Lisa Williams From PerSisters And Here Come All The Santa Clauses!! (Hour 2)

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We're going to talk about the great Santa cycle rampage brought to you by the Wisconsin bike

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We're going to start out though. We have a special guest in studio.

The organization is called Persisters. And this landed on my radar a couple of months ago.

And one of the co-founders is with us in studio Lisa Williams. Good morning.

Good morning. Thank you so much for journeying out to downtown Waukeshaw.

Great to be here. So how did how did Persisters get going? What what is the whole idea behind this organization?

Well, we really grew organically. And it was in 2017 after the election of Donald Trump.

We some people were feeling a bit hopeless, I would say, especially women marginalized communities.

And others, I'm sure some people felt like we were worried about democracy the way that our

that that our democracy was heading. I was one of those people. And rather than just sitting in

yelling at the radio or feeling alone and sad about it, I thought I'm going to reach out to

some friends like minded people and see if they'd like to gather and we'll take it from there.

We started meeting on Fridays in 2017 and we've just kept going. It's been I guess almost seven

years. Wow. We started with six people around my dining room table. And we've been meeting weekly.

Of course, the pandemic changed things and we moved on to zoom. But we have largely been meeting

weekly to talk about democracy, threats to democracy, what gives us hope, what is breaking our heart,

and then we take action. How many members do you have now? Well, on a weekly basis that the number

that come to our weekly meetings is between 20 and 30, unless we have a big guest like the governor

or the senator, Senator Baldwin, then we had upwards of 100. But on a weekly basis, when we gather,

it's about 20 to 30 people. But on our social media and on our email reach, we have almost 800,

I think on Facebook, but we send out a weekly action sheet to 280 people. And that really grew

again organically out of our Friday meetings. And we said on Fridays, when we got together,

what can we do to raise our voice? As citizens, citizens, activists, we feel it's our obligation

to be participants in our democracy. And when I felt, and my other early joiners felt,

we saw threats to democracy. We said, it's even more urgent now to raise our voice.

Even if we've never done it before, let's learn how to do it together. Let's gather, give each other

some confidence, learn together, and take action. I think that's wonderful. And I think, is it all,

is it exclusively women? Is it exclusively a female organization? It is not. It is largely and

primarily women. And we're multi-generational. I mean, people bring their babies. We're from one,

our eldest is, I think she's 94 now. Wow. Shout out to Jean. And my mom, who's in her 90s.

So we're multi-generational. We're largely women. But there are some extremely loyal,

long-time male members who say they're proud for sisters. That's cool. Yeah, that's very cool.

I think it's great to see this much engagement and people wanting to be engaged because

I think sometimes when we are confronted with difficult things and things that we find frightening,

it's much easier to stick our fingers in our ears and expect that someone else is going to

handle this for us. And have you discovered, Lisa, with your Persistures group? Are these women

who have always been engaged in politics, or is this a relatively new thing? Because I think women

carry a lot of burdens. The household, you know, primary caregivers so very often. And I think

it's easier for women to maybe be a little bit more isolated from what's going on politically.

Yeah, I'd say 80% of the people never took action politically before. We had so many exciting

moments around the dining room table where people were calling their Senator representative for

the first time. And we just cheer that. That's big. That is big. And I don't know if my percentages

right there. But we cheer those people who did it for the first time. We also turned into canvassers.

A lot of us turned into door-to-door canvassers. Most people had never done that before. But again,

we do it in community. We've created a community of people we didn't know each other before. Some of us

did. The original group did. But it is just had a ripple effect. And we try to support each other

to do that if we've never done it before. Sure. And that can be intimidating. But it also can be

really exciting. Because after the first call, you're like, wow, that wasn't so bad. You know,

most of these senators and representatives offices, they are there to be really kind. Even if we

don't agree with the Senator or the representative, whether it's a state or national level, their offices

are unfailingly professional. That's great. And welcoming. So I would advocate for people saying,

or what we often say is, you don't want to talk to a human? Call after hours, leave a voicemail.

You don't have to start a professional activist. You can start small.

You can ease your way into it. Easier way into it. Lisa Williams is our guest. She is one of the

co-founders of persisters, which their goal is just to get people activated and take some action

regarding the health of our democracy. They have weekly meetings on Fridays. I'm assuming you're

open to new members. We are open to anyone. All are welcome. All you have to do is, you know,

look up our website, persisterswi.com and send us an email. We'll get you linked up.

What has been surprising for you? What has surprised you during the course of the last six or seven

years? Well, I perhaps was a bit naive in 2017 thinking that this would be a short-lived venture

that we're doing. Although we shouldn't have named it persisters, then, because we must, you know,

we take our name seriously. We will persist whatever the threats are to our democracy.

But I really thought that Americans had across the board, valued democracy. I really thought

that that was a shared value. On the heartbreak side, I now wonder sometimes if that is a shared

value. And if some people are like, well, maybe there's another way. And that worries me a lot.

And that's what keeps me active and will keep me active is defending democracy.

And maybe that sounds grandiose. I'm a woman in the meeting in my living room. Obviously,

now we meet online and our group is bigger and all of that. But it is up to each one of us.

And I have had friends, you know, women like me in their 50s who say, well, you know, what,

what rules do I have? What can I do? Sure. And I say, you know, I've lived in a few other countries.

And I say, aren't we fortunate that in this country, in this state, I can say what I oppose and

who I oppose politically. And that's not going to come back and harm me. I would say at the beginning,

some people worried, was it going to come back to them? Were they going to be somehow ostracized

in some way? We are not. We have the ability to raise our voice to express our opinion. To be

critical. To be critical. Another thing I learned is when we started canvassing in a big way,

going door to door in a big way, some people try to scare you off that. They say, oh, you know,

be careful. Be careful. If you're a progressive, we're proud progressives. Be careful of whose

door you knock on. I have never had a bad experience. Really? I have never had a bad experience.

Is there somebody out there? Is there some media out there trying to tell you to be afraid?

Do not be afraid to raise your voice. This is a democracy. We are free to express our opinions.

And we're fortunate to be so. I'm so happy to hear you say that about canvassing. And we,

during leading up to the 2022 election, we talked to a number of people who were running. And

almost across the board, they said that the experience was very positive. Yeah, I mean, most of the

time, I mean, it's about having a conversation. And I've had people say, no, thank you,

or say, I don't, I'm not interested in the close the door, but I've never had anyone

chase you off their chase you off their porch. Curse me out or anything like that. I mean,

I think at the end of the day, even though you, if you vehemently disagree with somebody,

we're still Westerners and we're going to be like, no, thank you. And

I would agree with you. It's pretty much like no, go away. Well, that's not the worst thing

that can happen. Exactly. Absolutely. It could be so. Where's my dog? Yes. It's my dog on you.

So when you, when you, when you come up with your, your weekly newsletter and you talk about calls

to action, what, what are some of those? What, what does that entail? So we really prioritized right

from the beginning, again, organically, is that what gives us energy to move forward is not

just to oppose, but also to support. So every week, we do usually two or three people that were

thanking to supporting, supporting something that we believe in and two or three actions of

something we oppose, something that we say, you know, we oppose your, your action or your bill

or your policy here. And that has given us life. So we often write to people on the other

side of the political spectrum, especially if they do something brave. There was a state, I'm

sorry if I'm going to forget, but a state assembly person or senator recently from the Republican

party who went against her party on something to do with reproductive freedom. And we wrote to her,

we're like, thank you. That took bravery. You know, we shouldn't all have to be in lockstep

on everything. So we like to support policies or oppose policies, not necessarily people.

And that leads us to thank a lot of people who sometimes, you know, we might disagree with on

other issues. That's wonderful. But I think we try to do that, certainly on this show and across

the network as well, is to at least acknowledge good things that are happening if that, you know,

on either side, right? And critique both. Yes. Critique both sides as well. When they're when

they're naughty. Exactly. Right. Don't be afraid to critique. Don't be afraid to say it out loud.

Don't use bad words, you know, but keep it clean. Keep it clean. And we persist, right? So our

hearts get broken each week. Every Friday, we usually some end our meeting with what broke your

heart. And what gave you hope? Because that's where you know that that's the thing you're passionate

about. Lisa Williams has been our guest. She is one of the co-founders of persistors. You can find

them on the web at persistors, w i dot com. We will include the link in the show notes. If you want

to join, I think that's a great idea. You get to vent a little bit and then you get to talk about

what gives you hope for sisters. Wonderful group. Thank you so much, Lisa. Stay with us. Thank you.

You're listening to Asco's Wisconsin on the Civic Media Radio Network.

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Party party. Sorry. Yes. Um, if you want to stick around in just a little bit, Jake Newborn

is going to be joining us from the Wisconsin bike federation. The Milwaukee Santa cycle rampage,

Greg is happening this weekend. Thousands of Santas on bicycles. Take to the streets. Take

Santa's everywhere. And they will be clothed. Well, as far as I understand, there is no

nude Santa riding involved in the Santa cycle rampage. We will get, we will Jake will clear.

Yeah, my experience. I've seen some pretty skimpy Santas. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. On bicycles.

On bicycles. All right. I'll take a word for it. We will, we will get more of the details

coming up after 1133 right now, though. That lead in music was your cue. It was in 2013.

Yesterday, 2013, Frozen was released, which became a cultural phenomenon. Yeah. How many of you

listening out there heard that song and you just like, winced a little, like, make a stop.

So, so my question is, how did Frozen affect your life? And certainly, if you are a parent,

I can only imagine that this sent earthquakes through your universe. Is it like,

how many times did you have to watch that movie? I got frostbite, right? Yeah. And how many times

did you have to listen to that soundtrack over and over and over again? Let's start with our

resident young person here. That's Calvin, our producer. Calvin is in his mid 20s. So, but you said

you have younger siblings, correct? I was 15 when this movie came out. Okay. So my younger sister

would have been nine or 10 at the time. Oh, right up. She was kind of past it at that point.

Oh, she really wasn't that into it. So you didn't have to like sit there and listen that song

over and over again. No. Okay. Oh, I was okay. That's so interesting. She was at a punk rock by that

point. She's like, Ramones or nothing. Well, I don't know. It just wasn't really her thing. She was

a big Hannah Montana fan. That was kind of her jam. That seems a little more sophisticated.

That seems pretty sophisticated for a nine year old. Yeah. Well, I mean, I guess when she

grew up with two older brothers, she will probably watch the more grown up versions of the kids shows.

So what you're saying is you were a Hannah Montana fan, then? I mean, I preferred Wizards

away really place. Yeah, you do. Yes. I love this. Oh, my gosh. 844-967-2789-844-96 party.

How did the release of Frozen affect your life? Especially if you had little daughters at home,

I can only, I can only imagine how tired you got to have that soundtrack. And I mean, just think

about the marketing that came off of that with Elsa costumes, right? And probably pajamas.

And I mean, bed sheets and everything, everything, pencils, pencil cases,

frozen everything, frozen everything, thermoses, backpacks, pants, shirts, headbands, sunglasses,

everything. They're like, they, I mean, Disney will license anything. I mean, and, you know,

they made, they probably made billions of dollars off that stuff. And they were like, we have to

get frozen too in the theater now. Quick, quick, let's get lights it lightning in a bottle again.

But I have a question, though. You know, it's, I think it's easy to say.

Sorry, I lost my train of thought there. I think it'd be, you know, it'd be easier to say like,

oh, man, I hate that song or I can't listen to that song.

Who out there heard that soundtrack? And yeah, it first was like, oh god. But then you were like,

yeah, this is my jam. I love this jam. This is my song. I can't hear the song going on.

It reminds me. I bet there were frozen themed weddings. Oh my god. Right? Oh boy. Yeah. I saw,

I've never seen the movie. I've seen it once as a play at my nephews high school.

They did frozen frozen junior. Oh, yeah, they do tons of these plays. And the two girls,

Elsa, the bunch who played Elsa. I don't, I can't remember the name of the other one because,

you know, I, it was they were Elsa and Anna. Elsa and the two girls who played Elsa and Anna had,

and I'm not kidding you, Broadway level voices. Wow. They were, they weren't just singing,

they were belting to the back of the room. It was amazing. And it was fun and funny. And it was,

it was a really fun time. I don't even want to see the movie now because it's like, that's my

version in my head. That was, and you enjoyed it. So, I enjoyed it. That's very complimentary for,

for a high school production. And my nephew was one of the stars.

Kristen Bell and Edina Menzel were the voices for Elsa and Anna in Frozen. And I got to say,

I mean, that is a really tough song to sing. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The range that's required on that is,

is really very impressive. Yeah. I mean, just even just, you want to build a snowman. I love

that song. I think it's so cute. Oh, there is a live clip of Kristen Bell singing that to like,

almost like a table read type of thing for charity. And it is so fun. And she's, I just loved

it. She's adorable. Yeah. She is adorable. Frozen during its theatrical run earned 1.28 billion

dollars worldwide. It also overtook, it overtook Toy Story 3 to become the highest grossing animated

film of all time until it was overtaken by a remake of the Lion King in 2019. That did better.

No one asked for that. That's, that doesn't count. That was a live action. It's a remake.

It's a live action animated. You can't, you can't do that. You're comparing, you're comparing apples

and come quads. Not the same thing. Correct. I'm angry now. You need to chill.

Let's see. Oh, God. Calvin Cutter Mike. Cutter Mike. Just cutter Mike. He is all powerful. He is

the power. All right. Coming up, we're going to talk to Jake Newborn, who is with the Wisconsin

bicycle Federation. And the Santa cycle rampage is happening this weekend in Milwaukee. Are you

participating, James? I wasn't planning on it. But I, I really think it sounds like something that

would be a lot of fun to see. I will, I can tell you where to go to see it.

The best place to view. Well, to be in the thick of it, if you will.

When I used to work at Lake Frontbury, that was one of their stops. Oh, excellent. And it was,

I mean, hundreds of people dressed to say, in fact, one of the, I think we released one year

our, our security cam footage as like almost like a post to show like the influx of red and white

red and white. And then like, you know, shuffling around getting there, getting there, and then,

then just trickling out. Yeah. I mean, go to Lake Front this Saturday for the best viewing

pleasure for your viewing pleasure of the Santa cycle rampage. So all the details are coming

up next when Jake Newborn joins us. The news coming up next. Stay with us. This is Asco's

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Good morning. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to Asco's Wisconsin.

Jane Mattner in for Kristen. Ryan Greg Bach with me in studio. Calvin is on the board.

You can always chime in as well at 844-967-2789-844-966. Party.

And if you're watching on the live stream on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, you can leave a comment

there as well. Joining us in his full Santa regalia is with the Wisconsin Bike Federation. Jake

Newborn is here. Good morning, Jake. I love the look. Oh, and a ho and a ho to you.

The great Santa cycle rampage is this Saturday in Milwaukee, right?

Correct. Saturday, December 2nd. We're ready to ride.

And we're talking about like thousands of people dressed in Santa outfits riding bicycles.

Yeah. As of today, we have 1100 people pre-registered to ride with us on Saturday.

And we're hoping that, you know, as we get closer, even more decide to join up.

I just checked the forecast and it's going to be 41 degrees in Milwaukee on Saturday,

which is really pretty great. Yeah, I had, you know, it's always kind of a

question mark coming in, but, you know, we ride, you know, rain or shine. And just, you know,

Santa suits are actually pretty good at repelling water. So all that polyester really helps.

So we'll be out there, no matter what. And this is all a fundraiser, correct?

Right. So this is, you know, grow, this event has grown over the years. And it's,

and the bike that took it on and kind of took it under its wing because it had gotten so unwieldy.

And so we are raising funds for, we're a nonprofit cycling advocacy and education organization.

We do a lot of great work getting kids and families on bikes, training, educating,

doing advocacy around street improvements and state legislature and funding.

And also it's a great stuff to make cycling more fun and easy.

Jake Sandborn is our guest. We're talking about the Santa cycle rampage.

Before you joined us, Jake, I made the assumption that there will be no nude

Santa's riding in Saturday's event, unlike the naked bike ride that was in Madison.

Correct. And then great, great kind of inferred that there may be some scantily clad

santa's who are involved in this. I think that everyone does a pretty good job at wearing

a cool costume and covering up. I would highly doubt that we see a scantily clad santa's.

It also is a family friendly event. So we, you know, we've got over 70 kids registered already

participating with their family. And actually knew this year, we have, if you're want to ride with

kids and you feel like 12 miles, it might be a little much. We've got a little three mile route

that'll just loop around Bayview, come back to the start finish. And so if it does, you know,

if you decide you want to do that, row with the kids are more than welcome to.

That was going to be my next question is how long of a ride this is. So where, where does the 12

mile route take you? The 12 mile route will start at our headquarters in Bayview here in the

wheel and sprocket. It'll head up the east side to Downer Cafe Hollander on Downer Avenue.

And then that's about our halfway point. Then we'll pick up more people there. We'll loop back

around on the west side of the river and come back to the start finish to get everyone kind

of out and back safely. Now, of course, people do kind of jump on or off at certain times.

That's fine. We're okay with that, you know, depending on weather or whatever you need to do.

But the ride kind of rolls and sort of a parade loop style along that 12 miles.

I bet it's a really, I bet it's a really pretty ride too.

Oh, I mean, we, you know, beautiful scenes and sights riding in Milwaukee. It's a beautiful city.

You know, get to see a lot of different parts of town. Have people waving at you.

You kind of joke around internally here that, you know, it's the one day a year that a motorist

will be happy to see you and wave and not try and hit you. But yeah, it's a really great site.

We get so many people who, you know, have done it their first time and they kind of do it every

year after that too. It's really become a tradition for so many people.

Is it, are there people from outside of Milwaukee who take part as well?

Oh, definitely. We have lots of people registered from Chicago all around Wisconsin, Iowa,

Michigan. I mean, it's really kind of growing to become this regional thing as, you know,

as the, as we dubbed it, the world's largest. I know that there's other ones in Minneapolis,

Boston, Kansas City. But as far as we've seen, we've, we've got the biggest.

I love how, I love how stuff like this works here.

You know what I mean? And when we compare, you know, sweet little Milwaukee to Boston or Chicago

and the fact that we can hold our own against the bigger boys just makes me really delighted.

Hey, the rest of the world, Milwaukee and Wisconsin, we got game.

Yeah, pay attention world. Santa's coming.

Yeah.

If you want to see some pictures, I highly encourage you to go to Wisconsin bike fed.org slash Santa

hyphen cycle hyphen rampage. We'll get this up in the show.

Nobody's going to remember that. But I'd love some of these.

You can just google it too. We got some good SEO. Just Google Santa rampage Milwaukee.

It'll come up. Perfect. But what the lead picture that comes up on your website is like,

your lead biker and he is dressed like a candy cane. It's hilarious.

Oh, I mean, people really take a lot of heart and like timed an effort to prepare their costumes,

whether it is that big candy cane guy or they're pulling a whole sleigh on a bike trailer,

or they've got, you know, 12 of their friends all dressed as reindeer's. I mean, it's,

that's what really makes it fun and exciting and, and a really part of the tradition.

So it does, I do not have to be Santa specific if I'm going to, like, I could come as the

Grinch or something. Would that be, or, or, or is that a violation of the rules? No, no, no.

Any kind of holiday theme and not even Christmas. We've had dreedles come. We've had, you know,

we've had any kind of anything you can imagine. We've had people just from like the Christmas

story, Ralphie and the pink bunny suit. I mean, we've had crampus. Oh, so horrifying. Has anyone

dressed up as the festivist pole? I don't know if I've seen one of those. That'd be a tricky one,

but I challenge someone too for sure. Go for it. But the gauntlet has been thrown. The gauntlet's

been thrown, people. Are you going to the Santa rampages Saturday? I'd charge you to dress like

a festivist pole. If you don't know of that means watch television sometime. You can, you can

Google that as well. Okay. It's for the rest of us. It's for the rest of us. Exactly. So how much

money have you guys raised over the years, Jake? This ride raises up the past since about 2019. It's

raised about $30,000 a year for us. So it's really, really big when you talk about, you know,

being, being a relatively small nonprofit, that's really kind of makes our holiday much more

married and bright when we can end the year on a big fundraiser like this. Absolutely. That's

huge. I'm really impressed. That's a, that's a nice chunk of change. Like I said, for the Wisconsin

bike Federation, Jake newborn is here talking about the Santa cycle rampage, which is happening

this Saturday in Milwaukee. What time does it start? Jake. The ride will leave the start finish here

at a wheel and sprocket promptly at 9 30 a.m. and return back approximately 11 30 a.m.

But we're going to be gathering here open at 8 a.m. to welcome you, have some warm drinks,

fire going and get kind of get everyone started. So 9 30 a.m. on the dot relief and Santa's never late.

Santa is never, absolutely. Santa's never late. What kind of an entrance fee?

It starts at $25 for a single adult and it kind of goes up to depending on what kind of gift

packages or additional add-ons you want to get from there. And as far as a favorite places to stop

off, do do Santa's tend to congregate at one establishment or over another or do they hit multiple

places on the course of this 12 mile ride? Yeah, I mean, I think people kind of go throughout the day.

They'll go to their favorites or wherever. Lake from Brewery has opened a long time supporter

generally because they're just so large and they got so much space to welcome people. Great lakes

distillery, the Hollander and Downer. Those are all great, you know, starting or ending spots.

There was so many other sponsors and places that are listed and we do encourage people to,

you know, please be safe, be responsible, stay together, you know, and visit those places that are

our sponsors and are supporting us and supporting you and by in the same way. So how are Santa's

tippers? I hope they're, I mean, I hope they're good. I've heard good things. I've heard, you know,

lots of good boys and girls out there that, you know, want to be on the nice list. And I think

that they're all going to do a pretty good job. That's got to be kind of fun actually for some of

the serving staff to see 400 Santa's coming at you all at one time. I just hope I'm going, oh,

dear reindeer. People dressed as reindeer. That's, that's pretty great. Jake Newborn,

the Wisconsin bike Federation talking about the Santa cycle rampage. Now this Saturday is the ride

in Milwaukee, but there's a later one that's happening in Madison. Yeah, so we, you know, as a

statewide organization, we also have our staff doing great programming work in Dane County and

in Madison. And so on December 9th is our kind of sister event where they'll be running that.

That'll be, you know, it's meet up at Bree Stevens Field at about 11 a.m. and leave from there

and kind of same thing. Do a little short four or five mile ride with a lot of feeder routes.

So, you know, if you're, we've got people who do both rides. We've got people who just maybe

can't travel or whatever. So we encourage people we've got about, we're expecting about 300 people

in Madison that's still kind of growing. It's about the third or fourth annual there. And so we

want that. We want Madison to be just as big as Milwaukee. So I'll put that challenge out there

to Madison. Don't let Milwaukee keep showing you up. Ooh. Ooh, I like Santa a little, a little Santa

smack talk. Santa's fighting in the street. No, it's a peaceful. Oh my gosh, that's terrifying

witness. New York is a thing called Santa Con, where it's just bedroom dressed in a Santa costume.

Really? Oh, yeah, yeah. And they have no, there is no goal for Santa Con.

I think it is drunk as humanly possible. All right. I may be wrong. All over here about Santa

Con is that the bad stories. I don't know if it's a charity event, but they're always like that's

the bad Santa, you know, conference in New York. We've got good Santa's here in Milwaukee. Yeah.

I was going to say this sounds really jake. It sounds like a ball, obviously very family friendly.

And I can't imagine, you know, living on the east side and if you're unaware of this and you're

walking out Saturday just to go to get a cup of coffee, you must get some pretty hilarious

stairs as you guys are riding down the street. Yeah. I mean, definitely. Those are my favorite though

when people are kind of surprised and they didn't know it was coming by, but it's also really great

when people do expect us. Last year we had one person out on their seven story balcony playing,

you know, trumpet playing Christmas songs on the trumpet for everyone as we pass by. So

whether we support whether we're Santa surprises you or you're waiting for them, you know,

you always get a good gift. That's impressive to have somebody out on their balcony,

actually playing Christmas tunes on a trumpet. I love it. Yeah, you got to love that. Yeah,

it's very, very sweet. You got to love that. Can we do a day of registrations, Jake?

Yes, we will allow day of registrations. That's going to be all like online QR codes.

So we want people to get, we do have a couple of pre-checking events on Thursday and Friday night

before at wheel and sprockets. That information is also on the website there to try and help move

things along in that morning. Yeah. On the day of, but if you wanted, you know, and even if you're

out riding, you can still kind of register and make a donation and support even if you didn't,

you know, know a friend drag you along and you didn't know that, hey, I should even pay for this

thing. We welcome a donation anytime. We will get this all up in our show notes after the show is

over. So if you're looking for any of those links, we will make them available for you. Good luck

this weekend, Jake. Again, the weather looks pretty good. 41 degrees for, for December seconds. So

that's, that is not bad bike riding, whether I'm sure you have experienced far worse.

Better than right now. It's almost too warm. It's almost too warm. You shut your mouth, Jake.

Shut your mouth.

Mantis coming all the way down from the North Pole. I mean, it's, we got to keep a certain

little frozen temperature here. I suppose we're going to have Santa's melting everywhere. And I bet

those, I bet those Santa costumes get, get pretty warm. Oh, I mean, they do. Yeah. All right. Well,

good luck. Happy trails. Happy Santa's centralized. Happy Santa's cycle rampage in Milwaukee. Happy

rain page. Jake Sanborn has been our guest from the Wisconsin Bike Federation. Thank you so

much, Jake. Stay with us. You're listening to Asgos, Wisconsin, across the Civic Media Radio Network.

We should never give a license to a man who drives the sleigh and plays with elves.

Grandma got run over by a reindeer. Walking all from our house, Christmas Eve.

Are you gonna say there's no such thing as Santa? But as for me and Grandpa, we the least.

Grandma got run over by a reindeer. Walking all from our house, Christmas Eve.

You can say there's no such thing as Santa. But as for me and Grandpa, we the least.

Good morning. Good morning. Welcome to Asgos, Wisconsin. Jane Metmare, in for Kristen Brie. Greg

Bach with me in studio. Calvin, on the board, you can always join us 844-967-2789-844-96 party.

Want to remind you tomorrow morning at 1033, the one the only the Kristen Brie will be joining us.

Holy cow. Yes. We haven't seen her. It's been two weeks. I know. It's weird. It's been two weeks.

She was traveling last week for Thanksgiving. Yeah. And was not able to join us. Well,

the other thing is she was able and she said she could. But we're like, it's fine.

Yeah, because she said she was in their cars. Like, we're gonna make you. No, go enjoy, go enjoy the weekend

and have a nice time with your family. That's how dedicated Kristen Brie is to you listeners.

You bet. You bet. You bet. You bet. You bet. And she's gonna be back before you know it.

I know. January 7th. I mean, it's bad. It's just like time. Yeah, I say it's the time.

It has, it has really flown by. So baby Francis was born on September 28th.

She's basically driving almost just practically graduated from college. Yeah, I did. She did

send me some new pictures last night and she is perfect and adorable. My dog's perfect and adorable.

That's a whole nother. I just have a hard time taking pictures because she always looks scared

and people like, is she okay? Oh, she you've only had her for two days. I know, but still,

I want to be able to be like, this is my dog. Oh, and she'll get there. She's just,

she's just getting it. I should ask for pictures of Frankie Luke, Frankie Luke,

because I haven't gotten any. I don't ask because I also feel like, I know you're just like,

give me. Well, I'm like, I, I need my Frankie Lufix. So at least once a week, I'll ask her for

new photos. And because they changed so quickly. Yeah, of course, you know, from, from week to

weeks, she's, she is changing and morphing and opening her eyes and wonderful things like that.

Very true. I'm not going to, I'm not going to argue with you on any of this because I feel like

I'm just going to get yelled at. All right. So Kristen will be joining us tomorrow morning at 1033.

I think that is the day that Frankie Luke goes to the nanny. So I don't, yes. So I don't think we

will get to get a glimpse of the baby, but regardless, make sure you join us for that. Right now,

we don't want, we want to acknowledge that today is giving Tuesday. Yes, it is. And

this is a whole series that has just grown. Yeah. Just be thanksgiving day and then black Friday.

Now it is small business Saturday, secondhand Sunday, small brewery Sunday. Okay. I feel

you just snuck in there with that one. Cyber Monday. Cyber Monday. And now today is giving

Tuesday where you are encouraged to donate to your favorite local nonprofits and help them cover

their expenses for the coming year. I know what mine are. If you want to share yours, please text

it in so we can get the word out, especially if there's a local food pantry in your community,

wherever you're listening in the civic media network, you might have something up in Amory or

in Hayward. Amory, Amory, Amory. Or wherever you are listening, if you want us to give a shout out,

just a text or call at 844-967-2789. Personally, I love the Wisconsin Humane Society. I think they do

a remarkable job. I think if you have a local shelter, there's all kinds of smaller rescue groups now

and smaller independent rescue groups that I believe are out there for animals. That is always

very much appreciated. And then another one that I'm also particularly fond of is Matic,

which is the Milwaukee area, domestic animal control. And they also do the same type of work as

the Wisconsin Humane Society. But in my estimation, they end up with a lot more of the more difficult

animals. And so they need a little bit more help. And you and I were talking off the air

also about the Sojourner Family Peace Center. Yeah, that's the one I've for Christmas this year.

We always make donations for our family members. And I've asked that they make Sojourner Family

Peace Center right here in Milwaukee, their donation on behalf of me, but just donate. I love having

them here every every October. Yeah, Carmen Petri. Yeah. Carmen's so wonderful and so passionate.

Love the work they do. I love, you know, I don't love the topic, but I love listening to her speak

on the matter because there's still after so many years, so much depth and passion to what she's

doing. Yes. What they're doing there. So, you know, I was sojourner family peace center is my choice.

Give what you can. I know it is much appreciated. And sometimes it sounds silly, but honestly,

if you can only give a dollar, that's fine. If a hundred people are listening to this right now,

I hope there's way more than that, frankly, but if a hundred people are listening to this right now,

let's go. If a thousand people are listening to this right now, everybody gives a buck. Everyone

gives a buck. That's one thousand dollars. That's it. And for some of these smaller nonprofits,

that makes an enormous amount of difference. That buys supplies that keeps lights on that

employees people that helps to employ people. The money goes so much further. You want to see

people utilize their funds, talk to a nonprofit because there are hundreds of them around.

Everyone needs help. So, you know, if you can go somewhere and it doesn't have to be surging

a family peace center, I'd love it for me. It doesn't have to be what Jane's saying. If it's your

group, whatever is your thing, whatever is your thing, and you give, they're going to appreciate it

and they're going to utilize those funds. And especially in you make a good point, Greg, about it,

if you donate to a food pantry or something like that, they can certain, you know, and I know

they always appreciate any donations that they get. But a lot of times these nonprofits can get

much more through through dollar donations because they can buy in bulk and they can buy in

much larger quantities. So that's something to keep in mind as well. The other one I want to say too

was Habitat for Humanity, which is a really good point, especially today. Rosalyn Carter,

former first lady, the ceremony, I believe, starts at one o'clock this afternoon in Georgia,

and then she will be laid to rest in a private service later on today. But all former first

ladies will be in attendance. Not all of the former presidents will be there, but Bill Clinton

will be there. Excellent. So remember, remembering Rosalyn Carter, she and Jimmy so involved in

Habitat for Humanity for decades and decades and decades. And I can remember seeing him in a

hard hat when he was like 87. Oh, I mean, still wielding a hammer. Yeah. I mean, and the great

thing about Habitat too is something I want to get into is even just volunteering. You get skills.

Oh, yeah. If you tell them what you want to do, they will teach you how to do it. Absolutely.

But if you can donate, donate, give your time, give your funds. Please do so. And give it

if you can. All right. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, Calvin. Thank you, Greg

Bach. Thank you to Dan Schaefer, Lisa Williams from Persisters and Jake Newborn, the Wisconsin

bike Federation. That was Jake that was Santa Claus. Jake Newborn. If you want any of the links

or anything, just go to our website civicmedia.us and you will find it in the show notes. Stay tuned

for the news followed by the Todd Alba show. Have a great day. This is As goes Wisconsin on

the civic media radio network.

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