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Wisconsin News: Economy, Reading and Good Stories (Hour 3)
Daybreak w/ Brian and Jamie · Fri May 1, 2026
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Across the state of Wisconsin, Daybreak with Brian and Jamie is back.
I'm Brian Newton.
Yes, we have spent the last seven minutes doing because Mr. Plow King who listens every morning on the stream and we thank him for that sent a message about, oh, you guys should go see Pinky the Elephant in DeForest.
Well,
So we we start Jamie of course started diving in then we all then Parker jumped in then I jumped it We've all been looking now.
There's a difference because yes ice Google search pinky the elephant and I came up with a giant elephant in a top hat outside a casino in Iowa mm-hmm The one in deforest, which is where the other pink out the elephant is is just called the pink elephant.
Yes, either way
Phenomenal.
then I dug into the story a little bit and it turns out that the the statue in DeForest is over 70 years old.
It's changed ownership over the years, but it used to be outside a supper club in Iowa.
So we're thinking that at some point it means that maybe
just maybe the top hat elephant is an homage in Iowa to the elephant that now lives in Deforest.
We don't know
us
want to see.
get a great
and the... It's almost like
Carey glasses.
I love that Mr. Plowking just put his dog's leash around the trunk of the elephant.
Yeah.
This is fantastic.
Well, how else are you gonna
We got a few headlines out of the war Jamie and we have to we have to hit that President Donald Trump said that no one knows the status of talks with Iran aside from himself and a handful of others which are the voices in his head so himself and his other personalities Suggesting the negotiations are advancing despite the appearance of a standstill
Iran's revised peace proposal could come today, according to sources.
That's how the whole thing started.
And he said this about a gut feeling.
Because everybody said to him, well, you know, there's no evidence that Iran posed a nuclear threat.
I had a feeling.
In other news out of the Middle East, Trump also criticized congressional efforts aimed at limiting his war powers as lawmakers and U.S.
officials disagree on whether a legal deadline for the use of military force without congressional authorization has passed.
Here's the thing.
These powers exist for a reason.
The congressional oversight also exists for a reason.
And I know it would be stunning if this GOP actually used their authority in Congress to have some sort of oversight of the president.
I'm not going to hold my breath until I see them actually do something.
However, they are doing their job, Mr. President.
Those are powers that have been outlined in this and laws that have been outlined in this country for a very
long time and they are actually potentially doing a job.
Well but when you when you believe yourself to be above the law and above the rules and you have no one who is proven to you otherwise because you have in fact operated above the law even with all the indictments you're there's nothing really that happened from that right there's no there's nobody in Congress or the court who is standing up to him so
Why not just thumb your nose at everything else?
Tension between the U.S.
and the European allies over the war has reached new heights with the president threatening to pull U.S.
troops from Germany, Italy, and Spain.
And we have troops in those places for important strategic reasons.
But he is, he does what he wants.
He is, he is truly a mad king and someone needs to stand up and say, enough, we can't, you can't keep doing this.
In final news out of the Middle East, oil prices rose today, but held below four-year peaks hit yesterday as negotiations to end the round war remained at East Anstill, and the Strait of Hormuz stayed closed to most shipping traffic.
Brent crude futures for July, that's the global benchmark, rose by about 1% to $111 per barrel, having jumped sharply yesterday before falling back at the close.
car right now, especially here in the upper Midwest, where there's also issues with refineries where we get a lot of our gas and oils, you know that you're paying a lot at the pump right now.
And
And yesterday, I thought it was fascinating in the Oval Office with the press, the president told the American people that oil prices and gas prices would go down almost overnight.
As soon as the war has ended, as soon as this conflict is over, gas prices will, you'll see an immediate plunge in gas prices.
That's not
You have a representative from the state of Florida telling us that gas prices have not actually gone up.
You have the president who is trying to tell us that the war is over and peace has been achieved, who told us that when the war ends, just yesterday, when the war ends, then gas prices go down.
I mean, which is it?
Where are we at?
We know where we are because we're out in the world.
We also follow this and we speak up about it and so do a lot of people.
But I'm flummoxed by how do you, as a little kid, can you imagine getting away with all these lies?
As a kid you were taught not to lie.
You were punished if you were caught lying.
Now people lie with impunity and they lie so much.
that I don't even think they know anymore that they're lying.
It's just they've created a reality and it goes back to the, well, my truth and my facts.
No, no, no,
But now they just, whatever pops into their little heads, they say it as if it's true and there are, I hope it's a shrinking number, but there are a number of people who will still believe it.
Which is amazing.
I would like to have some
S we need to know that doesn't have the t-word it.
Do we
It's a wake-up call in more ways than one.
Pibrous of a s*** you need to know.
Oh, all right.
This one has nothing to do with the t. It is local.
Democratic candidate for Governor Mandela Barnes is crisscrossing the state this week to promote his goal of lowering utility rates.
A household cost both political parties are putting front and center as Wisconsin voters point to the cost of living as their biggest worry and sidebar.
Go check out our podcast with Mandela Barnes on Spotify where he talked about this a week ago so we broke it to you before anybody else.
Little self-promotion?
You bet.
It's Friday.
You can at me.
I don't care.
The focus on utility costs comes as Wisconsin's electricity costs continue to outpace those of most of its Midwestern counterparts.
That's good news for us, isn't it?
Polling by the Marquette University Law School in March showed 35% of voters surveyed said that the cost of living was the most important issue to them.
No other issue came close to receiving a similar level of attention.
Barnes held a news conference in Milwaukee on Wednesday and will head to Green Bay and La Crosse in the coming days to campaign on a plan he released earlier this year that seeks to keep utility costs down.
He is pledging to freeze those costs if elected as well as place limits on utilities lobbying activity and executive pay, shift the cost of shuttered coal plants away from the ratepayers and offer state tax credits for energy efficiency home improvements.
Now Mandela Barnes said
He would only appoint commissioners to the state's public service commission who would freeze utility rates, denying any proposed increases from utilities.
Utility experts have said the promise may be legally questionable and unworkable, but that hasn't stopped him from saying he's going to do it.
He is one of the seven Democrats running for governor.
And you know, whoever gets the most votes in August will FaceTime Tiffany in November.
I think that this is an interesting approach because when you look at elections that have been held across the country, right, the biggest factor for the candidates that have won, the Democratic candidates who have upended Republican seats and flip seats at whatever you want to say, cost of living.
that's been their entire approach going in, the economy and the cost of living.
And in Wisconsin right now, there is no bigger story than the utility hike and the data center story and how much we're actually paying at pumps and groceries.
So I think if you were a Democratic candidate, just as somebody who observes these things and is, you know, one of those people paying for those high priced items,
I think if you have an actual plan to decrease costs that is feasible and helps people put a little extra in their pocketbook, I think that's what you go with because that's the thing that people are most worried about right now.
I love it.
Republican Senator Jesse James has been named as the next police chief of the Chippewa County village of Lake Halley.
Now the appointment comes two weeks after he announced he was dropping his Senate campaign, which complicated the GOP's efforts to defend a slim majority in the chamber.
A press release said James brings extensive law enforcement leadership experience to the role, including prior service as chief of police for
the Altoona Police Department in neighboring Eau Claire County.
According to the Lake Alley City Administrator, Jesse demonstrated strong leadership, approachability, and a clear understanding of the role law enforcement plays within a growing community.
I've had the opportunity of working with Senator James.
Now, he and I might not agree on everything all of the time, but I commend his work that he has done in the Senate.
He's been a huge advocate for not only mental health.
but kids mental health.
He is
And so I do commend the work that he's done on several different levels in the Senate.
And I do want to issue a correction for myself.
Yesterday we were talking, we were able to discuss that Andre Jacques has also stepped out of the race.
And on a quick whim, I did a little research.
We came up with 10 GOPers throughout the state that have stepped out.
it is actually 14.
14 GOPers have in the House and the Senate, I believe it, or in the Assembly, it is eight in the Assembly and six in the Senate that are not running this year.
or re-upping their campaigns.
So 14 of them.
Well, we've got about 30 seconds.
The president, yes, they said ABC had better fired Jimmy Kimmel soon.
He went on true social.
He said, what is ABC fake news network firing seriously unfunny Jimmy Kimmel, who is who incompetently presides over one of the lowest rated shows on television.
People are angry.
It better be soon.
Three exclamation points.
He is wrong about Kimmel's ratings.
He is right that some right wing MAGA influencers are
mad at Jimmy Kimmel.
But Disney, no sign of wavering, stand tough Disney, that's good.
When we come back, a job that is coming to Milwaukee Public School or Wisconsin Public Schools that I thought should have been there all along.
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Does it surprise you that Wisconsin schools did not have literary coaches or literacy coaches?
Literacy coaches are, for the uninitiated, teachers who specialize in reading because, as you know, there's some children who have trouble reading for whatever reason.
Lots of different reasons kids have trouble reading, but they need enhanced
learning instruction when it comes to that because classroom teachers don't have enough time to teach not only the basic reading lessons, but then give one-on-one attention.
Well, 50 public and four private schools across Wisconsin, including 15 in Milwaukee, are going to hire literacy coaches over the next two years under Act 20, the state's 2023 Literacy Law.
Can't believe it took till 2023.
You know, it's pretty important that kids read.
Eh, is it?
Then they start thinking for themselves.
How can we confuse them if they know what we're talking about?
So the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction announced the selected schools on April 29th.
The literacy coaching program, which was created under Act 20, is backed by more than $9 million in state funding lawmakers approved last year.
The coaches are going to work with teachers to improve reading instruction and aim to increase the number of students meeting grade level reading standards by the end of third grade, that according to the DPI.
Nearly 37% of Wisconsin students in four-year-old kindergarten through third grade scored below the 25th percentile on early literacy assessments last school year.
That, according to state data, the screeners of evaluate students on reading skills and identify children at risk of reading difficulty.
Now, the reason this shocks me so much is the schools I was at were at.
Schools I was at.
That's it.
That's grammatically
correct.
I need some literacy coaches.
See?
See
where tough kids
That's how I
Anyway,
Not only literacy coaches, but then literacy...
specialty literacy teachers who would pull groups of students out throughout the day and give them small group instruction and the struggle to get kids to grade level is something that doesn't get fixed overnight.
Sometimes it takes these kids years to get up to grade level if they ever are able to achieve it.
And again, there's so many different reasons that kids struggle with reading.
So this is a great move on the DPI's part.
It seems to be coming a little late, but better late than never, I guess.
You know, and what I find interesting about this is it is going to be big and small school districts.
So places like, as you mentioned, Milwaukee, but also Kenosha, Green Bay, Beloit, and then also some really small districts like Rice Lake, Richland Center, North Fond du Lac, also Adams Friendship, Bloomer, Verroqua.
So this is really stretching the gamut.
The one thing that I think is troubling to me, and this is a really great start, and I'm all for this.
I think reading is one of the most fundamental things that our kids, skills our kids should have.
And I am an avid reader myself.
My kids were avid readers.
I remember spending a lot of time with them when they were little, because that was the one skill.
As a homeschooling parent, I was like, you know what, everything else will work through.
You are going to learn to appreciate books.
you are going to learn to appreciate the skill of reading because it is so important.
We have 421 public school districts in this state.
And so kudos to the 9 million and to the 50 plus districts that are going to be getting this.
But we still have a lot of work to do in
And unless you have kids, young kids in school or your teacher yourself, you might not this might not mean anything to you.
But I'm very excited.
In addition to creating the coaching program, the law requires public school districts to focus on using a phonics-based method that focuses on sounding out letters,
and it
for a number of years, which encourages students, if they don't know the word, to get context clues.
So you're looking at pictures.
You're looking at maybe one letter in the sentence.
You're trying to figure out if it's logical.
You cannot read if you don't know what the letters sound like.
And I grew up learning phonics.
I've taught phonics.
My daughter grew up learning phonics.
It's the only way you can read, but districts across the country.
Chase these different curriculums that are supposed to be the new secret.
Yes Sometimes there is no new secret.
The secret is a B sounds like but yeah, but and a C can sound like Yes, that's that's the secret Yes, you have to know that and then even at a rudimentary level you start putting those sounds together And you may be off with your because you know again our English is very confusing with letters having a couple of different sounds
But that's the only way.
Do you have any
I use
that rule all the time, yet I'm 47 years old.
And phonics, I agree with you, are super important.
My older son was two when he started reading.
He is on the spectrum, very high functioning, very, very high IQ.
At first we thought he just had books memorized.
Turned out he actually knew the words.
But so he was reading when he was two.
years old and no phonics though, because he read at such a young age.
He
It's going to take some time, but hopefully it'll get more kids reading because, man, I don't know, I feel bad for people who...
Get to a certain point in their life, and they still can't read.
Does Wisconsin's economy feel better or worse to you right now?
8-5-5-7-5 Civic.
That's what we're talking about next.
It's daybreak, and this is the Civic.
I'm Brian Noonan.
All right.
The numbers say one thing, but to you.
Does Wisconsin's economy feel better or worse for you right now?
Let us know 855-75 Civic.
That's 855-752-4842.
And I say the numbers tell a different story because according to numbers, the economy is still growing in Wisconsin.
They show that growth is clearly slowing and that the shift is starting to show up in jobs hiring and unemployment.
State data shows about 109,500 people were unemployed in March, which is an increase both from the previous month and from a year ago, pushing the unemployment rate up to three and a half percent that marks three straight months of gradual increases.
We all know how and I know prices in the economy are different.
I'm not an economist.
It's the one class I dropped in college economics.
I'm not I'm not well versed in it.
But I do know that it's different because you could say well, the economy is booming.
Is it when we're paying over $4 a gallon for gas?
We our rents are going sky high.
We can't our grocery prices are going up up up.
So while the numbers tell you one thing,
How are you feeling because the way it's going now it's trending toward the economy even the numbers not supporting the
line of, oh no, the economy's doing well.
They're now at some of the highest levels that we've seen in four years, especially in parts of Southeast Wisconsin.
You pull up to the pump and suddenly you're doing a little math in your head because you're like, how much can I actually put in today?
Because we've all been there, right?
We're all there.
When you start having people feeling like that, that is not a strong economy, even though these unemployment numbers are... I'm told that I'm supposed to believe something else because of the unemployment numbers.
That's
Well, we talked to Ricardo Torres yesterday and that came up because he mentioned that 8,500 manufacturing jobs have been lost in Wisconsin and that there wasn't enough personnel to fill these gaps.
But then we hear that
there's all these people, there's 109,000 people, almost 110,000 people unemployed last month.
So where is the disconnect?
Right.
But that is that's what they're saying.
We've got we've got all these people aren't working.
Yet we're losing jobs that can't be filled.
We're losing manufacturing and not big layoffs, not right, not factory shutting down just people retiring or moving on to other things.
It is it is a trend that is concerning.
And when you look at what's happening with the unemployment rate in Wisconsin, essentially we have kind of bucked the trend of other states.
We seem to be doing better than other states, but I feel like it is considered relatively low, even by our historical standards that we're seeing in other places, but the steady climb
I feel like it's a warning sign that there's things that are losing strength, right?
And we can feel that each and every day.
I mean, we're seeing deeper cracks underneath the surface of all of this.
And then you also have to look at what's happening with younger workers, right?
Recent college graduates, we've got an entire class of people who are gonna be in just a few weeks looking for jobs as they graduate.
That is a very good indication of how your economy is usually doing if your new grads can get jobs and it is getting very complicated for
them Well other than Milwaukee and Madison a lot of new grads are moving out of state That's the big problem with the teacher shortage is that we are losing we are losing teachers who were educated in Wisconsin and trained in Wisconsin are moving elsewhere people are moving elsewhere for a lot of other reasons and We're stuck
We're stuck with a shrinking job, shrinking employment pool, and an increase in need for jobs that is creating this tough moment where you're going, well, okay, the economy isn't cratering, but it's not.
Unemployment is over 40% for them, meaning that a lot of our grads are working jobs that don't even require their degree.
We talked with Ricardo yesterday.
It's another good point that he brought up when you talk about these manufacturing jobs and his great article over the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
When you talk about these manufacturing jobs, they're not being backfilled by young people because they're just simply not trained.
That's not what their degrees are in.
And some of these jobs are specialized enough in the manufacturing sector, which by the way, backbone of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin's economy.
They can't just go in and step in because you hear that from a lot of people.
Well, there's plenty of jobs to be had.
Well, they still have to be trained in something.
They still have to know how to do the job.
You can't just necessarily walk into some of these manufacturing jobs and just step foot to a machine and start doing something.
That's not actually how that works.
No.
There's very few jobs that you can just walk in.
You need some training.
I mean, technical producer, yeah.
wandering off the street and start pushing buttons.
But most jobs, you have to at least talk show hosts, you can do it too.
Yeah, you got an opinion.
Yeah, come in sit down and start talking.
All right, perfect.
But yeah, most jobs, you at least need some training.
But yes, the more specialized jobs, machinists, things like that, you got to you serve your internship, you grow into it.
But yeah, even then,
you realize and when people go into the trades they realize they have to serve their internships and apprenticeships rather and then they then they move up but you're on a career path.
Sure.
Right now we have job openings for people who are not trained they haven't put in that time on that career path.
So we're having we're having that issue with unemployment but at some point
We got to figure it out.
There's this and that's the hard part.
It's pointed out in this issue.
Yeah.
Again, we pointed it out yesterday with Ricardo.
That's one of the big problems is the disparity between unemployment and job openings.
And we have to figure out how to bridge those gaps.
And it if it means retraining people, they also there's also job openings in jobs that if you've, you know,
And this is not to sound elitist.
But if you're graduated from college, you really don't want to go work for $7 at McDonald's.
And there's no shade on people working at McDonald's.
That's not the point.
But you've got college debt that you've got to pay off.
You've got a lot of things.
And
This was interesting information as it comes out though, because construction actually remains one of the strongest sectors in the state of Wisconsin.
There's significantly more jobs there than a year ago, but even that industry currently is seeing a month to month dip.
And employers continue to say that they can't find enough workers to meet demand.
And as we talk about this worker shortage, this is an overall theme with our overall state economy.
We also know that inflation is a major concern right now.
In fact, a recent Marquette poll found that seven out in 10 of us think that inflation is going to be worse over the next year.
That's not just numbers.
That's an expectation of people who are actually purchasing things and going out on a day to day basis.
And I think that's also a sign of people starting to brace themselves and also industry starting to brace itself for what could potentially come.
Property taxes in this state are still high.
I mean, we have this conversation, Brian, constantly.
of us
this
administration's second term are now not because construction sites have historically counted on some undocumented workers, people who need work and who work hard, but maybe don't have the correct paperwork and get paid however they get paid.
and now those people are not coming to construction sites and we've heard it here in Madison where a couple construction sites the workers just didn't show up because of potential ice raids.
So if you've counted on a certain workforce for many years and you haven't been recruiting for, you know, being a laborer is
not glamorous, it's hard work, but if it's a way maybe to get into the skilled trades, or to learn a skilled trade, but you haven't been, we don't really encourage people to go into those
into that line of work.
We encourage people to go to college.
Go to
babble every
It's going to be great.
This is what you need to do.
We don't tell kids, hey, going into construction is fine.
And being a carpenter, being a plumber, an electrician, those are great, great futures.
You are always going to work.
I don't care what AI does, we still have to go to the bathroom, which means we're always going to need a plumber.
We owned a construction company.
That's what my dad did.
My dad worked.
hard his entire life.
When it was dark, he came home when it was dark.
He built custom houses.
He built motels.
Sometimes he had to take the smallest jobs when the big jobs just were panning out at the time.
Because even though the economy, you might have a lot of jobs, other places who might want to build a business or have new means for houses or whatever it might be.
bad, it affected our livelihood every single year.
If the price of lumber went up, that was also something we had to take into consideration.
My dad at the same time was a very brilliant man.
He was a smart, hard, hard working man.
He did everything he could so that I had a better way of life.
And I went to four year school and I didn't have to ever work that hard.
That was my parents entire goal in life is to work hard so I could go get a four year education and do what I wanted to do.
I'm a product of exactly what you're saying because I watch my parents do it my entire life
from
And actually my mommy would even go out there.
My mom would even be out there helping him unload bricks and going to get supplies for all the job sites for.
Cruz.
So I grew up very much a part of that lifestyle.
But to what you're saying about the immigration, we knew that was going to happen, right?
We
knew that was going to happen.
Yeah.
I mean, that was a major fear of major companies when these immigration crackdowns started and the plans from this administration rolled out.
And it goes back to the farming labor too.
Farming labor was also very concerned.
So none of these
these numbers are actually surprising.
When you think about it, when you look at it, what I think is surprising is that people are shocked by it.
True.
That's how people vote.
They always think it's going to affect somebody else.
And then when the chickens come home to roost, you're like, I didn't order chicken.
Well, you did.
You ordered chicken.
Yeah, we did.
And you got your chicken.
It's Friday.
That means we're going to close out the week with Dairyland Diaries.
Some fun stories from around the state.
I'm Brian Noonan.
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It always, it also means that it's Friday and we're about eight minutes away from knocking off for the weekend.
But most importantly, it is good uplifting stories from around Wisconsin.
The T-word is not mentioned anywhere in this segment, so let's get started because we have some great stories today, especially the story of how Christopher Lyerman became the voice of Bayport Sports.
It started 12 years ago.
He and his wife had been hired, his wife had been hired as agriculture teacher at the school in Bayport.
So he had never heard of Bayport, even though he was from Manitowoc.
He went in and met with the principal.
and the athletic director, and he said, hey, you know, we should really start broadcasting.
pirate sports.
This would be fun, wouldn't it?
He started only with football and let's see how it goes.
So he had experience in business, in the broadcasting business at a young age.
He served as sports director at WRFW at the University of Wisconsin River Falls before he graduated.
So he, the principal said, yeah, this is something we could do.
So what we'll do is we'll get you somebody else.
but nobody else wanted to do it so he decides he'll do it fine i'll do it by myself i don't think he said it in that tone maybe he did so he became the john madden of bayport football i love this he has stuck around as the color man in the booth even after he retired last summer his screams during big moments can't really be heard from miles away even though it does sound like it
Football broadcasts at the school soon turned into basketball and hockey broadcasts, then baseball and softball in the spring.
Almost every sport in between this guy has been broadcasting.
He celebrated his 1000th career game at Bayport over the winter.
He has broadcast every sport but tennis.
It presents a logistics issue on several fronts, but the plan is to do it for the first time this fall.
He's going to do some tennis.
He's not doing it for the revenue he generates from sponsorships, although those have grown from a handful to a dozen.
He puts in a lot of hours, thousands of miles on his automobile, and he has allowed students with an interest in journalism the opportunity to practice their play-by-play work on the production.
Many of those have gone on to actually work in the business.
This guy.
has taken over.
I love that he's the John Madden of Bayport
and
So somebody with a passion is that that's awesome.
We've got so much more though.
And I'm excited about this one because it turns out that why we were all entrenched in Artemis 2 and watching what was happening.
There were two Wisconsinite, two Wisconsin women, in fact, who happened to be a part of that team.
The program of Artemis has been years in the making, and NASA has been gearing up for the Artemis III, even before Artemis II launched.
Learned that, by the way, at Kennedy Space Center.
Got to go through
all of the fine art
of Artemis,
and it is really
exciting.
It turns out that life on the moon is going to be a thing if they have their way.
Two Wisconsin natives, though, Susan Lederer and Kara Polkamp, played significant roles
in NASA to bring Artemis II to launch, and they're already working on programs to prepare future astronauts for a lunar landing.
Now, Lederer and Polkamp both discovered their passion for science and space exploration while they were growing up in northwestern Wisconsin.
Sue grew up in, grew up in Shawno, about 9,200 people, and the small town had one of the most remarkable night skies that Lederer had ever seen.
Her grandpa loved constellations, so they would spend a lot of time at night
just staying up looking at the stars.
And she actually remembers seeing the Milky Way stretching across the sky.
when she was working at a camp in the summer.
A view that's not as visible from where she lives in Houston now, as you can probably imagine.
Well, she is now at NASA as a planetary and space scientist and has an impactful voice on our understanding of the moon.
She's the lead project scientist in NASA's commercial lunar payload services.
NASA works with commercial companies to deliver technologies and science instruments to the moon.
Kara, who's 43, remembers what the Orion spacecraft looked like
it was just a design on a PowerPoint slide.
She is an Appleton North High School graduate.
She is the deputy chief of NASA's extra vehicular activity, robotics, and crew operations
at the
That involves supporting Artemis II crew's habitability, recovery, stowage, and maintenance efforts inside the spacecraft.
Her team works on making the spacecraft habitable in where they sleep, how they eat, how they take care of personnel.
hygiene, and even the onboard toilet system, which we know Artemis, too,
had a
But at
Check out the big brains on these women.
Love it.
That is spectacular.
I love it.
So you know somebody who went to high school with them was like, they didn't seem that smart back then.
Their science teachers and their math teachers are probably like, who asked me if you're going to use math later in life?
Anybody?
Anybody?
Yes.
That would be the easy, why do I need to learn this?
I don't know, maybe because someday you want to learn about the moon and operate a robotic arm in space.
Perhaps that.
It was
She first became acquainted with interactive bubble shows nearly a decade ago.
I don't even know how that happens.
She's billed as marvelous Michelle.
She tagged along with artist friends and then she started doing bubbles.
She crisscrosses the state giving bubble performances at fairs, festivals and libraries.
She is presenting at the fifth annual Dane Arts Business of Art Conference about how she's carved out a creative niche as a bubble performer.
So good for her.
That's Dairyland Diaries.
Hopefully you leave the show with a smile and thank you for listening all week.
We will be back on Monday.
I'm Brian Noonan.
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