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It was thunderstormy, keeping some of us from getting a full night's sleep across Wisconsin.

But we're now because it's the first day of fall, I get to use this line.

Well, Brittany, it ain't snow yet.

Oh,

that's true.

It's pretty snow when the leaves fall.

Little victories, right?

Yeah.

So happy fall almost.

Happy fall, y'all.

One of my

favorite season.

Unfortunately, though, we're starting it off a little dark, a little dreary, very foggy in places, dense fog advisory until 10am to almost noon in some spots where this thick stuff is going to be hanging around.

It's off of Lake Superior right now.

also off of Lake Michigan, moving its way a little bit inland there into the Fox Valley.

So hard to see, drive safe this morning.

Temperatures are in the mid 50s north to mid 60s south and highs today will hit the mid 60s north and probably scrape about 80 degrees into areas towards Madison and down south towards the state line.

So we've got a blob of rain moving across the state.

It's covering.

Rhinelander, Wausau in the Stevens Point over to La Crosse, and it's starting to get strong into Tomah, where Motson and Reedsburg, you're now in a severe thunderstorm morning, where you could see winds up to 50 to 60 miles per hour and maybe some hail too.

So most of these are not expected to be severe, but there is that chance as this front is just stalled over the states.

It's draped from La Crosse all the way pretty much to Sheboygan right now.

So a lot of the rain today is going to stay north in the morning, but then this afternoon,

After that line moves off to the east, a little tail is going to form in central parts of the state and that is going to sweep south as we go through this afternoon and evening.

So the rain will hit Madison in Milwaukee area later tonight, continuing through the overnight.

You could still see some lingering south in the state tomorrow morning before we start to dry out by the afternoon, but up north, you're going to be dry all day tomorrow and temperatures stay comfortable in those low to mid 70s for the rest of the week.

And it looks rather dry too.

So after the system passes, it looks brighter ahead.

lots of fall colors popping too.

I was gonna say I hope so because this system has been especially annoying sitting here as it has the whole weekend.

But what it hasn't done is it hasn't like been one of those systems where it blows all the leaves off the trees before you even get a chance for them to change colors and enjoy it.

Right.

That's

usually the case here for us.

So

thankfully it did not.

It often is.

So we've still got some time to enjoy this first day of Fallen.

We've been asking people to share with us what do they love most about Fallen, Wisconsin?

What is it that they love to do?

So again, you can text that through the Civic Media app or you can put comments on our Facebook and YouTube pages as well.

Brittany, thank you very much.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

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I let Brittany go before saying good morning from Tigerton from Rob.

Cloudy light rain 58 degrees over the weekend.

Tigerton had two inches of rain and some really loud thunderstorms.

The first thunderstorms since August 16th when the old Crossroads Bar in Tigerton burned down.

He said yesterday he watched

the NFL Today 50th Anniversary Show, which included original host Brent Musburger, and the current NFL Today cast dressed up in the fashions of 1975.

Any of you watch that at all?

No.

Did you see it, Parker?

I saw clips of it afterwards, and I was really upset that I didn't watch it.

I did not know that it was coming.

You know, the old sets, the old graphics, and yeah, they had like...

pasted on like the cheesy 70s mustaches.

JJ Watt killed it.

Him and I and Eagle looked awesome.

except he was cracking himself up with how seventies he looked.

Oh, yeah.

But it was,

it was,

it was pretty fun.

Let's see what it's doing.

And of course, Rob says happy fall, y'all, for them as well.

And Alicia says it's raining here in Shawna.

So we've just got that kind of a day out there today.

Again, Kelder Royce is coming up at the in the next half hour here.

I was also going to say in our Up North News daily newsletter, there's an article in there today about Wisconsin business.

that employ the disabled and make them a good chunk of the workforce.

And Selena, that kind of independence is especially, well, it's wonderful compared to generations back when people used to just be institutionalized or forgotten.

And now there's this feeling that we're about to see a new generation of Donald Trump's disposable people because, I mean,

to him the people that are that count the most are the ones who are well off and he's under the mistaken belief that they are well off because they're somehow better somehow more essential they're the ones who deserve help quote unquote like tax breaks

And look, for the rest of the political class, they think if you're not doing well, that's on you.

Maybe you can live off the benevolence of others, but not through anything done collectively through the government, you know, like Medicaid helping people with disabilities.

So Selina's got a report that you can see on her social media that helps put a face on these people that so many people in politics now consider to be disposable.

And in this case, we're talking about

young man named Joshua Kreitz-Gumal and his mother Rachel Kreitz.

And that's the mom that you talked to all about what the good services are that these programs through Medicaid do.

Yes, we talked for a very long time.

She was so passionate.

She just she pulled off over the pulled to the side of the road and we she was in her car and we chatted for a long time.

She was on her way back from something.

So she says her son, Joshua, could be the face of Medicaid because by the

age of 15 he had completed 14,000 hours of autism intervention services like therapy and that was paid for by Medicaid to help him in his challenges and she says she feels the Trump administration has considered disabled people expendable and here is a Rachel Kreitz from Milwaukee.

We understand

that the perception is that my son's life is not of the same value that anybody else's life is.

And honestly, cutting Medicaid and devaluing that program has in a very immediate way demonstrated that lack of respect and value for the lives of people with disabilities.

If I sound a little harsh in judging how people who favor these budget cuts view people with disabilities, you can understand it's kind of rooted in the repeal and replace category.

You say you want to repeal something that's costing money you don't want to spend, but there's nothing to really replace it with.

And in this case, Alina, what's being repealed is that dignity and sense of independence through the ability to work a

job.

Looks like we might have lost Selena

there.

And Selena is

frozen, so

I'll just

jump in and say, you're right.

OK, let's hear more from Rachel Crates.

My son, on the other hand, and people with disabilities more generally, are just like you and me.

My son wants to work.

That is his goal upon graduation.

He will tell you he wants to be professional and independent.

What's your goal for today, Josia?

What do you want to do at work?

I want to be professional and I want to be independent.

And he is working very, very hard to be exactly that.

But to be it, he requires vocational support.

He has

a job coach that is paid for through Medicaid.

He will show up at work as much as he can.

He's currently working three different jobs and he loves it.

But if his Medicaid funding is decreased and his job coach doesn't have the funding to work with him, then my son's hours at work will be cut.

And if the funding drops down too low and my son loses his job coach, he won't be able to work.

And Kristen, it's not just that that Joe show won't be able to work, but chances are he'll need some kind of home health care that he would otherwise be getting through other services, which is going to take parents or other family members out of the workforce as well.

Again, short sighted doesn't nearly begin to explain these Medicaid cuts.

As a society, we have to decide whether we are going to invest in people regardless of what our challenges are, or if we're going to divest and institutionalize and isolate these folks who have so much to share.

And you can hear this mom advocating for her child.

And it is true.

There are so many of these folks who just don't have a voice, including, hey, I hear you out there, Rob.

I know you want to speak up because we've had this conversation.

I really want to encourage disability advocates to use your voices because this is the time if you're living with a disability.

If you need help, we need your voices to help people understand what's at stake here.

That is Dr. Kristen Lyrely.

She's going to hang around for our interview with State Senator Kelder Roy's candidate for governor, coming up just about 15 minutes from now.

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Jimmy Cusco will give us a little bit of sports.

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Welcome back on this Monday morning, September 22nd, 2025.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely is here.

Up North News reporter Selina Heller is back with us now after that internet pickup and before she was so rudely interrupted by technology.

We were talking about her interview with Rachel Crates and her son, Joshia.

who has autism and thanks to more than 10,000 hours of therapy and all kinds of vocational training and other things through Medicaid, he's able to hold down jobs.

But

that's

the kind of independence that could be lost with these coming cuts from Medicaid.

And by the way, it's worth saying again, people going, well, I haven't seen any cuts in Medicaid.

No, no, you haven't.

They are the cuts are timed to arrive after next year's midterm.

But they've been passed.

These things are coming unless things change.

And so when you talked to Rachel about this, she definitely has the right perspective on the funding that helps her son, Joshia.

It's being taken away from people who benefit greatly from it, gives it to people who don't need it, and leaves no replacement.

for those who would otherwise be in institutions or maybe it takes other family members out of you know their jobs because now they have to care for these people and Rachel's right to sound a little alarmed about this.

All right, she says, you know, it doesn't even, it doesn't make any sense.

How does this even make sense?

And she tries to explain it to Joshua.

He's 22 and he's, he can't underwrap his head around, you know, of course, you know, his, his help being taken away from him potentially.

And I mean, there's two, there are two million people, autistic people in this country who benefit from Medicaid.

And so there are a lot of families who will be left to kind of fill in all of those gaps if this really comes to fruition.

And she says just Medicaid is a lifeline.

It's essential to their daily lives.

And so this is more of what Rachel had to say.

It's not an agenda that supports millions of people who need and deserve the support.

And instead, it hands over critical funding to people who don't need it.

a job coach and don't need transportation services and can live on their own and maybe have five houses already of their own.

My son just wants the chance to have a roommate and some at some point move out with with his supports and that's what is potentially being taken away from him.

When you cut the funding you take those opportunities away.

And again, before we funded this stuff historically, people lived in, they had, you know, very different life.

People with disabilities lived in institutions.

I hope that is not where this country is taking us back to, but I fear that if the cuts are implemented,

that over time that is exactly where this is leading us.

And that's a very, you know, back to the beginning of the conversation, how do you feel?

We feel scared.

We feel scared about what this says about our future and other people's futures.

And Selena Kristen, I mean, folks are already reacting to that from Colleen.

She says, my sister is one of these people on Medicaid services and work programs, receives family care support with Lakeland.

I worry that more employers are scaling back already.

She says companies are already planning and scaling down.

Tony says hospitals are definitely setting budgets to these cuts as well.

And so impacts are starting to be felt.

And, you know, Kristen, from a political standpoint, from what I said earlier, like these these cuts are going to come in, you know, after the midterms.

And so people might be thinking, oh, well, then there's still time to, you know, pull them back.

These plans are already being made.

There will still be an impact of some sort or another on people.

Absolutely.

These plans are being made.

And I think they thought they were clever by waiting until after the midterms before the real hammer fell.

But hospitals have to make.

budgets and they have to plan in advance.

So that's why, you know, to Tony's point, they're already starting to make those cuts.

They're already starting to think about the future and they're already starting to think about how they're going to live without that federal money.

When you hear about rural hospitals, for example, and the money that they put back into rural hospitals, it's a third of what they would have otherwise invested in rural hospitals that are already struggling.

So things are about to get really scary and we are going to need to support each other, help each other.

out and speak up for each other, our most vulnerable community members, and that is especially the disability community.

Is that pretty much Selena where Rachel left things with you?

Is just, you know, she's speaking out and urging other people to do the same?

Exactly.

And she says, you know, she does that in her community and with other parents who are in positions like hers, they contact their legislators all of the time.

And she said, you know, they're still an opportunity and you still have to keep working.

And she does that.

She's pretty a big advocate for her son, of course, and for others because she knows how it is to be in similar shoes.

That again, from Selena Heller.

And you can see her video report on that.

News social media feeds.

Kristen, you were in St.

Louis.

We talked earlier about the American College of OBGYNs, ACOG, but you also managed to take in a Brewer's Game since they were in St.

Louis.

And you just happen to be at the one game of the series where they did really well.

What is it about the Cardinals and the Brewers?

Or is it just that I have PTSD from 1982?

1982.

It's

just a holdover.

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, that game went into extra innings.

So they played three games.

They got crushed in the first game.

The second game went into extra innings, which was like a brilliant end.

And then yesterday they lost two.

Come on, guys.

You got this.

But they did.

They did clinch the division.

So they did.

We got that we got that going for us, which is nice again Selena's report you can see on up north news social media feeds and Kristen has the Dr. Kristen Lyrely show Saturdays and Sundays at three o'clock on ninety eight point three and ninety six point five in the Oshkosh Appleton areas and Sunday mornings at nine a.m.

on ninety seven point nine and fifteen ninety a.m.

In the Green Bay areas Kristen's gonna hang around and help me here talk to Senator Kelter Roy's candidate for governor Selena

You have a great day.

We'll talk to you a little bit later on.

Thank you.

Sounds good.

You too.

All right.

So much more ahead here.

I'm Pat Krightlow.

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Senator Kelle Royce is going to join us in just a moment, but first with Dr. Kristen Lyrely here as well.

I asked people at the start of the show in honor of fall beginning this afternoon.

What's so great about fall in Wisconsin?

And Jim and Brookfield, I find the change in climate, the most enjoyable part of fall, the bright colors on the trees, cooler temps, a lower sun angle, make being outside a nice fall experience, I will be outside as much as possible this fall while recovering from knee surgery with coffee and apple crisp.

So fellow knee replacement person, Kristen Lyrely, I think he's got a good idea.

I like your style, Jim.

Actually, the apple crisp.

Oh,

yeah.

We're going to make

a visit down to the orchard later today, I think.

I love this time of year.

Sherry made a second batch of apple crisp because apparently somebody inhaled the first batch.

possibly the guy she's married to.

Who could that have been?

Great for

breakfast.

Hey, it's build a better breakfast month.

Apple crisp.

And it's Hobbit Day.

So you get

to do it twice.

Two breakfasts are great.

Here comes Senator Kelderoy's joining us as well.

Candidate for governor for all of one week now.

Senator, nice to have you here.

Good morning.

Great to be with you.

Yeah.

So one weekend.

No regrets.

You're gonna keep going.

Absolutely.

Yeah, it's been just a wonderful week.

The response has been overwhelming, and I think people are really excited about the possibilities of what we can build in Wisconsin.

Yeah, no, I mean, obviously, we've had you on several times talking about legislative experience and some of the important issues that are out there.

So, and even since your announcement, the candidate field has grown even larger.

So I want to start off by asking

something I'm sure you've thought about knowing there are going to be multiple candidates in the race.

What is it about you that's going to set you apart that when this primary is held in August of next year, what are voters ultimately going to see in you that's going to make you the Democratic nominee next year?

We know that when voters are looking at who they want to be their governor, experience really, really matters.

And at this point in Wisconsin's history, it matters even more.

And that's because in 2026, we are very likely gonna have a really narrow window to make big changes in our state, to really recommit to public education and funding our university and early childhood, to addressing the...

the economic harms that have been visited often working people in the middle class to make health care affordable and accessible.

But if we're going to do that, we're going to have a very narrow legislative majority or maybe we'll have a split legislature.

We have to have a governor who knows how to get things done in that difficult legislative environment and is ready to go on day one.

So that's me.

If you look at my career of over 20 years, I have been able to make

big progressive changes on a whole range of challenging issues like reproductive rights, health care, criminal justice reform in these various types of legislative environments.

And I think that length of time, that record of making change as an advocate, legislator, attorney, small business owner, I think that really sets me apart.

I hear you making sure that you hit

both sides of what you would call, I don't know, the electability question, both for the primary and in the general election, in that there has to be a desire to go bold on issues, if Democrats, especially if they have a trifecta with the Assembly and the Senate.

But if they don't, there also has to be the side of the equation in the general election of being able to get things done.

And you believe that you can be the best of both worlds when you go through a primary campaign.

Absolutely.

And I think if you look at the different types of work that I have done as an attorney, small business owner, and as a legislative leader for about 10 years, you can see that I have been able to

work across the aisle on important issues like expanding access to health care and helping nurse practitioners be more available for folks in rural and urban communities.

But I've also really been a champion on issues that matter a lot to Democratic primary voters like reproductive freedom, like public education, like childcare and paid family leave.

And those issues I think are going to be broadly popular in the overall electorate, but they're also going to be

very important, I think for Democratic primary voters when they're looking at the field and saying, who do I think not just agrees with me on the issue, but actually has a plan and knows how to get it done and has the experience to thread that narrow, that small needle and get things passed quickly because we know Republicans have dominated the legislature for 30 of the last 32 years.

They've controlled at least one house and they have blocked so much progress.

So when we have a narrow window, whether it's

a Republican assembly, but only by a seat or two, or a Democratic assembly, only by a seat or two, we need a governor that can effectively herd that legislature and get things done.

You are in Madison, where people are engaged.

They're paying attention.

They kind of like talking about politics.

I'm in Green Bay, where people are exhausted, and they tend to be a little bit more connected to just

putting food on their table and some of the basic economic issues.

How do you message to folks outside of places like Madison and Milwaukee where people really don't love what's happening with politics but still are struggling with so much of the fallout from the political decisions that are being made?

Yeah, I think it's really important to connect those dots for people about why working people have been working harder than ever.

We're more productive.

And yet it's getting harder and harder to make ends meet.

And that's not just because of rising prices.

It's also because wages have been really, really stagnant.

You know, Wisconsin's minimum wage is still 725 an hour.

It hasn't been raised in my adult life.

And that is so...

unacceptable and you can see how worker power has diminished over time and so helping people sort of see that the fact that they are struggling or they're not living and thriving in the way that they should be given how hard they're working and that it's not your fault.

It is the system behind design to try to make the wealthiest even wealthier and I'm talking about billionaires and big corporations who are not paying their fair share and that's by the way also why your kids school

is being defunded and you're having to constantly vote to raise your own property taxes to keep the lights on.

So when I'm traveling around the state, and this is not new for me, I mean, I have spent my career working to build democratic power, working to make change.

After law school, I was the head of a statewide reproductive rights organization, and I traveled around the state and talked about really challenging personal issues, right?

Abortion rights, sex education, reproduction with people.

And I just think if you sit down and listen to people and truly hear them, you can build connections, even with people who might initially disagree or be disengaged.

And I think that political work is really, really important.

And that's what I have spent my life doing.

I'm not someone who sits in a Madison bubble.

I have always traveled around the state.

I have knocked doors in probably most of the Senate districts in the state.

I have helped to flip the Supreme Court, not by focusing on Madison and on Dane County, but by traveling around the state to these swing areas that I knew it was going to be really important.

And I think that commitment to really being a governor for the entire state of Wisconsin is important.

We are talking to State Senator Kelderoy's about her run for governor and Kelder you can put on your legislator hat as well on this one because we are now in the fall session of the legislature and with the state budget being done we turn to other bills that are out there.

Republicans have put together a package of bills dealing with education.

Democrats have put together a package dealing with education and

there seems to be pretty clear differences between the packages and how they prioritize educating our kids and being fair to our taxpayers.

That's right.

I mean, the Republicans straight up said that what they're looking at for our schools is school closures, it's consolidation, and it's continued underfunding and privatization.

And I think that's really offensive because every kid in Wisconsin

it is their birthright to get a good public education.

And it should matter who you are, where you're from, you know, the zip code you're in, how much money your parents have.

The quality of your education should not be contingent on those things.

Democrats believe that public education is essential for every student and that we have to make sure that our students and teachers have what they need to succeed.

money is a part of it.

I mean, you can't do it without money and our kids have not had even an inflationary increase in our schools for 15 years.

But it's not just money, right?

It's also about making sure that students and teachers are equipped to succeed.

And so that's things like getting distractions out of the classroom, making sure that teachers have adequate professional development time.

You know, we don't expect

firefighters and police officers to buy their own equipment.

And we have all kinds of programs to help people get the training that they need.

But for teachers, you know, we're happy to just make them pay out of pocket and take their own personal time to do it.

And I think, you know, that's one of the things that's contributing to the teacher retention crisis, in addition to obviously the changes that were made in Act 10 that have made it very, very difficult for teachers in the classroom.

as the mom of a public school teacher.

Yes.

That is so entirely true.

And

you

know, I want to shift to something a little bit more personal.

You have a whole pack of kids.

I have a whole pack of kids.

Yes, we do.

Yes.

I mean, together we've got teams like we could compete.

Yes.

And when you listen to your kids, like they inform so much of the stuff that I do because they're paying attention and they and their friends have ideas about the future that they want to see.

How do your children

How does your family inform you as you are moving forward in this really, I mean, this is an incredible thing that you're doing and it's very challenging.

So how do your kids see this and help you on your path?

Well, I'm I'm just really lucky because my kids are very supportive I have two young adult stepdaughters that I've have been in my life and have helped to raise since they were four and seven And one recently graduated from college and I'm interested in environmental science and research So she's you know, she and I talk a lot about All different kinds of political issues and she helps me keep my finger on the pulse of what's happening in college campuses and how to engage young people

And then my oldest stepdaughter is actually an ICU nurse.

And so we talk a lot about obviously healthcare and what it's like for that healthcare workforce.

We talked about how teachers have been squeezed, but boy, our healthcare workforce is really being run ragged as well.

So figure out how we get more young people in that healthcare pipeline and how we can retain.

the healthcare workers that we have.

And then I've got three little ones that are 11, seven and four.

So I have childcare and early childhood and seeing the incredible work that our childcare educators do to get kids ready for school to help them learn how to solve their problems without biting or hitting.

Um, you know, to teach kids how to

put the snowsuit on.

To the legislature

too,

by the way.

Sorry.

Tell some of the legislators too.

Yeah.

Honestly, it sounds like there's kids in the backseat bickering sometimes to hear things from from the other side of the aisle.

Learn

more at

Keldaforgov.com.

Head over to Facebook and Instagram at Kelder Roy's is the handle there.

State Senator Kelder Roy's.

Always great to connect.

Safe travel.

Stay in touch.

Thank you.

All right.

When we come back in our next hour, we will be talking about Madison Matters with our Civic Media friends, John and Gordy.

Jimmy Cusca has an updates with sports as well.

I'm Pat Krightlow.

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Before we bring Jimmy Kuska and Kristen before you go I wanted to bring up a comment from Tony who talked about Ashland proposing a four-day school week for budget reasons.

How can working parents handle that?

There already is no daycare available and now you're cutting school years or school weeks down to four days a week.

And again, it's not just Keldits, but it's a message that we hear over and over and over again, that when you're not supporting education or when you're not supporting Medicaid, as we were talking about earlier this hour, I mean, there's just for a bunch of people that talk about business, there's no return on investment for these kinds of cuts.

I can't imagine what it would be like to be a kid going to school for longer days.

for days a week with all of the things that they're doing and their extracurricular activities.

And, you know, especially as you get older and you're trying to cram in all that other stuff in the evening, that doesn't sound awesome to me.

But hey, I think it is important to think of it in a holistic way from a community perspective, considering all of the resources that you've got and what you need to buffer.

Yeah.

So the news sometimes feels glum.

And so we like to sometimes lift the load by thinking of something light and fun, like sports.

Anyway, the Packers lost, the Badgers lost, the Brewers lost, here's Jimmy Cusco with more.

Thanks, Jimmy.

Thanks for bringing the room down.

You haven't even said a word yet, and I'm

already... I have not.

The high school team, my coach lost, too.

You know, so...

There you go.

We're all just hurting right now.

Okay, let me reset.

Ladies and gentlemen, you're Milwaukee Brewers for the third year in the row, our Central Division champions.

So we got that going for us.

Yes, that is the, if you're looking for a silver lining this weekend, if you're rooting for all the Wisconsin sports, your silver lining is that the Brewers are indeed.

division champions.

And once again, thank you, thank you.

We've been thanking Jerry Jones, you know, for for Micah Parsons.

Let's say thank you again to Craig Council for in this case, getting swept by the Reds, the Cubs did, so that we could clinch the division yesterday, even after losing to St.

Louis.

So, Craigers, thank you.

The other good news for the Brewers is that there are three games up for the best record in the NL and the number one seed.

And

that's important because that keeps them out of the wild card round.

It keeps them at home more often than not, depending on how far they advance in the playoffs.

So there's other good news too to come out of just the Brewers.

And you know, it's funny because usually by the time we hit mid to late September, we've forgotten about the Brewers in the past anyway.

And we're already on to, you know, hey, the Packers just had a, you know, their right tackles.

as their second string tackle and take over that spot.

That would be the big debate today.

But no, we're talking brewers because they are by far the best thing going.

And I'd say that the Packers aren't.

you know doing well obviously two and one could start to win to start the year uh you know things like that but uh for sure are a

bright

spot for us right now

yes they are and don't sugarcoat the Packers thing at all yeah two and one's a good start yeah but that one that one lost that was a stinkeroo it was it was a it was a boring game to watch but that's also a credit to the defenses on both teams but okay

You're more of a football guy than I am.

Okay.

I told to get this.

You got six minutes left.

Just run out the clock.

Emphasis on run.

You know, don't fumble the ball and maybe don't throw it into the hands of the other player.

And Jordan Love talks about it being a miscommunication thing.

I just think it's more of a coaching thing is you're handing the ball to Jacobs the whole game.

Just keep running it.

Yeah, I think you know when we look at the end of the game There's gonna be a lot of things we can second guess.

It's there's a

lot of

team stuff.

There's a lot of There's a lot of things you can point to it's one that definitely got away You could tell because when our very old Mike club and sends us the postgame audio he's sending us files and say

bleeped or edited.

Players are so mad.

So like half the files we get, there's some kind of swearing in it.

Oh, yeah.

Parker loves that when we send him stuff like, hey, bleep this for us, please, Parker.

Oh,

yeah.

It's a great time.

You need to go all the way back through everything and go on.

Yep.

The best part about that, though, nowadays compared to when we were growing up, it was, you know, they'd either.

beep it, there'd be a bleep, or they just bring the sound down so that you didn't hear the word.

And the thing I like now is we'll just put sound effects over it.

You'll you'll hear a cow move or you'll hear a cartoon anvil crap, whatever, just to say, yeah, that's a that's a word we can't say.

And

That is what has been happening this week.

But again, it's just a week.

Brewers are already heading to San Diego.

They've left St.

Louis.

They will be taking on the Padres tonight.

8.05 is the start time on Civic Media stations around the state.

Three games in San Diego, day off Thursday, and then a three game homestand next weekend against Cincinnati.

And then we get to thinking about the postseason.

Yeah, they get basically, they get a week off after that.

things hold their three games up for that top record.

They would have the whole week off in the wildcard round.

and come back to work Saturday.

And I think, you know, for the Brewers, I mean, they really peaked in the middle of the year, right?

They were really dominant in the middle of the year.

This could come at a great time given, you know, how banged up they've been getting in the pitch, especially in the bullpen.

So this comes at a pretty good time.

But, you know, there are some fun things to watch this week.

The Brewers Reds game on Saturday has been picked up for a national broadcast.

So I think people are really trying to tune in and see what the Brewers are going to bring to this postseason.

And then the Packers, they had to Dallas for next Sunday night.

So they won't be home.

Kristen's got more time to recuperate the knee because they're then they have a bye week.

So they're not at Lambo again until October 12th Sunday.

They're going to stretch.

They play once

at home in like a month, like what a month

and a half.

It's crazy.

Well, they knew Kristen's got to heal up, you know, ride to ride your bike all the way out there.

That

would be fun with the Micah Parsons thing, the Dallas game.

Yes, it will.

How many

times do you think they're going to put up Spencer Young's Packers fence with the sad Jerry Jones face over there?

All the

time.

That could be

on TV like a million times this

week.

That's OK.

Especially if it works out.

If it doesn't work out, then we'll hear about all your jinxed it and blah, blah, blah.

But I'm looking forward to this.

I really am.

Dallas is.

that's the team you want to be and I love that when Dallas was playing Chicago and like oh these two storied franchises like no both franchises are a shell of what they used to be so more so when you take Micah out of there hey one more time reminder on the new go for the green and gold text to win contest you've got less than a minute to text us new NEW and there will be more chances to win throughout the day and over the next couple of weeks Jimmy thank you very much appreciate it we'll talk to you on Wednesday talk to you Wednesday

And Kristen, of course, has the Dr. Kristen Lyrely show.

You can get it as a podcast or catch it over the weekends on Civic Media Stations in Green Bay, Oshkosh and Appleton.

Thank you, Kristen.

Have a great day.

Thank you, my friend.

Have

a great week.

All right.

Yes.

Talk to you a little later.

All right.

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