La Crosse Talk PM WIZM

Governor Tony Evers called in to talk beer, Packers, Brewers and being the only Mayor Brad Williams can recall, being in town for La Crosse Oktoberfest since the 60s. He (Evers, not Brad) proclaimed today Wisconsin Craft Brewery day from the festgrounds. Todd Wiedenhaft, owner of Skeleton Crew Brew, called in to update us on Craft Brew Night at the festgrounds. Oh, and the La Crosse PD named a new...

More impeachment talk? Ugh. How about we just talk about Newman and Kramer playing Risk on the subway, and enraging a Ukrainian, because that's all Newman had left on his board. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The House is going ahead with an impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump. So we talked about Hillary's emails, the Obama administration's corruption, Joe Biden's son, Cass Street bumpouts, and Gov. Tony Evers drinking beer (possibly) at the Oktoberfest grounds. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

They're remaking The Princess Bride? That, and some of the worst remakes in history.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Aside from trying to figure out where (or when) to draw the line with black face as inappropriate, and things as kids we did that were highly inappropriate but had no idea because we were kids, we also talked about these little female soldiers they're making now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fix the roads. Fix the La Crosse Center. Fix everything. Except, can we un-fix Exit 3 and get that $16 million back for a couple of stop lights? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Started the show talking about robo calls, but then got word the La Crosse F.D. was amazed by life-saving measures someone performed on the south side. When they went to thank the man, he was gone. LaX F.D. Captain Lance Tryggestad came on to discuss what happened (19:20). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After ranting about the Middle East (WHY GOD WHY?), No. 3 called in with, what turned out to be fake news about the city of La Crosse hiring a consultant for the north side fire department. That got city councilman Gary Padesky to text in, "WHAT?" and then city Fire Chief Ken Gilliam had to call and put the news to rest. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Also, Animal Fact of the Day on Ollie, the Australian Tree Frog that hibernates in a tiny rain gauge. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mid-West Family Broadcasting and WIZM legend Dick Record has been in the news game since the 1960s. He talks about his time as a journalists -- covering the Vietnam War protests in Madison, while being tear gassed -- art in La Crosse (he loves Blue Baby) and we took some calls. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lisa Leslie is headed to La Crosse. Check the WIZM website for info. ... Started the show talking about men and old cars and the funny scene Rick saw before the show. ... Then WKTY's Grant Bilse joined to talk about vaping. Also quizzed Grant on, as a college student that's not too political, his listening to Bernie Sanders in an extended, informal interview and being moved by his message. See omn...

Viterbo's Keith Knutson joined us to talk Trump losing his 47th high-profile administration official, a special election in N.C. and how that relates to one coming up in Wisconsin. We also hit on gerrymandering and Constitution Day at Viterbo. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Did you miss seeing the movie Hobbs and Shaw in the theater? So did I. WHY IS IT GONE? ... A couple calls/texts were mad at LaX Talk PM troll Eric from Sparta last week dissing my guests. ... Lastly, we talked about the WHITE CLAW shortage and a quick animal fact of the day, before cutting off the aforementioned Eric at the end of the hour. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informa...

The Heart of La Crosse will be at the Pump House each Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. through Sept. 21. In the second half of the hour, they're joined by Eric from Sparta. It was special. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Doug Happel joined us right off the bat to update us on the new police chief, fire station and other items on the agenda for a finance committee meeting tonight.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A call came in Wed. afternoon from a person who said they shot two people in a house on the in the 400 block of S. 19th Street in La Crosse. Details from police were scarce but what they did have doesn't quite add up to what the call said. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

River Travel Magazine’s founder Brent Hanifil joined us to talk about the Best of the River survey. Over 50 categories. La Crosse attractions were Top 5 in 20 of them. After that, talked a bit about Walmart stopping the sale of certain ammunition and the Animal Fact of the Day -- Alligators. Oh, and Eric from Sparta had an epic gun rant. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We learned Rick made Depends diapers as a summer job in college.  -Would you feel strange driving around in a brand new car vs. some old hot rod? In the bottom half of the hour, we talked about the Riverside Park bandstand coming together, as well as Trump's takes on Cat-5 hurricanes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

WKTY's Grant Bilse for a segment called "Through the Wall," to hit on Central-Logan football, as well as the Packers, Badgers and a bit of Brewers. Caller also brought up a school in La Crosse IDing adults who come to watch extra-curricular actives, to see if they're on a registered sex offenders list. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

First, I was changing in a public locker room next to a guy cutting his fingernails and leaving them on the floor. Also, can we use dashcams to citizen police lawbreakers? Lastly, we got a quick text from La Crosse police's Rob Abrham on the dude who shot a cop in town and was initially charged with 2nd degree reckless endangerment. That seemed odd. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat...

What's worse than falling into your septic tank, trapped up to your neck -- as happened to an Oregon lady -- for three days? What's up with vaping? They're changing the age on this stuff. Brad drops in and updates us on a couple of murder trials in La Crosse. Also, someone called to "speak to the owner of (my) show." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We listen to the body cam video from the Aug. 3 police shooting in La Crosse, where both Allen Kruk and officer Dustin Darling were shot.  Also, animal fact of the day: BEES.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

La Crosse Mayor Tim Kabat co-hosted. We talked his Top 3 movies of all-time, the La Crosse Center, took some calls/texts and how the hiring is going for the La Crosse Police Chief. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We bring on Grant Bilse, of the Wisco Sports show on WKTY and talk multi-sport athletes ... in the midst of a computer failure.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You'll see on WIZMnews.com the La Crosse police got three in a July shooting.  Also, talked about the EPA backtracking -- for now -- on using cyanide bombs, as well as Bernie Sanders' $16.3 trillion climate plan. Lastly, of course, the Animal Fact of the Day, dealing with another WIZMnews.com story on a snake being left at TSA boarding. Pretty weird. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...