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She is a board member for Wisconsin Ukrainians.
Karina Tweedel is on with us.
Good morning, Karina.
Thanks so much for being here.
Good morning.
Thank you so much for having me.
Absolutely.
Karina, tell us a little bit about the organization that you're with and its founding and how it got started and all of that, if you would please give us a little background.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
So when the full scale invasion of Ukraine started, a lot of us felt very passionate about trying to do anything that we can to try and resist and support our relatives and friends in Ukraine.
And it was difficult to find an organization that was local where we could donate and they were
quite a few community members that gather together and form Wisconsin Ukrainians and I'm so proud to be a part of it.
We work directly with volunteers on the front lines who are able to pass along the medical supplies and other humanitarian aid that we're able to raise money for and ship directly to Ukraine.
I cannot imagine the level of frustration that you and other members of your organization must be feeling right now with the switch that has happened with the second Trump administration and its attitude towards Ukraine.
And at least for me, I find it especially disturbing when I see our elected officials coming out and essentially repeating talking points from the Kremlin.
They are repeating talking points from Vladimir Putin
and trying to place Ukraine as the aggressor in all of this, when it is Russia that essentially went in and went into Ukraine.
That's right.
It has felt really like a whiplash and a big betrayal.
I am so glad that you are mentioning that and saying so plainly that this is Russia's war against Ukraine, that Ukraine was invaded and with the
conversations that are happening right now with the narrative that we're hearing increasingly it does seem like this is from Russia's playbook which is just so surreal and extremely disheartening also frightening because this is not just some kind of political discourse we're having just about you know something that doesn't make an impact these are people's lives that we're talking about thousands and thousands of civilians that millions really who are
Ponds right now in this situation where I hope that our officials are simply uninformed.
I don't want to imply anything with intent, but it has been really difficult to see that Russia's rhetoric, the narratives that are clearly Russian propaganda have been stewed will nearly as if it's the reality where indeed
Ukraine has been invaded by Russia, and I really don't want for anybody to forget what has been going on when the full-scale invasion just started, where we saw Buche, and it's still happening.
Just hours after the latest talks, well, not the baby latest, but the ceasefire agreement with the infrastructure deal, Russia completely
disregarded that and there were so many attacks on Ukrainian civilian facilities, hospitals and energy facilities right after they said that they wouldn't do that.
But most importantly, I just want to remind our listeners about all of the atrocities that Russia created with the torch.
and abductions of children.
Thousands of children have been abducted from Ukraine.
And of course, with the deaths of civilians, what we saw with the visceral images from Buchan, this is happening, this continuous happening.
It's amazing to me that anyone would take Vladimir Putin at his word.
Vladimir Putin is not a trusted source.
This is not an honest, trustworthy...
Man, he's just not.
So I can't imagine what it's like for you to hear.
Vladimir Putin said this and they're not, you know, we have this agreement and it's all going to be fine.
And the next day he goes and breaks it anyway.
This is pretty much par for the course when you are dealing with Vladimir Putin.
Exactly.
With very conservative estimates, recently, President Zelensky mentioned that
There were cases of Vladimir Putin breaking ceasefire agreements since the military action started since 2014.
And this is a vague estimate.
Of course, there are so many more cases not just related to Ukraine.
I think that's another thing that gets lost in this.
really upside down narrative that this is not just about Ukraine.
Russia has been exercising imperialistic intent towards other nations for quite a while.
This is something that's a part of how the current regime functions.
And this is not just some kind of quarrel or a conflict.
I'm putting in quotes for our listeners in the video.
between Ukraine and Russia.
Russia invaded Ukraine.
Ukraine is defending itself right now.
Ukrainians are fighting for their survival now.
Well, and that's the thing that I've been saying that just escapes me, especially, you know, the the the MO of America is freedom.
That's the thing we talk about all the time.
Specifically with this administration, they talk about the star-spangling freedom of all freedoms that's freedoming and they just can't stop talking about freedom.
And to me,
Ukraine is a country doing exactly what we tried what we did hundreds of years ago to defend ourselves against an aggressor We fought for our freedom.
That is what Ukraine is doing and to even broach the topic that Russia should be given sympathy or at the very least Well, we don't know all the information and and and and we don't know what Zelensky is doing Zelensky is fighting for his people and that's the American way too and to see it any other way is
It's shameful is what I think it is.
Thank you for bringing that up.
I think it is an important point that this is about values here too.
What do we stand for?
And I would like to remind our listeners that
way back in 1994, which while it seems a while ago, I want to think that I live in a country that keeps its promises.
The United States was a part of the three nations that assured Ukraine that if Ukraine gives up its nuclear weapons to Russia that Russia, United Kingdom and the United States would protect Ukraine against anybody who encroaches on sovereignty.
So right now to act as if
United States has nothing to do with securing Ukraine's lasting peace is just really preposterous and feels like such a betrayal.
But absolutely what Ukraine is doing right now fighting for its survival is also standing for democracy and global peace.
I
think Ukraine's defending itself and standing against the tyranny, standing against
Russia just trying to change the world map.
However, Putin wants is the epitome of what America that I naturalized into stands
for.
This is
about American values, what Ukraine is doing right now.
We used to be the defenders of democracy around the world.
And we used to be the place that was encouraging democracies around the world.
And apparently that's not a responsibility anymore.
I want to talk Karina.
Karina Tweedel is our guest, by the way.
She's a board member of Wisconsin, Ukrainians.
And I want to talk more about the children that were abducted by the Russians.
And we did have a program in place, at least under the Biden administration, that was trying to find these kids and reunite them with their parents.
I believe the Trump administration has now done away with that.
So we have just kind of given up, we've just kind of given up on these kids and now they're going to be raised as Russians.
And it's something that's very emotional to me.
It's honestly difficult to talk about it, but Doge has recently defunded the Yale institution that has kept track of those abducted Ukrainian children.
And a lot of Ukraine NGOs, national government organizations, were using their data in order to find those kids and return them, reunite them with their families.
So it's extremely distressing.
And we're talking about over 19,000 kids and most likely more, but these are the official figures that we have.
Why?
And I think this also plays into the whole.
the desire of Russia to erase Ukraine and erase Ukrainian identity.
This is this is one way to do that.
We take their children and we tell them they're Russian and you are, you know, and it's just another way to disappear Ukraine and Ukrainians.
We're going to continue our conversation with Karina Tweedel, a board member of Wisconsin, Ukrainians.
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She's a board member of Wisconsin-Ukrainians.
Wisconsin-Ukrainians.
founded in 2022, supporting Ukrainian defenders by providing medical supplies, tactical gear, thermal wear generators, food supplies, and much, much more so far.
This organization has already allocated over $665,000, which is not a small amount of money.
Karina Tweedel, continuing our conversation.
Karina, there has been some...
criticisms, I guess, before Volodymyr Zelensky was elected president, as far as whether or not the government of Ukraine was on the up and up.
And it's my understanding that Zelensky was elected in order to take some of that on and kind of make it a better, cleaner kind of government.
Is that accurate or am I, or am I wrong?
No, I think even just you speaking about the changes that have been going on within the Ukrainian government is a testament to Ukraine's people speaking up and wanting change and wanting just government where they're able to prosper and express themselves.
I think that's a good sign that while it's not
pleasant to live through different changes.
I think that really shows how Ukraine is just becoming more and more democratic.
And sometimes you might hear some Russian propaganda about the blatant corruption that's happening, which Ukraine has done.
So much work to make sure that the especially the monies that have been coming for support of Ukrainian defenders the America's contributions have been they heavily Kind of like investigated just to make sure that things go where they're supposed to go.
So I think
the political situation within Ukraine is just getting better and better.
And it's really encouraging to see how the people feel like their voice does matter based on their actions.
And I think it's something that we should remember as well here in America.
It's so easy to get discouraged right now.
And part of what our organization does is bring people together.
And we're welcoming of anybody.
You don't have to be Ukrainian to participate in our events.
Once again, Wisconsin-Ukrainian Inc.
is the name of our organization.
And I feel like anybody who believes in freedom and justice is absolutely welcome to join our...
Rose and something that we do is empower people to know that their voice has a difference in policy that we are not going to just stand by and see our world crush.
We encourage everybody to reach out to their elected officials and we even train if somebody has never done that, I or lots of members of our organization would be willing to help them to reach out to their congresspeople and share that what our administration is doing does not represent
all Americans, and that we stand for justice, we stand for democracy and freedom all over the world.
What kinds of things are you hearing from people in Wisconsin?
Karina, I'm curious.
Were you asking about Ukrainians or just general population?
Just
general population of Wisconsin.
What kind of reception have you gotten from Wisconsinites?
Oh, sure.
You know, we've been really fortunate to hear so many encouraging words, especially after the just extremely difficult interview between President Zelensky and President Trump.
We've received so many words of support saying that, you know, that particular interview does not represent what Americans feel.
And it's been great to hear words of support.
I just want to encourage our listeners
to not only speak on their social media outlets, but also reach out to their elected officials.
But I am extremely grateful and I know all of our community members from Ukraine are just beyond grateful for hearing.
this overwhelming support that we've received after especially some instances where it seems that our administration, U.S.
administration has not been acting in Ukraine's or really U.S.
interests.
Yeah, the meeting between the presidents and the vice president was one where I wanted to, like, I'm glad you're hearing that because for me, I know that I don't have a line presence to President Zelensky, but I just want to be like, I'm sorry, that's not us.
We believe in you and what you are fighting for with your people.
So thank you so much for being here today, Karina.
Karina, we're going to put your organization's website link in our show notes after the show is over.
Other than financial support, what can folks do if they want to get involved real quickly?
You're welcome to go on our website.
We have a lot of events where we are trying to spread Ukrainian culture.
As you mentioned earlier, there's an attack on Ukrainian culture right now.
Ukrainian people are trying to be eradicated by Russia.
So by being interested in Ukrainian culture, this is definitely a way to resist.
And feel free to look us up at Wisconsin-Ukrainian's Inc.
And we are happy to have anybody at our events who just had
on egg decorating event happened just this past weekend.
So everybody's welcome to join.
Karina Tweedal with, as a board member with Wisconsin, Ukrainians again.
We will get that link in our show notes.
Karina, thank you so very much.
Thank you so much.
For your time.
Really appreciate it.
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We do.
Try to lighten things up a little bit and I wanted to share.
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Just saying how much he enjoys Audio Sorbet gives us all a chance to take a breath.
We know there's a lot of really important frightening disturbing things going on and we do spend a lot of time on this show Talking about those things, but we've all discussed this and agreed.
We all need a chance to take a breath Maybe get a couple laps.
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And let's laugh a little for now.
So we wanted to talk about travel hacks.
Yeah.
What is your travel hack?
I just got back from a couple of days out of town seeing a friend in Texas.
And by the way, I hope everybody has a friend like I have in Texas.
We don't get to see each other very often.
And it is like I saw her yesterday.
every time we get together.
We might not see each other for three years.
And yet, every time we see each other, it's like no time has passed.
I hope you all have a friend like I do.
It's really a wonderful gift.
But what is your travel hack?
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What is your travel hack?
I have two.
First of all, use the code check at Mitchell International Airport.
Which I know right now, some people are saying,
What coat check at Mitchell International Airport?
There is a coat check at Mitchell International Airport When I got there on last Thursday and I went up to the information booth Nicola lovely woman.
We had a
long chat.
She's hilarious It's in the summerfest store.
Okay So if you want if you're going somewhere warm like I was I was going to Texas and I didn't want to take my big winter coat along with me You can check it for two bucks a day.
That is by far probably the cheapest thing
in Mitchell Airport.
It's great.
Yes, it actually is.
I mean, I don't think there is anything.
I don't think you can get gum
for less than $2
at the airport.
Yeah, I was gonna say, when I, oh my God, I paid five bucks for a travel size thing of sanitizer.
Oh yeah.
It's five bucks.
No, this is a, it's great.
It's a great deal.
And it's, it's, it's just so handy.
So
that's one travel hack.
I don't know if other airports have this.
If they don't, they should.
Yeah.
about the coat check at Mitchell International Airport.
It's at Summerfest.
Two bucks a day, completely worth it.
The other travel hack my friend shared with me that I was visiting with for ladies in particular and guys too.
If you have ladies, you like to wear aftershave or, you know, you want to smell nice.
Yeah.
If you want to get around the whole liquid problem and bringing a full bottle of perfume, you can take a little container of Vaseline.
OK.
and spray your favorite smell in there and mix it up, and then you just dab a little Vaseline on that will have your favorite scent.
I just think the only for guys who spray it on their necks, they'll be like, hey, Todd, why is your neck so shiny?
Well, I'm not saying slather Vaseline on yourself.
It's a little
dabble-doo.
A little dabble-doo.
That sounds like a marketing line.
Was a marketing
loan.
It was.
Yes, it was.
855-752-4842.
What is your travel hack?
What's your travel secret?
What's something you've discovered that just, it might seem like a small thing, but it really, it's like, that was great.
This worked out so well.
I mean,
for me, my travel, I mean, cause, I think for me, my travel hack, one basic, it is not free.
But it is kind of a hack is that if you fly, if you know you fly once a year or twice a year, I would severely, severely suggest you enroll in TSA pre-check.
It is $75 for five years.
It's very easy to enroll in.
You do have to go to a location and kind of like sign some paperwork, but you skip the line.
You don't have to take your shoes off.
You have to take your shoes off.
Which just says to me, we don't have to take them off in the first place, but that's beside the point.
But I think that if you travel once or twice a year, $75 for five years, that is definitely worth it.
And we have something called Clear, which actually gets you through all lines.
So it pushes you right to the front of, even if there's, even if there's a TSA pre-check line, it pushes you past that.
Look at you.
It's expensive and I forgot to I forgot to cancel last year, so I'm just gonna enjoy it But I just I think the TSA pre-check is great and I would also say um I mean I'm trying I gotta think some more because all my other travel hacks are like packing But that's a great
travel Eric from Tosa just texted in rolling clothes.
Yes versus flat folding.
Yes extra one-third of space you save on luggage fees.
Yes roll your stuff
especially now that
Southwest is doing away with their two free bags.
Yes.
So if you want to pack less, cause you know, Southwest is about to suck out loud, but it's, yeah, for me, it's, it's rolling up or bought like balling up t-shirts or you can place t-shirts on top of each other and make like a bigger, like, but I like the rolling.
The rolling is, it's really, it is, and it saves you so much room.
Yeah.
It does.
Sue from Franklin, I agree 100%.
It is so worth it talking about the coat check.
At Mitchell, we went to the airport, right by the information desk, no appointment required.
Yep, the coat check at Mitchell is in the Summerfest store.
It's fantastic, two bucks a day.
Tyler from Columbia County, listening in Madison on WMDX.
I have TSA pre-check, it's called Amtrak.
I save money and enjoy the journey.
That's great.
I mean, if you get to, if you've got the time,
that's the thing with Amtrak and trains are not cheap.
If you're going far, like if you went to Chicago, that's absolutely fine.
If you're going to, I mean, I really want to take the Borealis train to Minneapolis this year.
I think that'd be very fun.
But I mean, Milwaukee, if you're like, I'm going to Los Angeles via train, that's you, you can't do that.
Just sitting, you have to get a room and the rooms are expensive.
Unless someone wants to buy me or Amtrak, you want to sponsor me.
I'll talk great about Amtrak.
Matt and Air on Air always open to sponsorships.
Exactly.
Terry from Cross Plains, Global Entry and TSA Pre-Check.
120 bucks, many credit cards reimburse the fee.
Plus, if you have a United card, you don't have to pay for bags.
Same with a Delta credit card.
If you travel overseas, Global Entry is the way to go.
Yeah, there's... It is fantastic.
My husband and I use it all the time.
And that will, if you've ever flown into Chicago,
from overseas, flying to O'Hare and you finally get from your gates down into a passport check and there's 400 people in line.
If you have global entry, you go over to a machine and it's zip zip and boom you're through.
It's fantastic.
I have a thing on my phone right now that I didn't really learn how to use well my wife because my wife works for a Canadian bank.
Okay.
And she goes to Canada a lot.
Yeah, exactly.
And she has an app called Arrive Canada.
And it allows you to declare, it allows you to do all like the paperwork before you.
Oh, nice.
And then the other one, the other app she has is CBP MPC.
It is also, I believe for going to Canada, it allows you to just skip the lines.
It allows you to just get in and get through.
I am not smart enough to work this thing.
Every time I try to do it, it didn't work, but luckily the lines were not that long.
But any app that is sponsored by the government that helps you travel, look into
it.
Look into it.
And again, if you only travel once a year, once every five years,
it might not
be worth it
for you.
But if you do it more than that, certainly it is worth it just for the lesson.
Aggravation yeah, shall we
now so much fun.
Oh, I know a text from Shelly listening on Madison on WAUK Put shower caps on your shoes What so if you stay in a hotel, you know and sometimes they will give you the yeah this soap and the little and this that you can take with you and there's usually a shower cap in there Yeah, so if you are squishing everything in and you don't want you know the bottom of your shoes are dirty
So you just put
cap,
you'll put a little shower
cap on your
shoes and then you don't have to worry about them getting the rest of your things in your luggage dirty.
And if you are packing shoes, pack socks and underwear in the shoes.
I do that all the time.
And also, if you don't do the pre-check, I would even say if you're going somewhere colder, unless it's like dangerously cold.
I will go in a pair of basketball shorts and flip-flops and a t-shirt.
That way, there's no belt to mess with, no watch to mess with.
The only thing I have in my hand is my phone, which has my ID and my ticket.
Because then I can just at least travel.
Because we all love the recombobulation area.
We do.
But sometimes, it's discombobulating to get your stuff.
And it's really, really frustrating.
So yeah, that's what I do too.
But not anymore.
TSA Pre-Check.
What are your travel hacks?
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It makes it easier when you travel.
What do you do?
Do you roll as opposed to fold?
I like the Vaseline and the perfume idea.
That's, I mean,
yeah.
But I found it interesting too.
Everybody, it seems to me, every TSA has different rules.
Yes.
It used to be standard that the same rules applied.
When I went through Mitchell last week, I had to take my shoes off.
I put them in a bin.
They took them out of the bin and all the shoes went through individually.
When I went through Austin, that didn't happen.
I'm trying to think what state I flew back from and I want to say it's one from the West.
Like Colorado or something or Point is you go to the you go to the the airport and at one point a lady just shouts out Don't worry about your shoes or computers.
Don't worry about we're not doing that today today, and I'm like Once again proves my point we don't have to take our shoes off
We don't have to take our belts off but well that's still where we are
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Karina Hendrickson, who we have spoken to before about childcare in Wisconsin.
We haven't heard a lot about this.
This issue has not gone away and it's not gotten better.
And I'm sure if you were a parent or even a grandparent, you know the challenges there are with trying to find childcare.
I feel like, and we spoke to Darren Madison yesterday, who's a rep from a rep of Milwaukee in Madison.
And we talked about the fact that this is a topic that is on top of mind for the taxpayers of Wisconsin, specifically parents and maybe grandparents as well.
And it's not being given the proper attention by the powers that be
in the state house.
So no, it's really not.
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If you're looking to shed stubborn pounds, you may go Goo Goo Gaga for this diet plan.
A registered dietitian, chef and nutritionist, Nicolette Pace from Long Island recommends eating like a baby.
Quote, a baby is the key to adult well-being, unquote.
It's remarkable that a baby without any life experience can give us a roadmap to live healthy, unquote.
I'm sorry, just a quick side note, Nicolette.
Babies will eat anything that they find on the floor.
So I don't know that maybe she's giving them a little too much credit.
I think so.
I think maybe we're giving the parents credit
for what they're eating.
A little too much.
So here's her thing.
If you want to lose weight, eat like a baby.
Some of this I don't disagree with, eat every two to four hours.
Because that's part of the problem.
People tend to overeat because you're hungry, you don't eat breakfast, and you're really, really hungry, and then lunch comes and it's like you eat everything in sight.
So it's about having smaller snacks throughout the day to try and fend off that hunger.
So okay, eat every two to four hours, that's fine.
Take your time.
Babies typically feed for 15 to 30 minutes.
No one, you didn't see me as a baby.
She suggests taking at least 15 minutes to finish a meal.
There's nothing, I think it's nice to linger over, you know, take your time.
You want to make sure that you're enjoying it, not just shoving it.
Eating quickly makes it harder for your brain to register that you're full.
Yes.
Which can result in overeating.
One of the other recommendations to eat like a baby.
Avoid mindless munching.
This is where babies would be all about mindless munching They would mindless munch a nail if they found
this is not how like Babies aren't mindfully eating in these patterns.
They're not like that They're not in their little baby brain saying like, you know, I really need to say I spent two hours to say it last time really maybe it's just that maybe I'm not hungry Maybe I'm just thirsty.
I'll have some water
there.
Yeah, I mean these are all
Very, very smart things that doctors and nutritionists will tell you if you want to lose weight.
But let's, let me stop right there.
Talk to your doctor.
Talk to your doctor.
Talk to a nutritionist.
Yes.
And find out what the best plan is for you.
Because it's different for everybody.
I better not hear about the baby diet.
Eat like a baby.
Does she not?
Nutritionist recommends eating like a baby to lose weight.
So strain peas in a high top chair.
with just
food all over my face.
With a bib.
No, again, it's more about eating more frequently, taking your time when you eat, and have some nutritious snacks throughout the day.
Be sensible.
It's always about the two things.
You can drink all the potions.
You can do whatever you want.
It's about a good exercise plan and a good eating plan.
That's what every doctor is going to tell you every single time.
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