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It's a special Halloween edition of Mornings with Pat Crichtlow.
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Live from the haunted Lake Wissota studio.
Here's your ghost host at Bright Low.
Parker, are you responsible for that?
No, I'm only responsible for playing it.
Oh, OK.
Well,
then that's fine.
Sorry.
Let me get my proper Halloween costume on.
That would be the baseball cap here that says last minute costume on it.
with a bat and a pumpkin and a few other things.
Wow.
Everybody, uh, nice to have you along on this Friday, Halloween morning.
It, it's a, wait, let me get, let me get the spear here.
It's a spooky morning to have you here up north live from Minnesota.
There we go.
The dramatic effect, uh, from wherever you're listening across the civic media radio network or all the other ways that you found your way here.
Thanks for getting your Halloween started.
Uh, got a question for you.
Can you tell that?
Parker that I have the scariest Halloween costume on possible right now.
That's right.
I'm dressed up as a Brewer's fan.
Oh God.
I know.
I am the ghost of the league championship series past.
I hate it.
I hate it.
Trade your Halloween bats for bats that have gone silent.
There.
I've scared myself.
That's it.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Uh, join us along the way.
Uh, give us your idea of a much better costume than this eight, five, five, seven, five civic eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two though.
I mean, to be fair, I gave it an effort.
Parker over here is dressed as a mild-mannered, you know, young man in his twenties who has an early morning job in a broom closet at a major market radio station.
Yeah.
That's you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, every time that we say it's a room closet, I just have to look around and go.
Yep.
Yep, it is.
Hey, with
the curtain
for some reason.
I like the curtain there because it prevents you from seeing some of the other items in the broom closet.
But as somebody who has worked in many a broom closet in my day, working my way up the broadcast ladder of excellence, I'm here to tell you the next closet will be bigger.
Mr. Olson.
it will.
I sure hope so.
Right.
Let's see what's coming up on the program today.
We're going to talk to courier newsrooms Kia Vakil, our national political editor.
There are elections one year from next week, one year from Tuesday, here in Wisconsin.
But next Tuesday,
There also will be actual elections in several states.
It could be a real barometer of things to come.
And so we will talk to Kia about that in just a little bit.
Of course, Greg Bach will be here after that for our Friday history lesson.
And later on in the program, we'll have Chicago radio legend, Jonas Pezzito, joining our Week in Review panel.
And in our eight o'clock hour, Kristen Lyrely will be joined by Emily Sefos, a candidate for state senate in the Fox Valley.
So all that and more coming up along the way today.
It is another cold morning around the state.
28 right now in Black River Falls and in Superior.
La Crosse is at 36.
Chippewa Falls here is at 37 degrees.
Wasaw is over at 34 right now.
Let's see, so the number again, 855-755-CIVIC, 855-752-4842, and Cindy is on the line from Appleton to tell us about a costume.
Cindy, good morning.
Well, I'm going to beat your scarier brewers costume.
Uh-oh.
I'm dressed up like a Trump supporter.
No, no, no, see, we need...
We need shrieks of horror to guide that and some some organ music.
Oh,
you did it, Cindy.
That I mean, you're wearing the red hat, I suppose.
Not really.
I'm
just, you know, just pretending.
Oh, I feel so much better for you, Cindy.
Cindy, thank you for calling.
Happy Halloween.
And don't ever scare
me like that again.
I'm not that
young
anymore.
And then we've got Alicia who says I'm dressed up as a blue collar worker.
Yeah, Alicia, I know it's the same costume every day and it is appreciated, trust me.
Let's see, what else have we got here?
Oh, Jim from Brookfield's putting in a little something here, so we'll see what he's got in just a bit.
And we'll also continue to take your calls on what you're given out and what other costumes you've had.
I had to take some photos of our neighborhood costume party.
And we held that yesterday just down the street here.
And we've got couples, one of them dressed up in the I Dream of Jeannie costume and her husband dressed up as Major Nelson.
from my dream of genie.
I mean, they looked great.
Another couple dressed up as the the pair from the painting American Gothic, you know, the farmer holding the pitchfork, and they they totally nailed that one.
Let's see somebody else had Oh, yeah, we had some folks with their they could still fit into their high school letter jacket and cheerleader outfit in in their elderly years, which was pretty impressive.
Let me tell you.
And we had some folks who had pom poms and
on their shirts, it said go ceilings because they were fans, ceiling fans.
All right, they can't, they can't all be winners.
Let's see, Jim from Brookfield might be on the line to talk about his daughter's costume.
Jim, you there?
Yes, good morning bag.
Good morning, Aaron.
Yes, I just want to let you know that my daughter she lives out in DC right and it works right near the Capitol But she and her friend are going to a costume party tonight out near the Capitol and they're gonna go as the Lou burglars and a pair of Lou Lou burglars or the individuals who sold all that Jewelry so earlier this week my wife and I put a bunch of custom jewelry and some of her
things in a box and shipped it out to her.
But we have like a crown and some jewelry or whatnot.
But she's going to go as one of the loop burglars and wear one of the safety vests with all the jewelry.
I love that.
That's perfect.
I love the the attention that goes into that.
And you were you were essentially an accessory to the accessories in sending that out to to there.
So good on good
on you.
Well,
I hope that doesn't get you in trouble with the law for, you know, aiding and abetting a burglar like that.
But thank you.
Are you are you going out and about yourself?
I'll be home with a fire on the front and the skeleton out there and we'll be handing out candy most of the night because in Berksfield it is on Halloween it goes from five to seven thirty.
Five to seven thirty and what are you handing out?
Snickers and of course the classic Reese's peanut butter cups and some little
Yeah, I mean, you have to hand out the Reese's.
So
do you get the candy that, you know, you want like when it's leftover, you're going to enjoy the leftovers or do you do purposely buy something you're not fond of and you try to give it all away?
The former will buy something that will finish be more than happy to finish over time if it's if it's not completely handed out and it ebbs and flows usually there's a little left but last year.
And even the year with the snowstorm, everything went so it kind of ups and blows.
We're thinking a full crowd this year.
Oh, I'll bet you will.
And yeah, I've got my 50 gallon drum of KitKats here.
And if I don't give them all away, well, I'll just have to, I'll have to enjoy them.
That's just fine.
Jim, thank you very much for the call.
I appreciate it.
Have a good start to the weekend.
You as well.
Thank you, Pat.
All right, take care.
And let's see, also from Alicia, one I remember is when I was a ballerina with a snow suit underneath because we had a snowstorm.
What year was that, 1990?
Nope, I think you're thinking of the Halloween Blizzard of 1991, when we tried to take our youngins out, they were
one year that one had just turned one year old and the other just turned three years old.
And yeah, tried the costumes, but had to, you know, put the put the, you know, snow suit over it, essentially, because this, they said, Well, there's a chance of snow on Halloween.
And it was coming down the biggest, fattest flakes.
And the wind was was howling in a fashion that was appropriate to Halloween.
And we thought, Okay, well, this is this is spooky.
This is a
This is actual snow coming down hard on Halloween, having no idea we were going to get 30 inches.
I love because Halloween, you typically get some interesting costumes.
I really love the idea of a guy like dressed up as a surfer dude or something like that and just snowflakes in the air.
Uh
huh.
Yeah, I would not have would not have been.
It would not have worked out.
So you wanted you wanted to dress like a snowboarder that year.
There you go.
Yeah.
Okay, well, I appreciate that.
So keep those ideas coming in through the text line or make a phone call.
Put something in the comment section of Facebook or YouTube.
And give us also more costume ideas.
Here's the other reason you need the costume ideas, not just for last minute things for tonight, but for next year.
Because tonight, it's on a Friday night.
Next year, it will be on a Saturday.
So there you go.
Alicia followed up on the Halloween blizzard.
There's a photo somewhere of me next to a jack-o-lantern and a pile of snow.
Yes, I'm really glad that we're not seeing that coming up here and now In the news on this Friday This is unfortunate and this is amazingly unnecessary but in Wisconsin the first two Head Start programs are going to be shutting down
because of the Republicans shutting down the government.
And that means hundreds of kids and a couple dozen child care, a few dozen childcare providers will be hurt.
And this is only the first domino of others that could fall because Head Start programs, which provide early childhood education, childcare, health, nutrition, parent involvement services to lower income families.
Head Start operates on a federal grant.
that is given out annually.
And these first two Head Start programs have grants that are supposed to come down November 1st.
And because of the shutdown, that's not happening.
So they have to close their doors.
One is the Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program.
It will close its nine Head Start classrooms next week.
That'll affect 114 children in Richland, Green, Grant, Lafayette, and Iowa counties.
and 34 staff who will get no paychecks while this is going on.
Also, the Sheboygan Human Rights Association will close its Head Start classrooms on November 14th.
That'll impact 172 children in Sheboygan County and 48 staff who will go without paychecks and not only those 172 children, but of course their parents who will suddenly not have
the usual childcare option for them and are going to be left scrambling.
Now again, because these are federal grants done on an annual basis, those are the two in Wisconsin that were due to get their annual grant on November 1st.
There are more coming.
Governor Evers made this announcement yesterday about the first two and noted there are three more Head Start programs that are expecting a grant on December 1st affecting more than 1,100 children.
And on January 1st, four more programs affecting 1,250 children, nationally around three quarters of a million kids get educational and developmental services through Head Start.
And Donald Trump and Derek Van Orden and Tom Tiffany and Tony Weed and Brian Stile and all the other congressional Republicans out there don't mind this one bit.
They are happy to keep this shut down going rather than negotiate with Democrats to avoid monster price hikes for health insurance.
That's the weird thing about this.
It's not like they're demanding anything where you'd go, oh, well, that seems reasonable.
Let's let's try to meet halfway on this.
No, the reason that they are refusing to negotiate with Democrats to get the votes they need to get the government reopened is they'd rather see
health insurance costs go through the roof and that's what's going to be happening tomorrow when the open enrollment period begins under the Affordable Care Act in the marketplace.
There's going to be massive sticker shock and I think a lot of those Republicans are going to be hearing from their constituents next week saying, what are we doing here?
And in the meantime, everybody else that's suffering through the SNAP benefits and everything else that's happened to workers who aren't getting paychecks or having to work for the federal government without getting paid.
That's all very scary in a non-Halloween kind of way.
We'll talk more about the headlines with Courier Newsroom's Kea Vakil coming right up from the heart of America's Up North live from Lake Basota.
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Welcome back on this Friday morning.
Time to check in with Courier Newsroom's National Political Editor Kia Vakil.
Kia, how are you?
I am all right, Pat.
Living one day at a time.
Well, of course, you're in Los Angeles.
I mean, you're on pins and needles.
The Dodgers are this close to blowing the World Series later tonight in Canada.
I also know you're not worried one bit about that.
Are you Philly's fan?
No, not particularly.
And I'm more watching my LAFC soccer team.
So I'm one of the great people who is not all that invested in the World Series despite living in LA.
let's start with next week rather than the we'll get to the shutdown of course and other things but there's something there's some big things happening next week that I think we should preview here it's not election day here we'll be marking one year until the big 2026 elections for governor and congress and legislature but there are elections ever other places next Tuesday what should we be looking for you want to start with where you are in California
sure so we have prop 50 here in California which is
essentially a ballot measure asking voters to approve a new congressional map that would most likely see Democrats pick up another five seats.
Of course, this is in response to Texas Republicans gerrymandering their map, which kicked off a whole saga that we now have like half a dozen states involved in.
We have that across the country in New Jersey and Virginia.
You have two governor's races and some legislative races in New York.
We obviously have the mayoral race.
In Minneapolis, we have a mayoral race.
We have a state Supreme Court races in Pennsylvania.
And then there's others in different spots all across the country as well.
It'll be interesting, though, to see what we learn in those, because during Donald Trump's first term, basically every special election, every midterm, everything like that was a setback, all leading to Trump losing his own reelection in 2020.
This time around, I mean, he got reelected.
He's got a base that is devoted to him.
But we're really going to see a barometer of whether that base turns out in other elections next week.
Yeah, I mean, we are.
And, you know, this does feel slightly different than 2017.
You know, I do think we've already had a handful of specials this year where Democrats have overperformed, which is not surprising.
The Democratic base now turns out more in these sorts of off years.
But yeah, it'll be interesting if Republicans win one of the governor's races in Virginia or New Jersey.
That's a huge win and frankly, like a huge choke job by the Democrats.
And so it'll be very interesting to see what we learn.
I think we can't look at any one election or race as like indicative of anything, but as a whole.
Yeah, I think there's going to be some signs under the hood of what we can expect going into next year.
All right, certainly clouding all of this is what's happening with the government shutdown for as long as Republicans can keep
you know the the government shutdown and spread the pain around and we've already talked about you know the first two head start programs in wisconsin that are likely going to have to cease operations and of course you see the stories from throughout the courier newsroom network and you know head start is just the the latest casualty along with snap benefits and affordable care act health insurance premiums and military paychecks and so why not head start right
yeah i mean it's brutal we're gonna see lots of
working class, low income, frankly just poor, even some middle class people, they're gonna lose childcare for their kids, they're gonna lose food benefits that they rely on.
We're gonna see people with disabilities and seniors and veterans and kids probably go hungry because the government shut down as it relates to SNAP, the Trump administration refuses to use emergency funding, even though that's what it's there for.
Head start, like that's gonna decimate parents, like parents,
Childcare is extraordinarily expensive.
Head Start is there for parents who can least afford it to pay for childcare.
And without it, what are they going to do?
Are they not going to work?
Are they going to lose their jobs?
Are their kids going to go without care?
It creates impossible situations for families who already basically live the lucky ones paycheck to paycheck.
Some of these people don't even live paycheck to paycheck.
And it's just really galling because Republicans control the White House.
They control the house.
They control the Senate.
And yet no one expects them to be reasonable.
It's all about, oh, when will the Democrats cave and make sure that people don't go hungry and don't lose health, don't lose childcare?
When will the Republicans actually...
try to fight and make sure people don't use those things.
It's just, it's such BS that the narrative is what it is.
It is.
And again, it is testimony to, you know, the right wing media bubble.
It is so much larger than, you know, a lot of people want to give credit for.
And then in the midst of all this, Kia are just a wave of layoffs across corporate America.
I know we've talked about it previously, but I mean, these, these are not numbers to sneeze at of people losing their jobs beyond the federal government.
No, it's a lot of number.
It's a lot of layoffs We have seen target.
We've seen Amazon Microsoft All sorts of GM this week announced a couple thousand layoffs across the Midwest.
It's brutal and You know to some extent you do tend to see more layoffs tick up towards the end of the year as these companies, you know want to juice their stock price and their earnings But this feels a little different to me it is
Tens if not hundreds of thousands of layoffs happening within the span of a couple weeks in September and October It's also a lot of white collar jobs, which is something you don't always see And I you know, it's happening at the time that we're seeing Car loan delinquencies go up credit payments fall behind all sorts of different economic indicators kind of flashing red Meanwhile, you have the stock market continuing a really strange climb upwards on the back of like six or seven stocks and so
It's very much, it feels like a bubble built largely on the back of AI.
And meanwhile, everything else and everyone else is struggling.
And if and when that bubble bursts, which I suspect it will, this is just going to be the beginning of layoffs possibly.
And that's, that's really scary.
And I would reference people back to yesterday's show in our eight o'clock hour.
We talked to Sean O'Malley, a Wall Street expert, all about the AI bubble.
And he's a compliance expert on Wall Street.
And if he's afraid of just how massive this bubble is, this is something everybody needs to be paying attention to.
All right, we're heading into our history lesson next.
So I'll leave you with some musical trivia.
If I give the name Robert Van Winkle as having a birthday tomorrow, anything for Robert Van, come on.
not every one of the CDs.
You
know, it sounds like a made up
name.
No, the made up name is vanilla ice because Robert Van Winkle wasn't good enough.
So Kia Vekil.
Thank you very much.
Have a good weekend.
And we will note Mr. Van Winkle, Mr. Ice's birthday after this.
You're up north.
We're starting our Friday history lesson with a little hoody, like the owl for Halloween.
It's nothing like that.
See, this is why we only let Pat play on Halloween every so often, other times it just takes the day off.
Atlantic Records signed Hoody and the Blowfish this day in 1993.
The band's debut, Cracked Rear View, would become the best-selling album in Atlantic Records history.
track there only want to be with you hit number one on the pop charts letter cry and time and hold my hand we're all top five hits for hoody and the blowfish and then they practically went away but that's the music business for you welcome to our history lesson for a friday oh friday well that means greg bach is here boys and girls good morning
yay
hello everybody yeah
and and what are you dressed up as today
as an accomplished adult
Very good.
Very
nice.
If you check my Instagram feed, I am Greg Bach on Instagram.
See what I did there?
Plugged my Instagram.
You will see pictures of a final, finished, completed garage cleanup.
Ooh.
That's
a big project.
Wow.
That was amazing.
Scary.
Scary to get something like that done.
Yeah.
Good idea.
That's all right, and it's perfect timing because trick-or-treating Kenosha is tonight from four to seven So I can set myself myself up in the garage with some candy and a chair and allow the Dozen of children to come through the neighborhood.
That's awesome.
Wait a minute.
I'm looking at this on Instagram now This is the before picture the first pictures the before picture.
Oh, okay.
Oh, there's a before and after.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, there's the after
Pet was really worried about that first picture
going, this is
clean.
I was going to say, wait
a minute.
Do you understand what clean looks like, Greg?
Because this looks like you dropped a bomb inside of it.
If
you could just get a bobcat or some other kind of a bulldozer and just push some of that over and make some space, that would be great.
No, I like the idea of handing out candy while you're in your garage, making it kind of an outdoor thing.
Some of our neighbors sometimes will have a little fire pit going or something.
Ooh, that's
cool.
Make it nice and
spooky.
Plus kids knocking on the door and ringing the doorbell and coming up.
Not so good for my dog.
Oh,
that's
true.
So I'm going to subtract her from the equation and just plant myself in the garage and hand the candy out.
I think that's just the way to go.
All right.
Also on today's history lesson on this day in 1964, Baby Love by the Supremes goes to number one, giving them their second chart topper after Where Did I Love, Where Did I Love Go, making them the first Motown Act with two number one hits.
On this day, oh my gosh, it's 50 years ago.
50 years ago today, Queen released Bohemian Rhapsody.
every so often we play something during the history lesson and I can hear a good chunk of the listenership go stop.
No, let the song play.
Just go
get
some coffee or something.
But we can't do sing along this morning with Bohemian Rhapsody much as we all would like to.
Because ever since Wayne's World, the movie, you have to give it a very dramatic interpretation when you're singing along to Bohemian Rhapsody.
And that song and Queen seems to have like a decade comeback.
Like
it
happened for Wayne's World, then a decade later.
And then the biopic came out.
They always seem to be coming back into our lives, which I have no problem with.
No, none whatsoever.
And I love the part of the movie where they play it for the record executive.
And he's like, what the heck is this?
Nobody will listen to this.
And 50 years later, nobody knows his name, but we know the tune.
On this on this day in 1941, Mount Rushmore was completed after 14 years of work.
On this day in 1968, the Milwaukee Bucks won their first game after losing the first five.
They got their first win after beating Detroit this day in 1968.
By the way, they beat Golden State last night, 120 to 110.
Yana sitting out with a sore left knee.
All right, I
I think you've got this one already, Greg, but on the birthday list, if I tell you that this is, as I said to Kia Vekila a moment ago, Robert Van Winkle's birthday, you know who we're talking about,
right?
Yeah,
I do, baby.
Let's play a little of Mr. Van Winkle's greatest hit.
Speaking of Queen.
If there was a problem, go, I'll solve
it.
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it.
Yeah.
Vanilla Ice is 58 years old today.
And got sued by Queen and David Bowie.
Yes, and rightly so.
Dan Rather is 94 years old today.
Bring that music down just a little bit there.
In fact, it's Vanilla Ice.
You can.
Melt the ice a little bit.
Melt the ice, Parker.
We done with this.
Yeah, I'm done.
Wow.
Actor Brian Doyle Murray.
Bill Murray's brother is 80 years old.
Oh my goodness.
I don't think he gets enough do.
I mean, he's played some great roles in Christmas vacation and caddy shack and groundhog day.
Well, his work with
second city and SNL.
I mean, he has been, you, if you hear it, you might, you might know the name, but you can't put it to a phase and you, but you know the phase
as soon as you go to the face and you hear the voice and you go, yep, that's, that's, I'm
professionally
angry.
two people born this day in 1950.
I wish they both were still with us.
Only one is Jane Paul.
He turned 75 years old today.
And I wish John Candy did as well.
He was
born
this day in 1950.
Gone way too soon in 1994 at the age of 43.
Have you seen the John Candy documentary yet?
It was beautifully heartbreaking.
We could we I could I could spend hours but I will not that
documentary was amazingly done.
That that is on our watch list for this week.
And if I may put another great documentary just put out recently by made by the children of the subject.
Mira and still are nothing lost is the Ben still are documentary about their parents.
And I loved stiller and Mira back in the day.
Yeah.
Oh, they were they were great night.
No, when the when their nepo baby came up and like, Oh, he's not going to be any good.
Turns out Ben Stiller is actually pretty good.
He's
amazing.
Yeah.
And with parents like that.
So yes, I'm glad you reminded me.
Okay, it's a documentary weekend.
There you go.
The household.
All right.
On this day in 1980, Bruce Springsteen got his first ever number one album with the river featuring this top five hit
I think we've talked about this before, old classic songs and finally you kind of pay attention to the lyrics and go, oh gosh, I don't know if I still like this song as much.
Give a listen.
Yeah.
Okay, now.
It's like when you listen to the lyrics to the Pina Colada song, you're like, oh, everyone in this song is a trash bag.
They're terrible, all of them.
None of them deserve happiness.
This guy's abandoning his family.
We're just
celebrating this.
I'm laughing.
I'm laughing.
Oh my goodness.
But yeah.
I learned not for a pack of cigarettes and I never came back.
1980 is when he had his number one album, The River.
On this day in 2011, if it felt a little more crowded around here, it's because the world population reached seven billion.
2021 it's currently at eight and a quarter billion people.
It's just
too many people.
Yeah.
Yes.
Meanwhile.
Meanwhile, Dr. Oz says America's under babyed.
That's another topic for another time.
Oh
I think you keep saving these topics because I'm gonna need a guest host one of these days podcast podcast.
Yeah.
Yes.
On this day in 2008, an anonymously submitted white paper called Bitcoin, a peer to peer electronic cash system was published describing a decentralized peer to peer network that could track and verify transactions while producing a transparent verifiable record.
The money of the future
or a Ponzi scheme.
You be the judge.
No,
thank you.
No, thank you.
Okay, here's a case of Old Song and its remake.
Here's the Old Song from 1963.
The number one song was by Jerry and the
Pacemakers.
Now, folks either know you'll never walk alone from that version as fans of the Liverpool Soccer Club, because that is still their theme, or maybe they remember hearing Jerry Lewis sing it at the end of all of his Labor Day telethons.
Whatever the case may be, it's a perfectly lovely song.
But I gotta say, I still prefer the way the Dropkick Murphy's gave it a little touch.
They stepped up the tempo just a little bit.
It seems still beautiful, but then... More bagpipe.
Okay, we've heard more cowbell.
This is the first time you go, I need more bagpipe.
I need more.
I love that song.
I love
that version of it.
On this day in 1969, the Beatles scored their third
Keith number one album with Abbey Road.
A few singles off there like this one.
By about this time, you thought the Beatles are going to be around forever.
I
mean, look at
the stuff they're cranking out.
It's all so different and imaginative and little did they know they were coming near the end of the road on this one, the Abbey Road.
See what I did there.
On this day in 19... Thank you.
On this day in 1992, the Roman Catholic Church apologized for its treatment of Galileo.
The Italian
astronomer... Better late than never!
359 years late, acknowledging he'd been right about the Earth revolving around the Sun.
You know, the important thing is that you recognize that you are wrong.
Was
it just, had they already acknowledged the Earth and Sun thing, or was this the first time about the Earth and Sun too?
No, this is just the the apology.
Okay, just the apology for Galile.
Okay, that's good.
Yeah, we probably shouldn't have done all those terrible things to you.
Oh, wow.
Also, in 1969, I mentioned that Abbey Road was the number one album.
The number one single was by
Elvis.
Suspicious Minds came right after the 1968 comeback special.
It was his 17th and final number one song here in the country.
There is today's history lesson for you.
What pray tell?
Parker Olsen is on the national day calendar, besides it being Halloween, of course.
Well, Pat, because it's Halloween, it's also, I believe, Frankenstein Friday.
Frankenstein Friday Frankenstein Friday no word on if this is about the doctor or the monster
I Think you can't have one without the other or
it's my favorite comedy do a Frank and Stein There's
a hot dog.
Here's a beer.
Yes.
All right.
What else are we celebrating today?
It is also national breadstick day.
I'm a big breadstick.
What do you mean
why?
Why on Halloween?
I never understand these dates.
You asked
Parker to
do the
National Day Calendar.
You didn't ask him to do deep research on
the
origin stories.
Clearly, I need to upgrade the assignment here.
Why?
Why?
Why on Halloween are we doing
breadsticks?
All right.
Do you want one that makes sense today?
Yes.
Yes.
It's caramel apple.
Is
that better?
Yes.
Thank you.
What do you want from me?
It's caramel apple day.
Yeah.
caramel apples.
That thing that you get to enjoy from when it first takes out, you know, one of your baby teeth.
Yeah,
it takes out one of your adult teeth in your advanced age and you go, that's it.
No more caramel apples.
We're done.
It was a good ride while it lasted.
Could you swipe this up for me please?
Better yet, could you mash it?
Let's see what else we got.
There's also knock knock joke day.
Halloween
on Halloween when we return.
We'll tell you
what.
After this.
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Oh, that's it.
Okay.
Here we are back on Halloween on this Friday morning, October 31st.
Craig Bakas here along with Parker Olson as we were going through today's history lesson, the national day calendar, some entertainment news to follow.
Greg, when you're handing out the candy in the driveway, will you be gussied up in some way, shape or form?
I'll
be gussied up
in a jacket.
And that's it.
Well, pants.
I'll be pants.
No costume.
I was gonna say my favorite social media posts from yesterday said.
All it takes to be Winnie the Pooh is a red t-shirt and a lot of courage.
No, I don't.
Oh, I might wear my little Batman mask.
I just, I don't do, I'm not against Halloween.
Like I'm not like an anti Halloween person, but it's to me very, it's takes a lot of thought.
It can be expensive if you want to do good costume.
So I just, I let, I let the people who are really into it take it.
Like you do your thing.
I appreciate
it.
Let's take.
Leave it to the leave it to the masters.
All right.
Yeah, we get we gave Parker a good three four minutes here to come up with the best possible knock knock joke for national knock knock Joe.
There you go.
What do you
got?
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Radio.
Radio who?
Radio not here I come.
It's a knock knock joke.
It's not going to be good guys.
Yeah.
Look, there is only one.
really good knock knock joke.
And it is the first time a kid learns the banana orange one.
Yeah, when they when they successfully tell it for the first time.
And they laugh and they laugh.
They think it's just the greatest of the orange glad I didn't say banana.
And they're like crying.
They're so happy and proud of themselves.
I'm like good for you.
Never tell any more knock knock jokes.
That's the peak right there of knock knock joke them.
Exactly.
All right, let's do some entertainment news and other celebrity gossip, things like that.
Shall we start with?
I haven't seen CBS Mornings in the better part of forever, but apparently there might be a personnel change in the works.
There are reports that Gil King is going to be leaving CBS Mornings, just with the changes that are kind of going on at CBS in general.
Yeah.
Not great, you know, I would I'd love to make a space joke right now But like that story just I read I read the story about CBS and it just make it just it really it Guts me it really just much like CBS is being gutted right now.
Yes Yeah, exactly and in Gale King's case again your Oprah's best friend
you know why why wouldn't you just be sitting on the veranda every day and you know talking and if you want to you know put a microphone between you and have a little podcast you're working way too hard if if you get to be best friends with opera you don't have to work that hard but that sounds like
a good deal
it would be a good deal I mean just like if Greg were to become you know a billion-dollar lottery winner
Yeah,
I mean, do you think I'd be working this hard on morning radio?
No, I'd be hanging out by the pool with him offering to wash his car every so often, whatever it took to be in the shadow of your money.
For the love of friendship.
Yes, exactly.
All right.
What else you got?
Prince Andrew yesterday is being stripped of his royal titles by King Charles.
comes with the allegations of him being connected to Jeffrey Epstein.
Wait, you mean somebody can face consequences for their association with a monster sexual predator?
I cannot believe that.
Wow.
And it's done by the man's brother, too.
Like we have the politicians who are like, I can't.
There are so many people.
It's like, it's like, you're not related.
Like you can do this.
You're not related to any of them.
King Charles just like smacked his brother down.
Yeah.
And apparently, rightly so.
That's that's how it's supposed to work.
Wow, actual consequences.
Yeah, we we've got to try to import that in this country.
See if we can't work on that with that 218th vote in Congress to finally release things.
Okay, so Prince Andrew will no longer be a prince.
Um, now Prince Harry is still a prince, right?
He just not the other things, the Duke of this or that.
As
far as I know, I frankly, I thought that this was about Prince Harry at first when I read it.
And then I realized,
oh, no, no, no, no, no.
Yeah.
Harry and Megan, they just get booed at Dodger games.
Yeah.
You know, whereas if you, if you were to drop now soon to be not Prince Andrew into the middle of a crowded Dodger stadium, I think they'd do more than boo.
He's now known as a Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, which I
did not
know.
That Windsor was
actually part of
their family name.
Yes, there the Mount Baton Windsor dot dot dot still rich.
Yeah,
but he doesn't get
to live
in the
Royal Mansion anymore.
Still creepy.
Still probably needs to pay more of a price.
But we got to start somewhere.
All
right.
Got one more for us.
The runner up of season six of The Bachelorette.
Chris Lampton, obviously, you know that.
Oh, of course.
Yes.
He is running to be a state representative in Massachusetts.
He's running as a Democrat and says that Realty TV really got him ready because it taught him how to do interviews and think on
your feet.
You know, reality TV is the way toward public service and elected office.
I mean, look at Sean Duffy.
He's running NASA.
right now.
And the US Department of Transportation and his experience is some law school and some lumberjacking and dancing around in his underwear on reality TV.
There you go.
What else do you need?
So if this bachelorette guy wants to do it, in this day and age, I can't call him unqualified, even if he's remarkably unqualified.
I just am very not happy about that.
Well,
we're just ended on a, on a great note here.
I didn't think I was going to be
here though.
I'm always happy to be here every Friday with the both of you talking about all the fun stuff here
in
the mornings with Pat Crichtlow.
See what I did there.
I love the Senate media.
I was good while you're at it.
Boom.
Whoa.
What you, what you got on Matt and Aaron air today coming up.
Oh, today
we got
Dan Schaefer.
All right,
Dan Schaefer day.
We're
recombobulating the news, friends.
Okay.
Looking forward to that nine to 11 across the civic media radio network.
Have a good weekend, Greg.
Thank you.
You too
as
well.
Thanks, guys.
We'll
talk to you
soon.
You bet.
Still ahead.
We're going to have our weekend review panel here.
It will be former US Attorney Jim Santel, journalist Mark Jacob and pinch hitting for Jennifer Scholes.
You will be Chicago radio legend, Joan Esposito.
And then in our eight o'clock hour, we'll talk to Dr. Kristen Lierly.
Let's see, we will have Emily Cephosan as well, a candidate for state Senate.
All that and more ahead across the Civic Media Radio Network.
I'm Pat Critello from Up North News, back after
this.
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