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Well, hey there, Wisconsin.
Good morning.
It's 6.06.
It's a Monday morning.
Another beautiful morning to have you here up north, live from Lake WSOTA from wherever you're spending your mornings, listening across the Civic Media radio network, or catching us by podcast or through the app.
I appreciate you getting the work week started right here.
The last work week before the real holiday season begins.
I got a question for you.
How are your plans coming along for 2026?
We are making some plans over here at Up North News and I'm going to be telling you all about them in about 15 minutes time.
So stick around for that.
But our question of the day deals more with before we get to 2026, the holiday season.
What's your best suggestion for a last minute?
holiday gift.
Now, I know we're not in last-minute territory yet, but some folks are going to find themselves there real soon, and I'd love to hear your ideas when you realize, oh, you got to get a gift or something.
There's more choices than ever, of course, with gift cards and things that you can get online.
But are there any tangible things that you think make really nice gifts if you've got to grab something at the last minute?
I for one do come down very much on the side of the the gas cards if you're giving to somebody and say the 16 to 26 age range I've never met a an older teen or a young adult that doesn't appreciate getting a little gas money in that way So we'd love to hear your suggestions eight five five seven five civic eight five five seven five two four eight four two Coming up on the program two really good guests
In our seven o'clock hour, about 7.35, we will visit with former Republican Congressman Reed Ribble.
Now, we have said a lot on this program about Republicans not having a true alternative to the Affordable Care Act.
And that's really not too much to ask.
If somebody puts forward a good idea for something and you don't like the idea, well, then what's your idea?
Reed-Ribble's contention is that Republicans don't have to just have nothing.
So we'll talk to Reed-Ribble, what he makes of the current health care debate and how you make it a more bipartisan thing because health care reform should be a bipartisan thing.
And then at 835, we will talk to John Hankus, the CEO of Wisconsin Eye.
If you go to watch Wisconsin Eye right now, either online or on your cable system, you won't see any programming.
They've gone dark.
There's simply a slide there that says that due to fundraising challenges, they no longer have the funds to operate and that loses the only unfiltered, unvarnished coverage of your state government.
The legislature, the committees, the news conferences, other events, all of that is now gone after a number of years, well over a decade now.
And why should it be that way?
Why should why should we be reliant on the charity of others to have open government?
for taxpayers to see what it is their elected officials are up to.
So we'll talk to John Hinkus about that coming up as well.
It is a cold one across Wisconsin, but a lot better than it was 24 hours ago.
The low spots right now, there's a lot of places reporting seven degrees from Wasaw down to Oshkosh, Antigo, plenty of other places in southeast Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Rapids is at nine degrees.
Meanwhile, the warm spot in the state is in Menominee.
It's at 18 right now.
Hayward is at 10, and it is 12 degrees here in Chippewa Falls.
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is the Badger State Buzz.
That's the events calendar that Ellie Bordeaux puts together.
Parker Olson is producing this shindig down in Madison Studio A2.
How was your weekend?
It was fine, Pat.
Yeah, well, we'll get to the Packers Broncos, which ruined everybody's weekend.
And in just a bit.
great.
Yeah.
But on the Badger State Buzz events calendar...
I've never heard this one before.
This is a new one on me.
In Delavan this week, you can attend a Buddy Holly Jolly Christmas.
See what they did there.
It's like Wheel of Fortune before and after.
Buddy Holly Jolly Christmas.
Wow.
There you go.
Well done.
Zachary Stevenson performs a rock and roll song featuring Christmas classics at the Belfry Music Theater in Delavan this week.
Again, one of several items on our Badger State Buzz events calendar.
All right, we've avoided it long enough.
Packers Broncos, we didn't just lose a game.
I mean, I wish we could,
but I
feel like if we're going to say RIP to the rest of the season, and it certainly does feel that way.
Wait, I found an alternative talking about it for about eight seconds here Navy beats army and the army Navy football game according to Alicia here on YouTube Yeah, it was a one-point victory.
I believe so
I thought that I Thought the pack of Bronco game was gonna be fun like that.
I mean there
going it was going
forth
And then it wasn't.
There was Christian Watson going down with what we all thought at first was a shoulder or collarbone injury, but it was a chest injury.
And then Micah Parsons with a torn ACL, most likely.
A non-contact thing.
One minute he's rushing the quarterback and the next he's down.
And you could just hear.
You could hear all of Wisconsin.
You could play that little clip of Obi-Wan Kenobi from Star Wars, like, I have felt a disturbance in the force, like a million voices crying out in pain.
That was Wisconsin yesterday.
Along with Josh Wiley, tight end, lost to a concussion, Zach Tom got hurt as well.
And the team just deflated after that and Denver went on to seal the deal, winning 34 to 26.
But even before that, again, there was a lot of good back and forth, but there were also a lot of penalties.
There were a lot of missed receptions, missed potential interceptions, a lot of penalties.
Josh Jacobs got stuffed quite a bit trying to run up the middle.
On the one hand, the Packers scored on all five of their first five possessions, but on the other hand, four trips to the red zone and only one touchdown out of all that.
So yeah, it had what was looking like maybe a heavyweight fight and then it didn't.
I mean, we kind of knew this going in.
We talked about that on make the call this weekend that we knew it was going to be in the trenches a lot.
Denver.
offensive line, very good Denver defensive line, even better probably.
The fact that the Packers held them off from getting to Jordan Love and getting a sack until I think decently late in the third quarter was pretty impressive.
But yeah, just a lot of problems for the Packers, unfortunately.
I will say, Pat, you remember, I don't know, a couple of weeks ago, we were like, I don't remember the last time I felt really good about a Packer win.
Yes, I felt.
Pretty good about Packer games since then, weirdly.
Yeah, yeah, because they've just been competitive through and through.
I think at large, I feel the same way about this game yesterday is just all of the stuff around it that I don't feel any joy over.
No, I mean, to see both Watson and Parsons going out like that, you just thought, OK, you know, and.
And it was just brutal.
It was truly limping out of there.
Yes.
And I'm not saying all is lost.
Heck, even the game wasn't all lost.
We were down by eight, which meant, you know, there was still a chance to tie it up.
Yeah.
And but we just could could not regain any momentum.
It just felt like the team had been deflated
at
that point.
And that's unfortunate.
So there's better news then after that game.
I flipped over to ESPN.
Me too.
and watch the Badger volleyball team.
And they punched their ticket to the final four with a win over the number one seed in that regional final.
Texas did it in four sets.
And so as a result, it will be the Badgers heading to what Kansas City, I believe it is.
It is four for the for the final four.
They will take on number one rated Kentucky in the NCAA national semifinals.
On Thursday, I had not watched much Badger volleyball this season and kind of kicked myself as I'm watching this.
I'm going, why was I missing this?
They are so good.
They're they're just they're so good.
They're so fast.
Yeah.
Kelly, you
never want to play Bar League volleyball again because you see them and you go, oh, what am I doing here?
You know?
Yeah.
But yeah, women's hockey, number one ranked in the nation.
Now you've got the women's volleyball team once again going to the final four, doing well in the NCAA tournament.
Though I did have to laugh at the team photo that they took afterwards.
Do you see Kelly Sheffield?
Barely.
He was behind one of the players in the back row.
So all you see is the top of his very bald head.
I mean, just the very top.
And you wouldn't you wouldn't know it unless somebody pointed it out.
So no, maybe from a staffing standpoint or a photography standpoint, there should have been
a
little bit more teamwork on that front, perhaps.
But regardless, you know what?
A win is a win.
we will take it.
And
I did not.
oh, I'll bet the ESPN folks were a little cutoff guard by that.
Yep.
Probably a little bit.
Okay.
All right.
Well, that, so there was some good news, which is kind of the sandwich with some bad news because as you might have heard from Mike Clemens just now, the Milwaukee Bucks lost to the Brooklyn Nets, didn't just lose, they lost by 45.
Yeah.
127 to 82.
The Brooklyn Nets tied their franchise record for the biggest route of an opposing team by beating the Bucks by 45 and they are now off and hosting Toronto on Thursday night Another long left till Thursday.
Is this NBA cup thing still going on?
I believe it is.
Yes.
Okay
Isn't it nice not to have to worry about that?
Because
we
begin with because we were so worried about defending the NBA Cup.
And I think somehow we'll we'll manage to make do, you know, that I think it'll be OK.
We're not competing in that.
It's it's much more a case of getting Yanis back from his injury and then wondering to what degree is he trade bait.
And we just we just don't know.
Look at you.
We've made we've made Wisconsin sports world a little morose So we say
we did you watch the the game and yes, so they did play it in what were Arctic polar conditions
Yes, they did I believe that they had tents on both sidelines that were enclosed that had heaters in them for both teams because it was so good They did win that they beat Wheaton.
I forget the score.
It was 40
six to like 24, if I remember right.
And they will be hosting Johns Hopkins.
Yes, that Johns Hopkins on the Saturday at noon.
I always think of Johns Hopkins just as like a medical center and a medical school.
So I mean, does the team play in scrubs?
I kind of wonder about that.
Yeah.
Also coming on the show today, of course, will be Dr. Kristen Lyrely and Up North News reporter Selina Heller will have a story for us as well.
Coming up just after seven o'clock, Civic Media Sports Director Jimmy Cusca will join us as will John and Gordy from our Madison Station and from Afternoons here on the Civic Media Radio Network and we'll wrap things up with Greg Bach, who's staffing things from nine to 11 after the retirement of Jane McNair.
A little news about this own, our own little piece of
Radio Real Estate is coming up in just a couple of moments.
I'm Pat Crightlow.
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Our question of the day at eight five five seven five civic is what's your best idea for last-minute holiday gift?
This is where we all help each other do a little crowdsourcing of ideas because next week you're gonna realize You forgot something or maybe a cousin is coming to the party that you weren't expecting So we'd love to know what are your best ideas for last-minute gifts?
We will of course because we're always looking for some entertainment look for some
Unusual, or shall we say, worst ideas for a last-minute Christmas gift as well.
You can call or text us 8-5-5-7-5-CIVIC.
or use the Civic Media app to call us, text us, or leave a voice note.
Tomorrow on the program, we will have Hans Brighton Moser, a dairy farmer from up in the Merrill area, Lincoln County, Sheila Everhart from the Wisconsin Agricultural Tourism Association, Dan Schaefer from the Recombobulation area, Cam Stevenson from Courier Newsroom will join us from Washington DC, and Dan Hagen from NewsWatch 12, WJFWTV in Rhinelander, all coming up tomorrow here on the program.
And speaking of tomorrows, there are only a handful of tomorrows left in this morning radio show.
No big lead up to the news here.
We're just going to rip the band-aid off and let you know that this is our final week of new shows here in the early morning.
Our final show will be this Friday.
There will then be
two weeks full of shows that look back on the year.
And it has been quite a year.
There's been no lack of highlights.
And then 2026 will begin with a clean slate here at Civic Media.
And I eagerly anticipate the next chapter for this groundbreaking radio network.
This was not an easy call.
You have to trust me on that.
I am a radio rat first and foremost before I moved into TV and politics and then back to radio.
And I've been very blessed these past three years to be working two different jobs.
But the radio work was always designed to support my primary work over at Up North News, the outlet that I helped create six years ago with Courier Newsroom.
And heading into another busy political news year, I realized it's time to make a fuller commitment to one or the other, and I am choosing to ramp up the work
at the professional place that I have called home now for the past six years.
But for the past three years, and hundreds of shows, I am very proud of the work we've done here to create a daily statewide show that discussed state politics.
We talked up local happenings.
We gave what I still believe is a rare dose of fact based perspective to what radio listeners are hearing about national news events.
And
I mean, truly in picking one or the other, I was facing a win-win.
So it is back to Up North News full time for me.
What does that mean?
It means more videos, for sure, on Up North News.
That's the bulk of what I was doing before the radio show opportunity came up.
A lot of videos that explain the news.
There will be more social media posts.
There will be more stories on our website, upnorthnewswi.com, that bring to you the hometown impact of things that are happening in Madison and in the nation's capital.
And some folks here have been asking, will there be something akin to a radio show or a podcast or something like that?
And I honestly have no idea.
I mean, it would seem like a good idea.
We've got all this equipment here.
We've got all these great regular guests.
But the problem with making plans for a new year is that whole holiday season thing that's going on at the same time.
So we're all going to relax for a bit.
We're going to kick things around and we'll obviously let you know.
through our website and our newsletters and social media.
If and when we do any other things in the multimedia realm, I mean, you could even share some ideas right now about what I ought to do next at Up North News.
The one I do hear most often is a podcast.
And for no other reason, you can use naughty words on it that you can't say on the radio.
One of my daughters suggested Pat Crichtlow's what the bleep Wisconsin, except she didn't say bleep.
The fact of the matter is, though,
Whatever I end up doing, I have been one lucky guy.
I am not gonna, you know, tell you otherwise.
I've worked my tail off to try to make things look a little bit easier on the surface, whether it's running a talk show or anchoring a newscast or being an elected official.
But there was most definitely a lot of luck in it as well.
I've
I've really had a lot of great dreams come true and now I just have to conjure up a new one for 2026.
I've got one good chapter left to right before we start the retirement edition of our lives together, me and Sherry.
So I'm going to spend the holidays thinking of the possibilities.
And as far as what did we exactly accomplish here with what will be 711 morning shows?
Well, let's talk more about that on Friday because right now we're still just getting started with show number 707 And so let's stick to the the business at hand and go from there In the news today obviously some very tragic news out of the Los Angeles area where actor director Rob Reiner and his wife were found murdered
And there's still a lot we don't know.
There's been a lot of speculation about the attack that killed them, and we're not going to engage in that right now.
We'll take a moment instead just to remember Rob Reiner's legacy.
Of course, as an actor, with all in the family, where he won two Emmys.
But then as a director, where, I mean, he just flourished, basically inventing the mockumentary with this as a final tap, then came the princess bride, then standby me.
Then a few good men and people were really noticing Rob Reiner at that point when Harry met Sally Misery the American president and so on Rob Reiner was the son of TV pioneer Carl Reiner who created the Dick Van Dyke show Dick Van Dyke as you know Celebrated his 100th birthday on Saturday
and
it leads me to the other story that was in the news today
and over the weekend.
You know CBS could have used some of their prime time real estate on Saturday to honor Dick Van Dyke on his 100th birthday given as many shows over the years but instead the new right-wing regime in charge of CBS chose to turn the airwaves over to the widow of Charlie Kirk in a town hall set up by the new CBS chief Barry Weiss and dozens of social media posts celebrating her and Charlie Kirk.
choosing to remember them instead of choosing to remember a man who has given us joy for the past hundred years.
That's a conscious choice made by CBS.
We'll have today's history lesson and Dr. Kristen Lierly coming up next live from the lake.
I'm Pat Critello.
This is the Civic Media Radio Network.
Time once again for today's history lesson on mornings with Pat Critello.
the Beatles!
That's one small step for man.
Well, I'm not a crook.
Do
you believe in miracles yet?
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.
There you go.
Oh, there it goes.
If we're in the time machine.
Oh, boy.
Pat and Sherry are running to the dance floor right now.
It is time to dance along to Morris Day in the time.
Morris Day, happy birthday.
Turn 68 over the weekend.
And here dancing with me today, Dr. Kristen Lyrely, who literally is dancing in her chair today.
I'm trying so hard not to sing out loud right now.
Oh, everybody get up.
Let's
go.
It's Monday
between between the bird and jungle love.
I don't know that there are two other songs from the 80s.
I loved more.
They were just Morse Day.
It was so good.
I bet though we could sit down with a couple old fashions and come up with a list of about 100 to 1000 songs.
Quite possibly.
Yes.
Quite possibly.
And we danced to every one of them at either shenanigans or Trader and Trapper back in the day.
So
yeah.
We have Lindsay's in the Twin
Cities.
Oh, yeah.
In Dinky Town.
In
Dinky.
But you know, here's my question.
Do they still dance anymore?
Are there dance floors in some of these places anymore?
Because
I've
gone into some of these places and everybody just kind of stands by their table and just kind of sways while they talk.
And there is a lot of huddling.
There's a lot of huddling rather than just out and out dancing.
Fellas, you guys, me, first have.
New Year's Eve.
Jack rude.
80s dance party.
So much fun.
What do you
think?
Maybe
more scale show
up.
Maybe.
Let me check my calendar, which currently has me babysitting then, but maybe
I can
find a substitute.
I don't know.
Bring the kids.
Bring the kids.
The six-year-old, the
three-year-old.
They'll love that.
All right, so Morris Day has a birthday, had a birthday over the weekend.
By the way, I mean, this is like their no birthdays, celebrity birthdays today that I could see, but he had a bunch of birthdays for Saturday.
And so let's pass that along, including Taylor Swift.
I haven't seen like the whole show, but there was some kind of one of those like
preview shows on TV.
Was it Friday night or sat Friday night?
And we were watching some of that.
And, you know, just really admiring her.
I'm not a Swifty say, but this is one of my favorite songs from her.
So fabulous.
I offered it to my kids and they hard passed and literally walked out of the room.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
Same kid who said to me, mom, I said, the game is on today around three o'clock.
We're going to have lots of food.
And he said, mom, is there football every weekend?
And I thought,
oh, my.
Oh, my.
Oh.
I've totally
failed.
Oh, yeah.
Oh.
OK, it's not too late.
Don't worry about it.
Wow.
All right, on this day in 1939, Gone with the Wind premiered in Atlanta, starring Clark Gable and Vivian Lee.
It would win the Best Picture Oscar for 1940.
How popular was it at the time?
When you adjust for inflation, it is still the highest grossing film in history.
And
I got to say, having seen the movie and read the book, it's actually a really annoying story.
I loved it it was so romantic and like in that time like now you look back and you're like so many things wrong but like in that time it was captivating and Vivian Lee come on.
Oh she was
good.
Yes
and Hattie McDaniel winning an Oscar.
Yeah absolutely.
Another birthday from over the weekend Randy Owen lead singer of Alabama turned
76.
see now we're back on the dance
floor but we're at a wedding reception what reception what wedding reception for 30 years hasn't had a song like this or fishing in the dark or
something
something along those lines yep let's see Jamie Foxx turned 57 years old over the I'm sorry 58 years old over the weekend math is hard
Jamie Foxx was
born Eric Bishop so
really
yep
I
do not know that.
Jamie Foxx with two X's, not his real name.
No, believe it or
not.
Eric Bishop is kind of a cool name.
Eric Bishop is cool name, yeah.
Tom DeLong turned 50 over the weekend, co-founder of Blink 182.
That'll wake you up.
It will.
That's a good Monday morning alarm song.
Isn't it though?
Yes.
I like it very much.
On this day in 2021, four years ago, Bruce Springsteen
sold his music back catalog to Sony for an estimated $500 million.
Think if you could sell back all of the work that you've done over time.
What would somebody be willing to pay for that?
I
think
waste management would take all of my new scripts and stories from over the years and say, well, we'll give you a buck and a half and we'll throw it in the shredder over here.
I don't know.
That makes me feel nostalgic.
I listen to his biography, his autobiography that he actually reads and the painstaking process of writing every album
and the
emotions that went into it.
It is a really, and I'm not a huge Springsteen fan, but I like his music, but just wow.
And the same like with Billy Joel, we've talked about that.
And others, when they reach a point and they just go, that's it.
I have nothing left to create and write a song.
I'd be the first one going, I'm good with that.
I'm not going to say, no, you sit there and you crank out another song.
It would kill me to write one song and try to come up with something original in terms of music and lyrics and everything.
So yeah.
God bless the people that can do it to the point where they're selling their music catalog for $500 million.
And they're sitting in their bedroom making Nebraska.
Yes.
I mean, like the story is, ugh.
I know.
Look into it, people.
It's so good.
Amy Lee, the singer from Evanescence, is 44 years old today.
Why do my kids love this song so
much?
Because you
can turn it up
to 11,
we're saying
saying and rest in peace for Rob Reiner.
You can turn it to 11.
Or like a TikTok.
It's like it had some sort of viral trending something or another.
could totally see that.
Hey, in case you're ever wondering, what kinds of things led to having a shot clock in basketball?
Well, it was on this day in 1973 in a college basketball game that Tennessee beat Temple.
Final score, 11 to 6.
Oh.
Yeah.
mean, how did crowds at basketball games tolerate that?
Just watching them dribble the ball, pass it back and forth, slowly walking up courts.
I can't believe basketball had any fans back before the shot clock, honestly.
Kind of like soccer, huh?
Don't get me started on that.
This weekend, while putting the segment together, I learned that the Beatles released a Christmas song on this day in 1967.
And I'd never heard it.
And this might be the only time I hear it.
It was part of the Beatles' psychedelic phase.
And so here's a Beatles song from 1967.
And boys and girls, that's the song.
They basically repeat this roughly 19 times through the song.
They put out a lot of stuff in 67.
That was like Revolver.
Oh, yeah.
There was a lot of time in the studio.
Well, I guess from their early days, they record what are called fan-only records, not only fans, fan club records.
Things were different back then.
These were
records.
You had to be part of the Beatles fan club, and then they would occasionally send you a record of some other stuff.
And on this day in 1967, Beatles fans got this Christmas record of the Beatles singing Christmas time is here again, over
and over and over.
Isn't there some big deal thing about, like, if you have the number one Christmas song in the UK, that is a really prestigious thing.
I
don't see why it wouldn't be,
yeah.
But it's way bigger than here.
There's something about having the Christmas song on Christmas.
I'll look into it.
You look in.
You get back to us on that.
ever dethroned
the real question.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's a whole thing about Wham and George Michael in Last Christmas.
Oh, of
Because like posthumously it had never gotten to be number one when he was alive.
Then posthumously there was this big campaign and it's been number one a number of different times because it just keeps coming back during Christmas time.
So it's like an honor thing.
That's the thing with the charts.
The charts are now like
all kinds of old songs that come back up on the charts.
It's a
very weird thing.
On this day in 1997, a movie premiered in London.
The movie was Spice World.
The Spice Girls are the accolade of worst film at the Golden Raspberry Awards.
So, you know, got something there.
Still a film.
Yep.
Let's
see.
I'm not gonna got it now.
That's right.
Big band superstar Glenn Miller died on his way to perform for US troops in France on this day in 1944.
Glenn Miller's aircraft was taken down by Bad Weather over the English Channel.
From 1939 to 1943, he was the world's best-selling artist with 23 number one hits during the Warriors.
Did you dance to this, Pat?
Maybe, maybe.
the King of Swing back in
Yes, yeah.
No?
No.
On this day in 1979, a couple of guys, Chris Haney and Scott Abbott, invented a board game.
Trivial pursuit and took took things by storm and and actually truth be told One of the things that sherry liked about me first Was that we we entered like some trivial because trivial pursuit contest were all the thing back then and we entered a little trivial pursuit tournament
And we won it because she did all the science and nature, the smart people stuff.
Orange.
And yeah, and then I did all the other goofball stuff.
Entertainment and history
and... You're so
smart.
You're really on to me now, yep.
All right, what do we have
on there?
Is that a pen and your...
Pocket protector in your pocket?
My
pocket protector?
Yeah.
Oh, I never noticed that before.
Right.
The plaid hides it.
Yes.
Hey, I got up the Christmas plaid shirt today.
I forgot that I had this.
I got a nice bright red corduroy blazer that goes over it for Christmas time.
Because, you know, as the Beatles say, Christmas time is here again.
Christmas time is here again.
Christmas time is here again.
Oh, but you know, we are simply having a wonderful Christmas time.
Aren't we
a wonderful Christmas
time?
Okay, now what's on the National Day calendar?
like spill the tea or like actual drinking the
British drink the tea.
I don't love tea.
Do you love tea?
I do
not love tea.
No, I will have it once or twice in the winter.
I happen to have a cup yesterday because Sherry was looking for tea to make something else.
Brandy Slush.
And I'm like, well, the tea is out.
I'll make up a cup.
And it was a nice thing because again, it was, you know, 40 below over the weekend here.
So a warm cup of tea felt nice.
but yeah, not the thing that we typically have.
All right, when we come back in our seven o'clock hour, we will be talking to former Congressman Reed Ribble about healthcare, and in our eight o'clock hour, John Hankus from Wisconsin Eye.
I'm Pat Crightlow.
This is the Civic Media Radio Network.
You're listening to Civic Media.
Find the latest news, information, and archives of all your favorite shows on the Civic Media website, civicmedia.us.
Hey, welcome back.
It's a Monday, December 15th.
I was really surprised.
Kristen didn't start singing right away at the start of that song,
but good to be straight out of
you.
Thanks.
Yep.
And Selena Heller joins us from Up North News as well.
Ms.
Heller, how are you?
right.
Got a story from her coming up after the break and maybe a little singing as well.
If not her, then at least her daughter.
So you'll want to stick her on for that.
Kristen, of course, has the Dr. Kristen Lyrely show Saturdays at noon across the Civic Media Radio Network replayed on Sundays.
You can also hear it out of Chicago on a radio station there.
What'd you have this past weekend?
This past weekend, I talked with Kate Duffy, our friend Kate Duffy from Motherhood for Good.
And we talked about why moms need to be involved in politics.
She shared her evolution from not caring, being too busy to recognizing how important it is to get involved.
So it was a really great conversation.
And then this weekend, I've got Missy Hughes, candidate for Wisconsin governor, former lead of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.
Missy's from the Baroque area.
And man, she is,
She is really smart and brings a totally different dimension.
She gets the economy in a way that a lot of folks don't.
Yeah.
So again, the Dr. Kristen Lairley show weekends or wherever you get your podcasts.
And on YouTube, Dr. Kristen Lairley.
There you
go.
So
many ways to
catch
the show.
Parker's got a little entertainment story for us.
What were the Olympics coming up and everything?
dancing.
more than
whole team USA.
It is such a change because the Olympics, you know, would be the kind of thing like having Snoop Dogg there would get your team disqualified because just the odor of
marijuana would be
enough to fail a drug test
around this guy.
These are different times.
Yes.
He's older now, so.
He's always
been pretty mellow.
He's always been pretty mellow.
But
he has been just an unabashed supporter of the Olympic team in the past.
And so I think it's a nice little niche for him.
was saying that last night on one of the games, like he coaches Pop Warner football.
patch.
The bud bowl.
they call it?
They call that the weed
It was the Snoop Dog Bowl, of course.
Okay.
Gotcha.
Selena, we can't see because the damn cat is blocking the entire camera now.
What did you do over the weekend to stay warm?
Zootopia 2?
Good, good, good, good.
Yeah, we saw the, I saw the preview of it among the other 22 previews that they show before movies nowadays because we went to go see Wicked for Good.
the sequel.
Yes.
Over.
Do we see it's Saturday?
Yeah, Saturday.
We went to go see that.
And, um, okay, no, no spoiler alerts here.
Kind of sorta, but, um, Sherry had seen the play on Broadway and raved about it.
Just, just raved about
it.
And.
And after the first movie, you know, last year, she was kind of like, oh, it's okay.
The play was better.
This is kind of dragged out.
I can't believe they need a second movie, blah, blah, blah.
And in the second movie that we saw over the weekend, there was a development I did not see coming.
There was a plot twist.
Did not see coming.
And so we're walking out of the theater and I said, hey, that was a pretty good turn there.
She's like, that was not in the play.
In the play, it ended entirely differently.
I'm like,
What can they do that?
And so now, of course, it's based on a novel.
So now I'm dying to know which way the novel went.
So I guess we know what I'm reading next is to see who got it right.
It's kind of like Game of Thrones, you know, where they they had to continue the series after the books are done and they had to kind of make it up as they go along.
But this one, they just up and changed.
I'm looking, it looks like none of you have seen this yet.
Did she like it?
Did she appreciate the game?
Still
liked it.
Yeah, still liked it.
Again, it was one of those where, you know, nothing against it, but that the play was so amazing that she says, if it ever comes out, you know, here to Milwaukee or the Twin Cities or something, we have to go see it.
And I would totally go with her after
that.
It's so good.
Yeah.
So
did you guys see the first one at all or is
it
not on your radar at all?
So you
both did see it.
We both did see it.
I saw the show on Broadway as well.
You saw the Broadway show right?
Oh, yes.
It was fantastic and okay, but yes, so we had to pick between Zootopia or Okay, but everybody wants to see the other two, but okay
Well, we got the yeah, you get the vacation or the holiday break to go see things there and Kristen you you don't know when you're getting to a movie theater next
I don't know.
We'll see.
But I have seen it in the theater twice in Appleton and in San Francisco, and I watched the first part of Wicked.
And I just think they're different.
You go to the theater to see a certain kind of entertainment.
It just
feels different.
And the voices are different.
And, you know, in the theater, it's so produced and so many effects.
So it's just different.
Yeah.
I mean, it's like Hamilton.
you know there's all
this talk about
making a movie out of it and a bunch of us are like no don't don't
that
was such a that was such a perfect play there's really no need to make a movie out of it you know they will anyway which is really depressing but maybe but again maybe it'll be really good it wouldn't be the first time that a movie adaptation has pleasantly surprised people
They didn't think it was going to be good when it got released on Broadway.
Remember how many people were super skeptical?
Like, really?
Alexander Hamilton's story with rap music?
You're right.
Yes.
And then boom.
Boom.
Yes.
It
absolutely
turned the world upside down.
See what I did there.
Coming up in our 7 o'clock hour, we will be talking to former Republican Congressman Reed Ribble about health care, all that and more.
Still ahead on a Monday.
I'm Pat Crite low from Up North News.
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