Jim Bartlett
September 29, 2021
Here’s a story we often tell ourselves. It’s not a true story, although some days it feels like one: Everybody on social media is a jerk. Some of our most popular TV shows and movies expect us to root for bad people. The way to get elected to political office is by being terrible, and […]
February 4, 2021
Jim Bartlett is in for Lanette this week. Here’s a Lazy Recipe from his kitchen! Ann Bartlett’s Lazy Mexican Lasagna You’ll need… One pound taco seasoned ground meat, cooked and drained. (You can buy pre-seasoned raw ground meat, or buy the packet of taco seasoning that you prefer and make your own.) One can refried […]
December 16, 2020
I got an interesting phone call while I was on the air last weekend. A guy called me from Baltimore asking for the phone number of a certain radio station in Toronto. Really. He decided to call me, he said, because on the map, Wisconsin is farther north than Maryland, and maybe we can hear […]
November 24, 2020
The year was 1981. I was on the air on Thanksgiving Day, finishing up my show, when the phone rang. On the other end of the call was a very irate lady who wanted to know why I hadn’t played any Thanksgiving songs. I responded, “Ma’am, I’d be happy to play one if you can […]
September 24, 2020
Absentee ballots are going out from city and municipal clerks around the state this week. Lots of people are voting absentee for the first time in 2020. I have regularly voted absentee for years, so here’s some information you might find helpful. You’ll get a copy of the same ballot you get at the polling […]
Cailynn Hensen
March 19, 2020
I have expertise in a lot of stuff very few people care about, so I’m not used to having expertise others might find useful. But I have worked mostly out of a home office since 2003, and my wife has worked at home since 2012. We have some tips that might help you deal with […]
February 28, 2020
Statistics say that about 200,000 Americans and 4.1 million people worldwide are Leap Year babies, born on February 29, the day that comes only once every four years. I am one of them. People ask if it’s weird only having a birthday every four years. But celebrating on the 28th, the not-quite-date, is normal for […]
September 26, 2019
For most of the last three weeks, I have been in the Indianapolis area working another job I have, so I haven’t been on your radio (and thank you for noticing, if you did). I have not been here the whole time—I drove home for the Badger football game against Michigan, a 700-mile weekend round […]
September 6, 2019
I do not have anything remotely like a normal job. I do radio things for the stations of Mid-West Family Broadcasting some of the time. I work as a freelance writer some of the time. And I work as a teacher some of the time. (It has been many years since I sat in some […]
December 16, 2018
In 1983, I applied for a job at a new radio station in Madison called Magic 98. I didn’t get the gig—not until 2008, anyway—but one guy who joined up that year was Pat O’Neill. Since then, he’s become a Madison radio institution, as you know. What you may not know is that as Magic’s […]