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Hey, good morning.
It is 8.06.
It's nice to have you back here up north on a Friday morning, September 19th, 2025.
Parker Olson producing us down in Madison Studio A2 meteorologist Brittany Merleau is standing by, so is Dr. Kristen Lierly.
And so is our friend Kate Duffy from Motherhood for Good, talking about a big time diaper drive that you can be a part of and maximize your contribution.
All that is coming up before we go to Brittany, I do want to welcome in Dr. Liarley and do so with a note from the text line from Jim in Brookfield.
Good morning, Pat.
I am now a member of the New Knee Club.
Having had the replacement surgery on Wednesday, I am icing and rehabbing.
Following Dr. Lyalli's advice, it's good to have a doctor in the Civic Media House.
Again, from Jim and Brookfield.
Amazing.
Congratulations, Jim.
Hang in there.
It hurts.
It's hard to give yourself grace.
Well, and especially if, I mean, the tough part here, like he says, I am rehabbing following Dr. Lyalli's advice.
You know who didn't follow Dr. Lirely's advice?
He's doing my crutches in the
background.
What your crutch is doing back there.
That would be our favorite uncomplained patient, Dr. Lirely.
But you're getting there slowly, but surely more slowly.
Yeah, because of things like you're joining us now live from St.
Louis because you're at what a conference down there, right?
Yes, I'm at a conference for the American College of.
obstetricians and gynecologists and we are learning about birth control and maternal mortality how we can save more moms and just coming together and you know teaching each other and it's just great to be together especially in this environment that is kind of no it's definitely anti-health the general culture feels very anti-health so to hang out with doctors and just you know re-center ourselves feels really good and important.
Exactly.
So all right, well, we'll hear more about that.
But we're going to visit with Kate Duffy in a sec.
First, we got to get the
free ticket Friday keyword out there and Brittany's forecast.
So for free ticket Friday, this is the last one.
So if you want to go see the Brewers versus Cincinnati next Friday, 7 15, get on that civic media app and text us the keyword blue like the color BLUE before 9am.
Then there will be more keywords throughout the day, more chances to enter one of those entries statewide will be drawn and win those tickets to next Friday's game.
So again, blue before nine o'clock.
All right, now let's get to Brittany with a
forecast for the weekend that is just splotchy.
It's just going to be a splotchy looking radar all weekend long.
You might get rain.
You might not.
And if you want a pinpoint forecast, Brittany says, you know, tough beans.
Pretty much.
Yeah.
It's not going to happen.
We're trying our best, but this system is big.
It's going to be slow moving across the state.
It is going to take up today, tomorrow, into Sunday.
And another one wants to quickly sneak by on Monday and into Tuesday as well.
So we have a wet next few days.
Do not forget the umbrella or maybe toss the raincoat nearby.
You're going to want it because these are going to be on and off and then really ramping up at times where they do have the potential to drop some decent to heavy rainfall.
Wide spread, I'm thinking expect a half an inch wide spread.
But a lot of these thunderstorms could put down an inch, so you could total up near two inches by the time this weekend is said and done, maybe more in places.
And then like that heavy rain, like I said, into early next week isn't going to help either.
So this system is moving in.
We've got two fronts sandwiching us in the state right now, more spotty showers south, more moderate rainfall, maybe some rumbles of thunder up north.
Temperatures are about 55 degrees to nearly 70 across the state.
And we're going to continue to see numerous showers through this afternoon, some thunder too, especially as we go into this evening and overnight.
So we're going to get a little bit of a harder hit.
Maybe a break tomorrow morning, but more showers spark in the afternoon and more storms, especially east all across the state.
Those tomorrow afternoon and evening and then Sunday might be the driest day.
Maybe hopefully fingers crossed,
but then
heavier rain moves in again Sunday night and into Monday.
Also beach hazard statement, Lake Michigan Shores and in Douglas County, those waves are high and those temperatures in the mid sixties up north to about 80 degrees for highs today.
Tomorrow, mid-60s still up north, mid-70s down south.
We're gonna do the same thing on Sunday and then we kind of flip-flop Monday with that rain trying to really hit the southeastern parts of the state pretty heavy.
I think the south you're only gonna be about in the mid-60s and then Monday north about 70.
So cooler, wet and windy.
Alrighty, Brittany, thank you so much.
Hope you have a good weekend.
You too.
Thanks.
All right.
Let's bring in our friend Kate Duffy from Motherhood for Good and talk about the big give back as part of the Milwaukee diaper mission.
Kate, good morning.
How are you?
I'm good.
How are you guys?
I'm glad I was here for that segment.
I just texted my husband to grab the raincoat
for sure.
I would love to go to Oktoberfest in Chippewa Falls this weekend, but clearly I don't want the dance floor to get wet, but we'll see how that shakes out.
This is normally where I promote the newsletter.
You can sign up for it at upnorthnewswi.com.
So hit subscribe in the top banner.
But I'll tell you, the newsletter this morning is all about the exact same thing that Kate's going to tell us about, the Milwaukee diaper.
permission and the big give back.
And so Kate tell us what you and your motherhood for good friends are up to with the Milwaukee diaper mission.
Yeah, so we are raising money right now for Milwaukee diaper mission and for their annual big fundraiser called the give the big give back and it runs through this Sunday.
And so there's a few days left to get your donations in and there's lots of upsides to doing that.
So basically the Milwaukee day permission formed five years ago by Megan Johnson when she
was learning about everybody struggling with the cost of diapers and what happens when you can't afford diapers and the fact that Milwaukee didn't have a diaper basic needs bank.
There are some throughout the state, but there wasn't one in this area.
So she started Milwaukee diaper mission and they collect donations and diapers and work with many community partners like community centers and food banks to distribute them so that anybody on the ground in the communities who needs diapers
can get them because as we know parents especially parents of babies have so many things to be concerned about being able to afford diapers should not be one of them because they're very very expensive.
Most families it costs about a hundred dollars a month and you know if you're going through a tough time you can't you can't use snap or wick to buy them so it really is a need that's being filled here and so this is my second year fundraising with them with my
own fundraising page in the motherhood for good community.
So we're looking to get as many donations their way as we can.
And Kristen, you've talked to and worked with enough new moms or moms to be that, yeah, people are familiar with things like, like, you know, food assistance and food banks, but there are all these other basic necessities, diapers high on that list that people sometimes have trouble affording as well.
Oh, Pat, I have four sons.
I've been there.
And it is
crazy that you can't use snap or wick to buy diapers.
What are you going to do without diapers?
Right?
I mean, come on.
So friends, please follow Kate, milwaukeedipermission.org.
Please pitch in these are families in need and these are absolutely basic essential necessary items.
And there's also what a matching element?
Nuna is like a baby company.
They make car seats and all different types of things.
They have been a great partner for Milwaukee Dipermission and they are matching every dollar.
So their full goal is $50,000, which if they, Nuna is going to match every dollar.
So everything you donate, consider it doubled.
And then if you donate now through Sunday, everybody gets entered to win a signed Yanis jersey.
Which we love and then if you donate through the motherhood for good specific link Which you can find it on Instagram at motherhood for good if you put the link in bio You can be entered to win merchandise from our shop But no matter where you donate if you find it that is amazing.
The other thing is there
They also have drop spots around the city of Milwaukee.
Obviously, if you're not in Milwaukee, that wouldn't work.
But by donating money, it actually allows them to buy in bulk so they actually can get even more for the donations that they get.
from YouTube, Tony up in Ashland.
First off, very happy to see Kate and Kristen together on the air here with us again.
And also says diapers are expensive.
He's got a new little tiny human there himself and says they try to use cloth diapers, but need the disposable ones for daycare.
It's something where everybody has a need.
Well,
and
Milwaukee Dipermission also has a cloth program because they feel it's important to have dignity and have people have that choice if that's what they want to use.
But the daycare thing is,
That's important too.
Our newer daycare, I do have to drop diapers off.
And if some people can't afford them, they actually can't even bring their kids to daycare and then they miss out on work.
So it's a domino effect.
Can we
talk about how fun it is that Yanis and Mariah, his wife, are engaged with this organization and have really helped out over the years?
I think that really speaks to how important this is and just how dedicated they are to building community.
They're amazing.
I mean, they do so much for the state of Wisconsin and always give back.
And yeah, Mariah has been, well, both of them have been involved in this since the beginning.
They have actually, you know, I think they have four kids now, right?
And I think with the last few they've actually had like, instead of a baby shower, they have like a public diaper fund baby shower.
And so they've, it's amazing that they've been using their platform to highlight this.
Yeah, well, without a doubt.
And again, milwaukeedipermission.org or head to motherhood4good on Instagram.
And if you get over to motherhood4good, the one observation you'll make that I'm going to make to Kate Duffy here is, girl, you're on fire.
I mean, the videos, they just come fast and furious.
And they're such plain English explainers of all the issues that are going on.
And so allow me to ask the question that you don't have an answer for.
Where'd you find time to do all this?
Well, I quit my job, you know, so I do have time and now my kids are back in school in daycare So I have if anybody is like, how does she do all that?
That's how I do it.
That's what I do during the day
Okay,
and so, you know, but and I will say there's no shortage of content.
There is a
little bit going
on Pat So there's lots to talk about
Oh, there is.
I mean, from the breakdown of how schools are funded in the state to some of the national issues as well.
So you've got that outlet at Motherhood for Good.
Kristen, of course, you're making your own videos, fast and furious.
And there's also this show that you find some time to do on the weekends, right?
Yeah, the Dr. Kristen Lyerly show we're doing a spicy one this weekend too spicy
a little bit all
right It
is spicy We're talking about the Charlie Kirk assassination
and
getting the perspective of some former Republicans and some folks who were not necessarily familiar with Charlie Kirk before all of this so it's
community discussion and it's what everybody's talking about these days.
So tune
in.
Yeah, you can hear the Dr. Kristen Lyrely show Saturday and Sunday at 3pm on WISS in Oshkosh, Appleton.
That's at 98.3 and 96.5 FM.
And on Sundays in the Green Bay Area, Sundays 9am at WGBW 97.9 FM and 1590 AM for the Dr. Kristen Lyrely show.
Kate, go ahead,
Kristen.
And wherever you get your podcasts
podcasts.
Yes, podcasts are extremely important too.
And now Kate, you've I know you've done like a couple of like either podcast episodes, you've done some interviews, you know, through Instagram as well.
Is there any particular thing that people should be looking for with regularity or just keep keep coming over to that Instagram feed for all the latest that you're working on?
subscribe to the Substack.
That's where I have, I wouldn't, it's sort of a newsletter, but also just like deeper dives into things, although I'm trying to get more consistency.
And then yes, I am thinking about, I think I'm going to bring the podcast back, which will also be available like on YouTube.
And I'm going to try for once a week.
I'm like always nervous about committing to things, but yes, looking for more regularity for you all and myself.
Okay.
And that again, is that's at motherhoodforgood.substack.com.
Everybody's getting a sub stack.
Some use it better than others.
I haven't put up anything there for a year, but.
I get that you already have that
you're writing and
doing right.
I get to yap here.
So I'm doing just fine.
Kate, it's great to see you again.
Thank you for all you do and for telling people about the Milwaukee diaper mission.
And again, either Milwaukee diaper mission org or go through motherhood for good and click on the links there.
Great talking to you, Kate.
Thank you so much.
You too.
Thanks for having me.
Have a good Friday.
You bet.
And still ahead, we're going to be talking to Mike Clemens talking about sports.
The Packers going to Cleveland for the weekend and the Brewers starting to wrap up
the regular season, I pack right low,
you're up north.
got Brewers baseball tonight against the St.
Louis Cardinals.
Coverage begins at 640 on stations at Richland Center, Oshkosh, Racine Kenosha, Park Falls, or Hayward.
Or you could just ring up Kristen Lierly because she's in St.
Louis right now.
Are you going to one of these games?
I'm going tomorrow night and I am like over the moon.
I'm going to be with a bunch of Cardinals fans and I'm going to be so obnoxious it's going to be a blast.
Of course you are.
Of course you are.
Hey, speaking of Brewers, it is the last free ticket Friday, so text
blue to us before 9am.
And you could be at the running for four tickets to see the Brewers versus Cincinnati next Friday night.
I'm going to be going to that series next weekend over at American Family Field.
So looking forward to that one too.
For our next topic, I believe Parker has queued up a musical introduction for where we're going to go next,
Parker.
Cat is lifting a glass.
It's a shot glass.
It's a shot glass that I'm waving in the air like I just don't care because I don't get to use it.
It's not those kinds of shots, but it was it was a great visual prop.
Today is today's shot day.
Flu shot, COVID shot, and for the first time RSV.
So I get triple jabbed today.
And I say that first off because y'all should be doing something like that too, depending on what is right for you.
But also because this is a bit of a melancholy day, you'll recall that sometime back, Robert Kennedy Jr.
just fired all the members of his vaccine advisory panel, put a bunch of other folks on, and this group is...
going to be engaged in some severe quackery today as they disregard anything related to science and evidence.
And I believe one of the things they did yesterday, Kristen, was having to do with the MMR, measles, mumps, rubella vaccine and the recommendation for parents.
And today they're going to say something equally dumb about the COVID vaccine, I'm sure.
Yeah, I think hepatitis B is also on the docket for these folks.
It
just doesn't make any sense I don't know if you watch the testimony with Susan Manares She's
the
fired CDC director that is a Trump supporter and was promoted and appointed by RFK junior and then subsequently fired and he fired her because he wanted her to pass the recommendations of his committee without
looking at them just rubber stamp them and she said but wait I'm a doctor and I have an obligation to science I have to at least you know look at them and he said nope rubber stamp and There are certain people who need to be fired and I need you to fire them without questioning That's not what a leader does and to hear her testimony how frustrated she was Because she's on their side.
She believes in them.
So that's how
Off kilter we are right now.
This isn't about left versus right.
This is about
A very strange regime that has gotten into place and has a very clear agenda, and it is an agenda that harms the public health and will kill thousands of Americans over the years.
Yeah, you heard her and another doctor testifying before a congressional panel.
We played some of Senator Tammy Baldwin's Q&A with them on the program yesterday.
And the other member who was the chief medical officer of the CDC, Dr. Howrie,
talked about the rise in measles and that you know, this is this is gonna kill babies and all she wants to do is Keep babies from dying and yet you've got this new regime that appears to not care about that
And we're feeling it in Wisconsin Wisconsin with regards to kids who are vaccinated We're the second least vaccinated state when it comes to measles and I can tell you that up in Ocanto County just north of Green Bay
Things are brewing.
Last week, I think we had 36 cases of measles.
We're going to get new numbers today, but this is an incredibly contagious virus.
It can spread.
If somebody has measles and leaves the room and you walk into that room two days or two hours later, you can get measles.
So if you are not vaccinated, you are in danger.
And it is especially dangerous for young children.
I've heard a lot of people say, well, just get the disease and then get it over with.
Well, that is true for some people.
Some people will get the disease and get it over with, but it's not a comfortable disease.
And it ruins your immune system.
It makes you susceptible to many other diseases.
And up to 3 in 1,000 kids will actually die.
three in a thousand children will die from measles.
Kids will go blind, they'll lose their hearing, they'll develop brain infections that will affect them for the rest of their lives.
This is not a benign disease and it is not a disease that just comes and goes.
It has a huge impact on young children for the rest of their lives.
Yeah, I mean, we've we have cautioned previously against using Dr. Google.
We should we have caution as well against, you know, putting all your faith in, not a doctor, Robert Kennedy, Jr.
But that it is it is more difficult than ever for, you know, parents or anybody to find that that fact based information that works well for them.
But this this much I can say with certainty.
I don't care if a politician is adhering to every fact based thing out there.
Don't get your health advice from a politician, whether it's a president, a cabinet secretary, whatever, especially like a podcast host or something, folks are listening to things that they just should not be listening to.
And then it's a small wonder that doctors that I know personally, sometimes want to tear their hair out.
Talk to the people who've actually gone to med school and know that's that's all I can say to people.
You can get your health advice from this podcast host me.
Yes.
Yeah.
The one who is a doctor.
Right.
The one who is a doctor.
Then ask questions, you know, really, I mean, if you have health questions, send them to me.
Dr. Kristen Lyerle, I am on all of the socials.
Send me your questions.
I will personally respond, not giving you personal health advice, but just answering general questions.
there's a lot of mistrust and confusion about what's happening in the world right now.
And because public health has been so grossly undermined, it's hard for us to know what to trust anymore.
Can you trust the CDC?
Can you trust
the
online
resources?
Who'd have thought we'd be we'd be at that point catch the Dr. Kristen Lyreley show coming up this weekend.
I didn't even give her fun to any time to make fun of my shirt.
We'll just take care of that another time.
Bye, Kristen.
Enjoy St.
Louis.
Mike Clements is coming up next to talk about the Brewers in St.
Louis and the Packers against Cleveland next.
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We'll talk more about the Brewers playing in St.
Louis tonight in just a bit, but let's get started on the Packers first as we bring Mike Clemens in to talk to us about some of the sports that we'll be able to take part in watching this weekend.
Mike Clemens, how are you?
Good morning, Pat.
Good to see.
Good to hear from you, rather.
You're in Green Bay.
You're going to be heading to Cleveland before too long.
Yep, we got practice today.
We got Matlow Fleur and we're trying to get some more answers on what happened at practice yesterday, you know, we They let us in before the start of practice.
We get to see the warm-ups.
We get to see them do some drills a little bit of passing around They put up these big tarpollings now and it's been millions of dollars with the new Convention Center across the street.
They don't want money anybody looking in I suppose if you're a kid with a model drone you could
videos or something but you know the top secret stuff because they're going to be working on game plan stuff like second and third downs on on a Thursday and so they kick us out so then you know it's like for the next two hours you're kind of waiting around and then you get a little text like okay practice is wrapping up so you go downstairs and you stand outside the door they open it up and you go in here and you talk to these players
And I'm talking to Isaiah McDuffie, the linebacker.
So what about this rookie tight end that Cleveland Browns have that you guys are going to have to cover on Sunday?
Number 44, Harold Fanon Jr.
on a bowling green, like your 67th pick overall in the draft.
And
he set
out an NFL record, most receptions from quarterback Joe Flacco for an NFL tight end in their debut.
And I said, he almost had been like a Tucker Kraft year, right?
And he didn't even blink.
He said, yeah, no.
And he told me about this player in Hollywood Defend them and it was not.
And then after the locker room periods over with, they closed the doors.
The injury report comes out and it says Tucker Kraft's limited suffered a knee injury and ESPN jumps on her right away and their official sources tell them, yeah, Tucker Kraft went down the day of practice with the knee injuries being evaluated like,
oh
no.
Oh, no.
And then about five o'clock NFL Network said, yeah, well, initial evaluations say they think he just may have tweaked it, not season ending, you know, more tomorrow when the floor talks to you guys at 11 a.m.
So, so it doesn't sound like he'll be playing against the Cleveland Browns this weekend.
But, you know, after there's still waiting for Christian Watson to come back and then
Jayden Reed, you know, had surgery, broke his collarbone, that opening drive in the wind over the commanders, diving for that, what would have been a touchdown pass.
So he had surgery for his broken collarbone and his stress fracture and his left foot, the Jones fracture.
And so, you know, then you're looking at Romeo Dobbs and Matthew Golden as your wide receiver targets.
And that's why Tucker Kraft was so favored in the last couple of games.
Well, and he was he was living up to the expectations.
He was generating, you know, real excitement and so now you see this and the the thing with Jaden Reed and look, I mean injuries are part of sports.
It's just that some years you see more snake bit than others and Folks could be forgiven for wondering.
Well, are we are we entering that kind of snake bite territory?
Probably still too soon to say but
The lack of concern is not at 0%.
Should we put it that way?
No, so, yeah, so, you know, the, so in terms of backups, you know, I talked to you about this during training camp, like after Tucker Kraft, who they really got a tight end, because Luke Musgrave, who was drafted at the same time as he was, it was not looking good at the start of camp.
Things have, he moved along though.
And number 88 is doing a better job of running his routes and
and making a reception.
So this is his opportunity against an 0-2 Browns team to step up at that tight end position, make some receptions.
Also, there's a guy that they picked up from the Falcons last year, big guy, kind of built like Tucker Kraft, a John Fitzpatrick, who's now had a couple catches.
He seems to have passed Ben Sims, who they picked up from the Vikings last year.
So they've still got three more
tight ends on the roster to get them through.
Let's say if Tucker crafts out the next couple of weeks, you know, it's been really quiet this week in Green Bay after all the hoopla
with
their, you know, their opening game against the Lions and then their prime time game against Washington.
It's kind of been like crickets this week.
And you know what?
I said, I was saying to somebody in the locker room yesterday is we're in our media time.
I said, this'll all change next week.
Because we go to Dallas.
I was just going to say that.
I'm like, it's tough to get excited for Cleveland.
But Dallas
is next
on the schedule the following Sunday.
That's a Sunday night game.
Oh, yeah.
Micah Parsons and Jerry Jones and all that.
So that's going to be a crazy week in the
media.
Oh, without a doubt.
I mean, you'll be able to hear the game on civic media.
And of course, NBC will be.
plug in that thing like crazy.
But as for this coming Sunday, again, the Packers at Cleveland, the pregame coverage will begin at 10 o'clock Sunday morning on civic media stations in Richmond Center Park Falls, Racine and Watoma.
And Mike will be there in Cleveland following it all and reporting back throughout the course of the upcoming week here.
So let's move over to the Badger football team.
They will be opening up the Big 10 season versus Maryland on Saturday.
And so the pregame there begins at 9am on stations in
Switzerland Center, Amery, Wisconsin Rapids, and Ripon.
And I don't mean to be a Debbie Downer here, Mike, but much like we said about getting ready for a game in Cleveland, I'm not sensing a lot of excitement for a Badger Maryland game, even though it is the start of the Big Ten season, but the Badgers have been a little concerning looking, shall we say, especially the way they played
against
Alabama.
I was just looking this morning.
I think Maryland's actually favorite in this one.
Are they favorite players?
No.
The Maryland Terrapins, yeah, because they're 3-0.
Now, this is the first real, you know, test for both these teams.
Well, you know, last week was a test for the Badgers and the amount they were, they were never going to climb against Alabama down in Tuscaloosa, but they got blown out.
But anyway, yeah, the Badgers at home against the Maryland Terrapins who were 3-0, Badgers 2-1, as you say, they kick off at 11 a.m.
and you know looks like daniel neal still beat the at the starting quarterback after getting blown out you know last week early in the week a lot of fans you know we're commenting about like you know where's his program going and they're right i mean i'm not sure what the identity of what luke fickle plans to do with the the program and then people start saying is the guy going to be on the hot seat as they get into their big ten schedule now will really be his test how what will his record be now
coming up here in the middle of the season for his record in the Big Ten and, you know, does he get a shot at any kind of a bowl game?
And I think it's pretty much, since they gave him that extension, he's got like another year, two years to figure out what this is going to be to come up with some kind of identity.
No question, Luke Fickle came to Madison at one of the most unique, is the best word you can think of, times.
in college coaching with this total change of the landscape with the NIL and the portal transfer.
But it would be a good time to really get two coordinators that you really believe in and understand, okay, what's going to work for us here in Madison?
Well, I mean, the point well taken on the time of transition with the transfer portal and the NIL deals.
But you also have the notion that
Luke fickle was gonna be given that you always have that first four-year grace period because you didn't recruit these kids and and and yet you're promising moon and stars like he's the guy that's gonna get him get him into shape and that's Not really developing yet.
So now you move on to the next phase of well, I guess we got to get through these four years and and then we'll really see what he's like but If the record isn't isn't good with the kids he was given it doesn't instill a lot of confidence that
You know, things are going to be really great in year five.
Well, and, and when you bring up recruiting, I mean, if you got a four or five star kid and you want them to get into the NFL and on top of that, you want them to make money.
Cause now they can, you know, used to worry about, can I get to a school that I can get into the NFL and then get drafted?
Now it's like, who's, what college is going to pay me the most?
And it ain't going to be the Badgers right now.
So yeah, that's.
There's a lot that they've got to figure out with their program, not just what their playbook is, not just what their schemes are, but what their finances are.
From Tony on YouTube up in Ashland, I've been a fickle backer, but I also have no idea what they're building toward.
It's not that they don't have good players.
Indiana and Illinois have started from a much worse place, and they're ranked now.
Right.
Again, you can put some of that on the players, but boy, there's a lot to be said about coaching.
It doesn't matter if you recruited them or not.
You've got to coach what you're giving.
You've got to play the cards you don't.
Right.
And that Carmichael program down there, too, with Indiana, that guy comes in like a year or so after fickle.
And look what he's done.
Amazing turnaround down there.
All right, now let's turn to the Brewers who again are playing in St.
Louis.
Coverage begins tonight at 640.
They swept the Angels.
Their magic number is now four.
The Cubs, meanwhile, they lost.
They were almost no hit by a pitcher from Cincinnati yesterday.
That was really something to watch.
But let's address the controversy first.
Now, I'm going to put the controversy in quotes here because
I, I'm listening to Pat Murphy reading this letter, you know, that he said was from, from Bob Yooker.
But there were, there were clues in there when he's talked about like having the best road record in baseball or something.
And you hear that and you go, okay, he's, he's kind of conjuring up.
He's ad-libbing
Bob Yooker,
right?
Or he's ad-libbing.
And I guess some, some folks, I don't know, didn't take kindly to it or they, were they fooled by it?
I don't, I don't know how much, how much blowback is there on, on Pat Murphy?
So it's Saturday night.
And once again, the Brewers win a Thriller Langer.
They get 15 to come from behind win.
They win nine to eight in next three innings.
And then, you know, you're in the, you're in the media auditorium waiting for Pat Mercury to come out and do his press conference.
And there's a bit of a wait.
And then you think, well, they just clinched a spot in the playoffs at least somewhere in the playoffs.
They clinched that.
Okay.
So maybe there's some kind of a celebration going on.
And he comes in all dry.
It's not like they're pouring champagne over each other or anything or
Gatorade or
whatever.
And so about halfway through the press conference, asking about what happened in that game, he was asked, did you guys have like, you know, you just, you clinched the playoffs.
Did you have any kind of celebration?
Yeah.
Yeah, we did.
Yeah.
And he turns to the PR guy.
He said, they videoed that, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, you guys will see it.
Now they, they shot video.
Oh, okay.
Well, you know, everybody else kind of went home and I'm like, well, I guess I'll keep looking for the website or Twitter or something.
And about two in the morning comes this thing that it's a video and they've dimmed the lights.
And instead of the bottles of champagne and the goggles, they've dimmed the lights and they've got champagne glasses and they're going to have a little classy champagne toast.
And he says, boys, I got a letter here from Bob Buker and Athanasio hands it to him and he reads it.
And it sounds just like you grew.
Hey, honey, boys.
Yeah, I'm up there in this baseball team in heaven.
And gee, you know, I'm the third catcher, albeit, and everybody laughs because it sounds just like you grew.
But at the point when he starts saying, hey, congratulations on best record on the road this year, and best this, best that, all right, well, obviously this is something Bob wrote before he passed.
So people start arguing about this back and forth.
He got a million tweets before Monday night, like two days later.
The Brewers came up and said, yeah, okay, Murphy wrote that.
It wasn't actually from Bob.
We probably should have been more clear about that.
Like, that was a whole weird seance, right?
It
worked.
But it works.
The team is still hot, and they've got St.
Louis coming up this weekend.
Mike Clemens, thank you so much.
Have a great weekend.
Travel safe.
Some final news and notes from Lake Wissota after this.
You're up there.
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Last call from this program.
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And like I said, only the one home stand next week that I'm looking forward to going to one of the games there.
I'm going Saturday.
I am not.
Are you?
I
Because that's the only
And you and you didn't even have to enter a contest to do it.
No, I've my college buddy and I are going and we have used the civic media tickets and you know, bless him.
He's like that.
Those are great.
Thank you for doing that.
But I know I want I want to be able to do something nice too.
So he's he took care of the tickets for for next weekend's games.
So that'll be good to get together, which means if I'm going to go to the game next Saturday, it means.
I'm gonna come pester you next Thursday and Friday and do the shows from down there in Madison and in beautiful palatial studio A2 if and only if you call in the Orkan man and maybe get rid of that monstrous centipede thing that was crawling up your leg earlier.
and you know, you made this like it was eight feet long
two hours ago during the history lesson, suddenly Greg Bacchinaise, Parker almost climbing up on his chair, shaking around.
He thought a spider was crawling up his leg and and then it crawled up again.
And then he later found the the offending critter.
And it was this centipede thing that is still loose in your studio somewhere, right?
and
solve it,
I keep expecting in the background, I keep expecting to see Luke Mathers in a hazmat suit with like a, you know, a giant fly swatter or a Louisville slugger to come after this thing.
Alicia's with you here.
She's got an emoji up there and says, yep, I'd have been screaming
she was
Okay, I hope you like the Louisville slugger because I think a real bat getting in there would put you over the edge if it's flapping around.
I don't want to think
Did you have it at Whitewater?
Did you have bats that would sometimes get into off-campus housing or things like
because it was a it was a regular thing Yeah, where where somebody lived off campus older homes and there'd be a bat and there'd always be you know some some some buddies who'd come over to help you know the basically the damsel in distress Yeah, and you know the going right then was a case of you know a 12 pack of beer if if you needed somebody to come kill a bat for you kill Of course kill
Don't kill the bats.
Let it out.
Whatever.
Yes, let it out.
Look, we're up here.
Do we just catch and release our deer?
No, we kill them.
You don't.
That's how it works up here.
We hunt up here.
We go hunting for bats and centipedes and everything.
last time.
Yeah.
No.
Yeah.
Well, it turns out he lived a pretty long life.
It's more albums, but that's that's a that's a
That's an Ozzy Osbourne story for another time.
So okay, so bats were not an issue by you there.
All right.
No, I don't think so.
No, that that that's fine.
That's totally
okay.
We did
see Tony notes Ozzy ate the bat.
He lived for a long time.
Alicia says Parker is a is a tougher man.
This Navy vet won't mess with that.
So there you go.
You got one up.
You got one up on the Navy veteran.
When it comes to there couldn't have been a lot of
Oh, I wouldn't say that, you know, because you dock at different points and things get in.
And I mean, that's, that's how things get transported from one continent to the others.
They, they find just the way to find just the right way to hitch a ride.
Well, why would you say that?
I think we're talking
leave.
Oh, well, Alicia responded.
Here it is.
Rats.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Rats.
That's the thing.
I didn't want to say it, but I have so weirded out Parker today.
We really got it.
And so is something else here.
The something was the other thing that we get on the other ships.
Alicia says Navy sailors.
Well, yeah, there's that too.
Those are there's some critters amongst them as well.
Yeah.
So I I'm going into this weekend whimsical because we had plans originally
with some friends, but they had to cancel there.
There was an issue with a parent who's not in great health and everything.
And you've seen the weather forecast from Brittany.
I mean, it says hit or miss as it gets.
Yeah.
So we've just decided we have to just kind of play it loose.
I mean, especially with the weather, if the weather is nice, you know, we might go to Oktoberfest.
If the weather is really nice, we'll get on the boat one last time here without we don't we already done but we might get one more or if the weather is just iffy enough to go outside,
We'll get some yard work done.
I've noticed a lot more leaves have fallen in the past 24 hours.
Yes.
They haven't really started coming down yet, but they're making their appearance known.
one tree
lot.
And who knows, it might be a total washout, and I'm just watching the brewers and the badgers and the packers all weekend.
we will see.
okay.
Both of those are great.
But this is not like me.
We are, we are planners.
We are very much, I mean, I already told you where I'm going to be next weekend with you and with the baseball game and everything else.
I know where I am the couple of weekends after that.
And so we're, we're here.
It's, it's like that Saturday night live skate where the teleprompter goes out.
And we're just like, um, what do we do?
Well, I don't know.
What do you want to do?
I don't know.
What do you want to do?
There's going to be a lot of that tomorrow over coffee as we decide what it's going to be.
But that'll just give us something to talk about on Monday, which is what we do.
Yeah, we can't just do, we can't just do news and politics if we learned anything today.
Have fun with the Whitewater game and we'll talk to you on Monday.
Whatever it is.
Again, it's a weekend of whimsy.
We'll just see.
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