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Well, hey there, Wisconsin.
Good morning.
It is 6.06.
On this Thursday morning, it's December 4th, 2025, and it's another beautiful...
But cold morning to have you here up north live from Lake Wissota from wherever you're spending your mornings listening across the civic media radio network Or however else you got here.
We appreciate you getting your day started where it is five below zero Here on Lake Wissota right now.
I got a question for you What statistic about you would you like to know?
Spotify is handing out its wrapped summaries so that its users know which artists and songs they played the most during 2025.
But there's no news coverage of the Spotify wrap thing.
It's become an annual tradition now.
You know, somebody came up with a good idea there.
And now other apps are copying it.
There are apps that give you an annual summary of the food you ordered through them, the video games you played.
the workouts you started, maybe the number of workouts you finished.
So what would you like to see?
Because I was thinking about that for myself here and I'll share my Spotify stats in a moment.
But for me, it feels like it started with credit cards because it was some years back that mine started sending annual reviews to help you see at a glance where you were spending your money and it would break it down by category.
And that was kind of useful.
And it was kind of scary.
And so now we've got apps that do this.
I mean, our watches and our phones can tell us stats about the number of steps we take, hours of sleep, even the average number of breaths we take in an hour, the number of heartbeats.
Those are all fine and good, but there are other statistics about myself.
I wish someone would send me, for example, as a kid.
I'd like to know the stats.
How many hours of Gilligan's Island did I watch as a kid?
And which episodes got the most views?
How many times did Gilligan get hit on the head with a coconut?
But then to the present day, an app that would show me, here's how many cups of coffee you had this year.
Cups of coffee.
How many old-fashioneds did I have this year?
How many times did I walk into a room and say, now, why did I walk into this room?
Because that graph appears to be going upward.
What's that about you?
would give you a laugh or maybe a wintz.
You know, and it can be, it doesn't have to, you don't have to go for, for corn ball here.
You can be stats that you would genuinely like to know about yourself.
855-75 Civic, 855-752-4842 or use the Civic Media app to call us or text us or record a little voice note.
It's kind of in line with the guilty pleasures music that we talked about yesterday.
You know, because Spotify, in that case, will show you the actual stats.
These are hard statistics.
Alicia on YouTube says, my top song will be I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, which is fitting.
Yes, Alicia, I totally believe that for you.
You're hardworking soul.
So what about you?
What kind of stats, serious or unserious, would you like to know?
Coming up on the program today, Congressman Mark Polkan will be joining us and talking a bit about how Washington DC is back in business, but the gridlock does not appear to have been alleviated at all since it's mostly existing in the Republican caucuses, but we'll see if anything's getting done in DC.
We'll also talk to Sean O'Malley this morning about your money in the markets.
And again, even though DC is back at work, the statistics that people need
to make economic decisions is still missing in action.
And that's that just makes it that much harder for us to do anything other than endure the current AI bubble.
And while that might make, you know, folks in the White House feel good that the economy is propped up by AI, you know, we kind of like the real numbers.
if that were to be possible.
Let's see temperatures around the state right now.
Oh my goodness, let's see the
The low temperature it says here is 17 below.
Where is that?
Oh, that's in siren is at 17 below right now We've got 15 below in Solon Springs 11 below in Hayward and in Phillips 11 below in Rice Lake as well 13 below in Black River Falls a lot of single digits above or single digits below zero Going on around there.
So, you know, definitely get those kids bundled up
and get them out the door.
While you think about what kind of, again, what kind of life statistic would you like to see about yourself?
Cindy and Appleton is calling us bright and early at 6-11 this morning.
Cindy, good morning.
How are you?
Good morning.
How are you?
I'm good.
Thank you.
So if you thought about it, is there a stat you'd like to know about yourself?
Well, I get to the point where I think at a certain age, you just don't care anymore because life is getting shorter.
And my one model now is as long as I can find my way home, I'm still good.
Which thankfully we've got the phones with the GPS and the everything else.
Yeah, it's definitely not a matter of that.
I don't think a statistic would naturally make me, you know, care to do something different.
It's now just out of curiosity.
Or it's like, how many times did I do such and such a thing?
But yeah, we are getting to be a little, what, cynical and set in our ways now at a certain point, Cindy?
Yep, and maybe there's just some things you don't want to know Pat
There's definitely things I don't want to know and that's why I'm not talking about them on the radio, but yes, exactly Cindy.
Thanks for calling in.
Hope you have a great day
All right.
Yep, see ya.
Again, 855-75-CIVIC, 855-752-4842.
Parker Olson standing by in Madison Studio A2, producing this little shindig.
Let's see.
Parker, are you on Spotify?
Have you seen
wrapped for the year?
Oh, I'm on Spotify, Pat.
Okay, I would hope so.
And because he said making it into a commercial.
Oh, boy, you can pod this program
anytime.
Spotify follow us as a podcast.
Needless to say, I've got some good statistics for that one.
But anyway, that's the podcast part of it.
What did you learn anything about yourself from your Spotify wrapped?
52,000 minutes listened.
Okay.
that's, and that's giving you artists that you don't think you've actually played.
Okay,
streaming background music.
Yeah, I can totally see that because there's times when I do that.
Yes, let's see Tony up in Ashland.
I learned to my kids listen to more music than me.
Yes, that is, they're definitely people.
I've already seen that in social media posts who don't know what their actual Spotify numbers are because they're playing music for the kids or the kids grab the phone and they're doing things.
Yeah.
A leash up on YouTube.
Yes, it is cold.
I'm wearing two jackets, she says.
Yeah, it is that kind of a day.
To no one's surprise, Spotify also tells you your listening age based on what you're listening to.
And so the first stat that I saw that I'm holding up for Parker here, my average listening, my listening age is, I'm listening like a 65 year old man.
Hey, well, being a 61 year old man, I guess I'm not that far off.
That makes sense.
And Parker's already guessed.
You can guess my top genre.
Again, holding up my screen for him.
It is, of course, yacht rock.
Duh.
But then the second one is called J-pop.
I have absolutely no idea what J-pop is.
I know it's not K-pop.
Third is Smooth Jazz, which would be the background listening.
Soul, because I love to listen to Motown.
And then Rock, which is, you know, again, not Yacht Rock, but some of the, you know, 80s, 70s, 80s rock and roll.
J-pop, it looks like, is Japanese pop music.
I have never listened to a single one of those things.
And my number one album and number one artist is Taylor Swift's Life of a Showgirl because it's the only music I've actually really listened to on Spotify.
I'm an Apple guy.
I listen almost everything through Apple or through some other services.
You know, I use Spotify because that's where we pod the program.
So I've got podcasts on there and
life of a showgirl came out while we were in Nashville.
And
I had, I had Spotify to advertise that they were going to have it early.
So I'm like, okay, I downloaded it and everything.
So that's why it's my, my number one artist, because it's pretty much the only one.
Alicia says, yeah, Japanese pop music, I
really don't know.
I'd love to know the example of that, so I'm gonna have to go go looking for that.
Tony puts in another plug for Apple Music.
Oh, look, look at Alicia.
At age 41, my listening age was 23.
You're
than me.
Good for you.
Here's a comment from somebody saying, Good Lord, imagine if porn websites sent usage summaries.
You know.
Again, as Hall of Notes used to say, some things are better left unsaid.
better left undone.
doors are better left unopened.
Again, there's things you want to know that you're genuinely curious about.
Other
know about.
Yep, and other things, not so much.
I do know from a statistic standpoint, I do know how many morning shows I've done here on Civic Media, because I put a little tally at the top of my notes every day.
Welcome to show number 700.
So, does that make me, who did the 700 Club?
Was that Jim and Tammy Faye Baker?
Was that them?
So we've now joined the 700 Club.
Praise God doing this show here.
And thank you for being a part of however many of those you've managed to endure.
I appreciate that very much.
Also coming up on the show, we'll have Joseph Pecky coming up to talk about the Mandela Barnes entry into the governor's race and what that does to the Democratic field.
Sharita Booker is coming along in, oh, just about five minutes now to tell us about some of the weekend events, including one right here in Chippewa Falls.
So all of that is along the way.
But one new story that I wanted to mention as well before we took off here and moved on to the rest of the show.
And it's a story that didn't get a lot of traction right away because there's, you know, there's a lot going on.
But it is a little troubling to learn that a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, Annette Ziegler, the former chief justice before progressives took over the court.
And Slate magazine broke this first, but I'm reading from Bruce Murphy in Urban Milwaukee, his interpretation of it.
saying that Annette Ziegler was caught turning a U.S.
Supreme Court decision on its head to justify her dissent in a case that was decided last week about the congressional district maps in Wisconsin.
She used a fake quote
to defend an extreme Republican gerrymander.
Now even conservative Brian Hagridorn joined the court's four liberals in saying that there must be these three judge panels appointed to review the congressional maps and maybe undo the, you know, the Republican gerrymander that's been in there.
But Ziegler cited a U.S.
Supreme Court decision, Moore v. Harper, and claimed the ruling declared the role of state courts in congressional redistricting as, quote, exceedingly limited.
The problem is, as Slate discovered, and Mark Joseph Stern wrote the article, the quotation appears nowhere in the ruling.
Even the word exceedingly, not exceedingly limited, appears nowhere in the ruling.
And even if it's just a misquote, it's still a complete misrepresentation of the decision.
As Bruce writes, the more ruling held the opposite of what Ziegler claims, concluding that state courts can play a legitimate meaningful role in congressional redistricting.
Now she retracted and then put out a new decision or a new version of her dissent, but it still basically held that this court case said something that it didn't actually say.
And that's a big no-no, though I guess it is par for the course in MAGA World.
Sharita Booker is on the way to talk about events coming up this weekend.
Live from the lake, I'm Pat Krightlow.
This is the Civic Media Radio
Network.
Thursdays at 622 and that's when Sharita Booker, our social media manager, joins us from Open North News to talk about some of the weekend's big events.
And yeah, even in December here, there are some fun things that you can consider attending all across the state.
We're going to wrap things up right here in my backyard, but we're going to start elsewhere.
First, Sharita, hello.
How are you?
Good, Pat.
How are you?
Good.
Did you have a good Thanksgiving weekend?
I sure did.
It was nice and relaxing.
Besides the day I had to cook all the food.
Okay, except for that.
Everything turned out all right.
It did.
What was your specialty?
And again this year?
Yeah, of course.
Of course, of course.
See, look at the things that we're discovering.
Yesterday, we had Elian had no idea Ellie had been a bartender.
And I mean, she went in detail on making old fashions.
And so
I mean, so we've got her making the drinks whenever we get the the Up North News team together next, you're going to be bringing the mac and cheese.
I don't know what Selena's going to put forth.
And then I got to come up with something.
But we're halfway to a heck of a potluck, you know.
Seriously, it's gonna be really nice, but first we gotta before we gather someplace We got to tell other people where they can gather and let's start with one that's got one of the best names out there Get set for the Santa cycle rampage tell
And yeah, that one's right in my backyard.
I see it every single year.
And the ride starts at 9.30 AM sharp.
It's one of the city's most joyful holiday traditions.
A slow rolling 13 mile bike ride featuring more than 2,000 people dressed as Santas, elves, reindeer, snowman, the Grinch, and pretty much every holiday character you can think of.
And it's not only just for fun, the ride also helps the Wisconsin Bike Federation's bicycle education programs.
Last year alone, it reached more than 2,000 people with hands-on bike safety lessons.
And your registration and
merch sales help keep that going strong and if you read them before most of the Rob will feel familiar though
A few changes are still being finalized to keep everyone safe and the ride moving smoothly.
That's why early registration matters, and it's the best way to get all the latest updates.
So for families looking for something a little shorter, there's also an elf cycle frenzy.
It's a 3.5 mile kid-friendly loop through Bayview and Humboldt Park led by the Bike Federation Safe Roots to school team.
That one kicks off at 9.45, just after the main ride leaves Will and Sprocket and wraps up at Catface Central with hot cocoa, snacks, and holiday fun for the kids.
You can register for both of those rides online at WisconsinBikeFed.org.
Wisconsin Bike Fed for Federation, WisconsinBikeFed.org.
And again, don't get this Milwaukee one mixed up with the Madison one.
There will be a Madison one to tell you about a little bit later, but not this week.
So that's the Milwaukee one.
Meanwhile, speaking of Madison, I believe that's where we're going next for the Fair Trade Holiday Festival.
Yep, so if you're looking for gifts that actually mean something this year, the Madison's Fair Trade Holiday Festival is back and bigger than ever this Saturday at Manona Terrace.
From 8 a.m.
to 3 p.m., you can shop hundreds of handcrafted, fairly traded items from more than 40 vendors around the world, items like jewelry, clothing, ornaments, baskets, home decor, gourmet coffees, and teas made by artisans who are paid fair wages and work in safe, sustainable conditions.
It's the festival's 29th year and it's held right next to the farmers market so you can make a whole morning out of it.
A few of this year's featured vendors include Just Coffee Cooperative, Ethical Trade Company, Campo Alpaca, Tullius Artisan Gallery, Heart of the Sky Fair Trade, and many more each offering products that support real communities in places like Peru, Nepal, Thailand, Columbia, and Guatemala.
And if you're a parent, feel free to bring the kids.
There will be a scavenger hunt enhanced on a weeping project that they can take home.
For more information about this event, visit FairtradeMadison.org.
Yeah, Fairtrade Businesses.
It says here, partner with farmers and crafts.
in developing countries who are socially and economically marginalized and help them find markets and customers for their goods right here in the good old USA.
So there's a little bit of detail about that.
Last but not least right here in downtown Chippewa Falls will be the annual Bridge to Wonderland Parade.
So expect bright colors, big energy and more than 50 illuminated floats, walking units and even animal entries making their way through downtown.
The route remains the same as usual beginning at North Bridge and Spruce Streets and will continue down Bridge Street to Spring Street.
And just a heads up, don't set up on the 700 block of North Bridge Street near the courthouse.
That area is used for staging and you won't see the parade from there.
But after the final float passes, everyone's invited to Riverfront Park for the annual Christmas tree lighting.
Families can meet Santa and Mrs. Claus, enjoy Christmas music, grab refreshments, and take part in a variety of festive activities.
Parking is available in public lots and surrounding streets, but sidewalks fill up fast.
So arriving early is your best way to get a good view.
And for more information about that, visit Chippewa Valley Go.com.
And by the way, it is still going to be cold.
So yeah, you do got to bundle up.
You do got to get there kind of early to get a good viewing spot, although there are people who kind of, you know, bail out at some point because they've seen enough.
But then you can kind of go in and take their place.
But again, it is only a six block route.
So it's very doable and very enjoyable, very colorful.
A lot of folks like to go see the lights at Irvine Park afterwards, and it's just a wonderful little thing to happen in our wonderful little town up here in Chippewa Falls.
Sherida Booker has all that and more for us, and as was mentioned by Ellie, her Badger State Buzz, part of the newsletter, tells you about some of these events as well.
Sherida, thanks very much.
Have a great day.
You too, Pat.
All right, let's do a little sports now at 628, and we'll start with the Milwaukee Bucks here because
Giannis Antedicopo went down with an injury three minutes into the game.
The Bucks were still able to beat the Detroit Pistons 113 to 109 last night.
Apparently Giannis has a right calf strain after the game.
Doc Rivers said there have been no talks between team officials and the two-time MVP about a possible exit from Milwaukee to which just about everybody else responds.
Right.
That's sure, but we'll we'll we've got that to speculate about especially now that he's out with an injury again.
The Bucks will be playing at home tomorrow against the Philadelphia 76ers and the Badgers opened up the big 10 season Badger men's basketball team defeating Northwestern 85 to 73 they play Marquette at the Cole Center Saturday at 1pm.
And you can hear that on several Civic Media radio stations.
Coming up next, a couple of classics in today's history lesson, including a little Leonard Skinnerd.
I'm Pat Crightlow.
This is the Civic Media Radio Network.
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.
Here's the number one song from 60 years ago.
It was written by Pete Seeger and today's Bible reading is from the book of
Ecclesiastes.
Is that in fact the birds version of turn turn turn or is that Pete Seeger's version of turn turn turn?
It does say birds.
It does say birds.
Okay.
Must be a live version or something.
Definitely not the version we heard on top 40 radio 60 years ago this week.
The number one song turn turn turn again written by Pete Seeger.
We will go back a decade prior this week in 1954 because we got to go really old school now and then in today's history lesson.
The number one song was by a group called The
Cordettes.
Now we do this of course because of the variety that comes in the Daily History lesson.
We can bring you the Cordettes from 1954 and in honor of the anniversary of the birth of Gary Rossington, we can bring you a little Leonard Skinnerd.
Gary Rosenthal was born this day in 1951.
He passed away in March of 2023.
A founding member of the group played lead and rhythm guitar and was the longest surviving founding member of the band.
Sweet Home Alabama started with a rift by Rosenthal and then Ronnie Van Zant added the lyrics a little bit later on.
Some more musical birthdays today.
The anniversary of the birth of the late Dennis Wilson.
He was drummer for the Beach Boys.
He was born this day in 1944.
passed away in 1983 at the age of 39.
Bob Griffin, bassist for the Bo Deans, born in Waukesha this day in 1959.
Frank Zappa lost his battle with prostate cancer this day in 1993.
And on this day in 1988, Roy Orbison performed what would turn out to be his final concert playing in Cleveland.
Two days later, he had a fatal heart attack and Roy Orbison was gone at the age of 52.
Happy birthday to singer Dion Farris.
I had one of my favorite songs from the early 1990s and she is 56 years old today.
Dion Ferris-Man 56 today.
Fred Armisen is 59 today.
Actor Jeff Bridges is 76, perhaps known to many as the dude from the Big Lebowski, though I got to admit, and I shouldn't do this, shame on me, but I still get Jeff Bridges and Jeff Daniels confused for one another.
Jeff Daniels was in the newsroom, but wasn't Jeff Daniels who was in Dumb and Dumber as well?
Maybe that's why I get him mixed up with Jeff Bridges
kind of goofy roles.
Yeah, I don't know.
Roger and Steven's point tells me the Cordettes were from Sheboygan.
I can't believe I didn't catch that.
All right.
Well, thank you Roger for that.
On this day in 1971 there was a fire and it was in Switzerland and it was at the Montrocassino
It burned to the ground during a gig by the aforementioned Frank Zappa.
The story of that fire is immortalized in a song by Deep Purple.
I never knew the lyrics in that.
Now I know, we all came down to Mantro and that's when the Mantro Casino burned and they could see the smoke on the water.
in the sky.
Yeah, Deep Purple was was the band that was playing there that night as well as Frank Zappa and saw the the casino catch fire.
Yeah.
Yes, that's a bit.
I know.
You know, it's not like they saw the Edmund Fitzgerald go down.
You know, they were actually there.
They were a witness to this.
You know, yeah, they have rights to this song.
Yes, they do.
Happy birthday to Sean Carter.
He's 56 years old today, and you know, I'm better as Jay-Z.
Ah.
This would be his
song with Alicia Keys.
I've said this
before.
I feel like I haven't listened to enough Jay-Z.
Every time I hear something, I go,
listen to more of him I played this song three times yesterday back to back to back he and Alicia Keys they do a great job with this song you know if you are a New Yorker and look I loved Billy Joel's New York State of Mind back
the day this one's called Empire State of Mind and you got to give it up for it really is if you're if you're a New Yorker this is your anthem
That makes total sense.
Yes.
Tony asks on YouTube, is he the new Sinatra Pat?
I don't know.
I don't know if I'd go that far yet.
Although, again, I didn't really start listening to Sinatra until my early 20s.
You never know what you're gonna get turned on to.
One more birthday model Tyra Banks is 52 years old today.
All right, let's see what we've got for things on the National Day Calendar.
Was it yesterday?
Was it National Mutt Day?
That was yesterday.
Today.
Okay.
Well, actually not today.
This month.
This whole month.
National Cat Lovers Month.
Cat Lovers Month.
Yes.
And I believe that my brother is honoring this as he has four cats.
four cats him and his wife have four cats um not on purpose uh my dad uh they uh found one in a snowbank one time so it was welcomed into their home
uh i feel like we've become like the the home for for cat lovers month for as many guests and co-hosts who show up with their cats you know
from
Selena Heller's Whiskers to
Kristen Lyrely's one that's always crying to get in the room, and how many guests we've had.
They start apologizing for their cats walking in.
We're like, it's old news for us by now to see cats.
Yeah.
On the window sill, which is only like two inches wide, but is sitting right there crying to get in.
because you know it was like 40 degrees and you don't want to freeze to death as cats would.
I will say that of all the you know the videos that come up through your algorithm and you know you get rewarded sometimes with more videos watch a couple of cat blooper videos because cats always had this reputation of oh we're cool nothing ever happens to us and people are now getting video of cats jumping and missing cats falling in aquariums cats bowling things over and you know what
That's funny stuff.
funny
The dog bloopers are okay I love dogs, you know, but the cat bloopers are just kind of more surprising They
makes them funny
No, but I do I I could I definitely see why people like that as part of their You know their look and that's fine.
It's it's not necessarily my thing But I don't when people go with the
the argyles or the patterns.
I know the thing you see every year at Christmas time is you see the photos.
You can put somebody's photo on a sock.
We did that one year with one of the grandkids.
We put their little baby face on a sock and gave it to our daughter.
That was kind
Very nice.
All right.
So there you go.
Sock lovers.
What else we got for the days?
It is dice day.
Dice day.
Dice day.
Not chop chop.
And not
shoot.
Not Andrew Clay,
comedian.
No, the roll the dice.
Who, who was it?
Uh, somebody was talking about, uh, Wisconsin.
Oh, it was, uh, uh, Jason Kelsey talking about his visit to Green Bay and
shaking, shaking, shaking dice for shots, you know, beer dice and shake of the day.
And I mean,
we do that all the time, whatever, whatever little establishment we're visiting around here, you got to do shake of the day.
And then, you know, invariably, one of our friends will go, you know, you want to shake for a beer?
And then, and we looked like such newbies, you know, for the longest time, like, now, what's, what's wild here?
And what is this?
What do you mean a horse of peace?
Wait, so who's bringing it back?
And once you learn the new, the rules, it's kind of fun, but
Yeah, you look, you know, at some point you end up just buying drinks for all your friends because you can't you can't control what the dice are going to do.
So yeah, it turns out you can do a lot more than Farkel or Yahtzee with dice.
You can you you can use them for Farkel.
It was Farkel.
Have you never played Farkel?
I don't know if I've even heard of Farkel.
Oh, Farkel is a dice game.
And with it, you shake the dice and they have different values.
And then you keep shaking, rolling up the value, unless you get a combination that has no value to it.
And that means you Farkel, you lose your turn and all those points that you accumulated.
And so each turn, you might get 200 points, 300 points, but if you get like
five of a kind, that's a thousand points and you keep going.
And eventually it's the first one to get to 10,000.
And it's, it can be pretty fun.
I would, it's, and by the way, if you have to get a stocking stuffer gift for somebody, you know, a small game like that, perfect stocking stuffer.
And again, Farkel's not paying me for this, but it is, it is any kind of like dice and card games like that.
Um, we, we end up playing it just pretty much during the holidays when you get the whole family together.
Cause not everybody plays sheep's head
and not
everybody wants to watch football.
And so there will be a game of Farkel over at one of the other, you know, dining tables or something.
again, we don't just add movies to your list.
We don't just add TV shows.
We don't just add music.
We're about the games.
We had games to your life, Parker.
So, Ed Farkel.
Farkel
You're never going to learn Sheepside at this point.
Don't even try unless you happen to marry into a family.
And even if you do, I've been in that family for 40 years and I still haven't really truly figured out, Sheepside.
Tony asking online, what the heck is Farkel?
Now you know.
Take a look at it.
Let's see, we've got one more national day calendar item.
I'm like, why
we dressing this tree?
You know, I thought it was like, now address the tree.
Hello, tree.
No, it doesn't work that way.
It's dressing the tree.
All right.
Well, more power to y'all.
All right.
Coming up in our seven o'clock hour, we are slated to have Congressman Mark Pocan with us.
Later on, we'll have Sean O'Malley and Joseph Pecky and Chad Holmes and more.
All with real information.
Great conversation.
Unabashedly, Wisconsin.
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6.52, welcome back on a Thursday morning, 7 below zero up here in Chippewa Falls.
Your own local forecast coming up right after the 7 o'clock news here.
And how nice is this?
We got a text from Jim in Brookfield, who is not in Brookfield.
Good morning, Pat.
I'm currently listening to you live on the Civic Media app as I'm walking around the Christmas Market in Barcelona, Spain.
It is 56 degrees here.
It is 153 in the afternoon.
And my wife and her friend are in their element shopping.
I'll be listening as much as possible while overseas.
And then he sends along a lovely photo of the Segunda Familia.
I say that right, I believe so.
Sure.
I'm sorry, the the Sagrada Familia.
Yes, I'm sorry, which is this basically unfinished Cathedral in Barcelona.
I've been to Barcelona.
I've seen that and it's you know, you've heard of this is the song that doesn't end this is the construction project that doesn't end it is perpetually under construction since when
There's a lot there to see at that particular church.
So be be on the put that on your list on your travel list on your bucket list
for
some day.
Barcelona is just a wonderful place to be.
Let's see.
I wanted to see what else we had.
Oh, Alicia on YouTube says we play board games on Christmas Day rather than dice games.
And that's that
that too I think is a great thing unless you're fighting over something and that's been known to happen.
I have mentioned here that for me and Sherry, our first real fight as a married couple was over monopoly.
course.
Turns out we had different rules growing up and neither one of us thought the other one was being reasonable and it turned into a real argument and we've never played Monopoly together since and it's and I bring it up because I was watching TMZ and I see that Jason and Travis Kelsey had George Clooney on their podcast and
George Clooney said that he and his wife have never had a fight in their 10 years of marriage.
And then Travis Kelsey said that he and Taylor Swift have never had a fight, an argument.
Now, they've only been together for a couple of years.
Yeah.
And Sherry and I were both looking at the TV going
What?
And we both said the same thing.
Clearly, they have never played Monopoly.
So well, Alicia, who just said we play board games on Christmas Day also follows up now saying no Monopoly in our house.
So yeah, apparently, there's something about that game.
variations, I guess, that maybe bring out the worst in people.
Yeah.
So we started out the hour asking about what statistic you would like to know about yourself in honor of the annual Spotify wrapped summaries.
If you're not a Spotify subscriber, and I wasn't until 2025, but they give you a year end summary.
And it's really kind of caught on that you can, you know, what were your most popular listens, artists, songs, genres, things like that.
And so in Parker's Entertainment News, he has a few more details about this year's edition of Spotify Wrapped and who's at the top of the charts.
Yes,
Super Bowl or something.
Maybe maybe
yeah
Others are like, oh, no he doesn't see another of his songs are in English.
Yeah, he's also pulling in according to Spotify 20 billion streams 20 billion times people have streamed some of Bad Bunny songs.
Yeah, so if he's not one of your current favorites Maybe you should give it a try and see what all the fuss is about
because I have and I really like it.
You
know, it's not it's not every day listening for me, but it is.
It is such a nice change of pace.
These are upbeat songs.
He's he's a good singer.
Can I understand it?
No.
But you know what?
I look back now at songs I listened to 40 and 50 years ago.
It turns out I never knew all those lyrics either.
So what the heck do you care?
If you're missing some of the lyrics, give a listen.
So Bad Bunny, number one.
Bad Bunny, by the way, number one worldwide.
Yes.
Here in the States, it's still Tay Tay.
Of course.
So Bad Bunny was like number five on the list there.
Oh, that song is like crack for some people.
You know, I mean, it's just you
it's I mean, it's the it is the bubblegum rock of this current era.
And like that's like you if you like it, you can listen to it on a loop.
You know, and so yeah, I'm not I'm not surprised to hear that at all.
So eight five five seven five civic eight five five seven five two four eight four two.
We're wondering if there's a statistic you'd like to know about yourself.
Something that you'd like to learn.
I mentioned earlier, you know, like how many cups of coffee have I had this year?
I don't know.
Oh, we made trouble here.
Tony, you simply said pink pony and my kids started singing it.
It's kind of like
Alexa.
It's kind of like, you know, those if we just say Pink Pony Club, the kids are just going to start dancing.
So hey,
Now our listenership has gone way down as
flip over to that.
Thanks.
Thanks, Mark.
Really good.
Good work there.
So again, throughout the course of the day, you can either call us or text us.
You can leave a voice note on the Civic Media app as well and let us know what kind of Spotify wrapped type of things would you like to see?
How many French fries did I eat in this past year?
And chances are it's 50% more than maybe you should have, but only 50.
Well, you know, I'm, I'm trying to be kind to us here.
We can't deny ourselves all the good stuff.
Anyway, coming up in the next hour, we're going to be talking to Congressman Mark Pocan.
But first, right after the news, we are going to have your next chance to win in the grown up gift list text to win contest.
So get that civic media app.
We got apps that track everything else.
Why not have an app that can win you some money $200 cash for a daily prize.
And everybody's in the running for three different grand prizes that I will tell you about in just a little while as well.
And still to come, we'll
We'll talk to Chad Holmes from our Civic Media Station in Warsaw, and we'll talk to political strategist Joseph Pecky.
Is that them singing Pink Pony Club?
Okay, thank you, Tony.
God love you.
All right, let's catch up after the news.
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