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Good afternoon, everybody.
I'm Todd Albaugh, along with Mr. Parker Olson on the board, filling in for Mr. Zommers.
It is six minutes past the hour of three o'clock.
Welcome to hour number two of the big program on this Thursday, June 26, 2025.
It is a great day to be a Wisconsinite.
Welcome, everybody, to the World Headquarters of Civic Media in downtown Madison on State Street here in Madison.
Sunny skies for the most part, some big fluffy clouds here and there.
It is sultry, it is sticky, but want to get right away to an important weather statement for you, particularly for those folks listening on WRCE in Richland Center.
We have an ongoing tornado warning in effect until 315 for Southwestern Juneau County, Northeastern Vernon County, and Southeastern Monroe County.
This is a radar-indicated storm right now.
Flying debris associated with this storm and should be moving through Waniwok right about now and other places that could be impacted include Mount Tabor, Pleasant Ridge, and Union Center.
So if you are in the area, say of Hillsboro Union Center, Elroy, Wisconsin, I would even say Boston at this point, get to the lowest level in your building.
If you don't have a basement, get to an interior space such as a bathroom and take shelter immediately.
A tornado warning in effect for another five to 10 minutes or so for South, it would be Southwestern, pardon me, Southwestern Juneau County.
Also just a little tiny edge of Monroe County and then Eastern Vernon County.
So think of Hillsborough, Elroy Union Center and Boston.
This is a fairly small cell as it's popping up.
It's not part of the whole line, but rather a small cell.
A tornado watch remains in effect for many places in central and western, west central Wisconsin until 8 p.m.
tonight.
There are also
thunderstorms right now in the La Crosse area on Alaska, Sparta.
Those are not severe at this point, but we'll continue to watch this as the afternoon progresses.
Keep it to civic media right here.
Big second, by the way, many thanks to Matt Flynn for being here on October 2.
Always a great time.
Always learn something when Matt stops by.
Coming up a little bit later on in this hour.
I'm going to talk about some grocery store closures, particularly in southeastern Wisconsin and what this means for food deserts in vulnerable areas, vulnerable communities.
So dig into that a little bit.
Also a few more political stories for you.
Take your phone calls as well.
Gonna play a little what's worse in a moment, but for Parker, Parker also filling in for Aaron Zomers who has the day off, hopefully he's having a great time.
I appreciate it, Parker.
He joins Pac Crite low now every morning from six until nine across the network on mornings with Pat and Parker.
Is that what it's
It's mornings with Pat Crite, local Parker.
We appreciate you being here because Parker's been up since, you know, the crack of dawn.
And that's sleeping in?
too tight at that time.
So we appreciate you coming back in the afternoon, Parker.
And yes, and Yeoman's worked today especially because the reason why he slept in, you were down at Milwaukee yesterday at Amfam Field for that great big pitcher's duel between the Pirates and Milwaukee, the Miz.
For the Brewers, how was that?
all.
That's why you started the game,
Yeah, I believe it was second out of the game.
It was just five heaters.
Yeah, it was awesome.
It was a lot of fun.
It was kind of ironic, though.
We walk in there, we sit down, and we're like, alright.
How long is it gonna take for somebody to get a hit?
How long until somebody gets a walk?
Both pitchers, first at bat, was a walk.
Right away.
The
perfect game was gone.
But it had to be incredible to watch those two guys going at it.
And I believe it was the largest attended game of the season so far.
What a clock.
Yeah.
But how good is that for baseball?
How good is that for Milwaukee to see that?
Skeens, I think, is already kind of tired of Pittsburgh because he's like four and seven, even though he's one of the best pitchers in the league.
He has absolutely no run support in Pittsburgh, so I would not be surprised if he wants out of there.
But, I mean, yeah, that's two young studs.
We'll see how long they can blast before they tire themselves out with throwing 100 miles an hour all the time.
But, you know,
it's promising.
It's incredible in how cool is it that, you know, once again, at least for a while, Milwaukee has one of the best people in baseball on our team.
We get to watch this each and every day.
He comes on, on, on the mound.
And I couldn't be happier for him.
I've seen his family on TV.
They're obviously thrilled.
I told this before, but Brady Ewing comes on our show.
From Richland Center and ended up being a walk-on and then ended up being the captain one of the captains of the Wisconsin Badger football team is senior year went won three big 10 championships went to three Rose Bowls and and here's a guy that that you know as your basically next door neighbor and their family and great people and how happy you are and thrilled and emotional
To have it be your own kid out there just has to be incredible.
And for, you know, Mrs. Family, that's just great.
They typically have younger guys, especially in the last couple of years.
So you get to see a ton of those moments of families getting to see their kid go to the bigs for the first time.
It's been really special to watch the last couple of years.
I'm glad you got to go, by the way.
That's fantastic.
And the Brewers are off today.
Take a baby celebrating that big win by the Miz yesterday.
They'll be back in action in Milwaukee against your Colorado Rockies.
Now, the Rockies, by the way, one of the worst teams in baseball.
I think some people are just like, like I'm not kidding.
I was like 18 games all year.
It's ridiculous.
way.
Yeah.
So the Rockies will visit Milwaukee broadcast start time on Friday.
Across many civic media radio network stations 635 and then the tip of that tip off the first pitch will be probably just after seven o'clock you could hear it on W R C E and Richland Center to be ISS and Oshkosh WRJN racing Kenosha CQM in Park Falls and now at WBZH and beautiful Hayward the buzz of the north.
That's what they call it.
Beautiful.
And if everything works out, we're not allowed to talk about it yet.
But if everything works out, Jane McNair of the wonderful and talented Jane McNair knows America program.
No, it's not going.
It's a Jane.
It's Matt Nair on air every morning from 9 until 11.
And Greg Bach and I are going to be going on the road to Oshkosh, I believe Butternut near Park Falls.
And then over to Hayward once again, this is all unconfirmed and we're not allowed to talk about it.
But I have a vehicle on my credit card We'll see we'll see but that's telling me there's a chance That's that's the rumor is it as it turns out the Brewers back in action on Friday night They're red hot make sure you get down there and be listing on Friday tomorrow We're gonna give you another chance to win four Brewer tickets in our Friday ticket
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You're doing fine.
I complicated it because I put an extra blip today in what's worse, so this is my fault.
want.
That was a kink.
That was totally my fault.
The reason it is my fault is because today's category is what's worse, brats or burgers.
What's worse, brats or burgers.
855-752-4842, 855-752-4842, or you can text us on the Civic Media app.
Now, when I saw this from our great team,
It reminded me back in the day on the old late show with David Letterman on CBS.
This is one of my favorite bits that Letterman did.
And it started out as Know Your Current Events.
And the great Paul Schaefer, the director of the CBS Orchestra, formerly the world's most dangerous band on the NBC show, Paul Schaefer wrote the musical Interlude.
And so here now we have dialed up.
for you, courtesy of Worldwide Pants.
That's the production team that Letterman has.
This is from the Late Show.
David Letterman, just a quick snippet from Worldwide Pants.
This is how Letterman used to introduce Know Your Cut to Meat on the Late Late Show.
That's fantastic.
That's incredible.
That's so no, you're cut to meat.
You see, I only wish Parker we had a live band back in Plattville.
I know I know whitewater people don't like Plattville.
But back in Plattville, we had our old late night show called Sunday Night with Todd Albaugh.
It was a takeoff on Letterman and Carson.
We actually think of this back and back in college, nearly 30 years ago, we had a live band.
I would love to have a live band for this show.
It's not gonna happen, but I would still like it.
Anyway, that was courtesy of World Wide Pants, Know Your Cuts of Meat.
Anyway, it's our edition of Know Your Cuts of Meat.
What's worse, brats or burgers, 855-752-4842, 855-752-4842.
for two.
We could also text us on the old Civic Media app.
Let's go to the phone lines.
Mike in spring green listening to the RCE.
Mike Bratz or burgers.
What's worse?
Well, I think I like them both, but hamburgers are the same.
I mean, the meat is the same everywhere.
You can get hamburger and it's going to taste the same and you need stuff to flavor it up.
If you get a truly well made broad,
All you need is maybe butter on the bun and maybe a little onion or something but rods are so unique to every place they're made When you find really good ones, they really stand out.
So that's that's what I would say
That's a great, that's a great deep dive on that, because you're right, brats, depending upon who makes them, where they're from, they can have a very different taste.
All right, thanks, Mike.
Very.
I appreciate the call.
Stay safe out there, beautiful spring green today.
Let's see, W-R-C-E.
855-752-4842.
855-752-4842.
What's worse, brats or burgers?
Also, text us on the Civic Media line.
I'm going to take a little break here and do a little business, as they say.
Have a call or a hold.
We'll get their take on that.
Also, I'll read a couple of texts for you today.
And then also talk about grocery stores in a bit.
They are disappearing in parts of Wisconsin and what that could mean to people's ability to buy fresh food.
All that more.
Don't go anywhere.
It's a Thursday edition of the All Balls Show across Wisconsin on the Civic Media radio network.
Pursuing truth wherever it may lead and
Having fun doing it.
Welcome back to Toddleball Show on the Civic Media Ready Network.
Twenty-two now past the hour of three o'clock.
Glad to have you along.
Parker Olson on the board doing Yeoman's work.
Zommer is off today right in the middle of what's worse for today.
Great category.
What's worse?
Brats or burgers?
8-5-5, 7-5-2, 4-8-4-2, 8-5-5, 7-5-2, 4-8-4-2.
We played that cut earlier for Worldwide Pants.
David Letterman's production company.
And because he used to do this big, it started out as know your current events.
And then he kind of got bored with it.
And I can't remember exactly how it evolved.
Perry could tell us, Jerry Perry, if he's listening, he could tell us on Facebook, but it became know your cuts of meat.
and looked it up on the old Wikipedia, and I'd forgotten all the categories.
One of our textures remembers this.
It says, which itself consists, know your custom meat, of five categories, beef, lamb, veal, pork, and the ever-popular variety meats, as Paul Schaefer heavily accentuates when he chuckles and says, variety meats, David.
Kind of as a...
And McMahon, variety meats, David.
After playing the bit, the individual is also rewarded with a box of assorted meats.
And they were great meats, by the way.
Lobels, pound for pound, the finest butcher shop in the world.
They were really nice meats.
Throughout the course of the segment's history on the show, Letterman varied back and forth between discreetly feeding the contestants the answers and making them guests.
Usually, if it was a hot woman, he'd give them the answer.
Each selected category is accompanied by a brief theme song based on nobody but me.
I did not know that.
To use a card, nobody but me.
know your custom meat uh what's worse our our uh rendition of know your custom meat what's worse brats or burgers eight five five seven five two four eight four two let's go to curt listening on to be mdx in madison curt brats or burgers what's worse well
given that i grew up in shabuagan wisconsin uh which is the gold standard for both by the way brats and hamburgers um obviously brats win but
I'd have to emphasize that both are only mediocre unless it's on a shabuagon hard
roll.
Oh, see, now you've brought in the bread component to all of this.
Well, I'm just stating that many people in Wisconsin, what they call a hard roll is is a sponge roll.
Really?
Really?
Any of you listeners who have not experienced a city bakery hard roll, well,
Everyone that I've exposed to it, their eyes just get huge.
I've never had one.
Is this commonly sold in various places or is a particular store should boy
concur?
No, it's a business called City Bakery.
It's on Michigan Avenue.
They're so popular that if you go on a weekend, you better call ahead because they'll be wiped out.
There's a spell downside to that particular hard roll.
It has a very short shelf life.
Oh well.
But hey, you got to eat it when it's good, right?
Most bread is good the first couple of days.
That's correct.
Well, this is great.
I appreciate the call because we love promoting local Wisconsin businesses.
It's called, what's the bakery again?
It's called City Bakery.
City Bakery in Sheboygan.
Yep, in the Bronx is
Miesfeldt on the
north
end
of
Sheboygan.
All right, I love it.
Well done, Kurt.
Thanks for the info.
Have a great day.
855-752-4842.
855-752-4842.
What's worse, Brots or Burgers.
Off the text line, Matt and Richland Center, one of our great UPS drivers.
And by the way, a shout out to all of our delivery people, UPS, FedEx, the United States Postal Service, Amazon.
Those people are, I mean, the heat like today,
Most of those vehicles don't have air-conditioned so thanks for doing all that work out there Matt everybody else Matt says Paul's favorite cut of meat category of the old know-your-custom eat variety meats You're absolutely right Matt.
Well done another great letterman fan out there.
I love it when in Madison says what's worse Brossner burgers it depends on the level of intoxication I Mean fair yeah, yeah, that's that's good
I like that.
Mark in prayer to sack off the text line says, I got my last brat at the St.
Norbert stand in the pig parking lot in sock county or sock city was great.
I just added some kimchi.
from physiology foods of varroqua.
Wow.
That's a lot of steps.
It is.
Wow.
I could have gotten my usual mushroom Swiss from Culver's next door, but wanted a brat.
Both are either great or worse, depending upon the maker and the cooker.
Now that's a great point, Mark, because we had somebody else earlier say it depends on where the brat's made, how good they are.
But, you know, if you have a, I've had a, I don't know if I've had like a terrible brat, but I've had some that are better than others.
I'll put it that way.
I'm not a big brat guy.
Really?
Really hot take here.
I'm not
a big brat
guy.
And you're a Wisconsin native.
Yeah, born and raised.
I'm not a big brat
guy.
I don't know what it is.
What don't you like about him?
I don't know.
Now, see, I'll say this.
I like, and maybe it's just my mom and I especially, I like a really well done, like it needs to be like a dark brown.
I don't mind a little charcoal on one side of my brat.
That's okay.
I don't like a soft brat.
Okay, that could go so many ways, but it's true.
I like I like it.
I like it So it's kind of crispy on the outside.
That's the way I like my broads don't so kind of it kind of it kind of What's much more kind of well not crunches, but pops it pops when you butt into it
snap now Parker's anti-snap.
I all right our own Terry Barr
on terry bar media on youtube says we found some chicken brats that beat any others hands down woodman's in case you're wondering oh nice chicken brats at woodman's all right terry nobody knows wisconsin better than terry bar by the way she has a great slice of wisconsin series here at civic media make sure you check it out parker so i know i'm thinking we know the answer but what's worse
I'm sorry.
You know, I went into this one way.
I'm coming out another... I'm actually gonna say that hamburgers are worse.
But for all the reasons, like, brats are better.
Our collars swayed me.
All right.
We'll come back.
Talk more in a minute, including not just brats, but food in Wisconsin grocery stores that are going out of business.
Don't go anywhere.
It's the All Balls Show on the Civic Media already Network.
Pursuing truth wherever it may lead and having fun doing a welcome back the title ball show on the Civic Media Running Network 35 minutes past the hour of three o'clock.
Welcome back everybody.
Parker Olson doing a great job filling in for a vacationing Aaron Zommers today.
Parker, I appreciate you being here.
so I'm
One of the few people at Civic Media that watches our show, we appreciate that.
We appreciate that.
That can't be that, Trace.
Oh, no, it really isn't.
A couple, we played a great round of what's worse today, burgers or brats, kind of a Letterman version-esque of know your cuts of meat.
I don't know, there it is, fantastic.
Brots or burgers.
By the way, our friend Jerry Perry, better known as Jeff Perry, is watching the show on Facebook today.
If you remember, tell us, Jeff, if you can, how did know your current events devolve into know your customers?
I can't remember exactly how that was on Letterman.
Anyway, Jerry Perry says, on Facebook says, I just realized that if Parker Posey married Parker Olson
She'd be Parker Olson.
or
just
No, Jeff and I go, so maybe it was Letterman that started this.
I can't remember who.
We used to do things like if Yoko Ono married Sonny Bono, she'd be Yoko Ono Bono.
Many people say that many people know that I appreciate recognition, but it's true.
It's not untrue That's
if if John Stamos had married Terry Amos she would have been Terry Stamos Amos
You have too much fun, Todd.
This is the very select group of people that appreciate my sense of humor, and yet, and yet, I have a statewide radio show.
People don't know why, but here I
It was a major mistake on many people's part.
Okay.
A couple more, and we'll wrap this up here with, no, you're not, no, you're causing me.
What's worse, Bronson burgers.
Let's see here.
John in Edgerton says, go down to State Street and get Brock burger.
They go great together.
I'm not sure what that means, but that's fantastic.
What else do we have here?
A listener on WMDX, a brand new listener.
Hey, thanks for listening here in Madison says West Side Bakery in Sheboygan has better hard rolls, both hamburgers.
Our and Brotter are good.
Oh, I got it.
Okay, Megan listening in some prairie under the MDX as I like them both my husband can't do Brotts the fave flavor and texture of them Just aren't his favorite Sean in Richland Center another great UPS.
Oh, no, I don't think Sean is a UPS driver listening to you RCE Says I cannot decide I'll take either one.
Well, there you go.
All right.
Thanks everybody Thanks for playing
What's worse, once again, come back tomorrow, have another great edition of that.
There was something else we were going to talk about, Parker, during the break.
street cam?
Oh, yes, that's right.
Thank you very much.
It's right now, at least, a beautiful day in Madison.
Let's go to the Sam Davidson street cam.
Oh, look at that.
Very good.
Thank you.
I'll take a look at what's going on.
Oh, there it is.
It's a rotating street cam.
That's a beautiful shot Parker.
Did you set that up today?
Oh, yeah.
Nicely done.
Thank you.
I
that you're you play you do camera for the Mallards baseball games here in Madison.
Yes.
All right.
Look at that.
You see a Fairchild Street intersects with Madison's historic State Street.
And there, right across the building, we're looking at on that shot, the Overture Center tonight.
You know what's happening there tonight, Parker?
No.
Well, we'll get to that.
Let's end the show with that.
Here, I'm just going to hold this up to my camera here.
Oh,
is that tonight?
It's tonight.
Oh.
It's tonight.
Here now, in my hands, my hot little hands, here is a great book called Make Him Believe.
And there is a great event tonight at the officer's center with the many of the people of the 2015 final four team, the championship game team of Wisconsin Badger basketball, including former head coach Bo Ryan.
Frank Kaminsky, Sam Decker, all in town.
I believe tickets are still available if you dial that up.
So it's it's a great event tonight right across the street.
a.m.
So we'll talk a little bit about that to end the show here.
Want to get to this.
Speaking of brought to the hamburgers.
And we're seeing more of this across the state of Wisconsin.
And I don't think it's being talked about enough.
I don't think it's an issue that enough people are paying attention to.
And so many thanks to reporters around the state that are on this, including the Milwaukee Journal Sentinels, Dakota Barnes Rush, and Sophia Joseph, who have an article in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel says Pick and Save Closing has Metcalf Park neighbors worried about losing their fresh food access.
Now,
And many of you know, I grew up in Southwest Wisconsin in Richland Center.
And when I was growing up as a kid, you had your Ed's Super Value.
You also had your Piggly Wiggly, who became an IGA.
Then you had your Two Isle Wilson Meat Market, Hestitunes Grocery Store.
You had another one that I can't name on Hazeltine Street.
It was another Two Isle grocery store.
They rented actually the building for my grandfather.
It's embarrassing.
I can't say it, but we had at least five different grocery store options in a town of 5,000 people.
And then later on and later on, you had Bernsteads that became kind of pick and save as well.
And now all of them are gone, all of them.
And the only place to buy groceries in a county of 17,000 people plus.
in southwest wisconsin is the super walmart in richland center now look i'm not here to i'm not hating on on walmart i'm just pointing out that you know there are a surge of like fresh fruit and meat and that sort of thing can can be difficult and to drive especially the walmart's way out of the edge of town you know it's like three miles maybe not quite two and a half miles over people that can't drive it's of course they have delivery
but in rural areas of the state, they already know what it's like to lose their grocery store.
Now this is being visited on our friends and neighbors in the Milwaukee area.
According to the Milwaukee Journal sent note today, says the upcoming closing of a pick and save supermarket in Milwaukee's Mechcalf Park neighborhood has residents concerned about losing access to fresh fruit and fresh, try that again, fresh food and medicine.
For more than 20 years, it's served a vital place for families to buy groceries in a neighborhood where there are few such stores.
The store on 35th Street is one of five Milwaukee area pick and save supermarkets that will be closing, according to a June 23 announcement from the Cincinnati based Kroger, which owns the pick and save food chain.
Dominique Bowles.
As a father with six kids, including a newborn, says the closing will be a big problem for his family.
Quote, that wouldn't be good if you ask me, Bulls told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, we need this location no matter what, unquote.
It's the only pick and save where Bulls shops.
The nearest other pick and save is about three miles away on Capitol Drive.
Retirees, Brenda Peterson also worries about the impact on the neighborhood.
She shops in a store regularly and says if it closes, she will have to travel further, maybe to Walmart.
She says, quote, in effect, a lot of people.
This is the store they come to, unquote.
She hopes city leaders in Kroger will find a way to stop the closing.
Alderman Russell W. Stamper II, who is district, includes the store called the closing, quote, deeply disappointing.
He says the store is more than a business.
It's a place where families and seniors rely on getting fresh food.
Stamper himself is a frequent customer.
He says, quote, it leaves a real void in the daily lives of countless families in our neighborhood, unquote.
Stamper said he's working with the Department of City Development in Milwaukee officials to bring a new grocery store to that location as soon as possible.
He's asking Kroger to keep the current store open longer to help residents during their transition.
Mayor Cavalier Johnson said his team is contacting Kroger to try to reverse the decision.
He said the city was not given advanced notice about the closing.
Quote, closing this store reduces access to healthy food in Milwaukee neighborhoods, unquote.
He hopes Kroger will support its workers by transferring them to other stores.
Johnson also hopes a different grocery store will open there if Kroger does not reverse its decision.
Little history here from Milwaukee, the North 35th Street grocery store opened in June of 2001 as a Jewel Osco supermarket and drug store.
It was seen as a big boost for Metcalf Park, which had a long been underserved by retailers.
This is a big issue.
As I said,
Places in rural Wisconsin have already found this to be visited upon them and now it's coming to more urban parts of the state.
Here in Madison, Wisconsin, we've seen grocery stores closed down, meaning that people have to travel further to get their food and their medicines.
I mean, a lot of people use the pharmacy for prescription medicines or over-the-counter medicines as well.
And now here in Milwaukee, it's coming as well.
Is this something that concerns you?
Is this something that that has been visited in your city in your neighborhood?
Give us a call 855-752-4842 855-752-4842 or you can text us on the Civic Media app.
The disappearance, I shouldn't say that, that's hyped up.
The closing of more grocery stores.
across the state of Wisconsin.
I guess disappearance in some neighborhoods.
That's accurate.
Megan on the text line on WMDX, Megan listening in some prairie says white water went through the same thing when I was in school.
Walmart killed the Century Grocery Store that was literally next door.
Very few other options in that area at the time.
Looks like an Aldi went in since I left.
which is a huge relief.
Thanks, Megan, for listening.
Parker, you just graduated from Whitewater.
it
don't
No, absolutely.
Cameron Appleton.
On the All right, I'm not sure what that is.
Cam.
We'll skip that.
Cam has some interesting takes.
Sometimes we use them.
Sometimes we don't.
We'll steer clear of that one for now.
Thank you.
Thank you, Cam.
Let's see, Joseph.
watching us on the old YouTube channel.
We appreciate that streaming on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Twix, whichever you want to call it here.
Joseph says, piloting public grocery stores in food deserts is part of Mondami's mayoral campaign platform in New York City.
Sioux Falls is successfully running a mobile store that travels amongst its food deserts.
Thanks, Joseph.
Appreciate that take and info.
Yeah.
I mean, that was one of them on Domines Things talking about that again, we talked about this a little bit yesterday.
Not so much apart.
People who seem to be kind of winning key races right now politically.
It's not always political or political partisan ideologies.
They're populist ideas.
And as Trig Wilson said yesterday, populism isn't always bad.
It just means that it's paying attention to what ever is on the.
the people's minds, voters at the time.
I also know, again, in Southwest Wisconsin, you've got the Worm Farm Institute, which started these food carts working with local providers, a lot of organic farmers, small farmers to bring food carts for fresh produce into small towns.
And they've also done some of that here
in Madison.
We'll come back, wrap up the show, talk a little bit about make them believe in the glory years of 2015.
Don't go anywhere.
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I only wish I were Jim Nance or the late great Greg Gumbel.
That was a song.
That was the song.
One shiny moment.
You notice March Madness on CBS and TNT and all the rest when they play that song there.
A lot of us who are college basketball fans.
the entire March Madness tournament.
We wait until the very end, until after the championship game, until after the trophy is presented.
And then the great editorial team at CBS, they put together this montage of the Luther Vandross song, One Shiny Moment, and it's like a review of the entire tournament in video and song.
And I appreciate Parker pulling that up.
Gonna get to why in just a minute.
Don't forget, at the top of the hour,
Coming up, we have the CBS ABC or James Kelly news followed by a look of weather again Toriel watches in effect for West Central, Wisconsin also some flash flood watches for Central, Wisconsin, Britain.
We're low.
We'll have that for you as well.
Our great sports reporter Mike Clemens talking sports for you.
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Parker, fantastic there.
pulled up one shiny moment because tonight, right across the street from where we're at here on State Street, looking out at the Overture Center, is a great event called Made'em Believe.
You can go online, there are still tickets available, I believe, and it is going to be many of the key players from the 2014, 2015 Wisconsin men's basketball team.
2015 was the last time they went to the Final Four.
They played in the national championship
Lost to the evil coach K Duke blue devils because they cheated Just
the officials the officials over
No, I think I think I've heard them say since in podcasts look They explained it themselves that yes, okay There might have been some changes between the first and second half But ultimately we did some things wrong or didn't do some things and they take say hey we did it We should have won that game
it
Yeah, exactly.
Right.
But but tonight at the Overshift Center, they're talking about this magical, magical year in which the Wisconsin Badger basketball team went to the national championship game.
And I remember it like it was yesterday.
Were you old enough to remember this, Parker?
Well, they're both spectacular.
People who listen to this show watch it regularly know, I went to UW-Platteville and I started broadcasting when Bo Ryan was the head coach of the pioneer team and ended up going to a final four.
And my four broadcast partner, Kevin O'Connor, who is absolutely fantastic at calling games, spending a lot of time on buses and on the road with Coach Ryan and those teams at Platteville, of course,
Coach Ryan won four national championships at Platteville at division three.
It's been a couple of years that you need to be able to walkie before going on that magical run at UW Madison.
And I think for my money, what that team and coach Ryan and assistant coach guard did for the state was magical.
And I have in my hands here, it's a great book called Make Them Believe.
by Patrick Herb, one of the great writers of Badger Sports, forwards by Frank Kaminski, who was the national player of the year at Epilogue by coach Ryan.
I want to read just a couple of sentences here if we have time.
Talking about the night that Wisconsin went up against 38 and 0 Kentucky.
in the semifinal.
They write, as Duke was putting the final touches on a win over Michigan State in the first game in the final four double header, deep in the recesses of Lucas Oil Stadium, Bull Ryan paced in front of his team.
Seated neatly in three rows, 16 pairs of eyes tracked their leader as he wore out a stretch of carpet on the locker room floor.
You've got to remember to block it out.
You can't let them kill you on the glass.
We're trying, they're trying to drive you nuts.
You need to move your feet.
You got to keep your chest up on them."
Ryan said, reciting the same keys he had always highlighted every week in practice.
The same tenants of Wisconsin basketball that helped him win more games than any coach in school history.
As he called the players to their feet, he gathered them in close.
The team with unrivaled brotherhood was standing tight enough to nearly feel each other's heartbeat.
Ryan waited a moment before he delivered one
final truth.
Gentlemen, Ryan began slowly.
The promised land is impromised.
It's earned.
Now go get it.
Unquote.
That from Patrick Herb's book, Make and Believe.
We're going to talk about it tonight.
Parker, it's one of the most magical runs in Wisconsin sports history, in my opinion.
I mean, the most the pundits they had already given Kentucky and the national championship.
A. Yeah.
It was a great run.
Thank you to coach Ryan.
Thank you to all the assistant coaches.
And of course, most of all, thanks to guys like Frank Kaminski and Sam Decker and Ben Brust and all the other guys on Nigel Hayes Davis and and Bronson Keenig and Joss Gasser.
All those guys and many of them will be across the street tonight at the at the Overture Center for made them believe.
It's going to be a great evening over there.
Great show today, Parker.
Thank you.
Great job today.
It was a lot of fun.
Yeah, as I'm looking back tomorrow, as long as he doesn't party too much tonight on his vacation day.
Also, many thanks to Matt Flynn for being here and all of you for listening.
Maggie Dawn is next.
We'll be back with you tomorrow.
Peter Ray Pinalby here with a wacky look at the Week in Review.
Until then, whatever you're fighting for, whatever you believe in, do not give up.
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