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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.
How are we 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 somewhere funny.
Maybe some are not, but we'd love to hear about them at 855-75 Civic, 855-7524842.
So we are inviting storytellers today to tell us a little story about a Thanksgiving that went a little sideways.
You know what if you've got a heartwarming story, too 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 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, 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?
doing
aren't you though?
I
But that's just it.
I mean, these things, they're never planned.
The things that just happened.
And I realize 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
Oh, it has.
Okay.
spoon will disappear.
Oh, that's, yeah, that's easier.
People go, wait a minute, which one?
The other thing, again, this is a minor thing.
It's not a disaster, but it's, it's just the 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?
Oh, which was just just have you had this yeah clockwise just clockwise just pick something clockwise and go okay that way when something Something comes at you from your left.
You can be like, uh-uh.
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 thanksgivings.
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 855-75-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 got to 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.
is 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 co-sponsor, there's Representative Jesse Rodriguez of Oak Creek, who's a co-sponsor 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 were 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.
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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?
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 is the longstanding
Local tradition held since 1964 and transforms the South Hall into a winter theme 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, 9am on Saturday and 10am 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 Ranger throughout the day and tickets are available at the door only and they're $5 for adults and kids 12 and under getting 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 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 Saturday night at 8 20.
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 for William's Bay High School on select days.
Ticket started at $32.
And for more information, visit cruise Lake Geneva.com.
A karaoke cruise?
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
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 countries.
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 Theater hosts performances from more than two dozen cultural groups with the
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 Menominee four hours away.
So now it's just gonna be at my house every year until who knows when.
So I'm preparing to make some dinner.
I'm just gonna do turkey, mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, 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 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 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 comments 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.
I did the idea.
Anyway, we've got today's history lesson coming up in just a bit here.
Uh, Joseph Pecky and more along the way.
I'm Pat Critello.
This is the Civic Media radio network.
To all who 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 birthday boy Norm Greenbaum, 83 years old today.
President Joe Biden is 83 today as well.
Dick's mother's is 86.
Actress
Bo Derek is 69 years old today as well.
Let's see what else we got for birthdays.
Dierks 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 how you made hits back then.
They were very formulaic.
Hey, make a song that's you did the twist.
Let's do the peppermint twist.
Let's do that, too.
It's it wasn't very subtle, but you know what?
It worked.
The formula.
I hear it.
Yep.
I hear Symphony 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 really 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 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
Was a real wake-up call to people about the dangers of nuclear war.
so used to what what's called dystopian movies, you know And this was 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 you know 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 1.
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, Nathaniel.
By the way, the 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.
it's a very lovely song it's just it's like oh yeah it's about muskrats so
okay
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.
And in the middle, there's a little, you know, playing with the keyboard with a synthesizer, which has made it 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.
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 then 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.
Ten 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, which 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.
This is 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.
Yes.
I feel like we should have had a little quiz here.
Roger, thanks for putting on Facebook right now.
Can you dig it?
I do.
We can dig it.
Anyway, so Geography Awareness Week.
Yes.
I'm trying to think of what would be a good... You know one of my favorite geographic quiz things?
Sure.
You'll see it in like various trivia games and things.
Yeah.
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.
Pay back 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.
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.
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.
Do you have a philosophy?
You have words that you live by a little credo or anything?
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.
Where they whirl and they twirl and they tango.
Singing and jinging a jangle.
You're trying to drown a bag of mice, you know?
You have now ruined the Captain and Tooniel, perfectly good love song for me.
No, I don't think you are.
I don't think you're at all.
I ought 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.
Yeah.
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.
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Entertainment news.
Where are we starting off today, Parker?
He thinks 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, Slim Shady.
And I'm not a fan.
I think it is too.
Is Slim Shady trademarked?
I think that's a fair question.
So there you go.
So maybe before it goes out of business, not that you 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?
The
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?
and this is why we love why we love some of the popes they they're 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 let's just put it that way.
That's fair.
Yeah, you know, all right
you got else?
What
well, yeah, he loves his socks Exactly and not the Red Sox the White Sox is a
men.
Are they still doing the Apple TV ones on Friday?
They are still doing it.
SPN.
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
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.
Wow.
Somebody's sliding a $5 bill under your door there.
Thank
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 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, 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 insane.
Why are we asking this of our bartenders?
Or any of us for that matter.
on Saturday afternoon.
Ah, nice.
Tony says, see, this is why I use the internet in kind of a gray area to get all my channels.
I think he's talking 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, you know, 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.
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