella run in the NCAA final fours, but has passed away now at the age of 106.

Roger, thank you for letting us know about that.

Let's see, we also had Tony commenting on YouTube about potential gubernatorial candidates.

First he goes, Tom Nelson with a big explanation point.

And then Luke Mathers.

with a big exclamation exclamation point he also says that he appreciates the new lighting thank you because he says parker is ghost white in person too right no no he's not he's

Nobody looks normal in that room.

It's close.

We're gonna

we're gonna work on it He also says are we gonna talk about Emily sephos running again for assembly?

Yes at some point we are Emily sephos friend of the show here is running again in assembly district 56 That's important because currently assembly district 56 has a representative who does not live in the district has been playing fast and loose with his residential address and

Emily thought that it might be time once again for residents in that Fox Valley area district to have a representative who would represent them by living in the place that they're supposed to represent.

So yes, we will most definitely be talking to Emily all about that in the coming days as well.

But for the moment, I just want to talk about a real pet peeve of mine.

And my ongoing mission to help more people understand that the politicians who are loudest about back the blue and support the troops and thank you for your service are sometimes the most hypocritical when it comes to actual backing and support and gratitude.

The most recent example could be seen late yesterday in the nation's capital as the Senate passed a new defense policy bill, a $925 million bill that's going to talk all about some of the broad policy of the military and the outlines of the Pentagon budget whenever the government does open again.

But they did not include a provision in there that would have

kept paying the troops during a government shutdown.

Because most federal employees will not get paid next week, and the same goes for soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and all who support them.

They could have changed that.

The bills are going to keep coming, but the paychecks will not.

Of course, this all happened at the same U.S.

Capitol where insurrectionists beat and maimed scores of law enforcement officers, and yet has there been anything other than indifference

as their party leaders pardoned those domestic terrorists.

While we're on the subject, these are the same people who in DC and in Madison and elsewhere pass budgets that squeeze local coffers already hard-pressed to pay for police and other law enforcement.

Talk is cheap when it comes to backing the blue if you don't really fund who it is that you claim to support.

And of course, we've covered active duty troops and law enforcement.

Let's not forget veterans who face higher probabilities of homelessness and suicide and drug addiction and other things.

The people who beat the drum hardest for war and for supporting our troops sure have a funny way of showing it lately.

At the federal level, of course, we can talk all about the cuts to the VA healthcare system.

We have talked about them.

There will be more to come.

And then closer to home, two shelters to help homeless veterans had to shut down in the state because Republicans zeroed out the budget for them, even as it turns out when there might be free resources being offered.

According to a report from WQOWTV in Eau Claire, a contractor has been willing to work with the Wisconsin Department of Veteran Affairs.

to replace the aging Klein Hall facility in Chippewa Falls at no cost for the construction.

Only the cost to lease it once it's built.

A Department of Veterans Affairs spokesperson or an official, rather, confirmed that they were working with the company on the offer, but the funding needed to enter the contract didn't go through.

because Republican leadership isn't exactly rushing to embrace what now turns out to be free help for veterans.

Again, we've talked several times about this being the legislature's fall session, but it has been plotting along.

Even as these facilities for homeless veterans had to stop operations and shut down.

But again, we're seeing where their real priorities are when it comes to our veterans, to our military, and to law enforcement.

And I just want people to keep that in mind whenever you hear the pithy sayings like back the blue and support our troops.

Talk is cheap.

Coming up next today's history lesson.

How about this for a rundown?

David Lee Roth, Neil Diamond, Greg Bach, and former Vice President Spiro Agnew.

That's all ahead.

I'm Pat Critello.

You're up north.

Starting today's history lesson with little David Lee Roth for his 71st birthday born this day in 1954 in Bloomington, Indiana Just a gigolo which it was decades later that I learned that that is that was actually not some kind of an original song Although it's just some funny thing he put together It's like an old timey song.

It goes like way way back Very few people know that but Greg Bach did and Greg Bach joins us as always on Fridays for our history lesson.

Mr. Bach good morning

Good morning to everyone.

Good morning to you, Pat.

Good morning to Parker.

Good every day.

I'm sorry.

I'm very tired.

Very, very tired.

You know what you need?

You need more pumpkin spice.

I need more pumpkin spice.

Get it flowing.

I'm

just a Greggalo everywhere I go.

Thank

you very much.

That's

from like 1930 or something like it's from the late 20s or early 30s.

I know that a year or two back we Oh, it was Louis Prima.

That's right.

Yes.

Yes.

1929.

Yeah, is when it first came out and you know, again, it was it was much more

Not romantic, but almost almost serious and David Lee Roth, of course, turned it into something fun and goofy.

I'm just chigolo, man.

Everywhere I go.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

That's funny.

I wrote this for guys.

I really wrote this really deep deep within self-reflective tune, man.

Oh, music is weird.

Okay.

Hi.

Good morning.

Hey, no, nice to have you.

And David Lee Roth, of course, who, you know, when he left Van Halen, managed to have, I shouldn't say managed to have, but did have a good solo career.

And Van Halen went on just fine with Sammy Hagar after that.

I just two things about that.

First of all, I did not know until this moment that he was from Bloomington, Indiana.

He had to be the most annoying kid in Bloomington, Indiana.

I don't know what town did David Letterman grow up

in?

That makes sense.

So in Indiana, like he's got more of an Indiana Midwest vibe of like the dry sarcastic way.

Whereas you just see a little David Lee Roth doing cartwheels down the main street.

Like he's got to get out of here.

He's got to leave.

He's never going to farm.

He's weird.

And also.

I just also like the idea like, hey, I'm in the biggest rock band in the world.

You know what I should do?

Go out on my own because that will go real well.

Yeah.

It could go on.

It gets you a hit or two, but that's truly about it.

Yeah.

Name ID.

Come on.

Yep, exactly.

A couple of other birthdays, both of them involving presidential aspirations.

There's Bradley Whitford from the West Wing.

and Wisconsin's own who is 66 years old today and then California Governor Gavin Newsom is 58 years old today so could you see a day maybe you know the next presidential campaign it's it's the Gavin Newsom Bradley Whitford ticket that would get some votes

oh god no thank you that

was unexpected

All right.

Well, let's let's instead get back to the music because on this day in 1970 the number one song was by Neil Diamond Your Neil Diamond impression these days Not exist now as good as Neil Diamond.

Yeah, that was the number one song this day in 1970 Hey, I got I got a couple more birthdays of people who might have presidential aspirations

Happy birthday, Brett Favre.

He is 56 years old today.

You're a mean

man, dude.

He's already really big into funding stuff, so.

Yeah, see.

And Dale Earnhardt Jr.

is 51 years old today.

And I'm sure a few NASCAR folks would still do that.

They'd support him.

On this day in 1992, Garth Brooks' album, The Chase, debuted at number one on the album chart with tracks that included That Summer.

And this single.

When the

whole Bud Light debacle happened, was that like a thousand years ago or was it like six months ago?

I don't remember now.

I'm more in between, yeah.

But you know, the Bud Light thing happened and Kid Rock decided to beat up some

beer with a gun, and then he said, I'm not serving Bud Light in my bar anymore.

And people were like, yeah.

And then Garth Brooks was opening up his Nashville bar, and they're like, are you going to do that?

He goes, yes.

If people want to drink Bud Light, I'll serve it.

He just was like, this is dumb.

Why am I talking about this right now?

Yes, which is completely in keeping with who he is.

Yeah.

And why, at that point, a lot of the Bud Light think people would like, yeah, OK.

Yeah, people should be able to drink what they want to drink.

Yeah.

Who are we to dictate your beer?

So, yeah, it's Garth Brooks'... It is Friday, isn't it, after a day of travel?

Garth Brooks' album, The Chase, debuted at number one this day in 1992.

Garth Brooks was one of many cameos, Greg, in the series I still am plotting through on the flight down and on the flight back, the Billy Joel documentary.

Oh, my gosh.

And Garth Brooks has some, you know, just incredible comments about Billy Joel and...

I really wanted to finish it yesterday, but I just couldn't get it done before the Brewers game started.

And it's fine because I would have hogged up the whole show today.

Whenever I finish this thing, we're basically doing a Billy Joel Appreciation show.

Will you will you do that?

Like start at least started on a Friday when I'm excited.

Talk about that for hours.

I want I watched it in one sitting.

I'm like, I'll start watching it.

And I'm like, nine hours later.

No, it's a beast.

And you think, okay, this thing's probably wrapping up now.

And it doesn't but it doesn't drag on the next story is just as compelling as the one before.

Yeah.

And I mean, the segment we could do just rattling off, say,

just one or two lines of song lyrics from this song, this song, this song and saying, you guys should listen to these.

So you want to do that next Friday?

I'd love to do that next.

I might I might have to watch it again just to freshen up.

There you go.

I will say this though.

Anytime Garth Brooks is interviewed about anything, it's always amazing because he treats every interview like he is giving a like Nobel Prize winning speech.

He just treats it with such like the thing about Billy Joe, you don't understand.

Oh, yes, he did.

His documentary, his own documentary.

He cries like nine times while he's talking.

Wow.

And by the way, from being in Nashville last weekend, my favorite bar there was Garth Brooks.

Garth Brooks one?

Nice.

Nice.

I want to go

back.

I want to go back.

Yeah.

Can't wait.

Oh, look at that.

We used up all the music from there.

I guess we got to get back to doing something here.

Let's go to

Billy Joel's documentary.

Let's go

to 1995.

We're no doubt released their breakthrough album Tragic Kingdom with hits like Just a Girl and this

one.

Okay,

what year?

This came out in 98?

95.

And it sold 10 million copies and catapulted Gwen Stefani to star in them.

Parker.

What year were you born?

2003.

OK, OK.

OK, this is not a setup.

I'm just saying this album, Parker, this song we're playing right now, imagine hearing this song on at least four different radio stations a day, at least three times a day on each station.

This song.

What could not stop being played?

Oh God,

that's not even like that breaks the rules of what you're supposed to do.

And on top of that, and on top of that, this was back when MTV was playing videos too.

So the video plays like five times a day.

Yes, the world was quick to embrace Gwen Stefani.

Yeah, they like to be good.

Good boy.

She stands out.

She certainly

embraced.

She's bracing Jesus and Trump lately.

Anyway, on this day in 1845, in Annapolis, Maryland, a school that would become the United States Naval Academy opens with 50 students.

And so I believe for our favorite Navy veteran, Alicia, we have to do a shout out to her for that.

This day in 1946 was born the late singer-songwriter, John Prine, who passed away in 2020.

It's the birthday, 65th birthday for Eric Martin of the band, Mr. Big.

with you.

Deep inside, I hope you'll feel it too.

Feel it too.

Was this, were they one hit wonder, did they have?

Yeah, they were, but I will, I will say this song slaps.

And another song that was everywhere on contemporary radio, you could not get away from it.

The hair band that had all the rock and tunes, then they had their sensitive ballad.

But their bass player and guitar player are two of the best players in music.

They were so good, but you're like, oh, you had no idea, because it's a very simple song.

It

is, but in 1991, late 1991, early 1992, it was everywhere.

Yep.

Yeah.

Yes.

Also born this day in 1917, Thelonious Monk, the jazz pianist and composer.

Happy birthday to singer Maya, who is 46 years old today.

Maya, that's her name, Maya Harrison.

She was born in Washington, D.C.

and her parents chose her name to honor the poet Maya Angelou.

Let's see.

Oh, here's the birthday that I saved till last.

Tanya Tucker.

She is 67 years old today.

If

ever a biopic needs to be made, it's about

Tanya Tucker's life.

It's got to be her.

She was like officially the first

bad girl of country music, right?

I would say documented where it was out in the world where people were like, oh, wow, this is like, I'm sure there were a lot of females out there in country music who could live it up with the boys, but she made the headlines.

Yes.

Yeah.

This was no little Tammy Wynette stand by your man thing.

No, no,

no.

She was more like,

she was more like, throw him out of the window and keep his stuff.

That's exactly it.

Oh, let's see.

Now, I promised a little Spiro Agnew here because there are two.

Oh, yeah!

Yeah, rock on!

In today's history lesson, two mentions.

First off, in 1970, when Spiro Agnew was the vice president, imagine this happening today.

This could not happen today.

But in 1970, the head of the FCC dressed down the vice president of the United States.

after Spiro Agnew complained that radio stations were playing too many songs about drugs.

And the statement from the FCC chair said, if we really want to do something about drugs, let's do something about life.

The songwriters are trying to help us understand our plight and deal with it.

It's about the only leadership that we're getting.

They're not really urging you to adopt a heroin distribution program, Mr. Vice President.

Could somebody have the spinal fortitude to say something like that today, please?

First of all, I just want to make it like Pat, you know this as well as I do.

Bands back then, we're not exactly writing about the plight of drug use.

They were some of them are writing about the awesomeness of drug use that they were finding.

So, but yeah, I mean, that's an amazing and it's so perfectly late.

Like, dear vice president, I'm here to tell you that this is, oh, I think about this, Pat, every day now, I think about someone in one of these departments just going, no, and then going back to work.

Yeah, I would love to see that.

Just go up to the bank of microphones and go, no, make me.

Exactly.

Just that please.

But that was 1970.

Three years later on this date, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned after being charged with federal income tax evasion.

As part of a local corruption investigation in Baltimore County involving public officials, architects and contractors, it was learned Agnew was not only getting kickbacks as Maryland's governor,

The payments continued even after he became vice president, including a $10,000 cash payment made at the White House.

Are you listening, Tom Homan, who got $50,000 in a bag?

Agnew would go on to have an extremely blemished business career in political consulting, largely based on his hatred of Israel.

He died in 1996 at the age of 77.

Yeah, history not being kind to Spiro Agnew and rightly so.

Spiro Agnew wasn't kind to himself.

No, not at all.

Thank you, Greg, for helping us out with today's history lesson.

We still have our week in review panel coming up as well.

And Dr. Kristen Lierly and Mike Clemens in our eight o'clock hour.

I'm Pat Krightlow.

This is the Civic Media Radio Network.

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I got one bonus for the history lesson on all the weekend birthdays.

We'll single out Daryl Hall of Hall of Notes who turns 79 years old tomorrow.

It is a Friday.

It's October 10th.

Greg Bach continues with us here for a few minutes more.

We covered today's history lesson, but we haven't gotten to the National Day calendar yet and any other news that Messers Olsen and Bach would like to share with us on this lovely Friday morning.

So let's start with what's on the calendar for today, Parker.

It is National Inclusion Day.

Thanks for inviting me guys.

Yeah, exactly.

You should always feel included in all that we do here as long as it's between 630 and 7 o'clock on Friday morning.

Woke.

Woke lips.

Got you.

Comedy.

What else we got?

We've also got cake decorating day as well as angel food

cake day.

But you're two very different things.

There's nobody I know that decorates angel food cake.

It just is what it is.

You put some strawberries over it, you call it good.

Cake decorating.

That's a whole different thing right there.

That's like a sport, basically,

at this point.

It's gotten to the point now where, and we watched a few episodes of this because one of my grandsons loves, is it cake?

Oh, yeah.

Have

you seen this?

I've watched a little bit of that show, but I've seen the videos now where people are like, is it cake or is it steak?

And it's always cake.

Well, yeah, it's always cake.

It's just amazing how lifelike they can make these things now.

But let me ask you a question, guys.

Yes.

You go to a party and there's cake.

Yeah.

And you find out it's just like it's just regular angel food with some frosting or like a little stripe of frosting in the middle.

You're like, OK, I guess.

Like.

In

today's

day and age, I feel like you dose do so much more with cake when someone brings in the angel food, you're like, really didn't try to do.

OK.

I went to a party last

two nights ago

where there was cake where there are peanut butter cups baked into the cake.

I'm like, now that's living.

Yes.

Yeah.

That was something.

Yeah.

Tony, though, says it's been a while since I've had angel food cake.

Might have to have that this weekend.

Yeah.

If you can find some good.

Good.

I'm gonna have me some angel food cake.

That's right.

I've grown

to appreciate angel food cake more as I've grown up, I think.

You've grown to appreciate it?

Yeah, which is probably backwards.

But Parker, Parker, Parker.

Yes, I know.

I'm a very, very weird man.

That's

the first step into old manhood for you.

I've grown up in my life.

I've seen a thing or two.

One thing I know is I love Angel Food Cake because it really brings me back to the days of four years ago when I was in high school.

Back in high school, I was the big man on campus.

I was the Angel Food Cake King.

And it's only in retrospection that I see that that was the best cake of cake.

I've caked it all.

If only Mathers were here today, he would bring in some angel food cake just on the spot to see how much Parker would wolf it down.

Any other notes on the calendar or do you want to jump in entertainment?

It's also World Egg Day.

Shout out to our farmers.

I love

eggs.

Oh, egg or egg?

Egg.

You're called

EGG.

Okay.

We'll stop talking.

Okay.

OK, it is egg day, not egg day.

We've got that set up.

Thank you.

It's also World

Mental Health Day.

World Mental Health Day.

Well, it bypassed some of us today.

Maybe next year.

Maybe next year we'll have mental health on October 10th.

Just not at the moment, though.

That might be sleep deprivation.

It'll be fine.

All right, what's what's new in entertainment and feature news

entertainment and feature news mr. Crite low the smashing machine Have you heard of it?

Have you seen it the Dwayne the Rock Johnson?

His new movie it flopped I guess but it

has a 72%

on rotten tomatoes

72

okay, okay,

is that good?

I have no idea.

It's, it's decent.

I mean, it's not something they would put on the poster.

Usually they put it like certified fresh, what's like 95 or above, but this is Dwayne The Rock Johnson's

first foray in a long time into a more dramatic type of stuff.

After he's done a bunch of movies that kind of went nowhere.

He I'm glad he is a good actor.

He has done some really good roles.

He just got stuck in those action roles.

And I don't know if you've seen him like in the last six months, but he's lost a ton of weight.

He's doing the Dave Bautista thing.

He's still big, but he's slimming down.

He's taking different roles.

He wants to be taken.

So he wants to win an Academy Award for this movie.

And I don't think he's even

get nominated.

Well, I mean, Trump wants a Nobel Peace Prize.

I mean, you can you can wish for one thing.

And fair point.

That is a fair

point.

What's the thing you can't say on the radio?

You can wish in one hand.

Yeah, anyway.

And so good.

Good luck to the Rock

with

his Oscar with his Oscar dreams.

Well,

I mean, I'm going to see the movie.

It looks amazing.

It looks really, really good.

It does look

interesting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right.

All right.

But still a flop, but you're going to go.

All right.

What else, Parker?

We've also got Bob Ross.

30 of his paintings are being auctioned off as a fundraiser to support some public TV stations because of the federal cuts.

Do they all have happy little trees in them

that have been painted in?

I would sure think so.

I

hope

so.

That's another one of those people that you don't, you don't appreciate till afterwards and you kind of now look back like fondly, whereas at the time when Bob Ross was just like, who's that goofy guy on the TV going, oh, look, we're going to make happy little paintings.

But then once he's gone, you're like

Oh, I kind of missed that happy fella.

You know, I used to watch him when he was doing shows.

I'd, well, I love that show.

And I would never tell people because I felt embarrassed.

I'm like, I don't want to tell people I

watched the painting.

Guilty pleasure.

We found a great book.

Guilty pleasure.

Like an angel food cake.

Wow.

So much discovery we're making here today.

And finally, Mr.

Olson, the video game assassins Creed.

Oh

God.

Yes.

Yes.

This is really interesting.

And I think.

I bet Greg wants to go off about this.

Um, it was developing a new game and it was canceled by the developer because the game is set post civil war and featured a main character who was a former slave that would fight against the KKK.

This was canceled because there were concerns about the US political climate and getting backlash.

Yeah.

Yep.

There it is folks.

There can't have that.

Nope.

Can't have that.

Nope.

In the year of our Lord 2025, we have a game that might be too real because it involves, you know, the KKK, slaves, political violence and things like that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

While they're developing a new

game where you walk, you walk a character down the street with a torch in his hand going, we

will not be replaced.

It's going to be a huge seller.

No, no, no.

Greg, thank you very much.

You're welcome.

You're welcome.

It'll be so much happier next week when we're talking about fun brewer stuff, right?

Yes.

or we're

not talking about it at all.

Right, exactly.

Either way, I will convince myself to be happy.

That's my World Mental Health Day.

All right, we can review panel on the way, as well as Mike Clements with Sports and Dr. Kristen Lyrely.

I'm Pat Crite Law.

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