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Well, hey there, Wisconsin.
Good morning.
It is 6.06 on a Wednesday morning.
It's October 22nd, 2025, and it's another beautiful morning to have you here up north.
Live from Lake Wissota from wherever you're listening across the Civic Media Radio Network, catching us on Facebook, by YouTube, by podcast.
We appreciate you being here in the middle of the week.
I got a question for you.
Have you got a great photo of fall colors yet?
I know for some of you, myself included, it's, it's kind of irresistible when the colors just right, you got to go snap a photo and I've got, I've got so many around Lake Wasoda.
And I've got, I've got the colors really popping right now, but it's also been kind of cloudy and rainy.
That's going to change in the forecast.
So I'm expecting to have some
Awesome photos of fall colors around the lake here real soon, and we are starting to collect them here at up north news and Putting them in our newsletter, and I'm sure we'll put up a carousel for social media as well And we would love to see your photos of fall colors around the state and you can send them to us directly through email You can use this address radio at
upnorthnewswi.com, radio at upnorthnewswi.com.
But guess what?
If you want, if you want producer Parker Olsen to see them as well, well, just text it through us through the Civic Media app.
We can, we can do that.
We have, we have the capability.
Parker Olsen is here right now in Madison Studio A2 and can confirm people send us photos.
They do.
Nice.
Yeah, like we got all kinds from the, the No Kings rallies.
People wanted us to see the funny signs that were up there as well.
I appreciate it.
Yeah, so we like that very much.
So you can use that Civic Media app to text us your comments, text us your photos.
You can call us directly from the app or you can call 855-75-CIVIC.
Or you can leave a voice note as well, all on there.
But the colors would be great, aren't they?
I have no idea if they've started really changing down in Madison yet.
it was really
Yeah, I mean, we do live in a pretty place.
And it's just nice to have that reminder now and then.
So again, we'd love to get some of your fall foliage photos, if you would.
Coming up a little later in our homeroom segment, we will be talking to the president of the school board in Verroqua.
She recently joined some state lawmakers in making sure the public understood that the new state budget, while it did put some money in things like special education,
There was a 0% increase in general state aid to school districts, 0%.
Inflation's not 0%, and so school districts are having an even tougher time, even after the state budget, because that's the best the Republican led legislature would do in reaching a deal with Governor Tony Evers to get the budget passed on time.
And so,
they're gonna be more referendums because once again, this legislature would rather pass the buck and make school boards into the bad guys and ask voters to raise their own property taxes rather than pay out of a multi-billion dollar state surplus.
And so Angie Lawrence from Verrocco will tell us more about the way the system is set up right now that's in our homeroom segment coming up at 7.35 this morning.
I mentioned the newsletter and if you don't get it already, well, you need to fix that.
Head over to UpGrowthNewsWI.com, click subscribe up in the top banner, and you can see what Ellie Bordeaux is putting together.
She's going to tell you about it as well because she's going to be here one hour from now.
She joins us now on Wednesday mornings right after the 7 o'clock news to talk about what's going in our daily newsletter, including today.
Well, let's see, we talked about
for brewers and packer seasons that there were new food and beverage options available.
Always are each season as they turn things over.
That's no different at the Pfizer Forum for the Milwaukee Bucks who tip off their season tonight.
And so we'll learn more about some of the new interesting food and beverage choices at Bucks Games.
Also, she has a new series called Civic Check-In on some of the terminology that is out there
When we're talking about the Trump administration, you know, things like last week, she talked about the, you know, the literal definition of authoritarianism.
And today it's oligarchy and these are all five dollar words that people go oh college boy with your well They mean something and they mean something serious and real in the context of what's happening in our country in the here and now and so Ellie gets into oligarchy and what it means when we've got more billionaires than ever and they're not just buying nice yachts and cars and houses they're buying power They're buying access there
almost literally buying politicians.
Maybe some would say literally.
And so oligarchy is, it's not a word you use all the time, but it's a word you maybe want to get freshened up on because it sure is starting to apply to what's happening in our country today.
There's also our Sunday morning newsletter that I put together, and you can sign up for that at the same website, upnorthnewswi.com.
And we have a question of the week where this week we ask about online sports betting.
Now, you do have things like Fandoul and DraftKings that are out there.
These are national sites and technically they're not legal to use in Wisconsin.
It's a misdemeanor.
It's probably not something that ever gets enforced, but technically it's not done legally.
There are ways to gamble legally in Wisconsin, like going to one of the many casinos owned by tribal nations around the state and inside those casinos, inside some of them, are what are called sports books.
Just basically little lounges where you can watch all kinds of sports on a million TVs and you can place bets right there on the professional sports But what about an online option where instead of having to physically be in one of the tribal casinos?
Could they operate an online site and then just at home you could place bets on professional sports
That could be made legal.
The question to you is, should it be made legal?
Is it something that is out there anyway?
And so let's make it tied to legal state casinos, or is it something that encourages gambling abuse?
What are your thoughts on that?
We're already getting a nice wave of responses on both sides of the question.
And again, you see it first by signing up for our Sunday morning newsletter.
Also coming up, Dr. Kristen Lyrely is going to make a special Wednesday appearance with us at 8.35.
And that's because of Halle Berry, the actress.
Now, Halle Berry won't be here, but we will hear from her because she was part of a virtual news conference yesterday on behalf of a bipartisan bill in the Wisconsin legislature related to menopause, information, education, and resources.
So we'll play back some of that news conference where Halle Berry talks about just how many millions of women go through menopause in this country, how many thousands per day move into that phase.
And yet there's still so much stigma around women's health at that age and acknowledging the symptoms and treating the symptoms and doing more medical research and making sure there isn't misinformation out there.
It's not often we get to talk about a bipartisan bill, especially one getting celebrity support.
So Dr. Lierly will be along to talk to us about that as well.
Now, if you can't stick around till 835 for that segment or 735 for our homeroom segment and or even 635 when we do our daily history lesson, be sure you sign up for us as a podcast head over to Spotify or Apple or wherever you get your podcasts and get all signed up now.
uh 614 right now and again i've mentioned it's october 22nd so we're still just over a week away from halloween and yet perhaps because of the change in weather perhaps for a myriad other reasons parker we have started looking into christmas shopping and what to get for people i mean specifically our kids and grandkids but
We we've reached that point in the calendar.
We even you you got on a little quarter zip fleece there.
It looks like or something, right?
So, you know, to everything there is a season and that includes the season for holiday gifts.
We stopped at farm and fleet in Halle over the weekend.
The best place to
The first thing the greeter hands us is a scratch off card for potential discount at their toy land
and
toy land.
is about to open up there.
Or maybe it has, I'm not sure.
But we, we and we're not the only ones who said this, we're like, wait, that was always a Thanksgiving week thing.
You know, and I'm not I'm not picking on farm and fleet.
I'm saying in general, the seasons have all moved up.
If you I've not been to target in the past couple of weeks here, I dare say if you go to target and you're looking for a last minute Halloween costume, you're going to be out of luck because you're going to find all kinds of Christmas stuff in there.
And that's just how American retail works in this day and age.
And so, yeah, we're thinking about Christmas shopping, which, by the way, can you hear the flood approaching?
Yeah, the flood, the catalogs.
My mailbox is going to be so full of catalogs real soon.
It could be.
Perhaps we
I don't mind it.
Yeah, I don't mind
it.
Tony says your Halloween costume is going to be an L for a reindeer.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
That's a good idea.
There will be those there.
Yes.
The thing is, with both of our daughters being born the last week of October, a couple of years apart, we had gotten into the habit
back during the pregnancies of boy, we better get some Christmas stuff prepped ahead of time, you know, because then the babies are going to be born and times are going to get crazy.
So for the longest time that actually became our tradition was like early to mid October, was to try to bang out as many Christmas gifts as we could on our list.
But over time, not just because we got a little bit lazier, you know, you're not going through pregnancies and newborns anymore.
But
There's all those special, you know, what specials are you gonna miss?
They put so many specials out there for like Black Friday and all of that and you don't you don't want to miss any of that so so We've started talking about it, but the shopping is probably gonna begin in earnest for many people in the next week or two here
The the last reliable chance.
Yeah, there's always like a retailer somewhere.
That's like, oh, we got to we got to move these microwave ovens.
Custom kitchen delivery.
Anyway, so they'll run something, you know, closer to Christmas out of desperation.
But yeah, the Black Friday Cyber Monday thing is kind of it, which I don't mind that because so much now is done online.
And don't get me wrong, I would love to support local retailers as much as possible.
There's just fewer and fewer of them all the time.
But one of the things I don't miss that seemed to become quite a tradition for about a generation there was the Black Friday crowds where people like beating each other up to get to, you know, beanie babies or tickle me Elmo or whatever the deal is.
lot trying
No, no.
Let's see.
Tony says, wait, your wife's significant other hasn't finished their Christmas shopping like a month ago.
I couldn't buy Christmas presents for anyone but her if I wanted to.
Well, see, we all have we all have our own division of labor there.
And yeah, I would I do I have used Wisconsin based
catalogs before you're sending things like new skis bacon or cringles
out of
her scene, you know, things like that.
So we actually should put a little emphasis on Wisconsin retailers, Wisconsin made Christmas gifts that people you know, could do because then you don't have to go out trudging through the parking lots, but you're still supporting, you know, Wisconsin retailers and getting things done that way.
So, yep, here we are.
We're setting up the time for Christmas here.
Temperatures around the state range from 37 in Manitouish waters in the Sol and Springs to 48 in Chano.
It is 43 right now in Wausau here in Chippewa Falls in Wisconsin Rapids in Oshkosh and La Crosse.
It's 45 degrees right now, lingering rain chances today, then pleasant and seasonal for the rest of the week.
All right, we'll talk about a couple of bad ideas from the GOP, more guns, and a recycled candidate for attorney general, all coming up from the heart of America's Up North, live from Lake Wissota.
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Just about 623 right now and I have the unhappy duty to tell you
It's still dark out there.
Oh,
season's changed.
Winter's still approaching.
What we're talking about.
Christmas shopping, of course we are coming up later today across the civic media radio network Matt and air on air follows this fine program at 9 o'clock Deborah Cron Miller from the League of Women Voters will join Jane Matt and Aaron Greg Bach again That's about 935 that you can catch Deborah Cron Miller from the League of Women Voters Todd Alba who had a birthday yesterday was But not old enough to retire contrary to public opinion.
He'll have his show today from two to four I will be joining him along with trig v. Olson from the
Lincoln project right off the top just after the news at two o'clock.
And the Maggie Dawn show this afternoon from four to six, coming up at five o'clock, she will have officials from the group kids forward on how the government shutdown has led to the real possibility that snap nutritional benefits may start to run out because of the shutdown.
So again, you've got Donald Trump
Derek Van Orden and friends who would rather see families lose out on their food assistance and see health insurance costs rise to pay for tax cuts for billionaires rather than run a government in a functional manner.
And so Maggie will have more about that with her guests just after five o'clock here on the Civic Media Radio Network.
To learn more about any of these shows and much more, head to CivicMedia.us.
Well, here's something absolutely nobody's been asking for the headline from Hope Carnop in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Wisconsin Republicans introduced bill to allow concealed carry without a permit and Propose stronger constitutional right to bear arms stronger right to bear arms Allow me to steal from John Stewart who says if more guns make us safe When does that start?
We are already a nation awash in guns.
We are a nation awash in blood.
From all of the people who die from gun violence, from accidental gun discharges, from suicides, and more.
And yet, there are now Republican lawmakers who've introduced several bills aimed at expanding access to firearms, including allowing for concealed carry without a license, without training.
Why?
Who is who is asking for this besides the mythical next mass shooter?
That you are encouraging were these bills to pass and of course they won't pass
Governor Tony Evers is still at the helm.
He still knows how to operate a veto pen.
So once again, these are lawmakers who are wasting your time, they're wasting taxpayer resources to make a political point to go back to their districts and say, gosh, we tried to put more guns in the hands of more people without training and without licensing, knowing that we're increasing the odds of mass shootings and violent crime and gun accidents.
But that mean old governor wouldn't let us do it.
Could I kindly suggest you just put out a press release saying, hey, if you elect a Republican governor and a Republican legislature next year, here are the bills we would introduce to increase the odds that you or somebody you know would get shot.
That press release will cost a lot less than the process of writing these bills, introducing these bills, having to take up time for committee hearings,
even conceivably passing them as ridiculous as they are, having the governor veto them, come back into session to attempt a veto override which would fail.
You've got people like Senator Andre Jacques and others who are saying like in this quote from the story, for many Wisconsinites, firearm and archery traditions are more than recreation.
They're a way of life passed down through generations.
Yeah, yeah they are and they will continue to be.
because the people who do hunting and sports shooting and archery and everything like that know to go through the processes to get a license to get trained to take hunter safety.
That is not the same as basically rolling a truck into the middle of town and dumping a bunch of guns on the streets and saying have at it gang.
These are the people that love to point to a Milwaukee or a Chicago or other places and say, oh, look at all the violent crime there.
They love to trash Milwaukee and other places.
And then they propose bills like this that are gonna put more guns into people who aren't trained, aren't licensed, aren't vetted.
What a waste.
Meanwhile, Republicans are recycling a candidate for Attorney General.
The District Attorney in Fond du Lac County, Eric Tony, has officially launched a second campaign for Attorney General.
So there will likely be a rematch with Josh Call, the incumbent Democratic Attorney General, who beat Eric Tony last time around.
Now Josh Call has decided he wants to run for a third term as Attorney General, and Eric Tony wants to take him on again.
Well, what do you think Eric Tony talked about in...
announcing his campaign.
I'll just give it here it is.
We have also seen Milwaukee crimes spiraling out of control.
We see reckless driving where we know people are afraid to go to the city of Milwaukee.
people avoided all together and that should not be the case.
Milwaukee is the largest city.
It should be the engine that drives our state forward that people feel safe to go and visit and enjoy the beautiful city of Milwaukee.
Have you seen the attendance figures at American Family Field and for Bucks Games and for Summer Fest and the Milwaukee County Zoo and all kinds of other areas where people love to go to Milwaukee to dine and to recreate and to visit?
They know the places that the places that they want to go But it's such a convenient easy talking point to bash Milwaukee writ large as if you're going to do something about it as Attorney General Oh, by the way, he he did bash one other group while he was there immigrants Because again, it's just a broken record with these folks including the broken record of recycling a failed candidate
There's today's segment on not so great ideas.
How about we go to today's history lesson?
You want more Taylor Swift?
I got more Taylor Swift for you.
It's right after the Midwest Farm Report here on the Civic Media Radio Network.
We're going to start today's history lesson with a little Bob Seeger.
That
is because on this day in 1976, Bob Seeger released the album Night Moves, along with the title track there.
It spun off singles like Rock and Roll Never Forgets, Main Street, The Fire Down Below.
Again, Night Moves, the album was released this day in 1976.
If you've ever heard the term
rugged individualism.
When talking about politics, where did that really get its start?
A guy named President Herbert Hoover, who made a speech on this day in 1928, talking about the American system of rugged individualism.
You know, the solitary cowboy who can make his own life without the government telling him what to do, rugged individualism.
A speech on this day in 1928 that proved that even presidents can be utterly clueless about the workings of a functional society.
Because somewhere between individualism and outright full-on dependence for handouts, there's all kinds of middle ground, including the right balance of something known as community.
Where we all work together with our resources to create a better life for all of us while maintaining our individual liberties You know community as in it takes a village Somebody was very right about that back in the day Let's go way up to 2012 right now.
So my goodness It's been 13 years ago since Taylor Swift released her fourth album Red the first single there went to number one
This was apparently some kind of a kiss off to an ex she refused to name So we'll go to resident Tate historian Parker Olson.
Did we ever find out who she was talking about never getting back together with?
You think so?
All right.
Well, there you go.
There's our next assignment for Google.
Better yet, let's bring in chat GPT because I mean, why have AI to cure cancer when you can use it to research Taylor Swift song lyrics?
So we're gonna we're gonna get to work on that.
got it.
That's right.
Red also included the single I knew you were trouble you I knew you were trouble.
And again, that was released 13 years ago today.
On this day in 1966, the Supremes became the first ever girl group with the number one album.
The album was The Supremes A Go-Go.
Very typical name for 1966 when they had an album that went to number one.
On this day, 60 years ago today, 1965, the number one song was by The
Beatles.
And
one of those Beatles is on today's history lesson for a reason that came up almost 20 years later on this day in 1984
Paul McCartney released the soundtrack for Give My Regards to Broad Street, a film that covered a fictional day in the life of McCartney who wrote the film for the screen.
It was a bit of a dud, but the album did well, including some Beatles remakes and some new music like this single, Signal.
Single, he said.
Single, single,
single.
No more lonely nights was one of those singles off give my regards to Broad Street, but I mentioned along with the Beatles remakes There is an updated version of silly love songs that you got a little bit of traction back in 1984 But I still cue it up every now and then it's definitely worth a listen to hear what Paul McCartney was thinking 20 years after the Beatles of some of the fresher versions of tunes again for a movie that
I didn't see I don't know anybody that saw it.
But you know, some movies don't do so well.
There's soundtracks do all right.
So that's great.
One more birthday.
It's a kind of a short history list today.
Shaggy is 57 years old today.
Shaggy is a much better stage name than his birth name.
Orville Burrell.
Orville Burrell was born 57 years ago.
He's a two-time Grammy winner.
He's a Marine, a Gulf War veteran, married for at least a decade, five kids.
He loves to be the benefactor of a children's hospital in Jamaica.
Now he's got his own XM channel.
And I'm not saying that I want.
A voice like his?
I'm just saying I'm very jealous of it.
It's just so distinctive.
not at all.
Salah O'Shea, he's 57 years old today.
Actor Jeff Goldblum is 73.
Actor Bob Odenkirk is 63.
Corbin Burns, the actor, is, is that right?
31?
What's got to be the picture?
Who am I thinking of?
I
no idea.
Oh, my goodness.
Are there more Corbin Berns's?
Yes.
From the movie Major League, he was the Corbin Berns.
Corbin Berns, and that's who I was thinking of.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Oh,
my
mistake.
I was like, wait a minute.
Did I put that in there because of Major League being filmed in Milwaukee?
No, no, no.
You're just talking about that guy, not the other guy.
On this day in 1966, boy, we've mentioned Weird Al Yankovic twice in a week here.
A 1966 seven-year-old Weird Al Yankovic had his first accordion lesson.
His parents rented the instrument from a door-to-door salesman.
Door-to-door
up.
You know what?
When we talk about Amazon and all the other Christmas gifts and everything out there, we don't have door-to-door salesmen.
like we used to.
No, that's true.
I'm not saying that's a bad thing.
I'm just saying your kids chances of playing an accordion are a little less now because we don't have door-to-door accordion sales reps.
Yeah.
See now that you're going to get work.
There's going to be mariachi bands.
You're going to need that.
I think that was actually quite cool.
Let's see, what else have I got here?
Oh, the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis, this day in 1962, when President John F. Kennedy announced that American reconnaissance planes had discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba and had ordered a naval quarantine of the island nation.
On this day in 2002, Christina Aguilera released her album script with singles that included Fighter.
So the album had plenty of songs that basically burned down her image as a wholesome little pop starlet from the Mickey Mouse Club and everything, but that worked out just fine for her.
There were their ballads there like beautiful, a very powerful song about self-acceptance and more.
It was basically the first time that she had creative control over her music and so she really roared onto the scene this day in 2002.
Let's see there's also well this here's out of the other news headlines six years ago today that America's top diplomat in Ukraine Bill Taylor Testified that then President Donald Trump had tied military aid to Ukraine into demands that Ukraine open up a phony investigation into the Biden family It was shocking at the time.
I mean people knew that
Donald Trump could say and do a lot of things but to actually tie military aid to another country unless they shake down his political opponent was something so over the line That it led to an impeachment and should have led to a conviction but Republicans in the Senate Ron Johnson and others Decided to change the rules in this country as far as what presidents are allowed to do on this day in 1907
There was a run on the Knickerbocker Trust Company.
There's a name you don't do.
We got to bring back the name Knickerbocker, not just the New York Knicks.
Just Knickerbockers overall.
That's a good word.
don't think we should call them the Knicks.
I believe that is still there.
I think
is, but their full name.
problem.
Anyway.
So back to 1907 there was a run on the stock of the knickerbocker trust company which set off the panic of 1907 Which I always enjoy when I see these in the history lessons because we call them depressions now the Great Depression we had the Great Recession sure, but there were plenty of you know Big economic slumps and over the years.
They were called panics back
then.
We not
A week or two ago, we had the Panic of 1873, and this one was the Panic of 1907.
It was all based on a bubble, as all these things are.
The bubble this time was about copper.
Copper speculation, probably because they realized that copper wiring could be useful in transmitting
things and
things like that, but no doubt for construction.
Anyway, this whole depression in 1907, or Panic, if you will, led to the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank that we have now.
All right, 646 and it's time to take a look at what's on the national day calendar for today.
I was gonna say that's the main thing.
You want lung health, you know, but put out that heater.
You don't you don't need it.
I mean, you can maybe treat yourself to like, you know, one or two, you know, swish your sweets a year, you know, when you're out drinking with the girls.
But that's that's really about it.
So be good to your lungs.
What else we got?
Enjoy that color is there.
That's okay So basically if you if you know somebody who's color blind, I mean, are you supposed to be extra?
Nice and empathetic to them.
Are you supposed to rub it in their face?
I'm not sure how this works, but that's
Just so it's appreciate that you're not color blind day
I suppose, yeah.
We should rebrand it.
OK.
Anything else?
We've got national nut day.
Nut day.
Just nuts overall.
Nuts overall.
That's the thing about these national day calendars, man, because I'm sure that there's national macadamia nut day, national walnut day.
This is the big umbrella one.
Be thankful for nuts.
Yeah.
It's a good day.
I like nuts.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The thing that this time of year is the one time of year that I appreciate a little combo that I like to call peanuts and Candy corn roasted roasted because you gotta do something with that candy corn Who would eat candy corn plain?
I mean just would you put you put your paw into a bowl of sugar and just throw a fistful of sugar in your mouth?
That's candy corn.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what you got against candy corn?
It's just it's all sugar.
I can feel my teeth falling out just thinking about it But now you take a little bit of candy corn and some peanuts then you throw that in and Man, that's that's a that's a payday bar or a salted nut roll that you didn't have to pay extra for for the wrapper and the name and everything else
It's good.
Eventually, Mr. Olsen, your teeth too will age and get to the point where you know that if you were to just put candy corn in your mouth, you would be getting instructions on how to clean those dentures going forward.
So just like it's long health day, consider this your tooth health reminder, not to put straight sugar into your mouth, even if it is Halloween.
Mix some nuts in there with it, because it's National Nut Day.
Coming up in the next hour, we are going to be talking to the president of the Verroqua School Board all about the decrease in general state aid while cutting to zero percent.
Not very helpful in an era of inflation.
That's coming up.
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All right, let's continue dumping on candy corn for a moment or two here because Roger and Steven's point put on Facebook.
My rules about candy corn one, open candy corn bag two, dump candy corn in a waste basket three, open a Kit Kat for enjoy.
And again,
for a
guy who always has a bowl of Kit Kats in the kitchen here, I can't disagree with that Roger one bit.
Except for the peanut trick that kind of saves it.
But Tony disagree, Tony says nuts can't save candy corn.
You guys aren't
No pun intended.
You guys are nuts.
Uh, I see what you did there.
Okay.
Well, you make you have to agree to disagree.
Uh, so I was trying to figure out the, the origin for knickerbockers that we were talking about in the last segment as well.
Originally just a nickname for descendants of the, of the early Dutch settlers of New York city.
We're called knickerbockers, but then somewhere along the line, they also became the name for a form of baggy-need britches made popular in the early 20th century as to where your knickerbockers don't get your knickers in a twist, as it were.
All right, so there's our little mopping up from the history segment.
What do you have for entertainment news for us?
have that's right.
You didn't there was research that was done on there research and It was both you did you and Tony basically get it at the same time?
Thank you Well, if it was about Maggie Gyllenhaal, I mean that would really be a song but no apparently about Jake which again, I don't know all of the people that you know
Taylor dated.
So I have no, I have, and I doubt that Jake Gyllenhaal is going to sue us.
So I have no reason to doubt that if both of you found it through the Google machine, then that must be the answer to never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever getting back together with Taylor.
All right.
Now the other entertainment
Now the entertainment news.
And you know what, while we're, while we're talking about Taylor, let's talk about the In the Heights podcast that her fiancee
has with his brother Travis Kelsey and Jason Kelsey.
They have had some celebrities on and they have.
They have found that Keanu Reeves and Leonardo DiCaprio both had stage names that did not stick.
Oh, really?
Keanu Reeves.
Apparently he almost made his stage name Chuck Spadina.
Chuck Spadina.
Spadina or Spadina?
Maybe it is
would probably
Yeah.
So
OK.
No, no, it's work.
Yes.
Sometimes you got to you got to workshop these things.
You need to try something and go, No, that's just doesn't fit.
And then try something else.
I mean, if I'd have known I was going to have more of a career in radio or TV, I don't know that I would necessarily have kept quite low.
Because it's, you know, nobody can spell it right.
Too often comes out Crete low or a crit low or crit low.
And I just go, you know, I really should just come up with
something else, you know, could just download a lot of people do do the first and last name or the first and middle name thing and go, you know, it's me.
I'm Patrick Jerome.
It might have, it could have stuck.
Well, that and that that's the thing is after after Chuck, he moved on to that, which is funny, because it's one of them that I discarded.
Originally, my radio name was going to be Keanu Reeves.
And I just didn't think it was going to work.
So that would confuse people.
I trashed it and Chuck picked it up and ran with it.
So good for him.
All right.
What else we got for entertainment news on a Wednesday morning?
We've
It is in the works, doesn't have a release date yet.
It will be about, you guessed it, the Kennedy family.
I don't know if it's the first season or the first episode.
I don't know how much range they're covering with it.
right off the bat, but it starts in the 1930s.
So it is described as exploring the triumphs and tragedies of the Kennedy
family.
The Kennedy family, and I certainly don't mean Robert Jr., but even prior to Bobby and John, you already had a bit of a family dynasty there.
And so it is a family that is essentially ripe for the picking when it comes to dramatic storytelling about the family's patriarch, Joseph Kennedy.
This is all based on a book called JFK, Coming of Age in the American Century 1917.
to 1956.
And it was after 1956 that people were kind of getting serious about, you know, Senator John Kennedy from Massachusetts, maybe running for president.
But again, there was a lot that was both a blessing and a curse about about Joe and Rose Kennedy and, you know, the family business of the time.
So, you know, Michael Fassbender is starring in this.
And see, did they say when it's coming up on on Netflix?
No,
never
Still in the works.
Okay.
All right.
Well, I don't doubt that that's going to get some numbers because people have always been fascinated.
It's the closest thing we've had to like a royal family here until the Trump family came along and they actually want to be royalty.
Good luck with that.
Seven million marchers say good luck.
Any other entertainment news we want to share today?
Lizzo, she's being sued for apparently ripping off instrumental and vocal elements of a copyrighted song.
Her song is I'm Going Until October.
If you don't really recognize that, it's because it was never released commercially, just on social media, and it has not been monetized, but she's still getting sued over it.
I'm not taking Lizzo's side on this necessarily.
I'm just saying what I've said before, songwriting.
I couldn't possibly do it because as soon as you start to string a couple of notes together,
You find yourself wandering into some other song that already exists.
You know, I don't know how you write something original that if somebody else hasn't grabbed whether it was released or not released, that that's hard stuff.
It is.
So I'm going to give Lizzo the benefit of the doubt until you see more obvious signs that it's it's a blatant ripoff.
Because again, it's enough for me to string three or four words together coherently.
much less the notes.
Thankfully, they've let me do this for three hours a day on the radio anyway.
And we're going to try it again in the next hour in our homeroom segment, talking about the 0% increase in state aids to schools and how hard that is hitting and going to lead to more referendums.
I'm Pat Crichtlow.
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