the percentage of people in Wisconsin who believe the Packers will get it done here can't be out of single digits

"On the first anniversary of the sinking, 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' was one of the biggest hits in the country."

Wisconsin's Tammy Baldwin voted no i'm calling today to thank her, and to ask that she start working to get Schumer out of the leadership

if your senator is a Democrat, call even if you're sure they won't fold when the democratic caucus meets before a possible vote, they'll be able to report that voters are angry

if you're in Wisconsin, call Tammy Baldwin's office *right now* and tell her to hold the line and not to vote to end the shutdown she's part of the group Schumer is trying to get to cave you can leave a voicemail 202 224 5653

we're a volleyball school Wisconsin vs Indiana at the top of the hour

good morning everyone

you: Jim, what's the unlikeliest song you'd expect to find on one of those soundalike compilations from the 70s? me:

if the Badgers win this game it's going to be a party like when we broke the 23-game winless streak in 1969 hashtag oldguy

we had one cat who recognized the sound of the carrier coming down from the shelf and would hide from us

60 years ago tonight: "let's turn on...the little green men have landed"

Huckle '28: Our Old Guy Is Better Than That Other Old Guy

Don't wait, folks. ARRIVE at Thanksgiving dinner drunk.

Wisconsin football's offense

"my eyes are up here, Chad"

i'm pretty sure that's not Eleanor Roosevelt

"I decided I wanted to be on the air when I was 11 years old, and you don't just turn that switch off"

cosigned

British actress Pauline Collins, who got an Oscar nom for the 1989 film Shirley Valentine, died this week at 85 she was also newlywed Clara opposite her husband John Alderton as CD in the 1974 British sitcom No Honestly this has been another edition of Things Jim Thinks About at 4AM

here is some excellent music nerdery, if you can stand a deep dive into Christmas music on November 6th

not only that, i'm still waiting for my check from George Soros for the No Kings rally three weeks ago

good morning to Toad and Toad only

excerpt from Song of the Newly Retired

is good with beer also

we are trying to go home but we keep getting distracted by beer we're at Second Salem Brewing in Whitewater WI, two days late for Halloween

just let me know if you wanna go

we continue in East Troy WI at the Hive Taproom, drinking mead like Norse gods

whomst among us did not rattle the walls of our childhood bedroom with Emerson Lake and Palmer

we're in East Troy WI watching the Packers and oh by the way drinking beer the brewery is in an old bank building and the flight is in a safe deposit box from the bank

when Keith Emerson died in 2016, i wrote a thing about him maybe you would like to read it thjkoc.net/2016/03/14/k...

i was doing Top 40 radio in Illinois, playing all of the stuff on the CHR chart a lot of solid songs that still get airplay today, but nothing i really need to hear right this minute

Badger women's hockey puts a 7-2 beatdown on Minnesota this afternoon Badger men's hockey puts a 5-0 beatdown on Minnesota tonight for the series sweep as we say up here, it's a great day for hockey

Look Out, Here Comes Tomorrow: "19 years with the company yeeted into the sun in 10 minutes."

good morning everyone

i enjoy following lots of Minnesota people On Here but tonight you are MY SWORN ENEMIES

Look Out, Here Comes Tomorrow: "19 years with the company yeeted into the sun in 10 minutes."

this is the way

there's a metaphor for my radio career in here somewhere (consider that a teaser for my new blog post later today)

fwiw, this is my favorite episode of The Twilight Zone a timeless story about the strong desire to go back in time and the pitfalls thereof

my on-air name at my next job

i'm listening

as offensive as the lyrics are, the worst thing about Christine Sixteen is the whorehouse piano banging on it

why not both

someone who would call a newspaper editor to demand clarification of a comic strip is someone whose children vote Republican

it's been five years this week since I spent four nights in the ICU i did a podcast episode about the experience and what it taught me, which is all of 17 minutes long so it won't waste your time i guess it made a few listeners cry, which wasn't what I was going for but thank you for caring

good morning everyone

If We Make It Through December might be the best thing Merle Haggard ever did, and that's really sayin' something

tag yourself #TeamNincompoop

the Sunday Night Football song is even more inane if you watch it with the captions on