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Here I am on a Friday morning.
It's August 1st, 2025.
Nice to have you here back up north, live across the Civic Media radio network, where we will be
talking to Lieutenant Governor Sara Rodriguez in just a moment.
Brittany Merlot was with us last hour and the forecast is just we don't need to take up a lot of time for that.
She reminds us that we have a dry stretch right now.
Chances for rain hold off until next week but we are definitely battling some bad air quality.
So there is sunshine but it's behind a lot of wildfire smoke and statewide highs today will be in the mid to upper 70s with
a light northeasterly wind tonight clear and cool scattered fog is possible and of course the smoke hanging around as well at least for the for the near future calm winds tonight lows will be in the upper 40s up north to the low 50s south and again we have our local forecast on your civic media radio stations throughout the course of the day so stay tuned to that
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Dr. Kristen Lyrely joins us on Friday mornings as well.
Dr. Lyrely also hosts the Dr. Kristen Lyrely show weekends.
Saturday, what, three o'clock, right?
Saturday and Sunday at three o'clock, yep.
I
think I'd get that time right by now.
What do you have coming up tomorrow?
We're talking about food waste.
You know, all that food that you eat or don't eat, and then it ends up in the garbage.
There are so many better ways to deal with that.
And we've got some wonderful local nonprofits who are helping to manage food waste, including about 6,000 pounds of food that was generated in Green Bay during the draft.
So we're talking with Selena Darrow from Rooted In about some of the cool, innovative work that she's doing.
Okay, so that's the Dr. Kristen Lierley show this weekend on the Civic Media app and on the
stations in Green Bay and Oshkosh as well.
Kristen is a former candidate for state legislature.
She'd also run for Congress, but it was as a candidate for state legislature, I believe, when you met our, uh, our Lieutenant Governor, Sarah Rodriguez.
It's true.
We went to go turn our papers in and I ran into this wonderful woman.
She had a history of being a nurse, a public health worker.
She worked as an epidemiologist for the CDC and we just immediately clicked and now she happens to be running for governor.
And now she happens to be here as well.
Lieutenant Governor Sarah Rodriguez.
Good morning.
How are you?
Good morning.
I'm really good.
Can you vouch for any or all of what Dr. Lierly said?
No, it doesn't.
We've talked about that a lot that healthcare professionals by and large shunned the public spotlight, shunned politics, but certainly in the past five years or so that has changed for various reasons.
And so I want to go back, you know, five years or so because I mean, you're familiar with the term overnight sensation.
You know, these are, these are people who have been toiling like rock and roll bands.
They've been playing in bowling alleys and small clubs for years.
They finally get a hit record and people are like, they're an overnight sensation.
Well, Lieutenant Governor Rodriguez.
Welcome to the club.
You have been involved in Wisconsin politics for exactly seven days to hear some people tell it and are now an overnight sensation.
But you have actually been doing a few things over the past few years.
And I want you to talk about your path to becoming a candidate for governor.
So, you know, I have spent most of my career in health care, like Dr. Lirely said, I'm a nurse.
I am a public health professional.
I worked as a nurse in an emergency department.
I had been an executive within large health care systems, and I was an epidemic intelligence service officer with the Centers for Disease Control, which means I did outbreak investigations nationally, internationally, and
2019, 2020 when COVID hit, I saw that the assembly in the Senate was doing nothing.
They didn't meet for eight months when people needed leadership and guidance.
So I ran for office for the assembly.
And I live in Waukesha County.
So I flipped a district from red to blue within that assembly district.
And I was in the assembly for two years.
And then Mandela Barnes, he ran for Senate.
So the Lieutenant Governor seat became open.
I decided to take that microphone and be able to talk even more broadly across the state about things that I care about, which are healthcare affordability and access, making sure that families are able to afford not just the basics, but actually thrive within Wisconsin.
And being able to be under Governor Evers and seeing the amazing thing he's done, he has set us up for success with these last two terms.
And I'm going to knock it out of the park.
as governor.
So that's why I'm running.
I want to make sure that families have what they need to thrive in Wisconsin.
And I'm just really excited to talk to everybody across all 72 counties.
I've done that every year as Lieutenant Governor visited all 72 counties.
I'm going to continue to do that.
Go out, listen, see what people want in their governor, see what people want in their state government.
Kristen, I want to bounce us over to you as well simply because of the theme of people who saw how the pandemic was being handled by a certain
subset of the political class trying to, you know, get rid of safeguards and put people, you know, at risk of dying.
And I feel quite strongly led to people dying.
There are still people that want to talk like they're angry about how government handled the pandemic.
I'm still equally angry about how people tried to blow past all these safeguards and thankfully it motivated other healthcare workers to run for office.
This is the reason that health care workers don't like to get involved in politics, right?
Because we believe in evidence and data and science.
And we know that there were things that we did well with COVID and things that we didn't do well.
We were building the plane as we were flying it.
And we were doing the best that we could, but we always had the people of Wisconsin, our neighbors and our patients at the forefront.
That's who we were working for.
But what we saw was that
And let's say it, it was Republicans.
It was extremist Republicans who were politicizing this message, who were telling people who were making masks, political who were making medications, political who were pushing these cures that actually didn't work.
And it was literally killing people.
The number of stories that I've heard from emergency department physicians of people who showed up sick with COVID.
preventable COVID and said, I am ready for my vaccine now.
And it was too late.
And then they went on to die because they listened to a politician instead of a health care provider.
So I think that is one of the really important points about someone like Lieutenant Governor Rodriguez running in this position as the person she is with everything she brings in addition to, and I know that I'm like grandstanding right now, but I have to tell you this story.
I met this person last night.
We were doing a bike ride and we were in Appleton and he was telling me about the time that he was at an event in out of gamey county and he was talking to this wonderful woman and they were having this great conversation and all of a sudden she said, Oh, I have to go and she walked up to the podium and started talking and he realized, Oh, wow, I was just talking to the lieutenant governor.
I had no idea because she was such a real person.
She was so regular and he connected so beautifully with you.
governor.
And I think that is one thing about you that people really need to understand you are like us.
I and that's what I think people want is they want they don't want a politician right they want their neighbor their friends you know I'm a mom of two kids 16 and 18 I'm shocked that I have an 18 year old and he's actually an adult I don't even know how that happened but
You know, these are the kind of things that way important on my mind as a mom, as somebody who's been working full time.
You know, I had to try to find childcare when my kids were smaller.
And it wasn't as hard as it is now.
I talk to families who actually, when they're thinking about getting pregnant, thinking about it, they start calling around to childcare places.
because they know it's so difficult to find.
That's just shameful in Wisconsin.
We should be able to have the services we need, and families should be able to do what they want, if go to work if they want to, and be able to have a safe place to put their kids.
It's the kind of thing that, again, child care should be a bipartisan thing, and yet somehow we've made it political.
And as a result of the current environment, and the one that's been in the state capital for a while here,
And now, as in Washington, DC, you have called the president of the United States a maniac.
You know what?
Truth is a defense and liable.
But it does lead to this question of working with others, working with Republicans, working with independents.
What is your history on that?
And what is it that you want to do as governor?
It's a pretty red county.
And so I do not have the luxury of only speaking to Democrats at home, at work, any other time.
So when I was an executive within a healthcare system, I had to work with people who we didn't agree on things.
We had to move projects together.
When I was in the assembly, I had to be able to work across the aisle to try to be able to get things done.
That was more challenging than I thought it was going to be.
It was a surprise to me how difficult that was to work across the aisle.
But I am willing to work with anybody.
who wants to move Wisconsin forward.
But I don't think anybody can say that the man in the White House is a maniac.
It is absolute chaos on the federal level right now.
And so we need to have a Democrat in the governor's seat so we can have steady, sober, clean leadership.
Well, especially given what we were just talking about in Texas, where they came in and they're gerrymandering the maps again, just because, you know, Donald Trump said jump and they said, how high?
Tell us a little bit, let's go back before your time in the legislature and as a nurse, you know, just some of your early history and, you know, meeting your husband and things like that.
Yeah, so I was in Oklahoma when I met my husband, and I was an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the CDC, but stationed at the state health department.
And the health commissioner's wife had run a salsa dancing group.
And they knew I danced salsa.
And so they introduced me to their group.
And Balthasar was part of that salsa dancing group.
So we actually met salsa dancing of all things.
And we will be married now 20 years coming up this December.
So it was just so much fun to be able to share that with him.
Now we're getting a little older.
I actually announced my candidacy on my 50th birthday.
What a way to start your f right?
Um, but you know, we we need a middle age dance club because we like to be in bed by 1030 11 and most of the dancing doesn't start until that time.
So, you know, I think that's a business idea for somebody.
I think they could.
I think they absolutely should.
So, uh, so again, we're talking 20 years here and I tell you, we've got we've got
only a minute left here, so I may come back to personal matters in just a minute, but give me the 30 second, 45 second version of your top priorities the moment you're sworn into office if elected as
We know that families are being squeezed.
We know that they're trying to do the best that they can, but they feel like they can't make ends meet.
And so accessible, affordable healthcare is going to be top of my priority, specifically expanding Medicaid so we can bring $2 billion back to Wisconsin to be able to invest.
Housing costs are out of control.
It is insanity, the rents and the mortgages.
Young families are not able to afford what they need.
Childcare access and affordability is going to be top priority because again,
These are real issues that we need to solve.
And lastly, we need to restore bargaining rights for our unions in Wisconsin because we know that it's going to raise all wages if we do that.
That's Lieutenant Governor Sarah Rodriguez visiting with us, a candidate for governor in 2026.
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Dr. Kristen Lairley is here with me as we are talking to Lieutenant Governor Sara Rodriguez, a candidate for governor.
And I mentioned coming back to your personal life because as we we talked about a couple days back, it took virtually no time for the
the garbage, for lack of a better term, to come out about your husband, a naturalized citizen.
I think I'm pretty safe in guessing you knew this was coming.
I mean, it's racist and vile and all of those things, and it doesn't help anyone.
thrive in Wisconsin, right?
It is just throwing red meat to a base that has all of this anti-immigrant rhetoric now.
But now you see what the consequences are to that anti-immigrant rhetoric.
It's just really unfortunate.
And this is all they got, you know, they better be looking for more because...
I'm ready to run and I'm ready to fight back against these types of attacks.
Yeah, no doubt.
But the thing I mentioned was that, again, your response was, again, taking it back to what it means for the voter and that.
these kinds of diversions, they feed a certain slice of you know, xenophobia or racism.
But that's really about it.
You also got a little heat this week for a gasp how one uses YouTube to put videos out and put them together and when you did.
But even though you've been asked 100 times, I'll have you set up and lay the record out for that in terms of how you prepared for a campaign that may or may not have been announced last week.
This is so silly.
I mean, there were two options here.
Either the governor was gonna announce that he wasn't going to run for a third term or he was gonna announce that he was going to run for a third term.
And guess what?
I was prepared for both.
So I prepared a video to announce my candidacy for lieutenant governor and I prepared a video to announce my candidacy for governor.
Don't you want someone who is prepared as your chief executive officer?
Don't you want someone who is organized and is ready to run?
right away.
There was no time to wait.
I wanted to make sure that I was out there and talking about things that were important to Wisconsin families, and that's what I did.
Yeah, and we, Kristen, as a former candidate as well, we are very familiar with the private setting on YouTube so that you're ready to go, if need be, and then you switch it over to public.
And Kristen, I mean, you've seen all of this.
And as a former candidate, you can relate as well to what the Lieutenant Governor has seen and will see in the coming year.
I am also a planner, so I can appreciate that you are ready.
And we had this conversation months ago about, you know, if this happens, we're going to do this.
And if this happens, we're going to do that.
So I completely understand what you're saying and appreciate that.
But here's my question.
I feel like here in Wisconsin we are so nice and it is so hard for us to talk about spicy things like politics and we don't want to offend anybody, especially where I live in the Green Bay area, but we are living in a time where politics has really polarized us and we've got to call the party that is causing all of this chaos and this discomfort.
We've got to call them out for what they are doing.
How do you do that and still maintain those
relationships and win them over in this state that we love so much, but we recognize as challenging political territory.
It is not all Republicans, right?
It is Republican leadership that is doing this.
I live in a red community.
I talk to Republicans all the time.
Guess what?
We agree on way more than we disagree on.
So, I mean, I'm going to call out the individuals who are doing this, be very specific in what I'm talking about and their decisions, their votes, their bills that they're putting forward.
But in general, I'm not going to paint the entire Republican Party this way because I do know people who are so disappointed with their party right now, but they're struggling.
They're struggling to realize that the party has left them.
And so we need to be able to embrace those people into the Democratic Party and make sure that they're welcome here.
There's been questions as well about how your style will be different from Governor Tony Evers.
I think the fair question is how Tony Evers is different from basically everybody else.
He is a unique character that Wisconsin truly embraced for two terms.
But let's take it not so much from a comparison, but talk about your style.
What will we expect from you as a governor?
We have different experiences.
We have different backgrounds.
And Governor Evers is the nicest man.
the nicest man you will ever meet.
I swear the man has candy in his pocket to give the kids.
Like he is the sweetest man you're ever gonna meet.
And that leadership style has worked really, really well for him.
I would say that my leadership style is a little bit more engaging, that I'm gonna be out there a little bit more talking to people, talking to the legislators, because whatever happens in 2026,
I am confident we are going to flip the state senate and the state assembly, but the margins are going to be tight.
So we're going to have to do negotiations.
We're going to have to do those types of conversations.
And I'm used to doing that as an executive in my in my prior life.
And I'm used to doing that, you know, within the political system.
So I think that's what I also bring to the table.
All right, I've made clear before I'm not going to put any kind of public endorsement out there.
I want everybody to come and feel like they can talk to us here.
But I will repeat what I said before, a masterclass in how to do an introductory video.
The walk and talk that says this is who I am.
This is what I want to do.
Congratulations on putting that together.
I mean, you you've set a very high bar for for any of the other field that comes in.
Lieutenant Governor Sarah Rodriguez, it was a pleasure.
Thank you so much for visiting with us today.
You bet.
Dr. Lyle, he's going to stick around.
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And I believe, Dr. Lirely, that your discussion with Lieutenant Governor Sara Rodriguez yielded exactly the person that you thought you knew.
Yeah, she is just
a regular person, but also brilliant and a wonderful leader.
And we are so lucky to have her here.
And
again, as other candidates get in the race, we will be welcoming them to join us here as well as we continue following the news for next year's elections.
But now we're going to follow sports because that's way more fun.
And we've
got both
we've got both Packers and Brewers to talk about with Mike Clemens who's here from from Packer Training Camp.
Mike, all right, how are you?
What are your overall impressions so far?
I know it's early, but what's, you know, what's the environment like there?
You
in the playoffs, when Elton Jenkins, their starting left guard at the time, the play had gone off to the side there, and he was just kind of jogging along, and a guy named Nolan Smith, a linebacker, just went and just drilled him out of nowhere.
Almost like a pro wrestling move with his helmet.
Well, Elton Jenkins' arm went limp.
I mean, I saw him after the game in the locker room.
He needed two teammates to help him get his jersey off.
He had the worst neck stinger.
And so, you know, Elton was a bit of a holdout.
Turned out that was turned out to be kind of a back injury, but I was able to talk to him off microphone later.
And he agreed because when you watch that game, Vic Fangio, the noted defensive coordinator for the Eagles, it was his first year there.
but he's been all over the league.
He told those guys, it's the playoffs.
The refs are going to keep the flags in their pockets.
Hit somebody on every play, right?
Before the whistle, but just hit somebody because you see that happen four or five times.
So Malifors knows that we've got a young team.
We've got a lot of speed, but we need to be more physical.
You need to have throw body punches when you get to the postseason.
And so he's trying to do that at the same point.
During the regular season, you know, you can be called for penalties.
So Rashid Walker has been the starting left tackle for the Packers now, going on year two.
And so the other day, there's this play where Jordan Love is backing up the pass.
JJ Enigbari is a defensive end, and at the snap, bam!
He pops Walker into shoulder pass, really loud, and he's driving and driving and driving, trying to go after the quarterback, and Walker's, you know, pushing him off and pushing him off, and the play is over.
And you know Walker looks at him like, dude, you know, you're overdoing it.
That, you know, hey, you're over.
And somebody, maybe in the bar, he said something back.
And then Walker said something to the defensive player, Nick Bari, and assistant coach said, all right, 63, you're out.
You're out.
And he was like, what?
Yeah, go to the sideline.
Now the floor's back there.
He's running the offense, right?
He's got his walkie talkie, looks up, where's my left tackle?
So the assistant told him what had happened.
And the floor comes running over.
This doesn't happen in the NFL.
Maybe Peewee, or a junior high or high school, he comes running over, he says, Sheed, that's his nickname
for Rashid.
Eddie, he goes on the assistance.
Make sure he takes a lap.
And like, what?
So he's shrugging his shoulders, so he starts trotting off.
Now, Josh Jacobs, the running back they picked up last year from the Raiders, a guy who's become a team leader, he looks around at Tucker Kraft and the other guy just says, come on, we're going to follow him.
So Josh Jacobs, Tucker Kraft, and about four or five other linemen, they go follow Rashid Walker in this lap all the way down there to the north end of the end zone.
They come back about three minutes later, taken a lap, and we asked LaFleur, so what was that all about?
He goes, hey, look, in the NFL, it's not only, you know, you can
Have a late hit or an illegal hit, but sometimes things that you say if it could trigger and a flight They'll throw a flag and you'll be charged for 15 yards So he said these practices have to be got game-like conditions, and I'm not going to tolerate it
Interesting and you know that plus as Tony says up on YouTube a more physical team Absolutely love that mentality.
So it definitely feels like the players and coaches they have their heads in the right spot already
I
Yeah,
So Packers family night is coming up at Lambeau Field tomorrow I'm gonna ask Kristen about it in a minute, but tell me your thoughts on what folks will be expecting tomorrow
You see a scrimmage.
It's not tackled to the ground.
But you'll get to see the offense and the defense.
You'll see Jordan Love throwing passes to Matthew Golden, the first-round draft pick, the wide receiver.
You'll get to see Nate Hobbs, number 21, who it looks like he's going to be right now.
He's in the driver's seat to be the starting defensive back alongside Kishan Nixon.
By the way, did you see this report this week, Pat?
that Jair Alexander, you know, who they had that big kind of contract dispute because they weren't going to pay him the injuries.
In his first week with the Ravens, John Harbaugh, the head coach announced that he was having his knee drained.
So it looks like the Packers, the Packers made the right move there.
But the thing I love about family night is a lot of time I'm in the radio station and our production director said, hey, I've taken my son, Jack, age seven to the game Sunday, you know, and we've got some tickets.
I said,
Have you ever been to a game with him before?
He goes, no.
I said, you know, you should take him to family night first.
Well, I already bought the tickets.
How much now?
Like over $200 a piece.
Okay.
So they play the Seahawks.
Great game.
I see him in the hallway, the following week.
Oh, hey.
So how was it?
He goes, I got to be the third court and he said, daddy, can we go home?
This is why you go to family night, man.
It's $10 and you get to see all the Packer players and then there's fireworks afterward.
That's how you, that's where you, you know, find out how much they can get their sample of the Packers that way.
And then later you can take them to a game.
It's a sampler platter thing.
Kristen, you're going to be, you're probably every year, Kristen, right?
Yeah.
And, you know, as I'm listening to Mike talk, first of all, I'm thinking be physical, but don't hurt each other.
It's just the mom and me.
But I'm also, when I think of family night, I'm like,
tailgating, the weather is going to be perfect, the food, the fireworks, people are so happy and excited.
So that's what I'm looking forward to.
All right.
So it's the dress rehearsal, too,
know, and
It's so much more laid back.
It's like a party.
It's not like a game.
It's like a party.
People are cheering for fun things that are happening on the field, but it doesn't have that like intensity.
It is just an entirely different atmosphere.
And Mike, the $10 ticket price is very cool.
Yeah, I'll be standing.
Oh, yeah, let's turn our attention to the brewers here and once again, you've noticed a theme We've come to the trade deadline and there's no blockbusters.
That is that is not the typical way of doing things What did the brewers do ahead of last night's trade deadline?
If people saw the headlines Pat They say oh well, so they got it did they get it back this branded Lockridge from the Padres, you know 28 year old No, you know what as I'm as I'm kind of going through the papers this morning and to me
This is roster maintenance.
I mean what they did is, Nester Cortez is the guy that they had got from the Yankees in that trade for Devin Williams.
Their closure, they weren't going to be able to match him for a contract.
And Cortez, like a week or so into the season, has an elbow flexor.
He's been out most of the season.
So they trade him to the Padres and they get a backup outfielder because right now Jackson Churio, your centerfielder, he's got a hamstring injury and a couple weeks ago he had self-freelick out with a hamstring.
So they just got added some depth, you know, someone in the outfield.
And
then they did another deal with the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Diamondbacks sent them two players.
Now Shelby Miller is a right-hand pitcher.
He's currently on the injured list with a forearm strain.
And another guy, Jordan Montgomery, both these players in their 30s, he just had Tommy John surgery.
So he ain't even gonna play this year.
So I think it, and it's for a player to be named.
So at the end of the day, these guys are sort of cleaning up the back end of the rosters doing each other favors.
It's not like they made, I thought it was interesting though, the other night in that game when they beat the Cubs the other night and Andrew Vaughn.
who they picked up from the White Sox when they traded away pitcher Aaron Savali, hits a grand slam, and Brill Schroeder says, you know, everybody wants the Brewers to make a big trade because the deadline's coming up Thursday.
You got to make a trade, get a bat.
There's your trade right there.
It's just the Brewers did it about a month ago, you know?
There's your
It was perfect.
The Brewers head into the series against.
Is it still fair to say the lowly Washington Nationals tonight?
They just haven't been the same since they won the World Series in 2019.
They've been in rebuilding ever since.
But here's the interesting point.
This Milwaukee Brewers team, remember they got just rolled over by the Yankees opening weekend?
Right now, the Brewers have the best record in baseball.
There are 20 games above 500.
Their winning percentage is 593.
So even when you're in a league with the teams like the Mets, the Dodgers, the Padres, some of these other leaders, the Brewers have the best record in baseball right now.
And at 593, their winning percentage is the lowest ever for the league heading into the month of August.
So that means parity right now.
That means you've got an even horse race amongst all these teams, American and National League, heading into the month of August.
By the way, as I'm looking at trade deadline stuff here, how not fun is it to be a Minnesota Twins fan this morning where they have traded 10 players from their 26 man roster?
I mean, just an out and out fire sale, which again, if you're rebuilding, I suppose that's necessary, but
My goodness, Mike, that's just got to be demoralizing to a fan base.
nightmare, isn't it?
Yes, yes, there.
I
love that you went there.
I was thinking like their fan base is already demoralized.
So yeah,
right.
Are you kidding me?
Having a son-in-law who is an equipment manager, I can immediately relate.
And I'm so sending him now texts about the twins and see how that works out.
So the pitching corps, we traded away a starter because we have such a good corps of starters.
And that's how we head into the weekend series with the Nationals with a good corps of starting pitchers.
You've
you
So these are the things that have popped up and gone the right way for the Brewers.
And even that trade, when they got Nester Cortez, you know who else they got in that trade from the Yankees?
Corbin Durbin?
Or Caleb Durbin?
Your third baseman.
He's one of the hottest hitters you've got.
So there's always these diamonds in the rough that end up, you know...
being the difference makers in some of these trades.
Yeah, exactly.
Uh alright.
So, you get the Brewers Nationals.
Uh again, pregame coverage starts at five ten and then you've got the Packers Family Night at Lambeau Field tomorrow.
So, I sense we'll have more Brewers and uh Packers Training Camp stuff to discuss next Friday.
Mike Clemens, have a great weekend.
Thank you so much.
Alright, we'll see you.
Uh Kristen, this probably just gets you as excited as ever to get over to Family Night.
Yeah.
I mean, this is the best time of year because the weather is good.
People are super excited.
The season hasn't started yet, so there's nothing to criticize.
It is literally just about like being together and partying.
Yeah, and you can never argue with a tailgate at Lambeau Field when the weather is beautiful.
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This show is three years old today.
Today?
It's your
birthday?
I said the show.
It's the show's birthday.
Yes,
exactly.
Happy birthday show.
Hey, there you go.
And I was, I was doing some quick scrolling here, but I couldn't scroll fast enough to find Dr. Lyle's first appearance on this show.
So you're mentioned in the show notes on the, I looked at the very first episode and you're mentioned there as guests.
We have to book potential guests.
We have to go get.
So you've
been on a different three years could make.
And now we can't
get rid of her.
Yes.
Exactly.
No, thank you for being a part of all this.
And you do so much for the show.
You do so much, you know, for me, I value your friendship, we value all the knowledge base that you bring to all this.
And it's, we don't often get to pay you back.
And so we're going to do that now.
I don't have any show notes for the segment here.
But you, you started off this morning off air, saying, you know, you're just your little grouchy
or
something a little crabby, something you got to, you know, get off your chest.
And this is your forum for it.
Dr. Lyrely,
how can we help my payback?
I was like a cake or something.
How
can we?
How can we help you vent today?
You know, I'm feeling crappy because I was listening to the segment before I came on.
Oh, great.
Thanks.
OK.
But it feels hopeless.
I was on a bike ride with the folks from the recyclist in Kokona last night and the overwhelming feeling we slow rolled over to.
tack brewing and Kakana's my hometown.
So that feels like a really safe, great place for me.
And we had some really great discussions.
And the overwhelming feeling was people feel hopeless.
They're looking at what's happening in Washington, DC.
They hear discussions like the conversation you were having with Jim Santel and your usual panel, and they just don't know what they can do.
And they're looking at the horizon and thinking, how are we going to get through this?
And that makes me feel crabby.
But as we were talking last night and as we were talking this morning with Lieutenant Governor Sarah Rodriguez, there are so many ways to instill hope here to start working toward that future, to come together as friends and neighbors to help each other at times or.
tough and they're going to get tougher as the holes in the safety net continue to widen as people lose access to health care.
We know it's coming and it's going to be some of the most vulnerable folks that, you know, they're not going to have access to food.
They're going to be hungry, but in our own communities, in our own neighborhoods, these are times when we can help each other out as we start envisioning the future that we want to create together.
So Pat, I'm actually feeling a little bit better.
But one of the big barriers that I'm very frustrated about is media.
And being up here in the Green Bay media market, media is not covering some of the most important stories that people need to hear about.
It's national media that there is a man in Sturgeon Bay who was arrested and charged with 10 counts of child pornography, and he just happens to be married to the chair of the Door County Republican Party.
That's really important that people know that.
But the mentions on Green Bay media have been absent for the most part, but also...
anemic when it's out there.
And this is just one example of how one side is definitely favored over another side and objectivity is completely lost here.
So what I would love to see is for us to be able to have more honest conversations, because I think that's what people are really missing.
Did you say the Door County Republican Party?
Yeah.
Okay, I just want to make sure it was the right county.
I wasn't sure what I'd read before because, again, in what little I'd read about that case and knowing how sparsely it was covered and knowing full well that if it were the spouse of a county democratic party chair, I mean, there would be no end to it.
And we talk about this with our week and review panel, you know, last hour.
And again, consistently, is that the double standard is maybe less so in the media than
in the general public saying, well, we just expect this side to behave better than the other side.
We hold Democrats to a higher standard.
But that's fine.
Hold more people to higher standards.
But don't just not cover something because you say, well, they're the party that does these things anyway.
Yeah, not OK.
And that's exactly what you were talking about earlier.
You know, when the press has just gotten so used to Donald Trump with his erratic, bizarre,
Frankly, hostile to the American public rhetoric, he's hurting our economy, he's driving prices up.
These are things that aren't even debatable, but the media has just gotten so used to it and that way that they craft the headlines and the way that they deliver the news to us, we're not understanding the gravity of the situation and actually who needs to be held accountable.
And you know, in Door County, this is the same Republican party that last year at the Sister Bay Fall Fest, the Door County
Republicans were throwing candy from their float to children that was laced with this bizarre rhetoric put together by gays against groomers about anti-child pornography was on the candy that they were distributing to children.
there are some really significant problems here that have just not been discussed and it taps into the greater national conversation about Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump and who else is involved there and people want to know.
People really want to know.
Well especially the ones who you know scream the loudest usually in their anti-trans comments about protecting children are far more likely to protect
people under their own political umbrella who are the ones who are actually targeting children or behaving badly toward women, as the case may be.
And it does.
It makes you want to go into some of these local newsrooms and just have a discussion and say, guys, why are you covering this this way?
Just explain that to me and see if we can't help them see the way toward a better balanced approach.
toward the news.
And as consumers, we need to recognize that bias.
I think that's all that we can do as individuals is recognize that bias.
Right.
Thank you for venting.
I hope
it helps
out a
bit.
Enjoy family night.
I will.
All
right.
We will see you Monday morning.
My thanks to today's guests, Lieutenant Governor Sarah Rodriguez, Key of the Keel, Matt Henney from Courier, Texas, Greg Bach, Jennifer Schulze, Mark Jacob, Jim Santel, Dr. Lylee, Mike Clemens, and of course, Parker Olson and all of you for being here as part of our
our mornings together here on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Have a great weekend.
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