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We're very happy to have you here today on this our last live show of 2025 They haven't given me an echo effect yet, which I'm really upset about but yeah, this is our last live show next few days Wednesday Thursday and Friday.
We will be off out Skedaddle I can't think anyone said caboose Calvin Calvin's by the way on the board on the ones and twos he's feeling better But he's got that deep gravelly get Calvin.
Good morning.
Just give it to him.
I want to hear that
Give me the, the post-sick Calvin voice.
See, but then there it is.
It could
oscillate
to squeak at any second though.
So
that's what gives you versatility.
Calvin, don't look at it as a bump.
Look as a clear path to success, but Calvin is here.
I am here.
We're very happy that you are also spending your time with us.
We have one more live show today and then Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
We will have a curated best of episodes, which will highlight our favorite moments from 2025.
including discussions with, uh, civic media buddies, experts.
Jane will be here.
She will be here on, on the air.
She'll be here pre-recorded.
She won't be in the studio because none of us will be here.
That would be ridiculous.
Plus she retired.
So let's just, let's just be real here.
But yeah, we got a lot of great show.
We got, uh, we got Adam Hess coming in from WRCO at the, at the other side of the 10 30 news to talk about old fashioned recipes, your thoughts on old fashions and
What are you drinking on New Year's Eve?
Are you drinking bubbly?
Are you drinking old fashions?
Are you drinking soda?
Are you drinking nothing at all?
Are you drinking champagne at 730 and turning out the lights because you're like me and I go to bed before the sun goes down?
I don't know, but I don't judge and I love you for it.
He'll be here after the 1030 news.
And then we're going to wrap things up with our thoughts on 2025, where we are, where we're going in 2026 and some glimmers of hope in the horizon.
I hope so because it's, there's good things out there, but I could keep on talking for days.
Tucker's like, move it along guy.
I want to bring in this next person.
She's been here many times.
She is as christened by our favorite Jane McNair.
Or only Jane Mattenair, the genie of just about everything here at Civic Media, Ms.
Terry Barr.
Terry, good morning.
Welcome.
How are you today?
Good morning.
Why would it go away?
Yes.
Absolutely.
There's no way, that is not just a nickname, that's a moniker.
That's a brand.
Oh my
In fact, I think if I- You
I feel like- You know,
it's the funny, you're talking about New Year's Eve and wondering what people are doing or drinking or going.
And we're invited to a long standing party.
And I had to laugh, this year's invitation said, we're starting early at five o'clock.
Because some of us are senior citizens and we must go to bed by eight o'clock
That's Okay, okay, okay.
We'll get to the stories in a moment.
We got you for a little while So I wanted I want to talk about that for a second here first of all
that is not a senior thing I Defend those who go to bed early.
I go to bed early It is a holdover from when I used to board patch show I would get up and I used to drive to walk a shop
So I live
in
Kenosha.
I would drive to Waukesha.
That was a solid 50 minute drive, no traffic.
So I would wake up at like four, four, 15 in the morning.
So I would have to go to bed for a good night's sleep, for like a solid good night's sleep.
I'd have to go to bed around eight, eight, 30.
And I'm going to tell you, Terry, I don't do that show anymore.
And I still go to bed by as an average of eight, 30 at night.
And I
Love it.
So I am a proponent for creating parties which work in your schedule.
I will defend it to the hilt.
I was, we talked about this.
I think you may have been on the show for this, but I went to a wedding in Texas two years ago where it started at 11, ended at noon, reception at one, done by five.
I was in my hotel with pizza at five 30.
It was the greatest.
Time in my life.
I'm sorry.
I have derailed it, but I think that's important.
I think that's great.
I say, yay to you and your friends.
Good on you.
And I feel like that is, if it's a senior citizen thing, we can learn something from our elders and we respect their wishes.
That's what I'd say.
get
It does that Wisconsin big stretch.
Well,
I went wrong.
And Alicia on the live stream says, I go to bed early.
I'll probably be out by eight on Wednesday.
I told my wife, Bridget, this is the first time in, this is the first time anything in five years I haven't had to work on New Year's Eve night.
I don't like going out at New Year's Eve at all.
I just, I would rather be home safe, not on the roads anywhere near people with.
giant cars, but
Yes.
And we talked about this.
We said, we're going to grab some champagne.
We're going to grab two bottles, one for the evening of and then one for the next day because we have the day off and we're going to have mimosas and we're going to kick back.
We're going to watch TV.
But I told her, I said, and we don't have to celebrate at midnight.
She goes, Oh, I know.
So
I'm very much you and me, and a lot of other people too, Terri Barr, a lot of other people, civic media's genie of just about everything, that's sticking.
All right, I love talking to you.
I'm so happy you're here, but I want to talk about the stories you've been working on that are available on civicmedia.us slash news.
Really quick, I mean, shout out to all the people who post on that page.
We have fantastic reporters.
all around the Midwest.
I mean, not just Wisconsin.
We have Minnesota.
We have Michigan talking about the stories that affect us locally, directly, and also have reverberations to what's going around, going on around the country.
But I wanted to talk to you about the story that you brought to light to us.
And I just want to get, I want to get that correct here really quick here.
It said, this is on civic media website for four reasons.
Hunger is rising quickly across Wisconsin.
And Greg, when you think about this, now, I was talking with Second Harvest and the gentleman there, he's the PR manager, Chris Tazilar.
When he says, we are in worse shape, hunger-wise, than during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, you got to almost let that settle for a minute and think about it.
There were so many issues happening back in 2020 and even into 2021.
But now when you hear that in especially the end of 2025 going into 26 that we are in worse shape and Second Harvest itself is one of these big models across southern Wisconsin.
They support all the local food pantries.
So he is hearing.
from all of these food pantries that are saying we need more help.
We have more people coming in than ever historically high numbers in need of help right now.
So what they're also talking about and trying to really stress is we can provide the food.
We will get you fed.
We will try as hard as we can to make sure no one goes hungry.
But the most recent numbers that he shared, 147,000 people.
Now, this is only across the area they serve against Southern Wisconsin are considered without food, that they are insecure when it comes to having enough food to eat.
and that includes 40,000 children.
And yeah, we know we've heard stories where kids go to school, where hopefully they get to eat.
And I know some folks also were talking about
these kids show up and they haven't had breakfast.
They didn't maybe have a full dinner the night before.
There are many schools now providing a backpack at the end of the week for the kids to have food to eat during the weekend.
Let me stop you right there.
Just to clarify that.
So schools are providing backpacks of groceries to children so they can eat.
And that is on top of being educators, administrators.
I don't know, Terry.
That both makes me so happy, makes me feel so good, but also breaks my heart into a thousand pieces.
Because we've heard the stories that if they have the program, schools are sometimes the only place kids eat.
Many high schools, and you think about high schoolers, do they care?
They are starting their own food pantries at some of the high schools.
And again, I'm specific to like Southern Wisconsin where I've had these discussions.
And the kids stock it for the other kids that don't have food.
I mean, they're stepping up, which
is
the
We have unfair housing, as we know, and you've discussed this, how do you even pay for rent, let alone a home?
So you've got that, you've got healthcare and trying to afford that, and we know how much of a discussion it has been in recent months, finding a job with a living wage, that's number three, and then number four ties into all of those, systemic racism.
So again, where they say, we can get you the food, we will get you the food, but pantries and second harvest places like this can't do these other things.
They need a bigger, I guess an umbrella of someone to come in and help deal with these bigger issues.
If you're just joining us on Matt and Erin air, we are here with Civic Media's Genie of Just About Everything, Ms.
Terry Barr.
We are talking about an article that she published on the Civic Media website.
This came out earlier this month, the 18th of December.
Four reasons hunger is rising across Wisconsin.
And honestly, you know, when we talk about this topic, Terry...
It can get mired in politics.
And then that gets mired in arguing and get mired in division.
And then no one says anything.
We all walk away and say, well, that didn't do any good.
But everything you just mentioned are problems that need to be addressed.
And when you speak about an overarching thing, an umbrella, I think where that is, it's not a church.
It's not a business.
They can be a part of the solution.
Those kids stepping up can be part of the solution.
But what we need,
In this problem that affects everyone urban suburban rural farmer Your neighbor your neighbor it does it touches everyone.
This is not a politics thing We need a solid and sustainable long-term investment from our
local state and federal government on combating hunger for real, not cutting programs, which allow people to get a good meal, not cutting fine funding, which take money away from our farmers, but actually saying we need to invest in this because it's worth it because fed children, fed citizens.
produce more for the economy.
It's
not just
social, it's economic as well.
And the numbers are right there.
And I'm going to, we're going to keep talking about that on the other side of the break, as well as the work of one man here in Wisconsin, trying to help those who were affected by the hurricanes in Jamaica this year.
We're talking to Terry Barr, call text questions.
We want to hear from you thoughts on this.
We're never gonna stop talking about until it's not a problem anymore, and I don't see it being not a problem anytime soon But terry bar is here the genie of just about everything here at civic media go grab some water grab a snack if you have a snack be appreciative of that fact if you do Yeah, don't go anywhere you're listening to matinee around there on the civic media radio network stay tuned stay informed and stay close
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That's what I call a smooth segue.
Welcome back to the show, Terry.
How have you been in the last few minutes?
some of these issues.
Food insecurity is a tough one, but we know it's happening.
We know we can continue to help and support our neighbors.
And that's, I think, one of the reasons I was really happy when you reached out and said, let's talk about this, because everybody helps around Christmas and the holidays
in
And something really quick I want to bring up in that article that I will put in the show notes that's on civicmedia.us slash news is an added, something adds to the impact is the snap benefit cuts.
And this is where I'm going to put in my appeal, my plea, myvote.wi.gov.
Go there, find your leaders, tell them.
What you want out of them and specifically I would like you to contact Derek van Orton who is the congressman of the 3rd district who in one meeting said it snap wouldn't go down a nickel then voted three times for a budget that gutted gutted it by hundreds of millions of knick knickles to keep people from being able to access the food they need I Think it's important to stay in touch stay vigilant require your leaders to lead
myvote.wi.gov to find out who represents you, tell them how you're feeling, be respectful.
But still, we have a voice in this country.
We still have a voice and you need to stand up and let it be heard.
Speaking of helping though, Terry, let's talk about a gentleman from right here in Wisconsin.
A lot of times we hear these national stories.
They have a Wisconsin touch.
This gentleman is doing what he can to help those affected by those affected by, sorry, that's terrible English.
The the the hurricane Jamaica essentially and we have some audio that you brought along.
Do you want to play that now or do you want to
Yeah
which one
and the Manchester parish right in the center of the island, you know, category five 200 mile an hour winds.
There's some people that are just now getting in touch with me and other people in their lives.
Phone call I got today was in the grill and they're just starting to get some of the logistics back online so people can actually think about conducting business and doing what they're doing.
There's this disaster status all over Jamaica right now.
It's always pretty rugged there, but to see some of the video, the trees have no foliage on them, which means the fruit fell to the ground.
It's going to take some time for a lot of this habitat to reform.
We kind of did a copy and paste to make it more feasible for us to not have to cut through so much red tape and to be able to really help people that need help directly as we see it, not just top down.
type mentality.
It's more of a ground up thing, far more organic.
And we've been able to just help people in the matter of a day or half a day after we meet them.
Sometimes we just help them and be on our way.
We can continue to go there and interact with this community that we've really fallen in love with and have become a part of.
I've been able to take hundreds of people there on these missions.
I'll continue to do it as long as we can.
And now it's a demand.
It's something that is a necessity.
It needs to happen because of Hurricane Melissa.
And why he's, you know, upset.
And I love his idea of building from the ground up and taking volunteers and just making things happen.
But there are still places without electricity.
There are people that lost everything.
They're sleeping on the ground with whatever part of a house they could find, the top of them to maybe keep the rain or anything like that off of them.
And, you know, he mentions the fruit trees.
They eat that fruit.
Yeah, but now even things as simple as that are gone and a lot of this is in the area where he has been building or rebuilding for 20 years So he's going to probably be rebuilding and building all over again, you know, I there in January
I have to say that, you know, I've passed this music store in Waukesha.
I'm from Waukesha.
I was born and raised.
I'm a musician.
I'm a guitar player I may have went to high school with this guy or
his brothers.
I'm fascinated.
I'd like to talk to him directly too and find out more because for me, Waukesha is always a place that I want to celebrate because it's where I was from.
But this is, this story will also be on the show notes as well.
Terry is going to stick around on the other side of the break.
We're going to talk with Adam Hess from WRCO.
We're going to be talking about New Year's cocktails, mocktails, going to bed early.
and what we want out of 2026 because darn it.
It's almost here.
There's no stopping time.
There's no stopping the show.
We're going to keep on moving.
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We're going to be talking also in a moment with our friend Adam Hess from WRCO.
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This is our last live show of the year, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
We'll be doing curated best ofs, our favorite moments from this year, including discussions with our very own Jane Manner.
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That's where you can also find articles written by Terry Barr and our friend Adam Hess from WRCO who has returned again to talk more about all the wonderful things about Wisconsin.
Good morning, Adam.
How are you today, my friend?
Hey, good morning, Greg.
Good morning, Civic Media.
Terry, a great big good morning to you as well.
Um, so Greg, you were, I heard you're talking about having like 30 minutes left in this segment.
And the only question I have for you is 30 minutes long enough to talk about brandy old fashions.
Oh no, actually I put a, I put a request into our corporate friends up in Madison and said, can I have half of Tom Hartman show?
And they said, only
hold
on, let me just, let me get my notes here.
They said, uh, hold on.
No.
So we only have a few minutes today to talk about old-fashioned, but this is a conversation that never stops.
We're just bringing it to light, and let's kick it off with an article that's on wrce.fm slash news, and that is entitled, The Perfect Holiday Cocktail Was Right in Front of You, The Entire Time, by you, Mr. Adam D. Hess.
Well, thank you.
The reason I named the article what I did was, it sort of will play on the whole,
movie genre like if you go
to your
favorite movie I'm not gonna necessarily use hallmark as an example but let's say you go to the hallmark channel and the joke always is their Christmas movie love was right in front of you the whole if you take that line Greg and Terry that's every movie right okay it might be a prince or a princess or a school teacher or a radio desk jockey or a school psychologist but
The premise is the same.
Love was right in front of them the whole time.
Well, I'm a guy who I like to enjoy maybe a cocktail once a month, maybe twice a month, if you're at a supper club.
And the variations on the brandy old fashioned from sour to sweet to good to really, really bad, depending upon how they're made.
But the cocktail's there.
It's in Wisconsin.
It's part of Wisconsin.
See, I wrote this article, and within the article, I also devolved my personal recipe.
Okay.
Give it to us.
It's right here.
It's not secret.
This is not chicken recipes.
This is an old-fashioned for the people because Adam is of the people.
It's available on the website, wrce.fm slash news.
Give us your ingredients for what you believe is the perfect old-fashioned.
So the perfect old-fashioned Greg involves orange slices Maraschino or cocktail cherries cherry juice from the jar If you're fancy if you're not fancy regular granulated sugar will work you're going to need bitters
You're going to need brandy.
I recommend a V-SOP brandy, but you know, even bottom shelf would do because that's the reason the brandy or fashion was created was for portasting spirits.
You'll need a lemon-lime soda and a muddler.
Now for the cherries, the bitters, the soda and the muddler.
I even included the links on the website.
You did.
Yeah, I did.
So you can click to get a muddler for $7 and 29 cents.
Amazon can have that muddler to you probably by this afternoon.
I hate to break it to you, Adam, but the economy is hitting us really hard.
That muddler is now $7 and 89 cents.
That's a 70 cent jump in.
I think I wrote the story, which would have been December 24th.
take that back another week of twenty-first yeah that's unfortunate uh... you know what that that just simply means a by stock in the muddlers and b by your muddler before the next uh... the next job but so what you do is you take a a glass and i call it an old-fashioned glass and it could be like a rock or a wall ball or any kind of a cocktail glass put your cherries uh... the sugar and an orange slice in the bottom
and add a little bit of bitters, like two dash of bitters, and then you muddle it.
So if you don't have a muddler or Amazon can't get it to you or you're not comfortable with that price jump, you can use the backside of like a wooden spoon.
Okay, all right.
You can muddle it.
Basically, you're crushing, you're mashing the juice out of the wife right out of these pieces of fruit and you're mashing the sugar.
And at that point, then you were going to want to add your brandy.
And I'm a shot and a splash guy.
So for the perfect, for the perfect old-fashioned, you take a shot glass, and you measure out your V-Shop brandy, and then you put an extra little splash in the top of it.
Add in your ice, add in your lemon lime soda, whether it's seven-up, twist-up, Sprite, whatever your choice is at that point.
throw in a cherry and an orange slice on top, take a little swizzle stick and stir it all up and pop a straw on there.
And you have the perfect brandy old fashion
done.
There it is.
I mean, I don't think you get much more Wisconsin than that.
And as, as people may or may not know, Wisconsin leads, I think either the country or the globe in brandy consumption based solely on the old fashioned itself.
So yeah.
Yeah, Terry our thoughts on this.
Are you an old-fashioned kind of gal?
Do you like them?
Is that your drink of choice?
Oh, you okay?
I don't know how you don't like them.
They're delicious
to live stream this
30 or five in the afternoon to help.
And we will all just mix up brandio fashions live on, on the stream.
Now, if you're out there listening, tell us what you're going to be taking in for new years.
Is it going to be an old fashioned?
Is it going to be some champagne?
Is it going to be both neither?
Are you going, are you dry and going NA?
But, you know, we want to know what you'll be having raising your glass at the start of 2026.
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Get into both of your plans for New Year's Terry.
You touched on it earlier before, but I want to talk about it some more.
But really quick, I want to tell a very, very fast story.
So a couple of years ago, my brother-in-law, who's a very wonderful man, Dr. Byram Ozer, he is fantastic.
I love him dearly.
He's one of, not only, I'm lucky to have him as a friend and as a brother-in-law and as a brother.
We were traveling to Toronto together.
We tried to do a trip every year.
We take a few days and hang out.
We went to a bar in Toronto and we looked at the menu and it said,
old-fashioned and I'm from Wisconsin.
So I thought, okay, old-fashioned.
And then I saw the ingredients and it had whiskey instead of brandy.
And for those who don't know, that would make it an old-fashioned sour, a sour or, or what I found out, I guess traditional.
I said to my, my brother-in-law, huh, they don't have a brandy option.
And he said, what?
I said, a brandy old-fashioned sweet.
He goes, nobody does that.
I said,
You went to school in Madison.
And then to add insult to injury, he brings a third party in the bartender and says, he's looking for a brandy old fashion.
And he looked at me and scoffed.
He goes, we don't do that.
I'm like, is everyone crazy in here?
I didn't make this up.
I was actually kind of mad because I'm like, look, you don't have to drink a brandy old fashion if you don't want to.
But do not deny its existence.
It is there.
We imbibe it.
We love it here in Wisconsin.
But still, I was like, I sat there incredulous.
And I just remember going, I'll just take a beer.
And I was just so like, we need to move on from here.
But I couldn't do you both in your travels and your discussions with people find folks who don't know a sweet brand deal fashion or Wisconsin style is.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, whole heartedly.
Arizona, there's a packer bar outside of Mesa that makes a great brand deal fashion, but you go anywhere else.
uh... in in the greater phoenix area and they want to give you wiki they want to throw in some kind of a mixer they won't add brandy yeah it's a mess
it's a mess
This is to get this out of my face.
right.
I'm not a mixologist.
I'm not a bartender.
The closest I came to a bartender is I worked at a brewery and therefore I pulled a lever and poured beer.
That's the extent of my bartender.
But is the difference between a sweet and a sour just the whiskey versus brandy or are there different points?
So it's different ingredients.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
And we can, we can, we can talk about this after the break, but you involve olives and you involve a grapefruit type soda.
Okay.
All right.
All right.
Cool.
And that's the thing is, here, listen to me folks being accepting and wonderful towards the fact that people like junk old-fashioned, but that's not the point.
The point is I'm not trying to deny its existence.
We're talking to Adam Hess of WRCO out there in Richland Center, as well as our friend, Terry Barr, who is the genie of just about everything.
We're talking about cocktails we're going to be having at New Year's.
I am not the biggest drinker.
I mean, I'm tall, but I'm not the greatest imbiber of alcohol.
And we'll probably just be having a champagne toast.
I'll be at a Mamosa on New Year's morning or New Year's afternoon.
We don't have a problem.
Terry, really quick in the time we have left in this segment, again, you're going to a friend's house and it's essentially an early party.
God, I love that.
I love that so, so much.
You're friends of us.
Adam, what are your plans for New Year's?
Well, I'm going to be more than likely just hanging at home with some friends and maybe partaking in a couple of signature mock tales.
There it is.
Because I have to be on the radio the next morning.
I'm signing on at WRCOFM.
So I'll be there about four o'clock on New Year's Day morning.
So mock tales it is for Adam.
Excellent.
Well, you know, Hey, I would say, you know, this is, and this is a conversation probably to be had in dry January, the state of mocktails
and
any beer and wine and liquor have, I mean, just in the past few years, far and away grown and gotten better and better and better.
Give those who don't, don't want to drink, can't drink another option if they don't want to just stick to soda or something like that.
But that's, that's great.
We're going to take a small quick break, but when we come back, we're going to be, you know what?
Adam, you want to stick around for the last segment?
I'm game, whatever you need for me.
Terry, are you down?
Same.
All right, cool.
We're going to talk about our thoughts for 2025 going into 2026.
When we come back, let us know your thoughts.
I'll read some texts and we'll get your ideas on where you want to go for the new year because time stops for no one and we want to make it the best humanly possible.
And that starts by helping those around us.
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We're talking new years We're talking cocktails and this is uh, this is our last show of the year live.
We'll be having Curated best ofs coming up
and pre-recorded our favorite moments from the show for you.
So you can tune in and listen to what we think were the best discussions, best conversations here on the show, including discussions with Jane McNair, our friend who retired earlier this month, deservedly after a monumental four decade plus career here in radio in the industry.
So you want to tune in for those, but right now we're live with our friends, Terry and Adam and you know,
We talked about what you're doing for New Year's.
We're talked about like our celebrations on December 31st, whether we're staying out all night and partying or we'll be in bed by 8 15 after a small sip of champagne.
But I guess really quick what I want to get from the both of you and please feel free to share this as well with us.
Terry, your thoughts on 2025 and 2026 and going into 2026.
We find everything so quickly, all the information.
But with everything that's happened, I think the other thing that makes me really proud.
of people I know is getting involved to try to make a difference in whatever way that is.
You know, we've talked about the food pantries, but looking at the bigger issues, I am just really proud of people that are stepping even out of their comfort zone to try to make a difference and have their voice be heard.
Yeah, Brett from Brown Deer says I'll welcome in 2026.
He's listening on WAUK.
He'll welcome 2026 in the morning with a cup of coffee and a big old.
Waken baked lasagna.
I'm just going to
say like that.
Waken baked lasagna.
It's a big lasagna and it should keep you going for the rest of the day, Brett.
Sorry.
There we go.
Adam, what about you?
Thoughts on 2025 and what are your thoughts on moving into the new year?
Yeah.
Well, for 2025, when you're doing the best of show, you may have to recreate because anytime Terry borrows on your show,
It instantly becomes part of the best of, so you guys may have to re-evaluate what you're going to be airing the next couple of days.
2026, Greg, one thing we have to remember, just wear your t-shirt with this advice on it.
Don't be a jerk.
That's all
we
need, right?
Don't be a jerk.
Perfect.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter who the president, the governor, the school board, the town council is.
We're all still human beings.
We're all still part of the United States and we're all Wisconsinites and we need to get back to that.
We need to remember that.
We, you know, we, we need to put leadership around us.
Every member of that.
And we just need to strive to be better.
Yeah.
I don't disagree.
I think that that's something we, when we want to move forward as Wisconsin's motto, we need to move forward together.
Yes.
I want a couple of other comments here on the, on the text line coming from someone.
Oh, John from Milwaukee.
Great content guys.
Terry Barr was also, was also a great guest too.
Thank you, John.
Very much appreciate you reaching out there.
Roger and Steven's point says, Greg, I found a sparkling bottle of cranberry juice for New Year's Eve.
I hadn't been able to find a sparkling cranberry juice for a few years.
I'm glad you were able to do that.
Alicia on the live stream provides some thoughts.
My thoughts 2025 was the fastest year of my life.
2026 promises to be another full year and I am full of hope for it.
I want to read something also before I give my thoughts and we sign off for the rest of the year.
Earlier today, we were talking about Marjorie Taylor Greene, the article in the New York Times, and being hesitant, being skeptical, he said,
This is John from Oshkosh listening on WISS.
I don't trust MTG at all, understood.
I understand that John.
The damage she has done to her state and our country are immense and I want to wait to see how this plays out before giving her an ounce of credit.
I understand that.
And I just ask you to approach it with an open mind.
You can be skeptical, just don't be cynical.
Let's see where 2026 takes us as far as who.
becomes part of the fight for, as Adam says, Wisconsin, for this nation, as Americans, as a global community.
But I will say, 2025, my thoughts on it basically are this, it was a stressful year for many, many reasons, personal, professional, as well as just being in the world around you.
And I will say this, that I can point to more than one example, whether it's in my personal life or how we as a community came together,
helping those, chipping in, making sure people stay fed, making sure people stay housed, voting in a way that represents a democracy that includes all people, moving us as a people forward.
In all the stress, there are more than enough examples showing how we as a people come together and do better and do right.
And that gives me hope for 2026.
It may sound hokey, I'm fine with being hokey, I'm a hokey guy.
I can't be cynical.
I have to lead with hope.
And that's what I'm hoping for 2026.
And I hope that Terry and I hope Adam and I hope Calvin and I hope Tucker, you all have a great New Year's.
I really appreciate you all being here today with me.
Same to you.
All right, folks, that's it for 2025.
We will see you next year.
Again, I want to thank... I know, I know, I know.
I want to
Exactly.
Yeah.
I want to thank Calvin.
I want to thank Tucker.
I want to thank traffic.
I want to thank engineering without you.
None of this happens.
I'm a guy talking into a microphone that does not work.
I want to thank the listeners, the viewers on the live stream, those who text called, commented, even if you don't like me, you gave me your time and I appreciate that more than you'll ever know.
Without you, there's no us.
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