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Now, from our Lake Basota studio, here's the founding editor of Up North News, Pat Gritlow.

Well, hey there Wisconsin.

Good morning.

It is 6 0 6.

It is a Thursday morning November 20th 2025 another beautiful morning to have you here up north live from Lake Wissota from wherever you're spending your mornings listening to us across the civic media radio network or watching on social media podcast however you got here.

Nice to have you here with one week to go until Thanksgiving and that leads to my question for you today.

Have you always had

a smooth Thanksgiving?

Have they all gone just according to plan or have things gone awry?

Maybe a little off the rails, maybe a full blown disaster.

Today is the day where we get that, you know, we relive

the worst so that we can have our best next week.

We want any Thanksgiving disaster stories that you want to share.

They don't have to be full-on disasters.

Just, you know, funny things that go wrong.

Maybe some are funny.

Maybe some are not.

But we'd love to hear about them at 855-75 Civic, 855-752-4842.

So we are inviting storytellers.

today to tell us a little story about a Thanksgiving that went that went a little sideways.

You know what, if you've got a heartwarming story to we'll take it, you know, the kind of thing you see in like those coffee commercials, you know, at this time of year, all those other feel good things, but we're really looking for, you know, somebody sticking a turkey in the oven when it was still frozen.

you know, maybe, maybe the political discussions got a little out of hand one year and the mashed potatoes were flying.

Um, maybe somebody brought a new boyfriend or a girlfriend and that went over not as well as maybe they had planned.

Maybe it's a fight over sports and sports on the TV or what channel to watch on the TV or

You have to have it out with that person who insists that by a little after sunset on Thanksgiving, it's all got to get put away and the Christmas decorations have to go up.

We'd love to hear all about that at 855-75 Civic.

Alicia writes, uh, never.

Thanksgiving has never gone according to plan.

We also have from Alicia one year.

My ex wanted to make homemade cranberry sauce.

He forgot to put the top on the blender.

Hot cranberries all over the kitchen.

There we go.

That's what we're talking about right there.

Alicia, thank you very much.

Parker Olson is producing things down in Madison studio.

A2.

He's already got a smile on his face.

All thanks to Alicia.

How you doing?

I'm doing

really good now.

Yeah,

aren't you though?

I

really I really hope that you guys are sending in a ton of these because frankly, I don't think I have a like horror story from Thanksgiving, but I Would love to learn from yours.

So I know what not to do

But that's just it.

Yeah, I mean these things they're never planned the things that just happened and I realized I don't really have a horror story to share You know, we've we've the worst that we've done is the one year we

Everybody worked so hard, my sisters, my two sisters worked so hard, my mom and then getting everything all ready.

And then it was a great meal and we're cleaning things up.

And at one point, somebody opens up the microwave to warm up something.

And there's the big bowl of corn.

Yeah.

So somebody gone through the trouble to warm it all up.

And there was nobody noticed at the time like, Hey, how come there's no corn here?

And here's a big, so we were joking about it the rest of the night, like, who would like some corn?

We'd love to have that.

So that's definitely happened in the Olsen house.

Oh, it has, okay.

The only thing that I can really remember, and it's not a horror story, it's just like a weird thing.

Every time at my house that we host something, apparently like one fork or one spoon

will disappear.

Oh, that's, yeah, that's easier where people go, wait a minute, which one?

The other thing, and again, this is a minor thing, it's not a disaster, but it's just a thing, is what's the one thing that starts getting asked as they start with dinner?

Which way is this going?

Which way is this going?

Which way is this going?

Just, have you had this yet?

Clockwise, just clockwise.

Just pick something, clockwise, and go.

Okay.

And that way, when something comes at you from your left, you can be like, uh-uh,

uh-uh, that way.

But is your table long enough and have enough people that you need to have...

two plates of one.

Yes.

And then you got to figure out where where does this race track and where does that race track begin?

Do the people in the middle know you're going across rather than to your right?

Yeah, it's like square dancing for goodness sakes.

Yeah, it's like choreography.

That's got to be done here.

Alicia says that she's glad to put a smile on some faces here.

Roger puts on Facebook.

Thank God for cool whip.

The year my grandma forgot to add sugar to the pumpkin pie.

There we go.

There.

Very important thing Tony says we've always had smooth Thanksgiving's my wife on the other hand.

Well, that's why we're in Wisconsin and not Ohio.

There you go So we are often running and collecting your Thanksgiving stories at 8 5 5 7 5 civic You can call us you can text us through that number as well You can use the civic media app to call text or leave a little voice note to tell us about you know a particular story that way It's in your own words and your own tone

And of course, we've got the comment sections on YouTube and Facebook.

That would be the up north news, YouTube and Facebook pages and the civic media, YouTube and Facebook pages.

Coming up on the program today, it was apparently the last day, the last working day for the Wisconsin legislature yesterday.

You know, you pay them a full-time salary.

This is supposed to be their full-time job.

And they're just kind of done.

So they must have finished everything, right?

Oh, no, not by a long shot.

And Alicia notes here on YouTube, she says, I listened to the majority of the assembly floor session yesterday when I say there were temper tantrums on the GOP side.

Oh boy.

Oh, yes, there were.

And they're a little, um, they're a little feisty over on the Republican side because they got called out big time for allowing assembly speaker Robin Voss.

to screw over women in Wisconsin again yesterday.

So we will talk about that in just a sec, along with all the other things that did or didn't get done in the legislative session in this calendar year.

They're still coming back for a little bit early next year, but if it's anything like in past years, the Republican leadership will meet as little as possible in January and February

and then send everybody home for the rest of the year.

Now, back in my day when I was in the legislature, yeah, you did at some point take off to go campaign for reelection, but it wasn't until like April, May, June, something like that.

And now it's late February, and they're still getting paid for the whole rest of the year to not legislate.

And there's still things that gotta get done.

But instead, a lot of bills got passed knowing full well they're going to be vetoed by Governor Evers.

But that's what they spent their time doing.

So we'll get into some of that today.

Joseph Pecky will join us as well to discuss all of that.

And we'll also have Sean O'Malley talking about your money and the markets and President Trump claiming that we are living in a new golden age.

Apparently, if you can afford to put, you know, gold all over the Oval Office and gold all, you know, if you can have a golden toilet.

Yeah, it's a golden age for everybody else, not so much.

Before we do all that, temperatures right now around Wisconsin, mostly in the upper 30s and low 40s.

It is the cold spots 34 right now in Annago and in Manitowoc.

The warm spots are 43 degrees all over parts of southern Wisconsin, La Crosse, Madison.

In Wausau it is 37 right now and it's 39 in a whole bunch of places in Wisconsin Rapids and Hayward and Oshkosh here in Chippewa Falls.

We're reporting 39 degrees right now.

Roger puts on Facebook.

I also remember Thanksgiving 1987 Packers at Lyons.

Walter Stanley's punt return to win the game for the Packers.

Guess who won the pool?

My guess would be Roger if he's still remembering the details of a Thanksgiving game with the Lions from 1987 Alicia puts the legislators pay should be prorated for when they only work two months out of the year Couldn't agree more Alicia

could not agree more.

Sherita Booker, by the way, also coming up in just under 10 minutes to tell us about some of this weekend's events.

She's our social media manager here at Up North News and, you know, it's that time for holiday craft fairs and other family activities and things like that.

But the main thing that I want to get into here, and you're going to hear about this a few times this morning.

the stunt that assembly speaker Robin Voss pulled so that Wisconsin remains one of only two states along with Arkansas that has not extended Medicaid coverage to cover new moms postpartum for 12 months after delivery right now there's two months worth of coverage but thanks to the Obama and Biden administrations the funding is there

To extend Medicaid, known as Badger Care here in Wisconsin, extend Medicaid coverage for 12 months postpartum.

Because there are a lot of health issues that affect women, not just during pregnancy, but in the months after pregnancy.

Women are still, they can face life-threatening conditions.

There can be all kinds of complications, heart conditions.

There's clotting.

The big one is postpartum depression.

There are dozens of women in Wisconsin.

uh, over like a three year period here who have had serious health issues and some have died and didn't have health insurance coverage because the Medicaid coverage ran out after two months.

So the funding is there to extend it to 12 months and 48 states have done that.

And here's the thing.

Last year, the bill passed the Senate 32 to one.

It came to the Assembly and Robin Voss would not put it up for a vote.

Even though a majority of the Assembly is a co-sponsor of the bill.

This year, the Senate back in April passed it again, 32 to 1.

This thing has around 30 Assembly Republican co-sponsors.

All told, more than 3 fourths of the 99-member Assembly are sponsors.

of a bill that would expand Medicaid for new moms beyond the 60 days.

The proposal was introduced by State Senator Jesse James from here in the Chippewa Valley and Patrick Snyder from the Wausau area and yet there it is just languishing because Speaker Vos didn't want to bring it up.

So

Assembly Democratic leader Greta Neubauer decided to do the legislative equivalent of a discharge petition, as you've heard about with the Epstein files in Congress.

Get a petition, get more than half the members to sign it, and it forces a vote to pull the bill out of the committee where that bill has been languishing all this time.

Well, the Assembly clerk, who is apparently not supposed to notify anybody when this kind of stuff is happening,

went and told the speaker, Hey, Democrats are going to circulate a petition.

And, you know, if enough Republican signed on, it was going to force a vote.

What did Robin Vos do?

Did he say, you know what?

This is the will of my members.

This is the will of my caucus.

Let's make sure that new moms are healthy.

No, he pulled a little legislative trick and pulled the bill out of one committee himself and put it in a different committee.

And according to the rules, now it's got to stay in that committee for at least three weeks.

And they're done for the year.

So it's not coming up anymore.

So to Representative Pat Snyder of Weston, who's a cosponsor, there's Representative Jesse Rodriguez of Oak Creek, who's a cosponsor who did not stand up and demand a vote from their speaker.

The shame goes to them.

We're sharing the blame.

It's not just Robin Voss.

It's all of the Republicans that's cosponsors because let me put this to you very, very simply as a former Democratic state legislator.

If a Democratic speaker

We're keeping a bill that keeps new moms healthy.

If that one guy were preventing a vote, there would be a revolt, the likes of which you've never seen.

But Republicans, they just fall in line.

We'll have more about this throughout the morning, but first we'll pause here and then Sharita Booker is going to tell us all about some weekend events that you can attend.

From the heart of America's Up North, live from Lake Basota.

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

I'm Pat Krightlow.

This is the Civic Media Radio Network.

On this Thursday morning, we are back with Sharita Booker.

She's the social media manager here at Up North News, so she puts up most of the posts that you see on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, all those things, and also tracks a lot of our weekend events to talk about, not just on social media, but right here on the radio.

Sharita Booker, hello, how are you?

Hey Pat, I'm doing good.

How are you?

I'm good.

So we've really made the transition now haven't we?

We talked about county fairs and all the summer festivals and then we had the harvest festivals and we are chugging right into the holiday season with these ones aren't we?

Are we sure are?

Yeah, we've got all kinds of civic events and a little craft shows and things like that.

And so why don't we get started over in La Crosse for Holiday Fair and more that's getting started this afternoon yet.

So tell us about that.

Yep.

So if you're looking for a holiday shopping experience that's not the usual mall or just online shopping or you just want to support local, the annual Holiday Fair returns to the Cross Center this week.

running today through Sunday.

It's a long-standing local tradition held since 1964 and transforms the South Hall into a winter-themed marketplace with lots of vendor booths featuring local makers, artisans, holiday gifts, and home decor.

There will also be holiday music playing and activities for all ages.

Doors open up at noon later today as well as on Friday, 9 a.m.

on Saturday, and 10 a.m.

on Sunday.

Santa will be available for photos each day with poster hours throughout

the weekend and hourly door prizes are handed out from open to closed.

You can also catch surprise appearances from Rudolph the Red Nose reindeer throughout the day and tickets are available at the door only and they're $5 for adults and kids 12 and under get in free with an adult.

For more information visit lacrossecenter.com

And that is just a great excuse to be in downtown La Crosse on on a weekend where there are so many things to see so many restaurants and bars and shops and you name it.

So I mean, don't just plan to come down to the holiday fair plan to make a day of it and hit some of your other favorite places downtown while you are there.

Let's head over to Lake Geneva now where I know some folks are already itching to start thinking about ice fishing.

We're not there yet.

There's still ways that you can float your boat.

And that's certainly the case with what the Lake Geneva cruise line is planning.

Tell us more.

Yeah, they're bringing back their Santa Cruz out of Winter Harbor in Williams Bay this Friday and Saturday, and it all starts at the Christmas Tree Festival where kids can drop off letters to Santa, take family photo ops, enter a holiday raffle that benefits the local charity, and parents can also grab a seasonal drink from Santa's bar.

And from there, you'll board a heated vintage boat fully decked off for the season for one hour cruise along the shoreline.

All kids will get a small treat with their boarding pass, and you can expect holiday lights, carols, and a stop at Santa's Lakeside Hideaway where he'll read children's

name straight from the nice list.

And if you want something just for the adults, they're also offering a 21 and older karaoke cruise that's Saturday night at 820.

So you can grab a drink at Santa's bar before boarding and enjoying an hour of holiday themed karaoke on the lake.

And the Santa Cruz runs at Lake Geneva cruise lines, Winter Harbor with free parking and a shuttle from Williams Bay High School on select days.

Ticket started at $32.

And for more information, visit cruiselakejeneva.com.

A karaoke cruise?

Yeah, that sounds amazing.

Yes, especially if as you described, you know, there's something there at Santa's bar and it for the kids.

I like that.

You just kind of tuck that in there.

You're going to see Santa at his lakeside hideaway as he reads names from the nice list, which I'm sure will have nothing to do with the boarding passes.

But anyway, he's

got a

lakeside hideaway.

This just raises many more questions, but we'll take care of that later on.

Let's end things at the Wisconsin State Fair Park and the

Holiday Folk Fair International there.

Yep, and this is its 82nd year returning to the State Fair Park, and it'll run Friday through Sunday.

It's one of the country's largest multicultural festivals, bringing together global traditions through food, music, dance, and art, and also highlights the cultural heritage of southeastern Wisconsin.

This year's theme is Celebrate the Culture of Traditional Music, which focuses on how traditional music reflects and preserves cultural identity.

So visitors can move between more than 20 cultural food booths inside the World Cafe, including Afghani, Burmese, Ethiopian, and for the first

time South Korean cuisine.

Throughout the weekend, the All Nations Theatre hosts performances from more than two dozen cultural groups with additional invited performers from Poland, Utah, and Japan.

The fair also features the Artisan Corner, a bonsai exhibit, hands-on Native American demonstrations from Dirty Kettle and Milwaukee area woodturners, cultural murals created by Milwaukee public school students, and a full children's area.

Senior day activities run November 22nd and 23rd and a youth chess tournament takes place on Saturday.

Tickets are $13 in advance or $16 at the gate and kids under 7 and all military personnel with ID getting free.

So for more information or tickets visit folkfair.org

votefair.org.

That's easy enough.

And of course, now next week, we will just be doing a best of show bringing back some of our favorite clips of the past few weeks.

And so we won't have a show to talk on next Thursday.

So this is our chance to talk a little Thanksgiving.

Do you have the particular Thanksgiving traditions that you guys are getting set for?

So we've been well since we've been older me and my sister we've been hosting it at my house or her house So my grandparents don't have to cook anymore, but my sister just moved to my nominee four hours away So now it's just gonna be at my house every year until who knows when but so I'm preparing to make some some dinner I'm just gonna do turkey mac and cheese mashed potatoes sweet potatoes and green bean casserole and I think that's

it

Why don't you do that in Menominee?

Then I can just shoot down the road and, you know, you can set up an extra plate for me.

I always think about that.

How close you are to her.

I know.

All right.

Well, next time you're coming through, we'll have to discuss how you do a holiday dinner a little closer up here.

So, well, good.

Well, anyway, happy Thanksgiving.

Enjoy the weekend.

Enjoy this coming weekend as well.

Sharita Bookers, our social media manager here at Up North News, and we'll touch base a little later.

Thanks, Sharita.

Thanks, Pat.

All right, and it's a 629 right now, our question of the day at 855-75 Civic.

What's your best Thanksgiving story?

Do you have a kitchen catastrophe, a dining table disaster, some heartwarming surprises?

You can call us, text us, leave us a voice note, get in the comment sections.

On the text line from Jim in Cavalsport, see if you can guess the year because we've already mentioned it once before.

Jim writes, Pat, we were about to finish the table prayer when an explosion of cheers went out.

Walter Stanley had just returned a kick for a touchdown.

So now we have two people who have Thanksgiving stories about that year.

Do you remember the year?

Parker, we talked about it earlier.

Thanksgiving

1987.

Yes.

Anyway, we've got today's history lesson coming up in just a bit here.

Joseph Becky and more along the way.

I'm Pat Krightlow.

This is the Civic Media Radio Network.

It's time once again for today's history lesson on mornings with Pat Cranklow.

To all who've come to this happy place, welcome.

Ladies and gentlemen,

the Beatles!

That's one small step for man.

Well,

I'm not a

crook.

You

believe in miracles?

Yes!

You know, this depression is gonna be so great.

We'll be the ones eating the cats and the dogs.

That's gonna be fun.

Once again, it is time to take another revealing peek back into history.

Today's

history lesson is going to begin with the birthday boy Norm Greenbaum, 83 years old today.

President Joe Biden is 83 today as well.

Dick's mother is 86.

Actress Bo Derek is 69 years old today as well.

Let's see what else we got for birthdays.

Jerks Bentley, country singer is 50 years old today.

On this day in 1974, the U.S.

Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit against AT&T, which leads to the breakup of the Bell system, which had a monopoly over telephone service throughout much of the United States.

Just your reminder, we have done this before in this country.

We did it over 100 years ago.

We've now done it over 50 years ago.

We break up monopolies.

that are stifling competition and costing Americans money.

It can be done again.

You know who I'm talking about.

Let's get this going, before big tech just has every mortgage on our house too.

On this day of 60 years ago today, 1965, the number one song was by the Supremes.

If you're thinking, this sounds like baby love, baby.

Yeah.

That was, that was how you made hits back then.

They were very formulaic.

Hey, make a song.

You did the twist.

Let's do the peppermint twist.

Let's do that too.

It wasn't very subtle, but you know what?

It worked.

The formula.

That's why

I hear it.

Yep.

I hear a symphony.

It was number one 60 years ago today by the Supremes.

All right.

Let's see on this day in 1962.

The Cuban Missile Crisis came to an end in response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba.

President Kennedy ended the naval quarantine of the Caribbean island nation.

In a somewhat related note, fears of nuclear war popped up about 20 years later on this day in 1983.

ABC aired a movie called The Day After.

about nuclear war coming to America.

More than 100 million people watched and Parker, I don't know that I could possibly, it's not possible to overestimate just how many, how many people wet their pants watching this thing.

I

mean,

it was very...

It's quite realistic.

If I recall, it was set in Topeka, Kansas, I believe, or Lawrence, Kansas.

And you see the missile streaks coming across the sky, because you'd heard a little static on the radio about, you know, tensions were getting high between the US and the Soviet Union.

And yeah, and then you watch people in the aftermath with the fallout and everything else.

And it was a real, it was a real wake-up call to people about the dangers of nuclear war.

I wonder...

I wonder what that would have been like to watch, because now when I see that kind of stuff, I don't really think.

We're so

used to what's called dystopian movies,

you

know?

And this wasn't, I guess you could call this an early dystopian film, but again, it was incredibly unnerving to a lot of people, because we'd heard about the dangers of what happens if these two nations start World War III, and this showed us on a larger scale what could have happened.

So that was again this day in 1983.

More birthdays.

Let's go to Joe Walsh.

He is 78 years old today.

As he continues doing a riff here ahead of Life's Been Good, I will tell you that on this day in 1995.

So 30 years ago today,

Apple records released the Beatles anthology one It was the first of a three-part series of rare recordings and outtakes by the Beatles and again in this internet age We're just used to being able to see everything everywhere all at once not the movie I mean literally everything everywhere all at once including you know all these Beatles clips and things 30 years ago.

This was like, you know opening up a box in the attic of things that you had no idea were around

That was a big deal that you could hear all these outtakes and all these other recordings and Apple Records put that out 30 years ago today.

Let's see, this is the anniversary of the birth of the late musician Dr. John.

It was

his 1973 hit, Right Place Wrong Time.

On this day in 1976,

Of all the things you could write love songs about, I know it caught Parker off guard.

Who knew that rodents could have their own love songs?

Especially

the

ones that just kind of swim around out there in marshes and things like that.

But you know who did it on this day in 1976?

The Captain Nintaniel.

By the way, this song peaked at number four back in 1976.

I

don't

know how muskrats do the town.

I don't know how they do the jitterbug, which is mentioned in the song as well.

Okay.

Well, can I ask you, because I have never heard this song before.

okay um it's a very lovely song it's just it's

like oh yeah it's about muskrats so

i i look this up in our music library as i do um there are two versions of it

okay

uh one uh says without muskrats the other one says full has playful muskrats are there actual muskrat sounds in this

song

Well, there's an instrumental in the middle where the captain, Daryl Dragon, plays his keyboard.

He's the keyboardist.

You never hear from him.

He never sings.

He just plays usually the piano or some of the keyboards.

Sure.

And in the middle, there's a little, you know, playing with the keyboard with a synthesizer, which is made to sound like muskrats.

But I wasn't aware that there was a version without that.

Apparently.

I don't know.

I was hoping.

You know what?

We're going to fast forward this during the commercial break, and we'll see if maybe I'm missing something.

Maybe there was a version with live muskrats.

I can't imagine how that went slithering all over the piano, but it's possible.

That's what I envisioned was live muskrat sounds in this song.

All right, well, now I've got to investigate.

You've piqued my curiosity.

Here's a little clip from Saturday Night Live this day in 1976.

Remember, the show's relatively new and got one of its first viral moments thanks to Paul Simon.

you know this very serious superstar singer is the guest host and he comes out in a full-on huge turkey costume and tries to sing one of his serious

songs.

And then about that time he realizes that he looks ridiculous and says so and I think Lauren Michaels comes out and it was just a nice viral moment that you did not expect.

Paul Simon was good to play along and then of course he hosted many more times.

Let's go way up ahead.

10 years ago today in 2015 Adele released her third studio album 25.

Other singles off 25 included when we were young water under the bridge and of course Hello It's created its own Saturday Night Live viral video about Thanksgiving dinner and how it can soothe even the most quarrelsome family 25 would go on to win the Grammy for album of the year

And one more musical note.

The number one song from this day in 1971 was a little movie music from Isaac Hayes.

Who's the black private dick that's sex machined on chicks?

You're damn right.

Again, we talk about movies that, you know, would not necessarily get made the same way today.

Shaft would qualify as that.

This was the era of black exploitation movies and things, but it was, on the other hand, you had a black actor in a lead role, tough guy role, which was rather groundbreaking for Hollywood at the time.

And Shaft led to this number one hit from this day in 1971.

What do we have on today's national day calendar, Parker Olson?

Oh,

Pat

Critewell,

it is Geography Awareness

Week.

Geography Awareness Week.

I feel like we should have had a little quiz here.

Roger, thanks for putting on Facebook right now.

Can you dig it?

Oh

yeah, we can dig it.

Anyway, so Geography Awareness Week.

I'm trying to think of what would be a good... You know one of my favorite geographic quiz things?

You'll see it in various trivia games and things.

Which city is farther north?

and they'll invariably include a Canadian city.

Yeah.

And people don't sometimes take for granted how far south places are, like Toronto, you know, and Windsor and places like that.

Tony puts on YouTube, I love geography.

I have maps everywhere.

Absolutely.

I'm a fan.

Total geography nerd here, map nerd.

He also puts topography maps are beautiful.

There you go.

I've mentioned that Judy Clark, my old co-anchor channel 13 is retiring in just about two weeks here.

And we just used to revel in our geography nerdness.

We were always looking for ways to show maps and talk about various geographic things.

So there you go.

Geography Awareness Week today.

What else we got for today?

It is Payback Your

Parents Day.

Payback your parents day.

This seems like an odd time of year to have that because you're about to incur all the expenses for the holidays and the first of the year.

You know, maybe you're looking for work.

This seems like the kind of thing that should come shortly after April 15th when anybody got their tax refund and go, hey, maybe you could finally pay back your parents for all those things they did, huh?

Or the things they continue to do, like, you know.

get on your own cell phone plan finally, you know?

You're 45 years old.

It's about time.

45.

Oh, God.

Tony puts, I don't believe in this nonsense day.

Pay them back.

I gave them me.

Tony writes about his parents.

I am a gift.

I am a gift from God just for you.

Well, yeah, but that doesn't pay for the groceries.

What else we got?

I'm just priceless.

It is a rural health day.

Oh, well, we have.

Definitely talked about rural health a lot and threats to it.

And of course, the latest shenanigans in the legislature yesterday make it that much tougher for women in rural areas to improve on their health.

So I would hope that we would do a little bit more to focus on the importance of maintaining a strong rural health system.

So yeah, good that we have a day to highlight that.

And anything else?

Is philosophy day, Pat?

Philosophy day.

Philosophy day.

Do you have a philosophy?

Um, you have words that you live by a little credo or anything.

I've got

not that I can think

of the closest I've got is that, you know, our philosophy is there is no five year plan because you get, you get asked that a lot.

Yeah.

Like, oh, where do you see yourself in five years?

And we have been through enough now that you look back and go, we did not see that coming.

You know, it's good to have an idea of what you might like to do.

But to, to actually, so yeah, for us, there's no, there's no five year plan in five years.

Who's going to remember this, that or the other thing.

So I guess it's a little carpe diem thing, you could say as well.

Coming up in our next hour, we'll be talking to Sean O'Malley about your money in the markets.

As the president says, are we living in a new golden age?

I guess only if you have a gold toilet, maybe.

Live from Lake Wissota, I'm Pat Freiklow.

This is the Civic Media Radio Network.

See Parker, these are the muskrats.

Apparently there's a muskrat free version that skips this instrumental and goes right to the next chorus.

But you'd miss out on the frolicking.

They whirl and they twirl and they tango.

It's singing and jinging a jangle.

It sounds like mice underwater trying to hum

You're trying to drown a bag of mice, you know You've now ruined the captain and to Neil perfectly good love song for me

I'm horribly sorry to ruin the song about much.

No, I don't I don't think you are I don't think you're at all.

I think

I had to do it.

We are collecting your stories of Thanksgiving

You know, the disasters, the heartwarming hugs, the weird surprises, good and bad.

But we really want to hear any particular kitchen disaster stories because we want to help people avoid them next week.

So don't think of it as sharing your embarrassment.

Think of it as sharing your wisdom.

Born of a really bad experience.

So.

Let's see, what have I got here?

I've got, oh, that was Jim and Campbell Sport talking about the kick being returned for a cut touchdown.

We've got the text line here at 855-75CIVIC where you can share that way or on social media.

Entertainment news, where are we starting off today, Parker?

We are starting off in Australia, Pat.

Ah, oy, okay.

Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzy.

A beach brand in Australia is in hot water because

Eminem is not a fan of their name because he thinks it's confusing.

He thinks the the company's name what the product or something?

What's the what's it called?

The brand name is swim shady.

Swim shady for beach umbrellas all that.

Mm hmm.

That's perfect.

And then him shady and Eminem not a fan.

Not a fan.

His alter ego of the real Slim Shady is.

Not too thrilled.

So I believe he's trying to go to the pet, uh, the trademarks and say, Hey, you can't do that.

That's confusing.

I think it's just good branding.

I think it is too.

Uh, is, is slim shady trademarked?

It's a, I think that's a fair question.

So there you go.

So maybe before it goes out of business, not that you, you know, need a beach umbrella from Australia, but check out swim shady.

You might find just the thing you need for your next little beach trip.

What else we got going on?

Uh, Pope Leo a little while ago released a video, um, telling his favorite movies and it was an incredibly predictable list.

The

shining.

Yes.

Conclave.

No.

No.

Spotlight.

Hard no.

Da Vinci code.

Da Vinci code.

No.

All right.

What's on the Pope's list of favorite movies?

It's a wonderful life.

Boring.

The sound of music.

Yeah.

Ordinary people.

Okay.

Life is beautiful.

Incredibly.

And this is why we love why we love some of the popes.

They are so gentle.

Some of them were.

Oh, I see.

Yes.

But you know, Francis and Leo, I mean, they just seem like these really nice guys and you ask them their favorite movie.

It's a wonderful life.

That's nice.

But it's not.

I'm not going to invite him over for a movie night.

Let's just put it that way.

That's fair.

Yeah.

All right.

What do you got

else?

What

else here?

Well, I think you would rather take Pope Leo to a baseball game.

Well,

yeah, he loves his socks.

Exactly.

And not the Red Sox, the White Sox, he's a Chicago

native.

You might have a better time going to games now than trying to find him on TV, because now you need a million more things.

Oh, no.

Netflix has just announced.

Or excuse me, MLB has just announced new TV deals and Netflix is now going to get some games.

Yes,

men.

Netflix.

Netflix.

Yes.

Yes.

Are they still doing the Apple TV ones on Friday?

They are still doing

it.

Oh, come on.

NBC will now have Sunday Night Baseball rather than the

ESPN.

OK, now I like that.

Yes.

Sunday Night Baseball.

NBC used to be the home.

for baseball when I was growing up.

NBC had baseball for a million years before there was Monday Night Football.

There was Monday Night Baseball with Joe Gargiola, Tony Kubek, a very young Bob Costas.

Yeah.

So NBC getting back into baseball.

Very interesting.

OK.

But but Netflix

Netflix now.

Yes.

So for those of you keeping record at home, ESPN, NBC slash Peacock Fox.

Netflix, Apple TV, and whatever your local team

is on.

Yeah, for here, it's FanDuel, but others have other networks that they use.

You quite literally have no idea on any given day where your favorite baseball team can be seen playing their

game.

But you know, I can tell you, though, that you can listen to the Brewers on select stations on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Oh, well done.

Wow.

Somebody's sliding a $5 bill under your door there.

Thank you very much.

I'll be here all week.

Yeah.

That's true.

The radio home isn't going anywhere.

TV, that's a whole different matter.

I'm sorry.

The Apple TV one is frustrating enough, but I was already, I already had Apple TV.

I was gonna say, you have it, don't you?

And I have Netflix too, but now it's like, where am I going to watch this?

And if you want to, if you're going out, I've been to, you know, restaurants and bars that don't have these things.

They have a tough enough time right now with Amazon Prime.

for all the times that the Packers have been on like Thursday night football or things like that where you get there and some poor bartender, you know, they're just that they just want to get your beer.

For some bartenders, it's tough enough just to ask for an old fashioned at this point, you're asking them to they may as well rebuild your engine.

Now you're asking them to become NASA engineers and try to find Amazon Prime on the bar TV, much less Netflix or Apple TV.

This is

This is insane.

Why are we asking this of our bartenders?

I don't know or any of us for that matter.

Yeah,

I told you I was at a bar this weekend and instead of football I think because it would have been too hard to find the right channel We were watching die hard

on Saturday afternoon.

Nice.

Tony says, see, this is why I use the internet in kind of a gray area to get all my channels.

I think it's about VPN.

I refuse to pay for all these services and have an impossible time finding where something is.

And I know as well from living in another country for a while that.

You got to find just the right VPN system.

And most of the time, it works wonderfully.

It kind of hides who you are, so it thinks you're in the US and doesn't block your channels.

But when it doesn't work, it's just a huge headache.

Anyway, so happy baseball season, everybody.

Good luck finding those games.

Sean O'Malley will be talking about your money and the markets in the next hour.

And then in our eight o'clock hour, we'll be talking to Joseph Becky about the final action of the Wisconsin Legislature for 2025, a lot that didn't get done.

I'm Pat Crightlow.

This is the Civic Media Radio Network.

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Hey, good morning.

It is 706.

Nice to have you back here up north on this Thursday morning, November 20th, one week out from Thanksgiving.

Parker Olson producing things down in Madison.

in Studio A2 coming up later this hour.

Sean O'Malley talking about your money and the markets and comments by President Trump that we're now going through a new golden age.

I believe he meant gilded age, but it's pretty golden if you can, you know, be on his income level.

But Sean will tell us about some of the numbers that are finally trickling out thanks to the government shutdown being over that indicate economic health.

They're not great.

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In the newsletter today, Allie has a story, the headline, Discover Nine Winter Festivals That Are Worth Bundling Up For.

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And now Ellie's telling us about some nine winter festivals that you should make plans to attend at some point as well.

So take a look at our newsletter and anticipate all of that.

Our question of the day is asking about Thanksgiving disasters.

Frankly, we'll take any Thanksgiving stories, but we're looking for things that might have gone wrong and that way they offer a little bit of, you know, advice and guidance so that other people don't suffer through the same fate.

But before we get the Thanksgiving Parker, we've got to get a Christmas update, specifically Christmas catalog update.

I showed you the first catalogs that had arrived in

the Cradlebox.

Wasn't

too many but it was a few it wasn't it was only the first two and guess what there's only there's only a couple of more Here's Johnson and Murphy of catalog of boots and shoes.

I've never bought boots and shoes by catalog

And I'm here in Chippewa Falls.

I'm at the home of Mason's shoe.

Well, it kind of used to be.

The shoes used to be made here before they went overseas.

But, you know, that was their whole thing was, you know, shoes by catalog.

And so apparently people are still buying them.

And now the other the other one that we just got was from O&H Danish Bakery.

I think that's in Racine.

And that would be the cringles.

Oh, yeah.

See, now we have done cringles by catalog and we will be doing cringles by catalog.

I can already tell you this particular catalog is going to get a workout with some folks and cringles are great.

I mean.

For me, it's very easy.

If you have your catalog in front of you, just go find anything with cherries and send it to me.

I love a good cherry cringle.

But I mean, it's got sweet stuff.

It's got savory stuff.

All kinds of other flavors and cakes and things.

So yeah, cringles by catalog.

I would take that.

I will gladly take that.

Any time that anyone is offering me food by catalog, you probably have to be a little careful because I don't know if I trust...

food that people are mailing me about.

However, I would always eat something that shows up.

And for listeners at home, Pat has been kicking around down here, looking for

something.

Under the desk, I realized I still have the Newskies catalog for bacon, again, a good Wisconsin product.

But I also have, I don't know if Harry and David is one where it's a lot of fruit baskets.

Oh,

okay.

I didn't have it handy, so I thought I had it down there in the garbage can.

I did not.

I

thought you were keeping these.

I'm throwing them away.

That's where I'm currently keeping them.

Oh, I will eventually pull them out and put them in a pile for for the visual.

So yeah.

So that's that's your your catalog update.

And trust me, many, many more are coming.

Let's say from Joe on YouTube.

Welcome.

Thanks for the comment.

Trader Joe's sells those cringles out West anyway.

And that was a lifesaver for me.

Yeah, I like that.

Anyway, you can get them.

Trader Joe's, that'll work as well.

All right, so getting to your Thanksgiving stories, 855-75 Civic, 855-752-4842.

Here's, this is fresh on the text line from Jim and Brookfield.

A few years ago, my mother-in-law hosted Thanksgiving dinner, not knowing that my brother-in-law would be bringing his new dog.

I'm not familiar with this breed.

Is it a Weinmer

Wine Marner?

Anyway, large dogs bred for hunting.

Large dogs.

Needless to say, the large dog made short order of any food set out and would bark constantly if left outside.

At dinner time, we had to ration the food and eat standing up to avoid sharing our food with the dog.

Lesson to be learned, beware of any dog that joins your Thanksgiving.

Especially if it's on par with Clifford the big red dog, you know,

oh That's so I'm just envisioning everyone because Thanksgiving you don't get small plates on Thanksgiving you use a big plate because you got a lot of food that you want

On top of this, not to throw Jim's brother-in-law into the bus here, but apparently his mom, you know, Jim's mother-in-law, did not know that her son would be bringing this big old dog to Thanksgiving dinner.

Don't do that.

Don't do that to your family or friends or whatever.

And by the way, if you're a pet owner and you're having people over for Thanksgiving, please do not assume that your guests have the same

Tolerance for an animal as you people might have you know cat allergies or they may not like the fact that A pet like a cat is sitting right on the table Right on the tail has happened to us one year being it at somebody's place And I'm just looking going this cat is sitting right on the table

I

don't like that.

It's just pawing the mashed potatoes,

you know, fur and whatever else everywhere.

And so, you know, not saying you got to kennel everybody, but maybe think about it.

I don't know.

My dog is a pain in the neck on Thanksgiving.

I'm not exactly thrilled about that.

Tony says, you bring a pet that's your responsibility.

Why wasn't the brother-in-law holding the dog by a leash away from the people while they ate?

Yeah.

Well, that's the whole thing.

You got to control your kids.

Control your pets.

Control your monkeys.

Keep them.

Some monkeys

are hard to control, Pat.

Don't just let them loose and go, well, I just brought this bag of squirrels.

I thought I would open up for everybody and enjoy Thanksgiving.

So no, they're still, even in this day and age, they're still something called etiquette.

Okay, there's still little rules of the road that we follow and I know etiquette is a dying thing said the old man Like for example getting off topic baseball etiquette.

All right

Don't go up and down the aisle and make people stand up in the middle like between pitches Do it between batters, you know, it's like there's two strikes

on

a

batter

and

somebody somebody's like, oh, I got two beers.

I got to squeeze right by here No, no, you wait up there until the play is over

You mean getting to your seats,

like

go through a row.

You said aisle.

I was like, you can go up the stairs during an

ending.

Okay.

Yeah.

If you keep your head down and don't be blocking the play, I mean, just wait till in between plays.

Anyway, there was my thing on etiquette.

There's still etiquette at Thanksgiving time as well.

That's all I'm saying.

If you want a little bit of harmony, just just just

behave yourself.

That's that's what we're missing in the world is the harmony is being disrupted by the lack of etiquette.

Is that all?

It's a thing.

Yeah, it would help.

It's most definitely a

thing if people would, you know, and again, etiquette is sometimes the little things like everybody passing their food in the same direction or, you know, if you're supposed to bring something, don't bring a bag of M&Ms, okay?

Go through a little bit of effort.

It's not that hard.

We used to joke when we were a young couple and couldn't do much.

We used to joke that we were bringing a seven layer salad.

and it was seven layers of M&Ms.

We just want to put a bunch of M&Ms in a bowl.

We never did that, but that was always the joke.

We would always find a way to do a little bit of something.

Find one thing to make.

You don't like to cook, that's fine.

Find one thing that you could do.

You know what it was for me?

I saw this recipe, I saw how easy it was, and it was a big hit every time.

Stuffed mushrooms.

Just take some mushrooms, wash them, pull the stem out, and then you take a little bit of deviled ham.

chop up some of the mushroom stems, a little bit of garlic salt, put all that together, put a spoonful in each of the mushroom caps, 400 degrees, 10 minutes, boom.

Big hit.

It's nothing, just pick one thing, learn it and bring it.

I bring

it.

That's Tony heavier.

Yeah, bring a bag of tiny bags.

It's so easy to share.

Etiquette, there you go.

That's something that

Other people have to think about is the leftovers and are you going to send leftovers with somebody?

If you're going to send leftovers, be prepared for that as well, because otherwise you find yourself later on going, where's that Tupperware Bowl?

Where's that thing?

Oh yeah, you sent it with Aunt Edna.

And are you going to call Aunt Edna and go, hey, I want my Tupperware Bowl back?

You know?

Similarly,

if you're given Tupperware or something by somebody,

bring it back.

Tupperware is one of life's mysteries to me, Pat.

How so?

Well, you can never track down where it all is.

I don't know where the lid is for the thing that I use all the time.

Yes, it's like socks, you know.

Why

is there

only one sock where to go?

Yeah, we have a Tupperware drawer kind of.

And every so often, I'll go through something and realize, I don't have the lid for this.

And I will pull out the entire drawer and reorganize it.

And that lid is still nowhere to be found.

Turns out it was at the

sink drying off.

Oh no, but mine is just lost to the ether forever.

So these are some of the small things.

And then there's big things like a big dog.

We'd love to have your stories of Thanksgiving, 855-757-855-752-4842.

Now I want to talk briefly about the end of the legislative session for the calendar year.

There's still going to be a session early in 2026.

But these guys are done for the year.

The Republican leadership in the Assembly and Senate has said, yeah, we're done.

Mission accomplished.

Got everything done.

They did not get everything done.

And in an especially heinous bit of political trickery yesterday, Assembly Speaker Robin Voss pulled a maneuver that would make sure that this bill that basically he's the only one that opposes wouldn't get a vote yesterday.

and it is a bill that would expand Medicaid health insurance coverage for new moms from 60 days to 12 months.

The money's there to do it.

It is federally supported.

48 states have done it, but not Arkansas and Wisconsin because Assembly Speaker Robin Voss considers health insurance for women postpartum to be welfare.

And so he single-handedly is blocking a bill that, you know who co-sponsors this?

three fourths of the members of the assembly, including about 30 Republicans.

30 Republicans and they sat on their hands and did nothing yesterday.

I was part of a Democratic caucus in the Senate that when we didn't like something that our majority leader was doing, at the end of that floor session, there was a vote and that person was out and a new caucus leader was in.

I can't even imagine why.

the Republicans who sponsor this bill, who know that this is a good thing and is going to keep new moms healthy and in some cases alive.

Didn't at that point say, you know, Speaker Voss, you're maybe getting a little too big for your britches.

Thank you for your service.

Time to move on.

But no, Robin Voss has either puppet strings or purse strings in the case of campaign cash.

Whatever it is, you have

Republicans there, co-sponsors like Jesse Rodriguez of Oak Creek and like Patrick Snyder of Weston and others who just allowed a house speaker to put ideology ahead of health.

And there's nothing wrong with having, you know, ideology or having values and things, but when you're defying the will of most of your members just to put down new moms, you guys might want to rethink your leadership.

Sean O'Malley is talking about your money and the markets coming up in 15 minutes.

I'm Pac Rightlow live from Lake Wissota.

Follow me at UpNorthNewsWI.com.

This is the Civic Media Radio Network.

It's a Thursday morning, November 20th.

Nice to have you along.

I'm back right now at 7 23, just about here from Lake Wissota from Robin Tigerton.

Good morning.

He says it's foggy and 36 degrees has a meeting to go to and shout out today.

Yesterday took his aunt Leah to Appleton to see his cousin Bert.

who has had heart surgery and is doing better, and we are very happy to hear that.

Thank you very much, Rob, for writing in.

We're always happy to have updates from you as well, what's going on weather-wise, what you're doing for Thanksgiving, and do you have some Thanksgiving stories that you'd like to share as well?

855-75-CIVIC is the phone number.

You can call, text, or use that Civic Media app.

Let's look at a little sports here.

You might have heard earlier from Jimmy Cusco that the state high school football championships are taking place today and tomorrow.

Divisions four through seven today.

Divisions one, two, and three tomorrow.

Let's see.

The Badger women's basketball team defeated UIC Chicago last night.

They will next place Sunday hosting Detroit Mercy.

The Badger Men's basketball team will be playing this Friday afternoon.

It'll be at BYU in Salt Lake City.

Coverage begins at 2.30 Friday afternoon on several civic media stations.

The Milwaukee Bucks are at home tonight, taking on the Philadelphia 76ers.

Let's do a little hockey here.

The Badger Men's hockey team will be playing on a couple of civic media radio stations this Friday.

They will be playing at

ranked Michigan State.

You can listen starting at 7 p.m.

Friday on WFHR in Wisconsin Rapids and WJMS up in Ironwood, Michigan.

The top ranked Badger women's hockey team will be hosting St.

Thomas tonight and tomorrow evening.

The Badger Women's Volleyball team, number 10 in the country, they swept number nine ranked per due last night.

And so on Sunday now, they will host Iowa.

In football, you've got the Badger Football team playing on Saturday.

They will be hosting Illinois on Saturday evening.

Coverage begins Saturday afternoon at 4.30 on several Civic Media stations.

The Green Bay Packers, meanwhile, they will be hosting the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday.

It's a noon kickoff.

coverage begins at 10 a.m.

on some civic media stations, and then it's a short week.

They'll be playing again next Thursday Thanksgiving.

That'll be a noon game at Detroit, taking on the Lions, and that's a look at some of the sports that we've got covering.

Well, except for there's this sports show that airs Saturday mornings at seven.

What's the name of this thing here?

Call your shot.

What is it?

Make the call.

Oh, make the call.

Yes, make the call.

Okay.

can listen to Jimmy Cusca leading the round table of myself.

Greg Anderson and Conrad Kruger.

We often have Jay Kokorowski from the Badger Observer join us for a quick segment.

This week, I think we've got a really fun show coming up, especially for me, frankly, because we've got a lot of division three sport.

We always talk a little bit about division three sports.

But today or on Saturday, we will have Pat Coleman from D3 football.com.

He's going to preview D3 football.

playoffs that start this weekend.

And Mike Shaw, who is the director of the couple of bowl games that are in Wisconsin, the Ismus Bowl and the Lakefront Bowl, he's going to be joining Jimmy for an interview there.

So

really

fun.

And by the

way, speaking of division three and the WIAC, if you missed it earlier, the WIAC, you know, the smaller UW schools, five, five of them are in the, in the postseason tournament, right?

For D three.

Yeah.

So four of them made the playoffs, which has never happened before.

And then a fifth one is in the Esmus Bowl, which you actually, if you watch that, you'll hear our own Jimmy Cusco on the call.

He's the forecaster for that game.

OK.

Oh, good.

So there you go.

There's a little sports update for you.

Turning back to some of the things we were talking about with the legislature being done for the calendar year, despite getting paid for the whole year.

Do you remember us talking a couple of weeks back about how there were Republicans, including State Representative Scott Krug, who were talking all about being in support of allowing local clerks to start to process absentee ballots on the day before Election Day?

Not count them, but process them.

Make sure the information on the envelope is correct.

Save a lot of time on Election Day.

You'll get the results earlier.

It's a common sense thing should have been done a long time ago.

Republicans keep tying strings to it.

You know, things like, I don't know, getting rid of the Wisconsin Elections Commission and things like that.

Well anyway, there was a bill yesterday that would require clerks to return to voters absentee ballots that have faulty or missing certifications as long as they are received no later than seven days before the election.

Which was fine except that Democratic Representative Lee Snodgrass

saw that that bill was going to pass.

And so put up an amendment, amend the bill to also allow the processing of absentee ballots the day before the election.

And Republicans rejected it.

And so Representative Snodgrass criticized the author of the bill, Representative Scott Krug, for going on what she called a media tour, saying that he would pass a Monday processing bill, and then not including that provision in the bill.

Snodgrass said and Whist Politics is reporting this.

This amendment would enable those clerks to begin to process those ballots ahead of time and therefore get those results that my own colleagues said people want to know before they go to bed.

Krug acknowledged his belief that Monday processing would benefit the state but he said there was too much opposition in the Senate and the quote I see here in Whist Politics is Krug saying quote, I'm smart enough to know

I've been married twice and I have six kids.

I don't always get everything I want.

I'm just pausing for laughter here.

Again, this is a state representative who did a media tour saying, you know, Republicans are on board now.

We want to help the election process.

We want to help our clerks.

And when the time came to help local clerks and to help facilitate counting of absentee ballots, they rejected an amendment to a different bill related to it with Scott Krug saying,

I'm smart enough to know I've been married twice and I have six kids.

I always don't get everything.

I don't always get everything that I want.

Well played.

The bill that would allow for some online sports gambling through tribal casinos that was put on hold.

Apparently the votes were not there to do that.

And there was no bill passed that would give relief to wedding barns that are facing tight restrictions on alcohol licenses.

We're going to talk to Sean O'Malley about your money and the markets coming up.

Live from Lake Wissota, I'm Pat Crightlow from Up North News.

This is the Civic Media Radio Network.

You might have heard during the Midwest Farm Report there during the break that the facility in Wisconsin advertises Wisconsin as the Silicon Valley of Bowl Seaman.

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Well, once again, President Donald Trump gave a very interesting speech.

This one on the economy, and this one to a group of franchise owners of McDonald's restaurants who had gathered in Washington.

And that's where we bring in Sean O'Malley to talk about your money and the markets.

Sean is a Hudson native.

He's had a lengthy Wall Street career in anti-money laundering, financial risk management, fraud.

Data analytics and compliance, easy for me to say, Sean.

He's got a business card that, you know, is the size of a hubcap.

He's just... Yeah, yeah.

It's all one big acronym.

It looks like an iChart.

Exactly.

How are you today?

I'm doing

well.

I'm doing well on yourself.

Doing well because as I always, as we always like to tell people, when it comes to speeches by the president, don't listen to the audio.

Just read it.

read it.

And so in this case, as he's talking about the issue of affordability and the economy, he said that on Sunday, his team was still working to come up with new ways to bring down costs, quote, we worked on it this weekend.

And you're going to see some of the items that were a little bit higher.

They were lower than the last administration, but a little bit higher.

We're going to have some little price reductions and in some cases, some pretty good ones.

Okay

Republicans are supposed to be pro-market that sounds socialist that is observation number one yeah number two given the the ideas I mean he keeps floating out he seems to be fixated on on housing costs so his solutions with which we've talked about previously was one the 50-year mortgage

ridiculous, probably the dumbest suggestion I've ever heard in financial circles.

Now he came up with another proposal that was brought to my attention, that is kind of an interesting notion, although completely impractical.

Basically, that your your mortgage rate should stay the same, and it sort of moves with you, regardless of, you know, as you sell your house, and I'm trying to

kind of work through the mechanics of that.

I'm thinking, okay, so you basically have to have like a mortgage account that you're paying into.

But if you know, you to make it equal, you're gonna have to have the interest rate set, which means you might have to have interest rate subsidies, which is definitely not market.

You know, it sounds like concepts of a plan.

It sounds like really

bizarre concepts of a plan

and the

mechanics of it.

I mean, the sheer implementation

aspect of it would be ridiculous and what happens to

real estate agents then and everything else.

It's just kind of

not.

But Trump posted that he had, quote, normalized inflation, had slashed regulations like water restrictions in order to help small businesses.

Don't know how I'm seeing that.