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Yesterday at this same time, Dr. Kristen, we had a segment that I like to call more words from men.
Okay. And this is kind of an opportunity to focus on men checking in on things that they may not
necessarily know all that much about.
Okay.
And so I brought up this instance with Charlie Kirk, who is a mega and he's the founder of a mega
organization called Turning Point USA.
He also is a radio program that I think streams somewhere.
But he had three of his friends on the other day and they're all complaining and dumping on Taylor Swift.
And Taylor Swift is ruining democracy.
She got four million young girls to sign up to vote.
And it's not it was more like 35,000 and she's ugly and she has no talent.
And gosh, does she even have any eggs left?
She's 34. She just turned 34 yesterday.
So this led me to give a little ovulation 101 course, Dr. Liarly.
And I would like to make sure that I did it accurately.
Okay.
I would first like to point out that the four of us who are on right now, none of us really,
none of us have functional eggs.
So we are past our prime, but we are going to talk about eggs because we have so much to talk about.
We did at one point, well, except for, you know, Kelvin, but we love Kelvin.
And he's here to, you know, keep us on the straight and narrow and to be really, really clear.
We love men.
I personally created four of them.
So this isn't about men.
This is about crazy people like social media parasite Charlie Kirk, who obviously is afraid of Taylor Swift,
but loves to use her name in order to elevate his profile.
So, you know, whatever, Charlie Kirk, we're not even going to give you any oxygen right now
because what we're going to do is we're going to talk about eggs and we are going to dispel some information
or misinformation and we're going to make sure that people understand a few really critical things.
Like, are you ready for point number one?
Let's, let's do it.
We are born with all of our eggs.
Women are born with all of our eggs.
We don't, we don't make anymore as time goes on.
We don't make anymore.
And actually, we lose most of our eggs before we're even born.
We have way more eggs while we are developing.
And once, by the time that we are born, most of those eggs have already disappeared.
So we're born with about a third of the eggs that we were created with.
What, is there a specific, because I don't know.
I mean, is there a specific number that we are born with or is everybody different?
Everybody's a little bit different, but it's thousands and thousands.
Oh, wow, okay.
Maybe thousands of eggs.
We've got a lot of eggs.
Okay.
And it was my understanding also, Dr. Loughley, from, from what I found that even by the time you hit puberty,
you have fewer eggs than you were born with.
Yeah.
Right?
That's true.
We lose eggs throughout our lifetime.
So it's not like, you know, suddenly you hit menopause in your eggs are not there.
And actually, the eggs are still there.
They're just not functional and you're not ovulating.
So we, our ovaries are loaded with these eggs that are in this, in this space where they're not ready to be ovulated.
They're just sitting there waiting for the right cues to happen.
Okay.
And that's, that, so when a, when a young girl hits puberty, that's when these things start waking up, right?
And going, oh, well, we have a new function we have to do now.
And I'm going to look at this bunch of eggs and I'm going to pick five of them that think that I think are most viable.
This is, isn't your body kind of making these judgments?
One, one egg with a normal menstrual cycle and the way that your complex symphony of hormones work,
one egg per month is elevated to the point where it ovulates.
Now, obviously that is not for everybody.
There are some people who ovulate two eggs and there are some people who have a lot of eggs that are in that place where they're ready to ovulate polycystic ovarian syndrome
is actually a pretty common condition, about 10% of women have it, where the eggs are just,
if you look at an ovary with PCOS on ultrasound, it looks like there's just a string of pearls around the outside of the ovary
because there are all of these eggs that are just ready to go.
So you can certainly ovulate more than one egg at a time, but the standard is one egg a month gets promoted and ovulates.
Well, all I could think of was during the discussion that they were having and it's like,
does she even have any left?
What do you think happens to these eggs?
Do you think every time a woman has sex, she's losing eggs?
Do we just lose them randomly when we're at the store?
I had them in my other person, I left them in the car.
I mean, what do they think we're losing?
What do they think is happening to these?
Well, when you ovulate and that egg comes off the surface of the ovary,
it doesn't go directly into your fallopian tube.
The way they teach it to us in school, it's like the egg is there and then the tube is there
and it just goes right into the tube, like the tube is a vacuum, that's not how it works.
You ovulate off your ovary and that egg might go into the tube,
but it might just fall deep inside your pelvis and just sit there and wait.
Huh, and wait, what is it waiting for?
Well, if the fallopian tube, which is beautiful,
the end of the fallopian tube is all fimbriated and it's graceful,
it's like a ballroom dancer and it just is like moving around.
If it stumbles on that egg, it will suck that egg up into the tube
and that's when the process of fertilization can occur.
Usually it happens actually in the tube, but if fertilization doesn't happen,
if the fallopian tube doesn't pick it up, that egg just gets reabsorbed by your body.
Huh, okay, my question for you is, because I had no problem
talking to my kids about sex and their bodies and stuff like that,
but apparently a lot of people do.
So what would you say is an age appropriate age,
what's an appropriate age to sit down with your son and you said you got four of them,
sit down with your son and tell them and explain what goes on in a woman's body
so you don't sound like a moron.
Always, you should always be talking about things that are happening with your body
and using medically accurate terms and make it part of their vernacular.
So like when they go to the bathroom, when your little men go to the bathroom
and they are peeing all over the place, you talk about them like aiming their penis
into that you use the right word.
Right, right.
And you can joke around too.
I think that's all kind of part of it because there's a lot of discomfort associated
with body functions and body parts, but at my house we talk about everything at the dinner table
because we've always talked about that kind of stuff.
And that doesn't mean that my sons come to me to ask for like contraception advice
or lots of like specific, tricky medical questions.
They've got sources and people that they can talk to to get that accurate information.
But they grew up knowing what the parts of their bodies were
and they'll come home from school sometimes and say,
I just learned that your liver does this.
So your kidney does that or whatever, you know, whatever health question
because they grew up with it.
And that's always been part of their education.
You know what, maybe it's because my father was a pharmacist.
You know, and I worked in the pharmacy and I've been there since I was a little girl.
So my dad used to say all the time, listen, go and talk to your pharmacist
if you don't feel comfortable talking to your parents.
And, you know, I, I was just really blunt too with my kids.
I'm just, you know, your parents must have addressed things pretty straightforward as well.
My dad did.
My mom was a little bit more covered.
Squeamish.
Yeah, squeamish.
That's a good way to put it.
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And Carol, I love that you brought it up and I really love the idea of letting kids lead.
Letting them tell you what they need to know.
And you acknowledging it and answering it in their questions in an age-appropriate way
that they can understand.
You don't like them too much information because that's scary.
But trying to answer their questions without shame and without judgment
and just with the motivation of them being able to have to make really good decisions for themselves
because you've armed them with really good, appropriate information.
Yeah.
I mean, I just, I never understood, you know, the whole cloak and dagger business.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
It's just, let's just talk about, it's a normal function of the human body.
Let's just talk about it.
Well, and think about the amount of harm I think it could cause if your child comes to you
with a specific question and your first response is why do you want to know that?
Mm-hmm.
You can really damage the, but I come to you for information.
Right.
You know, without, like you said, Dr. Liarly, without judgment, I want to know this thing.
Can you tell me this thing?
Sure.
So you have to be kind of careful how you handle that approach, right?
Oh, for sure.
And there's so much misinformation out there.
And people have such different ideas that are just like not based in reality.
I was at a roundtable in Madison over the weekend and it was fascinating.
There were seven pro-choice advocates and seven pro-life advocates sitting around a table
talking about abortion.
And I mean, these are people who testify at the Capitol on bills.
So like, these are people who are entrenched.
And I was the only doctor there.
And as we started, it was mediated, so it couldn't get too hot.
Sure.
And as we started talking about different things that informed our decision making,
it was fascinating to hear some of the things that people believed
and that were really making them make these decisions in their lives
that once we debunked some of it, they were like, why am I doing this?
I'm harming myself because of this belief that I'm holding that's based in fiction.
Are you willing to share more of the details of that?
Oh, for sure.
I mean, things like there were some really strongly Catholic folks there.
And some of the ideas that they had, like they weren't familiar
with some of the genetic things that can happen.
You know, it seems very simple.
Like sperm and egg come together.
And it's all good.
And it's all good.
And it's all good.
Like that's life.
And ideologically, it is.
And when you're thinking about your most personal healthcare decisions,
you have to be able to make your own decisions about that.
But when it comes to making policy for other people, it's a different ballgame.
We will continue this conversation.
Stay close.
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Good morning.
Welcome to As Goes Wisconsin.
Jane McNair.
And for Kristen Brie, Carol Kane with me in studio.
Galvin is on the board.
And we are joined as we are every Thursday at this time by Dr.
Kristen Liarly for our public cervix announcement.
Want to do a special shout out to our listeners in Madison listening on WMDX.
And in wasa bull falls radio from WXCO.
Good morning.
And again, thank you for joining us.
So Dr. Liarly, we were talking about ovulation 101, essentially.
And trying to dispel, dispel rather some misconceptions about the workings of the female body.
And right before we went to commercial, you were sharing a round table that you recently had.
Tell us more about the.
You said misconceptions.
That was funny.
So one common thing that people didn't realize is that it is not unusual for fertilization to occur.
And that fertilized egg not to implant somewhere in the uterus.
It just washes out with the normal menstrual cycle.
So that really made people think about, well, geez, you know, if life begins at fertilization or conception in their terms.
And then that just doesn't implant.
Then what is that?
Like what does that mean to me?
A lot of it was very personal and very ideological.
And also rooted in some of the messaging that we get.
So for example, Plan B, a lot of people call that the morning after pill.
This is contraception that people, even doctors, get confused about and think causes abortion.
Plan B to be very, very clear is contraception.
These are the pills that you take after you've had intercourse.
And you are preventing a pregnancy from happening by suppressing ovulation.
That is a number one way that it works.
So when, as we were talking about things like this or like the number of abortions that occur late in pregnancy.
They had all of these statistics that were just flawed.
They were just plain wrong.
And they were challenging me on it.
And I was like, so this is how, this is what the data actually shows.
And it was so cool to be in a place where you could talk about things on an even ground.
Yes.
It really made us all think about like what are our own closely held beliefs?
And how do we approach these conversations?
Knowing that people in society, people we love have different opinions.
And if we aren't having these conversations, we're not learning from each other.
So I guess the foundation of it is whether we're talking about sex or politics or religion.
It's okay to have different opinions.
Well, and as Todd Alba likes to say, you're certainly entitled to your own opinion.
However, you are not entitled to your own facts.
Yeah.
Just not entitled to your own facts.
Oh, go ahead, Carol.
I'll send you away after you've done.
I just, anything where there's like cooperation to me is a positive.
I'm just completely thrilled by what you're saying and the fact that they were able to sit around
without going to blows at one another and sit down and have a conversation about a calm, collected conversation.
I'd love to have been a fly on the wall on that one.
One of the pro-life activists actually said to me on the second day,
I would love for you to take care of my wife.
And he later introduced me to his wife who, I mean, she was somebody who, when they got married,
they went to an abortion clinic on their bus after they left the church before they went to the reception
to spread what they thought was joy in a place that needed more joy.
Now, I don't agree with that.
That made me uncomfortable.
But in her mind, that was the right thing to do.
Yeah.
But to be able to get to that point in a couple of the pro-life activists said to me afterwards,
you do not look like what I thought an abortion provider looks like.
I always pictured a butcher, you know, an ugly, horrible, dark human being.
And I'm like, I'm in this to take care of people.
And abortion is a complicated topic that is deeply integrated within women's health care.
And that's what I wanted them to know.
And I think I was able to get that across.
Which is wonderful.
But again, this disturbs me because of this misinformation and of these misunderstandings.
And people who do not look at the nuances of every pregnancy being different
and being needed to be handled differently.
This is not a black and white issue.
There is tons of gray in here, tons.
And the fact that they are promoting total, total bands with no exceptions or exceptions
for the life of the mother and then not specify how close to dead she has to be
before she can get that care is very concerning to me.
Yeah.
And like what we saw in Texas, this was with Kate Cox.
Yes.
I mean, here she had this desired pregnancy that was just genetically flawed.
This baby was not going to survive.
So she's heartbroken anyway.
And then to have the court say, yeah, sorry.
They're literally putting her life at risk.
Not just her health, not just her well-being and her sanity, but her life.
That's where we're having this country.
And so yeah, more conversations.
More conversations.
Yeah.
Anything else that really cut through with some of the folks that were on this panel?
There were so many topics.
We talked a lot about racism.
We talked about domestic abuse and violence.
How all of this really, it comes together with all of these societal things that are happening.
You know, people can't afford health care.
They can't afford food.
They can't get access to good, solid education and the job opportunities that they need.
And all of this comes together to create this fabric that is either a strong foundation for people or not so much.
And these are ways that we can create policies that inform the way that we live and that help each other out and help us lift each other.
Instead of oppressing each other and creating pockets of people who are doing really well and a lot of people who are just struggling to get by.
And did you talk at all, Dr. Kristen, about the maternal health care deserts and just the health care deserts we have across Wisconsin?
And what this means particularly for women?
Yeah, we did a little bit.
We really focused on reproductive health.
But, you know, we know that most of the doctors who are delivering care, especially in rural areas, they are fearful.
They don't have resources.
They are not well supported when it comes to women's health care.
It's hard to talk about.
Sometimes even hard to bring up.
So if they don't feel supported and they are the people who are delivering obstetrical care as well as diabetes care and pediatric,
like they're caring for entire communities, if they don't feel comfortable and supported, they're not going to work there.
And that's part of the reason that we're seeing such a dire physician shortage.
Not just OB-GYN doctors, but family medicine doctors, emergency medicine doctors, and other people who are truly committed to taking care of people in a holistic way.
Okay, so where do some of these people that live in these rural areas where there is a doctor depletion, if you will, where can they go to get information?
Yeah, that's a great question.
I think they're struggling to get any sort of access they're having to drive or they're just playing going without.
Without got it.
So, you know, they're going without, but we can absolutely, let me check into.
I'm glad you asked for resources because I love resources and I am not familiar.
We've got DHS here in Wisconsin, but I'm sure we can get a little bit more granular about how people in rural areas can get access.
So let's talk about that.
Are we on next week?
We are on next week.
Let's do it next week.
Let's talk about rural areas and how people can get access to care.
We absolutely will.
Dr. Kristen Liarly, thank you so very, very much.
Have a wonderful weekend.
We will see you next Thursday.
And when we return, J.R. Redcliffe, we're to talk sports.
And I think that tall box player, Mr. Antitakumpo, his name might come up.
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You're going to switch gears a little bit.
And talk, according to wire cutter, the 24 gifts that will last forever or extremely close.
And I'd also like to know what was the best Christmas gift you ever got.
One that really sticks out over the years.
Nothing.
Well, I know it was kind of a last minute.
Yeah, right.
I mean, there's now one thing that jumps.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
I'm sorry, but let's go with the phrasing of the statement.
You said the greatest.
Now you said one thing.
What do you want for me, lady?
What do you want?
You want the greatest or you want the year that I got Hot Torpedo?
Hot Torpedo was a great game as a kid.
You put a little disc to the thing and shut the disc on the other side.
It was amazing.
I got it.
I was so excited.
So excited.
Okay.
I'll.
One that does stand out to me.
And this is just sound like millennial nostalgia, I think.
That's fine.
As much as anything.
No judgment.
An Nintendo 64 when I was getting and getting the Nintendo 64, the new Nintendo 64 and going
downstairs and playing Mario Kart on it, you know, that was that was my jam back in the day.
I believe it.
I believe it.
Calvin.
So I have a couple and they're all pretty different.
The most recent one that stood out to me is going to sound kind of weird, but a cast iron
skillet.
Oh, that's great.
It was a good present.
I really liked that.
It was a surprise.
It was a Christmas ride.
I didn't really ask for anything.
So my parents were kind of scrambling and my dad just happened to hear me say it one time
and guessed it right that I wanted one.
So what have you done with your cast iron skillet?
You know, all sorts of things, mostly cheeseburgers and grilled cheese.
Nice.
Lots of other stuff too.
Did you properly season it?
Oh, yeah.
It's my mom's when he was in it and she doesn't take care of it the best.
So I kind of need to give it another go with the seasoning.
Well, you just forced a conversation out by saying it on radio.
She knows I talked to her about it.
Respect the cast iron still at this, the seasoning of the cast iron skillet.
Very important.
It's like a walk.
Right.
You never watch your walk.
You never want to watch it.
You never watch it.
You can't put it in the dishwasher.
Oh, gosh.
There are memes about this.
There are.
There are memes about the putting the cast iron in the dishwasher and ruining it.
Does it make people scream?
Yeah.
You're also supposed to not like the pizza stone either.
You can you can rinse it off and like wipe it, but you're never supposed to like wash it
with soap and put it in the dishwasher.
You know, yeah, I never put this cast iron in the dishwasher.
I would never go that far.
But the idea that you can't use soap on it is actually a misconception.
Are we doing a cast iron or like a pizza stone?
Pizza stone.
I have no idea.
A stone, I think you don't want to use soap because it will absorb, but a cast iron,
you can use soap on as long as you put a little oil on it.
Yeah, you want to wash it.
Yeah, you still want to wash it.
It says to be clean.
But you just can't put it in the dishwasher.
For all your cast iron questions, Calvin is available at 844-167-2789, he is the wizard
of cast iron skillets.
All right.
This wire cutter article on the 24 gifts that will last forever extremely closely.
The first one is coasters, classy coasters, that depends on what they're made of.
Will felt coasters, absorb condensation, don't stick to damp glasses.
They come in a pleasing array of colors and sets of four and or six forty dollars for
coasters.
A lot for coasters.
That seems really pricey to me, but if they're going to last forever, well, that's according
to wire cutter.
Well, and these things that could, I'm looking through this list of things that could
last forever and having knowledge of my almost three-year-old daughter who is an expert
at breaking things that will, that will typically, you know, maybe thought of as lasting forever.
Could they make it past my two-year-old daughter?
That should be the real test of this wire cutter article.
Give it to me and see if they last a month.
Give it to my dad.
Your love for me has to last forever, father, but these coasters don't.
Well, I would think too, if you're going to give somebody a thing of coasters, then I
want them to know how much they cost.
If I'm jelling out for forty dollars, because otherwise they're going to look at you like,
you got me a box of four coasters for Christmas.
Like if you get your secret Santa's, like the budget is forty dollars and somebody comes
with coasters and you'd be like, are you sure?
Are you sure you spent up to forty dollars?
Did you find out that my wish list on Elfster.com, I would, I wouldn't come with them at the
price.
I wouldn't be that gauche.
I would simply go, they're coasters made of and then you say the materials and what
they'll do when really you're just describing a coaster.
That's one way to sell it.
Yeah.
Exactly.
But I guess I would want some racing.
I would, I would like them to recognize that these are highly special.
Call them cruelty free.
Cruelty free coasters.
That will work.
I also suggested the Vermont bowl company colonial hardwood bowl.
This just sounds like advertised to $209 for an eight inch bowl.
Get out of my house.
That's a pricey bowl and it there would and it looks lovely, but don't most bowls last
forever.
No, depending on what they're made of.
I mean, I have bowls that I've had for 30 years.
Are they still good looking or are they still like, are they okay?
Then there you go.
I have bowls.
I've heard it from my mother.
Those are probably 60 years old.
Those we have some antique bowls that have had passed down.
And they were fine.
They still function as they hold food.
They do.
The coasters are the kind of thing you're saying.
You have to tell you wanted to tell them how much they were.
That's the kind of bowl that the person who gets it tells you how much it is.
So they know because the only thing they have on it is it was a $200 bowl.
You know what I mean?
Like at the end of the day, it's still just a bowl.
And it looks like every other bowl, but that person would be like, this is a $200 bowl
because it's made of, it's made of finely harvested coa.
See, this would never happen in the Midwest because in the Midwest, you have to tell people
of the deal that you got this particular gift for.
It was $200.
That you got it for a discount.
I got it.
It was $200.
I got it on Black Friday for $42.
Yes.
Yes.
High five me.
It's a victory.
Indestructible.
Should last forever Christmas suggestions from Wirecutter magazine.
It's a raincoat.
The Holly, Haley Hansen Moss raincoat for 120 bucks.
Nope.
Not into the raincoats.
I've done $120.
I'll buy an umbrella or just get wet, but it's a flattering below the hip length with
a pleasing rubberized polyurethane coat.
I want people to see me below the hips.
It's flattering enough.
See, I used to live in Seattle, and this would be the type of coat that every single person
in Seattle has.
Oh, I believe it.
But here in Wisconsin, maybe not so much.
Now, it gets a little bit rare.
Need a little bit more, a little more to it.
It's got to be all weather, snow, rain, sleet, sideways rain, freezing rain, slush, falling
from the sky, rain, rain, you know, not like the mist in Seattle.
I went to Seattle in December, in 2017, and it was 49 degrees out.
I was walking around the hoodie and shorts.
Everyone was in parkas.
Yeah, yeah.
If it snow's like an inch there, the city shuts down.
Awesome.
Tony, checking in on the stream, my dad made me a functional mini brass cannon.
It didn't have a fuse that you lit, but a cap that you hit with a hammer, a complete
surprise and utterly amazing.
Oh, wow.
You really?
I think that could go wrong in so many different ways.
Do you have all your thumbs?
Is there a background check you have to pass before you use the cannon?
Not by America.
Yeah.
A functional mini brass cannon that is really funny, going back to this list of the Christmas
gifts that should last forever, Fiberament D home oven baking stone for $137.
You just made all this works up.
I did not.
Fiberment D home oven baking stone.
So it's a piece of stone that you put in an oven.
Pretty much.
This is no longer the, this isn't see, this is the thing is, this is no longer the
list of stuff that will last forever.
It's incredulous Midwesterners judge a Christmas list from a website because everything is
like, that's a, I got a stone at home, I got a stone in my backyard.
I'll put in the oven.
I'm paying $100 for it.
There's the Charlie Barons bit here, right?
Absolutely.
Yeah.
I like the whole idea of Midwestern, Midwesterners denigrate other people's Christmas gifts
because we can find it on sale.
Yeah.
What's wrong with you?
Or my backyard.
Number four, nine, six, seven, two, seven, eight, nine, if you want to share the greatest
Christmas gift you ever, ever received popcorn maker.
I thought we were done with popcorn makers.
The copper plated stainless steel, worthy popcorn, popper, $65 from Amazon.
Don't we just make popcorn in a pan or in the microwave, right?
We need a special magical popcorn, popper.
We all have that friend who can't just say no to the gadget.
Yeah.
That's true.
I mean, we had this conversation.
What was the gadget you wanted?
The wonder oven.
The wonder oven.
How much was that?
It's $200.
And did you buy it?
I didn't.
Good.
You're welcome.
And I looked at it.
And I think what really changed my mind was we had a chef from Madison who called in.
Yeah.
And he said, Jane, you're just duplicating functions that you're oven and your broiler
already do.
I said that before the chef said that.
The chef carried a little more weight.
I'm sorry.
And now we call me thin.
Thank you.
I understand the draw.
I understand the draw to these to these small appliances.
And I really, really wanted a wonder oven.
But as I looked at it more and I measured it and it was much bigger than I thought and
takes up a whole lot more space, I'd have to move the air fryer I never use in order
to fit in the wonder oven that I also likely would not use.
I just used my air fryer today.
Yesterday, sorry.
This one walking up to the window and I got distracted with flowers.
844-967-2789.
PD is on the line from Florida.
Good morning, PD.
Thank you for joining the show.
What do you want to say?
Hey.
Yeah.
I had a special guest from the time.
I was pretty much like four years old on through grade school.
My parents would give me a box of junk.
And I have home movies of them giving me like a Tonka steam shovel or whatever.
And I play with it for like a minute.
And then I would go to the box of junk, which was great because it taught me how to put
things together and use my imagination, use my hands and all that.
So that was my favorite thing I looked forward to for a number of years through my grade
school.
And then when I was about 12, the greatest thing that I got to change my life.
They gave me my first silver, silver town guitar.
And it was a guitar that was in like a case that had a little amplifier to amplifier.
And speaker inside the case.
It was built into the case very, very unusual setup.
But they gave me my first silver tone guitar, which appears one of my videos.
I became a professional singer, songwriter, one man band because of it.
And changed my entire life that one year.
That is really cool, PD.
And I love the box of junk.
I think for for the right kid, that could be a great, great, great gift, right?
Oh, it was because I turned into because of that.
I really became like a, Mr. Fix it.
I mean, I've worked on.
There's nothing I haven't done on a car.
I mean, I'm not a professional mechanic, but I've rebuilt motors and engines.
The transmission clutch.
I had nothing I haven't done on a car.
I've remodel houses.
I've made all kinds of things.
Silver jewelry.
Rire tobacco pipes.
I mean, all kinds of things that I've done in my life that I owe all to going back to this.
Putting together.
Things out of junk.
It would be anything.
It's all buttons to magnets to a little rubber piece.
My dad worked in rubber factory for a while.
Just all kinds of things they would gather up through the year.
And I would make things a little sculptures or just things that.
My mom gave me a big button one years and string and I.
I made this thing where you put the string through the button and you pull on it with your hands.
Back and forth and it makes the button spin real fast.
Yes.
And yeah, just all kinds of really cool stuff, which kids today.
Would never I don't.
Well, it just look at how that unlocked your imagination.
That's really remarkable.
We don't have a lot of time left.
PD, how did you find us while you're listening in Florida?
I listen to talk left.
It has a number of stations on it.
So I listened to the one of Madison.
Considerably quite a bit.
I love the station.
I went to Madison.
The year that I went to college in Texas, actually.
But went on a road trip and went to Madison to.
And heard Bob Seeger play for the first time in some little joint.
It's his own town bar before he was big.
And Madison was caught.
I've never forgotten that.
That's really cool, PD.
Thank you so very much for listening.
And thank you so very much for sharing your story.
844-967-2789.
The singular greatest Christmas gift or most memorable that you ever received.
You're listening to Asgos, Wisconsin.
We're on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Good morning.
Welcome to Asgos, Wisconsin, Jane McNair.
In for Kristen Brie, joint in studio by Dan Schaefer and Greg Bach in Calvin.
Is on the board you can call in at 844-967-2789-844-96.
Party!
Talking about best Christmas gifts.
This is from a wire carder article on the 24 Christmas gifts that will last forever.
And we're just taking your calls as well.
What was your favorite Christmas gift that you've gotten over the years?
This is a great one, texture from the 414.
My Kitchen Aid mixer.
At first, I was disappointed about getting a kitchen appliance from my husband.
But that thing is the best.
And actually, that's on this list.
That thing is on wedding lists and a grocery list.
I got one for Christmas.
That's what I asked for for our wedding.
Yeah, every wedding registry I think is required by law to have one of those on there.
But it really is the most useful thing.
It's very versatile.
They're not cheap.
There's like 350 bucks, 400 bucks.
But that's something that is going to last you a really, really, really long time.
I'm still trying to think of what of a, like a modern present I got in the past few years.
That like really made me go, oh my god.
I just, I don't know.
I just like getting, like, I like getting presents.
But I never asked for the big present, I think.
Like it's, you know, when you're younger, you're taking you to Greece.
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Like when you're younger, you get the big present or the present from Santa.
Now, if like a lot of the things I asked for, they're very functional.
So if I get them, I'm excited, you know, last year, Bridget asked my brother-in-law,
asked my brother-in-law and my sister for the stuff we need to change our own oil
and a lesson on how to change our own oil.
And that's what my brother did.
He came over with all, he bought us all this stuff.
He came over and he showed us.
And now we can change our own oil, which saves you quite a bit of money.
So much money.
Yeah.
I'm sure it does.
844-967-2789, your favorite Christmas gift.
And I think too, for a lot of us, it's, it's something that sticks out from childhood.
Yeah, that was my initial thought.
It's just like, okay, what's the childhood one?
What's the one that I remember the moon?
Yeah.
Texture from the 414, I'm sorry, that's the wrong one.
A text from the 262 says, my air fryer, it makes all kinds of stuff.
I love the wings the best.
I was really excited when we got ours and I used it all the time.
And now I bet I haven't used it in six months, which is another reason why I talked myself
out of the wonder of it.
You, I noticed that when you say the wonder of it, you always say like the wonder of it.
It makes me sad.
Yeah, that's like the one that got away.
No, right.
Great thing too about like my family, we exchange lists.
And so like my wife's birthday is in April.
So what I do is I look at the list she gives out and anything that's on her Christmas list
that wasn't given to her.
I'll usually buy a couple of things off of there because she still needs stuff that'll make her excited.
And she's very much can be very much entrenched in gift cards.
She loves gifts cards because then she controls what she gets.
But as we all know, it is, you want to be able to, you want to be tangible.
I'd be like, here's the thing.
Here's a shirt.
Here's a, right.
Whatever.
Here's a wonder of it.
Here's a, just buy the stupid thing.
All right.
My God.
I'm on board now.
If he'll get you a shot up about the wonder of it, buy it.
I do want to say shout out to Pat Crightlow.
Thank you for the flowers.
Yes.
It's Greg's birthday and Pat sent him a bouquet.
It's really, really beautiful and a texture from the W a from listening on W a U K from the 608 happy birthday Greg.
I hope all your birthday wishes come true.
They already are.
I'm surrounded by friends.
Rico from Rock County said a great call from PD you call from Florida and talked about how he made a pipe.
And Rico just wants to know if it was really a tobacco pipe PD.
Or is there something you're not telling us?
Well in Florida.
No texture from the 920 listening on W MDX in Madison.
I got a bonsai tree.
That's cool.
I got a bonsai Lego set.
That's cool.
It's very cool.
I think that's kind of cool.
Yeah.
Also from the 920 tools in a book.
And from the 414 listening on W a U K divorce papers.
Oh, you got served on.
Oh.
Oh.
That changed the tone just slightly.
We did get a little bit.
I, you know, opposite of that, I suppose I should say that the, the best guess I've ever
given and a crisp and during Christmas was I proposed my wife right before Christmas.
Oh, yeah.
The engagement ring there.
So that's probably the most.
That's nice.
Well, it's most memorable Christmas of my life.
Oh, yeah.
Was that engagement there?
We got a livestream comment from Jim.
Tim Kolo.
Happy birthday to my fave lord ring to the character Greg Bach.
I think he's talking about what I look like because I look like I could storm a mountain.
But also, I guess you know what probably the greatest Christmas present I ever got was
the fact that I'm born on December the 12th.
Then came Christmas.
I was given life.
Haha.
Beat that everyone in the room.
Okay.
Then I'm not going to bring up my snoopy soap dish, which changed my life when I was six.
Really?
I love that.
So much.
We used to get it.
You do guys don't remember Ava.
Ava.
My mother was an Ava.
She was an Ava lady.
And they would actually come to your house and they would bring the catalog and look through
the catalog.
And I wanted that snoopy soap dish with every fiber of my being.
And I got it.
You know what I love is that you think I'm so much younger than you because you always do
that.
You won't remember this.
And then you'll say something like, you know, I don't know, mash.
I'm like, of course, I remember mash.
Or the snoopy, uh, I don't maybe the snoopy snow cone maker.
It was like his house and you put ice in the top of the house and then it would come out
the front as like a snow cone.
I remember that one.
I never got that one.
I never got a light.
Right.
Really?
On my 40th birthday, I got a light right because I had been whining about it for so long
like a wonder oven.
I'll, when I'm 80, I'll ask for a, I'll ask for the wonder.
I'm going to get you a wonder.
Is this turning into the gifts that got away here?
Not the best gift that got away for you, Dan.
Uh, not that I can think of.
No.
Okay.
Also on this list of gifts that will last forever, a Pujo Paris, who is select pepper
mill for $44.
If you have one pepper mill, doesn't that last you a lifetime?
Doesn't don't most pepper mills last forever.
I'm not going to lie.
I hate this list.
I hate this list so much.
It's just not a list that Midwesterners can appreciate because it's a lot of, a lot
of overpriced due dads, ours would be like a sturdy shovel.
Where can you get it?
Probably your dad's house, uh, you know, a, a, a good coat burlington coat factory.
Come on.
Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, it's a painful
price.
Yeah.
Don't pay full price.
Don't pay full price.
The one thing on here on the wire cutter is a good knife, and I will, I will sing the
praises.
Of good knives.
It's critically, critically important.
All right.
News is coming up next followed by the wonderful Todd all about show from noon until 2 p.m.
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Thank you, Dan Schaefer for coming all the way out and joining us in studio.
Thanks for having me.
Thank you, Greg Bach, Calvin.
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