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It is six minutes past the hour of three o'clock.
Welcome into hour number two.
of the big broadcast here on Wednesday, September 24th, 2025.
It is a great day to be a Wisconsinite, and it is... Pump day!
That's right, reached it, middle of the week.
Glad to have you along with us.
My hair, but what's left of my hair is a little messed up, by the way.
I was in the shower.
And I just got out this this morning and Trigby called we were talking a little pregame show and I wrapped a towel around myself and I talked to him and then I for about 20 minutes and then I dried off and Got dressed and did things around the house.
Well, then I went to brush my teeth before I left the house I looked in the mirror.
I hadn't I hadn't dried my hair and it was standing up like mr. Heatmeister from that old Christmas
he's mr. Heatmeister he's mr. Sun
It
wasn't dramatic because I don't have a lot of hair to stand up, but
I want to see if I can make my hair stand up Now you have a lot of those of you who don't watch the stream it is it is long hair Yeah, and that standing straight up probably add like a foot to my height or something at least
yeah, absolutely many thanks to a Pat Crichtlow of mornings of Pat Crichtlow He will be here in studio tomorrow that he will
at the old world headquarters doing his show and la manana tune in tomorrow from six until nine along with sir parker olson great producer that he is now dom dom lee producer for john and gordy here at mdx he wasn't wearing a mask today feeling a little and what a courteous guy he says i'm feeling under the weather and so not dramatic but just out of an abundance of caution as they say
Was worrying about those are kind co-workers
and he did a little bit of disinfecting when he left the studio Did he really get it nice and clean so as to not get me ill?
We don't want that.
Well Dom, I hope you feel better soon my friend We gotta have people at full strength here at the old civic media World headquarters coming up here in just a minute
Another edition of What's Worse for You, and gonna play you a couple more serious clips from Jimmy Kimmel Live last night.
Tomorrow we're gonna be joined by Keegan Kelly of Cracked.com to talk about what this means for entertainment, for free speech, moving forward, so looking forward to that.
Also tomorrow on the show, time to re-combobulate.
Been a discombobulating few days.
And Dan Schaefer, our political editor and founder of the re-combobulation area,
will be here as well.
So that'll be a great show tomorrow.
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Before we do what's worse what a play a couple of cuts Jimmy Kimmel came back to ABC last night Colbert opened up was saying probably the only people watching this show is my wife Evie because everybody else is watching Jimmy Kimmel Which I thought that was nice of him.
I had that on my I had Colbert on my phone on YouTube, but I had Jimmy Kimmel live on my TV watching And I thought it was a great balance.
Yes, he told some jokes and I know Jane and Greg on Matt Aaron air addressed this as well this morning
But there was also a more serious side.
I think a lot of people were waiting to see how he was going to address this whole thing.
And we'll play some more tomorrow.
He never technically apologized, but he basically said, hey, I get it.
If some people were offended by my remarks, if the tables were turned, I may have felt the same way.
And then he had a very poignant moment in the show.
And Jimmy Kimmel is naturally, if you've watched the show for any length of time, you know, he's a soft hearted person.
He's talked about his son when he was going through illness, when his uncle died, he used to appear on the show.
And, you know, he's a guy who gets very emotional.
And so it was real and it was raw last night.
Here is Jimmy Kimmel live last night on ABC, addressing Erica Kirk.
over the weekend, a very beautiful moment.
I don't know if you saw this on Sunday, Erica Kirk forgave the man who shot her husband.
She forgave him.
That is an example we should follow.
If you believe in the teachings of Jesus as I do, there it was.
That's it.
A selfless act of grace, forgiveness from a grieving widow,
It touched me deeply.
And I hope it touches many.
And if there's anything we should take from this tragedy to carry forward, I hope it can be that, not this.
So thank you for listening.
And I'll have more to say when we come back.
Jimmy Hill's monologue lasted most of the first half hour of the program last night.
And yes, there were some serious moments like the one we just played for you.
But Jimmy Kimmel also addressed the larger issue and had some jokes as well.
This is Jimmy Kimmel, a different part of the monologue talking and addressing specifically about being pulled from the
network.
fortunate to work at a company that has allowed me to do the show the way we want to do it for almost 23 years.
I've done almost 4,000 shows on ABC.
And over that time, the people who run this network have allowed me to evolve and to stretch the boundaries of what was once traditional for a late night talk show, even when it made them uncomfortable, which I
do a lot.
Every night they've defended my right to poke fun at our leaders and to advocate for subjects that I think are important by allowing me to use their platform and I'm very grateful for that.
With that said, I was not happy when they pulled me off the air on Wednesday.
I did not agree with that decision, and I told them that, and we had many conversations.
I shared my point of view.
They shared theirs.
We talked it through, and at the end, even though they didn't have to, they really didn't have to.
This is a giant company.
We have short attention spans, and I am a tiny part of the Disney Corporation.
They welcomed me back on the air, and I thank them for that.
Jimmy Kimmel last night on Jimmy Kimmel live now they tape this they don't they don't really do it live anymore.
They they they tape it the late afternoon and Before I guess before the taping actually happened in the afternoon.
See this did not make it or address it on air last night Donald Trump tweeted out the following on his true social quote I can't believe ABC fake news gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back
The White House was told by ABC that his show was canceled.
Something happened between then and now because his audience is gone and his quote unquote talent was never there.
Why would they want someone back who does so poorly, who's not funny, who puts the network in jeopardy by playing 99% positive Democrat garbage?
He has yet another arm of the DNC into the best of my knowledge.
There would be a major legal campaign, illegal campaign contribution.
I think we're going to test ABC out on this.
Let's see how we do.
Last time I went, I went after them.
They gave me $16 million.
This one sounds even more lucrative.
A true bunch of losers let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his bad ratings, unquote, that is a direct quote from the true social account of the president of the United States.
Not exactly a
He was taken off for bad ratings.
Number one, he was not canceled.
He was put on an indefinite leave.
He was not fired.
But, you know, the manga folks, Trump likes to say, well, you know, we didn't, we didn't attack him for what he said.
It was his ratings.
But yet the president of the United States literally going after him personally, Jimmy Kimmel, on this.
Kimmel, as I said, that came out after Kimmel's.
show was taped and in the can.
But Kimmel did address the larger issue of silencing people from political purchase.
Catching in school.
But one thing I did learn from Lenny Bruce and George Carlin and Howard Stern is that a government threat to silence a comedian the president doesn't like is anti-American.
That's anti-American.
And I am so glad we have...
Some solidarity on that from the right and the left and from those in the middle like Joe Rogan.
Maybe the silver lining from this is we found one thing we can agree on and maybe we'll even find another one.
Maybe we can get a little bit closer together.
We do agree on a lot of things.
We agree on keeping our children safe from guns, from reproductive rights for women, social security.
Affordable health care, pediatric cancer research.
These are all things that most Americans support.
Let's stop letting these politicians tell us what they want and tell them what we
want.
Mark, by the way, brings up a good point on the text line, asking, how much free publicity did Trump get in 2016 during the campaign?
I remember that very well because I was at my first coffee shop and I was cleaning up every night.
We closed at seven o'clock, I'd usually there until nine or 10.
And the old Don Lemon program on CNN had Trump on every, not every night, but several times a week for a half hour at a time.
You know under the auspices of an interview, but they were glorified campaign ads And I said at the time my friends, you know the Democrats Hillary's making a huge mistake by not going on television and doing these ads because Trump's getting unlimited time pay their commercials And we all know what happened in 2016 it's a great point mark appreciate that all right 18 minutes past the hour three o'clock time once again to play what's worse.
Let's go
Time once again to play what's worse, no prize money involved, nothing to give away, just your chance to have your voice heard on all 10 news talk support stations of the Civic Media Radio Network.
Timely, timely indeed, a lot of people are gonna be on the roads this weekend, go to Apple Orchards, wherever you're gonna go, get in the car.
And so the question today, category, what's worse, big cars or little cars?
Big cars
or little cars, 855-752-4842, 855-752-4842, or you could text us on the old Civic Media app, big cars or little cars.
Lots of ways to go.
Lots of ways to take that.
I guess gas mileage, safety, but whatever.
We'll come back and discuss it.
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way, twenty three minutes past the hour of three o'clock.
Glad to have you along on the all ball show and civic media category for what's worse today.
Speaking of cars, big cars or little cars, big cars or little cars.
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PJ, watching on Facebook.
says big cars are worse they are harder harder to park and less miles per gallon all right so there you go that's that's probably a big one we're probably gonna hear that a lot mary on the text line in tosa says by the way listen on mdx i'm assuming
or MDX, AUK.
AUK in beautiful Wabatosa says, hands down, worse are the big vehicles, the 4x4s, SUVs, do the most tailgating bullies on the road.
I don't know.
I feel like I don't know if that's my experience.
I think those just usually make people angrier because they're more noticeable because the car is physically large.
Appreciate your listenership, Mary.
Beautiful town, Wauwatosa, by the way.
855-752-4842.
855-752-4842.
Let's go out and speak in beautiful towns.
Sussex, Wisconsin, where we find Gary.
Gary, big cars or little cars.
What's worse?
I like them
both.
There's, like I have a Mercedes convertible, a little toot here.
I love that car.
I love driving around because I can find a place to the park.
And then my work vehicle, I'm an eating guy, is a huge fan.
I love that.
So they're not, neither one is the worst.
But if I had to round one, I would rather drive around in a large car for safety reasons.
Why?
See, I feel you on that.
But I'll tell my later.
But I think that's a great, I think that's a great point.
I know you had something else you wanted to say about Kimmel.
Go ahead.
Yes, you can tell a person's character on how they talk about somebody who's been murdered with their friends now obviously Todd you're a nice guy.
I like you I Think that you would never say anything bad Or make jokes about someone who has been murdered, you know, especially when he's so beloved by half of the people in this country I'm talking about really beloved like almost
For some people, yes.
For some people, go
ahead.
For some, okay.
Now, when I'm not saying new guys, but I'm just saying the general public, when you listen to comics and you listen to some of the left media, when they sit there and they talk about how bad he is, he wasn't a bad person.
He was a Christian man, had beliefs.
Now, if I said that I think
that abortion is wrong, that's my belief.
Now, would you say that I'm spreading hate because I said abortions wrong?
Well, no, I wouldn't say that's your opinion on that.
I don't want to go too far down the rabbit hole, but I think you bring up a good point, Gary, because I was with a lot of different people over the weekend, actually.
And two people I respect a lot, they had never heard
Or seen the Charlie Kirk Kirk podcast they had never seen some of these things where he went on and he went beyond stating his opinion on things where he said some things that were in my opinion hateful and hurtful to people and they had never heard that and I think you bring up a good point that yes for a lot of people Kirk was beloved because they only heard the things where he talked about his faith and that's fine But there are also two coins to what he said in public
And I think that, but, you know, I think that's just being fair out there.
But I guess what's your larger point with Kittle?
My larger point is I think that everybody has to tone things down.
And this kid that killed him is not a Democrat.
He's not a Republican.
He's just an insane person who was who was pushed into doing this after hearing over and over again.
It's like, it's like Charles Manson.
He actually didn't kill anybody.
He really did.
But he told his girls to go out there and kill and kill and they did.
You know what I'm saying?
So I think I think
I think we're I think we're an agreement on on the fact that I think everybody out there including myself can can work on making sure that we disseminate truth without doing it in a way that jins people up and makes it makes things worse out there.
Did you watch any of Kimmel last night, Gary?
Yes.
I did and and I thought I thought he did fine.
I thought he did exactly what I expected him to do to save his job, you know, I have employees My employees have a right to tell me their opinion, but if they started talking back sassing me or sitting there talking to my customers I'd fire them and I have that right and they're gonna go out there and say Oh, we have freedom of speech.
No, you don't not not not when you work for me
You don't know.
You work for me.
You keep your mouth shut.
You don't talk about politics to my customers.
And if you got an argument with them, I'd fire
them.
And it's an individual business person.
I agree with you.
You have that right to do that when they're quote unquote on the job.
I think it's a larger discussion.
We're up against the clock here.
We've got about a minute left.
I just think it's different when you have
the sitting president of the United States, and you have the FCC chair.
Even Ted Cruz came out and said that car, the FCC chairman, compared car to a mafia boss.
You know, guys like Joe Rogan are out there on conservative radio saying, if you think that was okay, you're, I think he said you're nuts, you're crazy.
I don't want to misquote him.
So I think that's the difference, Gary.
It's not just the individual employer saying that.
It's the fact that this came from the government.
And I support free speech on all different forms.
That's my bottom line.
All right, Gary, appreciate the call.
Keep up between the lines out there, whether you're driving the big car or the little car.
That's the question.
We'll finish it up after this.
What's worse, big cars, little cars, on the Civic Media Network, Pam Yankee, and the Farm Reports Network.
Pursuing truth wherever
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Zomers on the board.
Aaron Zomers, that is.
Finishing up our What's Worse category today.
What's worse?
Big cars or little cars?
Big cars or little cars?
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855-752-484.
to Zomers.
We'll see.
Julie
and Wasson.
Thank you very much.
Julie and Wasson to be XCO.
Big cars are worse.
They use more gas or resources, take up more room in parking spaces, can't see around them when I'm trying to make a right turn next to them.
All right.
Well, that's a fair point.
Zomers, big cars and little cars.
Between big car and little car, I've caught more fish on big car.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
Not the question.
So up in the Lake Tomahawk area, there's two lakes right next to each other called the Big Car, C-A-R-R, and Little Car Lakes.
Fun to fish on.
But actually, my real answer, I think I'm gonna have to say little cars are worse.
I appreciate having a small car at the moment living in Madison because I just, the current lifestyle, I don't need any of the things that a large vehicle provides, be it
uh, towing capacity or the ability to, I don't know, bring around a drum set or extra people.
Um, and so getting into small places in parking garage is very useful for me right now.
But if I had to pick only one, I would want a large vehicle because I want to be able to do those things.
Or if I'm moving, uh, and you don't have U-Hauls because there's no big cars, then how are you going to get your stuff?
Like, I don't know.
I just think I value the utility.
Pretty highly
but but you're still saying the big cars
worse.
No, I'm saying little all the
little cars.
All right Our friend Gordy Kopke calling in from the town of Dunn in outside of Oregon here in Dane County By the way, if you haven't gotten your fall mums yet your fall gourds get down to a cop keys go Greenhouse and get them Gordy on the line Gordy.
Thanks for calling in big cars or little cars.
What's worse?
Well, thanks for the plug, Todd.
Of
course.
You know, I'm old enough so that I remember the big boats back in the 60s and 70s.
And then I progressed over the years and right now I drive the Mustang Mach-E electric car, which is sort of a...
Small hybrid version or not a small SUV style, but Interesting I was in Switzerland with my wife and family and when my son and his wife were there we rented the Yeah, it was a Ford hybrid.
I was called a Cougar and it was a mid-sized SUV and that thing got 45 miles to the gallon
Which, you know, their gas over there, yeah, their cheaper gas is 95% octane, which, you know, helps them get much better mileage.
But then when they left, I traded it in for a much smaller car, because me and my wife and I, trying to park that thing in Switzerland, where everything is designed for small cars, was a bear.
So we traded it in for a small car, a VW.
And it was nice, easy to park, nice to drive, but...
It only got 40 miles to the gallon because it wasn't a hybrid.
Only I thought that was very, very fascinating.
Yeah, really.
It really is.
That's, uh, that is right.
Gas makes a difference.
But I think when you travel like that, it gives us different perspectives, right?
So, uh, that's very cool.
Uh, Gordy, before we let you go now, uh, again, Copkeys greenhouse, one of our fine sponsors here on civic media for those in Dane County.
You always want to take a lovely drive.
I was down, I don't three weeks ago or more.
I got a couple moments from Mom, one from my deck.
I was up at Richland Center last week.
It's flourishing.
I also got one of those beautiful, cool, multi-colored pepper plants and grasses.
They look great for fall.
How is the supply out there at Gordy's or Kopkes Greenhouse?
The supply is holding up fairly well.
We just got another shipment of pumpkins and gourds in.
And already we're having the big pumpkin palooza this weekend.
Pumpkin palooza?
I mean, we'll be down this weekend.
Thanks, Gordy.
Koppke's greenhouse in the town and done.
Thanks, Gordy.
Appreciate it.
8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2.
Whizzler out in the old RC, listening on to the RCE, original and center.
Whizzler, big cars, and little cars.
What's worse?
I've been as old as I am.
I remember the little Sheddy Shaddett.
Okay.
I
had one of them.
Yep.
And then there was another little shetty hat back.
I had one of them.
They're fun to drive.
Right.
But I had a buddy that had a big LTD.
And wiping out in an LTD is a lot easier to have fun in than a little lady be the car and wipe it out.
So I gotta say, you know, a big car is better for a family.
A little car is
No, it's time for an
individual.
All right.
We should ask you, uh, whistler, what, what's better?
Big dogs or little dogs?
Well, Toby's a little dog.
Okay.
What breed of dog is Toby?
He's a shit suit.
Well, I'm not sure we can say that on the air, but I'm just kidding.
It's the dog.
It's
the dog.
All right.
All right.
Very good.
Oh,
that's great.
A baby shitsuit.
All right.
Very
good.
All right.
Well, you have a great time, man.
All right.
Thanks.
Appreciate it.
Whistler out there in the drift list on WRC.
That'll be the next one.
Big dogs, little dogs.
I wouldn't say I'm copying out a little bit.
Does somebody's earlier point?
Yes.
When you're when you're driving, when you're driving around, a big.
vehicles are harder to see around or get around.
But when you're driving the vehicle,
they are also safer.
I like I like my Dodge Ram 1500 because
they aren't safer.
They
are.
I mean, if I get in a crash, I feel like there's more metal behind me.
I got it because I still had the farm at the time.
And and and now I travel around.
I use it all the time for my equipment
for the show.
I couldn't do the show remote with a little vehicle.
No.
So my it's necessary.
And I use my four by four more in the city of Madison in the winter because they don't plow until I guess over three inches or whatever.
I use it more here in Madison than I do when I go out to original center.
So that's that's
quickly Charles in Milwaukee at the UK.
Charles big cars or little cars.
What's worse?
Well, I have one of each.
I have a Toyota Priya.
I didn't have a Lincoln navigator.
I would say it depends on who's driving the bigger vehicle the true Because when I drive on Interstate or highway you always got some idiot in a big truck Yeah, that comes barreling down on you like you're supposed to move out the way right and so so that burns me up with people with vehicles And so yes, like I got both But I would say depending on who's driving a bigger vehicle can be a pain
That's a great point, Charles.
Appreciate the call.
Have a great day down there in Milwaukee.
I mean, one of the, I wouldn't want to say fun, but I guess kind of fun.
When I'm driving, and you know, I'm driving whatever on, on the interstate and I'm with the speed limit 70 and I'm got my, my crew set at 75 and some yahoo comes up behind me and tailgating me.
You know, I'm not, I'm, hey, I'm going 75.
You know, I mean,
just, so I mean, but they're not going to, you know, I'm driving a Dodge Ram.
So I mean, what are they going to do?
I think, I mean, yeah, big vehicles, tailgating you are annoying, but so are small vehicles, especially because they think they can get through any gap.
So they'll just do it.
Exactly.
And it's like, dude, what are you, if anybody taps on their brakes, we're all dead.
Right.
Stop it.
Or those goofy crotch rocket motorcycles who just zip
and you know.
Yeah, look, if traffic is stopped, traffic filtering, as in going past cars slowly while there's a red light, that's safe on a motorcycle.
Just passing in the middle, no, stop
it.
More what's worse tomorrow.
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Little earth wind and fire on that.
We played that.
Autumn is here.
Fall is here.
You know, people, some people get all, all you can yackety about.
Oh, don't call it fall.
It's autumn.
Okay.
Whatever.
Either one.
I don't care.
But it is the autumnal equinox.
All right.
Wherever you are right now, you, you are spinning at a thousand miles per hour.
That's the speed earth spins around on its axis.
But that thousand miles per hour is slow compared to the 18 miles per second That you're hurling through space Yep, that's the speed of earth as it orbits the Sun now people call me dizzy Probably right, but they're not talking about the effects of planetary motion Why do we feel any of why don't we feel any of our high-speed motion?
The reason is the earth motion is smooth and steady
No stops or starts, no quick change in direction.
The Earth and we are moving together at the same speed.
That's the main reason we don't feel the high speed motion.
Another reason is that we don't have a stationary object near Earth as a reference point.
There's no road sign or power poles along our path like there is along a road, like we're in a car in a truck, big or little.
But we know we are moving.
And the best way to get a sense of it is watching a rising or setting sun or moon.
Oh, and we didn't even get to how our sun and we are spinning around the center of our Milky Way galaxy at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour.
Got to go
fast.
Little news you can use.
Happy autumnal equinox a couple days late, but we're we're my favorite time of year officially.
I'm a big fall guy.
Yes, I call it fall.
I guess
occasionally I'll say autumn, but I don't in normal conversations.
Do you say, hey, how are you enjoying your autumn?
Are you are you
going to orchards?
Pretty much the only time I say autumn is if I'm playing a jazz gig and we're going to play the song Autumn Leaves.
There you go.
I mean, I just call it fall.
Yeah, I call it fall, too.
Happy fall everybody happy happy autumn as well Brewers boy tough road trip out in San Diego Padres are hot right now.
They're competing as well for postseason gonna build a clinched on the Brewers a postseason bid a couple nights ago Brewers had another tough outing yesterday lost I believe seven to nothing was the final score and They're gonna try to get
at least one win.
In fact, there should be played right now.
I haven't checked the score.
I'll do that for you.
And they're playing on WRCE in Richland Center, WISS, Oshkosh, CQM in Park Falls and now in WBZH in Hayward over the air.
Not allowed to carry them on the stream.
Those are other people that are carrying them on the stream, but Brewers trying to get a win here this afternoon.
Looks like it is.
Let me pull up the score here.
One second.
The computer is dialing it up zero zero right now in the bottom of the second brewers and the Padres.
Hopefully they can they can get to the good news is Philadelphia, the Phillies, who are the next closest team in the National League and in all of baseball lost last night to the Marlins.
So now the brewers are only two game.
The magic number is two for the crew to secure.
the overall number one seed and have home field advantage throughout the playoffs.
We'll tell you a little more about that and wrap up the show after this.
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Welcome back to the title of all show on the civic media already network is now eight minutes before the hour of four o'clock of the top of the hour ABC or CBS News depending upon which of our great stations you're listening to a check of weather with Brittany Merleau and her weather team Mike Clemens our great sports reporter will bring you the latest on sports across the state of Wisconsin and then another edition of the Maggie Dawn show from four until six join Maggie
couple of state Senate candidates including Trevor Young on the 21st district and Sarah Harrison on the 5th district among Maggie's guests from four until six and another great edition of Nightlight with Pete Schwabba now I'm looking for I'm looking at the at the calendar here WRJN's wrestling announcer Rich Lucasio.
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mean at one point announcement for Pete and you know, it's just the classic wrestler thing like and now coming from whatever There's
one very well-known phrase and announcing a professor wrestling that we cannot say we came a joke about it because they'll sue our pants off
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Brewers, in action, as we said right now across many of our stations, here's the deal.
We were talking about this before the break.
If the Brewers win one more game, including the one that they're currently playing in San Diego, top of the third, no scoria, there are four games, including this game left in the regular season.
They come home on Friday for a three game series at home to wrap up against the Reds.
If they if they all they have to do is win one either today or one of the last three and that would mean that Philadelphia would have to win out In order to catch the Brewers for the overall number one seed.
So things are looking looking pretty good also By the way, if you're in the greater Milwaukee area coming up on Friday, you want some pancakes according to the journals journal center center Sentinel batter up literally
Murph's pocket pancakes live on the brewers will host a pocket pancake Pancake breakfast outside of am fan field with free pocket pancakes Appearances by the man himself manager Pat Murphy Wisconsin sports legends mascots live entertainment All that more coming up this Friday.
It'll be held at the Uker Yacht parking lots from six until nine in the morning
This Friday, September 26th, that night, the crew kicks off its final regular season series against the Reds, as we mentioned.
So free pancakes in Milwaukee at Ampham Field on Saturday or Friday morning.
Most
things
taste better when they're free.
They
certainly do.
Let's leave you with this.
We'll play a little bit of this.
This is Pat Murphy, manager of the Brewers, talking to Bob Costas this weekend on the Major League Baseball Network, talking about the late great.
Bob Euker, and what his legacy means.
What was your relationship like with Bob Euker?
I was so lucky last year especially, and I've known him for ten, but I was so lucky to really get to know him.
The last year?
The last year as a man and shared a lot of deep conversation all throughout his last year of his life and just cherish
what he let me know and cherish our interactions.
I love the man.
You know, just love him.
He'll always be with me.
Everyone knows how funny he was.
Everyone knows how beloved he was by all the Brewer teams through half a century.
It wasn't just like he was a beloved and great announcer.
He was one of them.
He'd been a player, not a great player, made his whole career out of making fun of himself as a player, but he had been a player.
And when he walked in the clubhouse, it was different than even any other Hall of Fame announcer walking in the clubhouse.
You'd never
know he was a Hall of Famer.
You'd never know anything but he cared about you.
He was so good to every player, not just him and Yelly had a close relationship.
You know, him and Adamus and him and Freddie Peralta, those guys have been around a long time.
But he knew every player.
You know, when Isaac Collins got brought to the big leagues, he went up and said, Isaac, how are you?
You know, you grew up here, you did this.
I heard your dad used to do this.
It was amazing.
He cared.
And then he'd follow up with it and never forget it.
And he was at home in that clubhouse.
You could tell this is his spot.
There is no one, there is no one who epitomizes a champion the way this man does right here.
There is no one out here.
What an example
for
us to be with every single day Bob Nuker.
Yeah!
You know, the last broadcast when Alonzo hit the home off of Williams, heartbreaking defeat, and you could hear it in his voice.
His voice wasn't what it once was.
He would pass away only a few months after that last game.
He knew it was the last game he would broadcast, or whenever the Brewers were done and the playoffs would be the last game he would broadcast.
That game ended the way it did.
and you could feel the heartache in his voice.
He
knew he was approaching not just the end of his career, but the end of his life.
It was poignant to hear that broadcast.
That's hard to think about.
because the locker room, I brought the team together and just said, hey guys, somehow this is gonna bless us.
Somehow this loss, I don't know how.
I'm just compelled to tell you this, it's gonna bless us.
The great Pat Murphy, manager of the Brewers, talking to the great Bob Costas on Major League Baseball, and Euker's legacy,
lives on.
Brewers right now, 00 at the Padres.
They'll be home to wrap it up and you can hear it all on the Seneca Media Ray Network.
Whatever you're fighting
for, whatever you believe in, keep banging your drum.
We'll see you tomorrow.
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