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It's not the same.
I don't know.
I mean, I'm good to hear Don again, but I mean, after a week of Parker, I mean, it's kind of tough to go back.
I don't know.
Parker injects this like liveliness.
I know.
And
I said we wanted
to spam this.
I'd love to hear some some Kristen Lyrely intros and others intros.
I think it's I think it's time to open things up and crowdsource this.
What do you think?
I think we could do that.
Audience members, think of all our audience members.
I know.
We have that
voice note feature on the Civic Media app that people can use and make their own little intro to an hour of the show.
Hey, it would work for me.
Nice to have you back.
You're up north.
Nice to be home.
8.07 on this Friday morning.
October 10th.
That's Parker Olson in Studio A2 down in Madison and Dr. Kristen Lyrely.
Back from wherever she's because she she's the only person I know that travels more than me sometimes getting around and you were in Boston this week.
Yeah.
I was in Boston, some meetings, met with some folks from the Mass Medical Society and talked about all the crazy stuff that's happening in the world.
You know, it's very interesting because we live in Wisconsin, which is a very divided state.
We have a lot of opinions around here, but they're pretty blue in mass.
And to hear how they're practicing medicine and the things that they're worried about was really.
perspective forming.
I'll bet.
Yeah.
So we'll get into some of that in just a sec here.
But first, from Rob, I know that he gave us a good morning here in YouTube.
There he is.
Good morning from Tigerton.
It's cloudy and 50 degrees yesterday.
I was busy mowing grass and leaves in the Tigerton area.
I will be done mowing for the season this weekend.
It was a great year mowing.
I've been mowing every week since April 28.
Now busy doing paperwork for the mowing season.
says the fall colors are really hitting peak in the Tigerton area.
And noted as I did as well that Governor Evers was talking about rustic roads because the rustic road system in our state is now 50 years old.
So get out and enjoy the scenery, the nature, the historic buildings, the old farm buildings.
Rustic Road 47 between Tigerton and Wittenberg on County M is the one closest to him.
And then finally he says, I have a sore right knee that's been bothering me in recent months.
When I was 12 years old, I fell off a hay wagon.
Maybe my football and farming is catching up to me as well.
I think that's all just our transition to see how our favorite knee replacement patient is doing these days.
Well, good.
It's been six weeks.
healing well, but you know, it takes a long
time.
Well, you're walking through all those airports, you know, if you were telling me off air, you went through the Detroit airport, which nobody gets through without 10,000 steps on there.
Yeah, stop stretched.
And I refuse to do transport.
Like if I have time, I just am going to walk.
Oh,
Do you know what happened last night?
Not at the Dallas airport.
We were at Twin Cities Airport.
We arrived.
And of course, we always joke about how our gate is always like at the very end of any given concourse.
And of
course, there it was.
It was what, you know, six, seven o'clock at night.
And I think we looked fine, you know, but there's a cart over to the side and some younger fellow over there.
And just says to us, do you guys need a ride?
And we, you know, we didn't we're just like, but we walked away going
How old do we look right now?
People are now officially saying offering to help us across the street, you know?
It's like, wait a minute, we should have gotten mad.
Like, what are you talking about?
No, we're young.
We're virile.
We don't need no ride.
Instead, we were like, we almost said yes.
No, you probably said, oh, no, thanks.
Thanks anyway.
We're good.
That's what we
said.
Thanks anyway.
We're good.
And then he immediately went into
What did he see in us that looked so like, don't recall hobbling, but anyway, those, those days are getting closer, closer, closer, maybe just look tired.
I always look tired, you know.
And amazingly, Kristen never does.
She comes off of these meetings still, you know, all charged up and everything.
I'm assuming this is through your new work on the National Board of ACOG?
No, this was with the Committee to Protect Healthcare, which is an incredible organization of nearly 40,000 doctors all across the country in every state doing this patient-facing advocacy work.
So they're involved in a lot of things like
here in Wisconsin, they were involved in the last two Supreme Court races, the ballot initiatives that were primarily about abortion all across the country, lots of stuff where you need the voices of doctors specifically to talk about what this means for us and our patients.
And in the era of RFK Junior, where we saw a recent study come out yesterday that the partisan divide
where people place their trust is stronger than ever before.
RFK Jr.
is heavily trusted by Republicans, even though the things he says are frankly not true in many cases.
Like, for example,
this connection between autism and circumcision.
Can we talk about that?
Can we talk extensively about circumcision on our morning show this morning?
Can I?
Again, we
talk so much.
Do we have to make ground rules?
There's
so much
gyno
talking.
Instead, we're doing circumcisions today, which, no, is again, fun because of the ridiculousness of it.
And again, I hope Sherry doesn't mind me saying something personal here.
But right before I texted you the story about Kennedy saying this, I showed her my phone and there it is, Robert Kennedy Jr.
and you're trying to make a connection between autism and circumcision via Tylenol.
And it's just one of those times when she looks at another RFK headline and just says, I don't want to go to work tomorrow.
I mean, the people who went to medical school, the people who study science have to look at this yo-yo as the Health and Human Services Secretary.
So naturally, my next step was to text it to you and say, yep.
Let's get into it.
What made Robert Kennedy Jr.
try to make a connection between autism and circumcision?
Hey, I don't know what made him do it, but I want to be very clear.
He specifically referenced two studies, and he didn't say which two studies they were, but it is likely that they were too very
poorly done studies with terrible methodology.
That means that when you put a study together, you have a bunch of planning that you have to do.
You have to pick your patients and you have to narrow what you're trying to study and make sure that it's actually going to come up with the results that are going to be meaningful.
These studies were awful, but unless you understand the complexity of it on its surface, if you're just reading the headline, it could look legitimate.
These are not legitimate studies.
So why go here?
Well, here's my theory.
Circumcision is another one of those things that in my practice, in any OBGYN's practice, anytime we're talking about having a baby boy, we have a conversation with our patients about what are you thinking?
And it's a complicated conversation.
Some patients are, they know what they want to do.
They feel comfortable with it.
Other people want to have a very in-depth conversation about the risks and the benefits and what's the best thing for my family.
And that's important to do.
Don't get me wrong.
And it's not for everybody.
to draw this kind of a conclusion and recognizing that this is a tender topic for many vulnerable families is so irresponsible coming from the person who is leading health and human services for this country.
Well, it is the equivalent of drawing on a hurricane map with a sharpie.
Yes.
And that's what some of these studies, quote unquote, are like.
And he, of course,
doesn't care much like Trump doesn't care.
You make the things say what you want them to say, whether it's what they really say or not.
And now we've put another element of confusion, especially into pregnant women.
Yes, the fathers and partners and everything as well.
But it just seems what has this guy got against
pregnant women and women in general that so much of his gobbledygook is meant to alarm your patients.
He finds those sensitive topics that make people feel uncomfortable and he exploits them.
And there was another clip where he said, we are doing the studies to make the proof.
That's not how science works.
In science, you have a hypothesis, you have a question that you are trying to answer and you guess, like this is what I think is going to happen.
But then you have to let the science do its work in order to be objective and honest and real and applicable.
You can't tailor that science to prove a point that you are trying to make.
That's flawed, but that's exactly what he said.
But that's politics.
And that's
just
it.
There's a difference between medicine and politics.
And in politics, it is not at all uncommon for people to have a hypothesis about their values, and then to try to pursue things that reinforce it, even if it means you have to conveniently ignore other things, you know, that that work against your hypothesis.
Science is not supposed to work that way.
It's supposed to be, I mean, truly nonpartisan, supposed to be independent and let the facts speak for themselves.
And then, you know, politicians are not supposed to then, you know, be fraudulent with what the science actually says.
That's why this Kaiser Family Foundation study that came out a couple days ago is so concerning because what it shows is that people who call themselves Republicans believe what RFK Jr.
is saying.
People who call themselves Democrats and most independents continue to follow the science.
So what we're seeing is people consume this information based on their political views and that too is
Wrong.
When I'm taking care of a patient in my exam room and somebody walks through the door and I know they're a Republican, I don't treat them any differently than an independent or a Democrat.
We talk about what's going on with them.
We talk about all the options for testing.
We talk about all the options for treatment.
We try to pick out the best alternative for them because ultimately it has to work for you in your life and it should not be tailored specifically depending on how you vote.
And I hate to be a broken record about this, but I feel like we have to end this discussion like some of the other recent ones in saying because of the conflicting information and misinformation that's out there, it is more important than ever to not be afraid to ask questions.
Now, there are some doctors that feel like you're the only person we've got all day to talk about this.
There are other doctors who they feel the pressure like you got 15 minutes, you got to get
out of here.
And that's what
you have too.
But don't, if you are the patient and you've got questions, you put them out there.
Even if they've got to follow up later, but don't walk away having not asked the questions that you have.
Totally agree.
And can I just mention one other thing?
You know what population they haven't gone after?
Post-menopausal women, I challenge the administration to go after hormone therapy, and they will have met their match.
Right, ladies?
Oh, yes.
That amen I just heard was downright deafening.
So yes, absolutely do that.
Back to feeling our age from Tony on YouTube, a kid in elementary school called me sir yesterday morning.
I felt so old.
No, that's when you feel like a grown-up is the, you know, the first time you get called, sir.
It's like, hey, look, I'm an adult now.
But I noticed, oh, years and years ago now, that far more than any other guys that I know, the number of people that always use the word, sir, you know, when they're saying, here you go, sir, here's the sir.
And not in like some, in a way that totally says, yep, you're the old guy now in this particular conversation, you know, and she's like, no, you can just say Pat.
Oh, no, that would feel weird.
Really?
That's so regional, too.
So my ex-husband is from Atlanta and down in the Southeast, everybody is sir and ma'am.
And that is a standard thing.
Like you could be 16 and they'd be talking sir and ma'am with you.
But up here, obviously, it's not like that.
So so much of that is cultural and interesting.
Interesting.
And
yes, it appears to be
a little age.
Sorry,
Tony.
Again, I'm sure if I'd listened carefully, the guy at the airport cart would have been like, sir, do you
need a ride.
Like, no, and don't call me sir, but, but I didn't let's just say I didn't break out into a run to prove my youthfulness.
jump
over some suitcases.
No, because my knees
would not let me.
That's just not the way that this is going to work.
We're
talking to Dr. Kristen Lyrely and coming up in 15 minutes, we are going to be talking to Mike Clemens and we're going to be talking a little sports.
The brewer is taking it to a fifth game, facing now possible elimination against the Cubs and the Packers get set to take on Cincinnati.
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Ellie puts together a story that she advertised last Friday saying, hey, send in your your nominations, your compliments, your photos of some of your favorite small businesses in your hometown.
And so a shout out to a few of the folks that sent in their favorites, Makers Market Square in Mount Horrib, Geiger Awards and Apparel in Waukesha, Rosalie Book Boutique in Beaver Dam,
wind and unwind in Wappan and the hub in West Bend.
And now Ellie's asking for, we're going to narrow it down to just local pizza joints.
And I remember we did this on the show.
I want to say last year sometime and got a tremendous response.
And so you can do the same thing.
You either put something in the comments sections here, or you can send us an email radio at upnorthnewswi.com and give a shout out to your favorite local pizza joint can't be part of a chain.
It's got to be something local and, you know, tell us why that is.
We'd love to give them a little, a little free pub over here on the on the radio all across Wisconsin.
I'm so hungry now.
I
know.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to do that.
But I kind of
did.
Like, oh, cocoon of hinterland.
Yeah.
Right.
I was telling folks yesterday or the day before about how when you're traveling, at some point it occurs to you, I haven't had a home cooked meal in however many days, and you're maybe grabbing breakfast in the hotel, you're maybe getting lunch at the conference, you're maybe going to dinner with somebody or whatever the case may be, and you finally start to feel like, oh my God, I haven't taken a meal off.
So this morning it was a piece of toast.
for lunch, it's going to be the same thing.
I probably, you know, have too much for dinner tonight as a result.
But you realize I got I got it back off on this.
But now we're talking about pizza.
And so we'll see how much longer this lasts.
So good.
Yeah.
I always like a good home cooked meal as long as I don't have to cook it.
That's
fair.
That's fair.
Yeah.
No complaints detected here.
Let's see.
And then, oh, now Rob says we've gotten him.
He's hungry for a fish fry.
Oh,
Tony jumping in there.
Oh, yeah, fish fry Rob.
So there we go.
Now we got people and we should do that.
We should do shout outs to favorite fish fry places as well, like the
one you
took me to in Green Bay.
couple years back.
So yeah, there's all kinds of good places.
All
right, where are we going to go originally?
Oh, yes, our friend Emily Cephos is running for state assembly.
Yes.
She's running in the 56th assembly district, which is whereabouts in the in the in the Fox Valley.
It's like Northwest of Appleton.
It's in, you know, it's kind of
Central Wisconsin, I think Clintonville is part of it, Greenville.
It's a pretty rural area.
It's been a Republican stronghold represented by Dave Murphy for a long time, but turns out representative Murphy doesn't appear to actually live in the district, Pat.
No, this from the Appleton Post Crescent.
Within hours of a Post Crescent story,
about residents of the 56th Assembly District demanding that State Representative Dave Murphy come clean on where he's living, Murphy has changed his address.
As of October 8th, Murphy had listed an address in Grand Chute as his voting address on his Wisconsin State Legislature webpage a day earlier, he told the Post Crescent, he was leasing a residence
at an address on property that was in the 56th assembly district, except that it wasn't.
It's actually in the 52nd, which is represented by Lee Snodgrass of Appleton.
So a group of concerned citizens is gathered to question how it is that their assembly rep doesn't live in the district.
This is hardly the first time that this has happened in Wisconsin.
I think
most notably of Shannon Zimmerman, a Republican from the River Falls area, whose address has been different from the rest of his family for some time, and yet again, nothing really came of it.
But I applaud Emily Sefos for saying, you know what, somebody should call attention to maybe having your representative be representative of your district by living in your district.
That's only a fraction of the reason that I applaud Emily Cephos.
If you know anything about Emily Cephos who ran for Assembly District 56 two years ago, she is that person who shows up on your front porch and asks you how you're doing.
She doesn't say, I want you to vote for me.
She doesn't say, this is my party.
She says, how are you getting along?
What could be better in your life?
She is desperate to bring people together and create the kind of change that we all
know we need to see.
And I'm so excited that she is running but she also knows that she's got to call Dave Murphy on his shenanigans and acknowledge that he hasn't been doing anything for his constituents.
He's been sitting in this assembly seat
parked there because he wants it, not because he's representing the people of his region.
No, it's a big difference between representing your district versus representing your party
by
having to have a seat in that district.
And so Emily's in this.
This is, of course,
you know, the season for candidates to get into the races for an election that is now just over a year away.
It takes that long to engage in the fundraising and to start knocking on doors and to get your name out there.
We've had a busy
week or so here with Josh Call deciding not to run for governor.
Instead, he's going to run for a third term as Attorney General.
Missy Hughes, meanwhile, has gotten into the race for governor.
And so maybe we'll wrap up just with your thoughts on Josh Call running for a third term as Wisconsin Attorney General because he certainly has put the fight for reproductive health rights front and center in what he's done in his first two terms.
Oh, that and so much more.
We need Josh Call in this role in order to provide us, the citizens of Wisconsin, a solid defense against the craziness of the Trump administration.
Trump has shown us that everything he's going to do is going to be in the courts.
So if you don't have a strong attorney general, a strong experienced, proven attorney general, you're out of luck.
So I'm thrilled that he has made this decision.
He'd be a great governor too, but in this role as attorney general at this time in history,
I'm very, very happy.
Yeah.
And again, there is time here.
And I know this sounds like an old man of 61.
But I was looking at the Josh call is 44.
There's plenty of time to either run for US Senate or governor in the coming years.
Let's you've got I mean, Mandela Barnes is what 38 years old David Crawley is 39.
You've got a whole generation of leadership.
out there.
That is, whatever happens with them in 2026, if they stay in the game, like Emily Saphos as well, we're going to have that next generation of great new leaders.
Like Kristen Lierly, she's one of them too.
So exciting.
On Mondays.
Thank you, Kristen.
Have a great weekend.
Thank you.
You too.
Clemens is coming up to talk a little bit sports.
Verz and Packers all coming up next on the music media radio.
I let Dr. Lairley go without promoting her show, which she works on every week and has now heard Saturdays at noon all across the Civic Media radio network.
So tune in for the Dr. Kristen Lairley show tomorrow at noon.
Her guest is candidate for governor, Kel DeRoy's.
And I was making the note earlier about...
Shall we say the youthfulness of the current field of candidates for governor?
And I thought well if I gave one I better give all the rest of them here So what I've got here is Josh call who is not in the race now is 44 Lieutenant Governor Sarah Rodriguez is 50 Fran Hong 36 Kailor Royce 46 Missy Hughes 57 Dave Crawley 39 Mandela Barnes a potential candidate 38 Republican Tom Tiffany 67 years old so again a lot of opportunities for folks who either
will get the governorship next year, or there's a US Senate race two years after that.
So again, Kelder Rise will be on with Dr. Lierly coming up at noon tomorrow.
Let's bring in now Mike Clemens and let's talk a little sports here about, well, you got the Brewers and the Cubs.
Unfortunately, now the Cubs facing elimination.
And so I guess we may as well start there as well as anything else.
Mike, good morning.
How you doing?
Well, it was tough last night man.
The momentum shift after Quinn Priester's performance the other night is just unbelievable.
I just flip a switch and I don't know if it starts with the the atmosphere the Cubs fans there at the friendly confines Freddy Peralta starting last night and you know did you see at one point the fans at Wrigley were chanting Freddy Freddy
I think that would get into his head, but it seems to have done just that.
And that's why I said earlier, anybody who's got a ticket for tomorrow night's game, man, you, you better not let the, the Cubs fans be louder than you because they do not need to feel like this is a home game.
This is, this is our territory.
We got it protected in a game five, seven, eight first pitch tomorrow, a pregame at six 30 on stations across the civic media radio network.
And yeah, how much are we missing Brandon Woodruff right now?
Well that sounds like simple analysis and after the game last night I went up and down this playoff roster and that's it.
I mean it's simple that's it.
So you know let me set the scene here.
It's last Saturday afternoon.
The crowd that the Brewers drew of Brewers fans was just phenomenal and I've been doing this since 82.
I got in as a producer to cover those World Series games and
uh... i was talking to mike to sell the p r director after game to when i said that this crowd manager i know i think that you guys i can auditions and rehearsals this is crazy cuz you know that a great rendition of the uh... of the national anthem other kinds of pageantry a little tribute to uker uh... the crowd got there early they're all like mostly in their thirties and forties and frankly a lot of them sober for that afternoon game and then they bring out charlie barron's
And he's waving that rally towel.
He gave out 42,000 rally towels.
And they were just so in sync with all the things that the scoreboard crew plays to get the crowd going.
And they just dominated with noise and everything.
Brewers jump out to a 6-1 lead.
They win game one.
They win game two.
One thing that was interesting is that both these teams, they're scoring early in the games.
i think that was combined by the end of the first thing was thirty two points for both teams twenty one of those points in the first uh... in the first inning which is a new major league baseball record in a post in a post in a playoff series so then they get down to chicago and with brandon woodruff out their pit their starting pitchers for a playoff is freddy peralta and then the number three guy was the quinn priest or twenty five-year-old group around chicago he only last
39 pitches in game three the other night.
They hit him for three runs, and they end up losing that game four to three.
Then last night, Freddy Peralta gives up a three-run homer to Ian Hap, two outs, one-one pitch, guys on first and second, and it looks like Freddy's gonna get out of that jam.
Nope.
It comes to a three-or-nothing lead, and that just changes the atmosphere.
Now, when you've got a lead like that, especially in a postseason game,
your pitchers can can relax and coast and aim for the strike zone and the bruise only got three hits last night and now it's it's even steven tomorrow night i don't know what merc's gonna do he's gonna i think he made a very wise move they said okay look i really only have two starting pitchers so what i'll do is let's secure game one put freddy up there at work let's put let's go by pitcher by committee for game two here at home so then we're at wriggly we'll put the kid in there
And, and if he can, if he go in game three, boom, we're done.
Well, it didn't work.
And now they're running out of pitchers and I don't know what he's going to do tomorrow night.
Uh, no, I, uh, and everybody's kind of wondering slash worrying about that for, for pre-ster.
I don't know if, if the term is, is proper here.
If I say, you know, the yips in, in that he just could not hit the strike zone with his signature pitch and.
You know, the closest example I have was growing up in Minnesota where Chuck Knoblock was like one of the premier short stops.
And then he moved to the Yankees and he did okay for a season or two there.
And then he got the worst case of the yips, I think, perhaps anybody's ever seen where he could not throw a ball to first base to save his life and ultimately left the game.
And I'm not trying to project onto Quinn Priester here.
I'm just saying that there is much like a batting slump.
I mean, it just gets in your head if you can't find a way to deal with it.
And I worry about the kid that way.
The other kid I worry about, Jacob Mizorovsky, we're going to
know him
to pitch multiple innings of relief tomorrow.
And again, with that 103 mile an hour fastball, he's got to hit his marks.
Got to hit his marks, got to put a little bit more emotion on the ball.
And he had some kind of a
a bit of an emotional breakdown when uh... guy started hitting him
that
you know murphy and we won't go into detail on that but it's something or murphy has to protect it it's just a kid you know twenty three the mess lots of pressure on him you know maybe they should have held off on the t-shirts whatever but anyway that's what's going to happen tomorrow night you know the good news is the game is at home if the brewers can you know turn it around and get that same momentum going they had last weekend
They would be at home on Monday night against the LA Dodgers, a team that they've swapped, so we'll see.
And the Dodgers get in on one of the...
craziest final plays ever.
Philadelphia's pitcher Orion Kirkering, I think is the name.
And just having what should have been a relatively easy, you know, comeback or do the mound, throwing it to first or home, he chooses to throw it home.
And it goes way wide Dodger runner scores Dodgers clinched the series.
Again, that kind of heartache that will haunt, you know, Philly fans for the entire winter.
But, you know, that's how baseball works is sometimes a single a single Aaron
can change everything.
There's a hit.
It gets hit back to this pitcher and he's got the ball in his hands.
Now the runner on third base is already halfway down the line, right?
He's rolling.
There's two outs and the Phillies just need one more out to win this game or to keep the game going because there were an extra innings.
And in a panic, instead of picking up the ball, which he was kind of having a hard time getting a hold on and throwing it to first,
where, you know, he had plenty of time to throw it to first before the batter got there.
He flips it to his catcher.
It goes wide at the Dodger score and they win the game and end the series.
So, and then you could see the Phillies manager talking to him right away like, hey, you know, you didn't lose this thing because he, you know, he could go down in baseball war forever in Philadelphia is the guy who blew a series.
Frankly, for the Brewers, I'd rather see them take on the Dodgers than the Phillies, because they didn't match up very well against Philadelphia.
Yeah.
I mean, you've got to avoid that Bill Buckner label that gets on somebody.
Right.
That's kind of a label.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Yep.
Let's switch over to basketball because the Bucks are getting close to starting that regular season.
They had the Pistons last night in a preseason game at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee.
And still, still, still the rumors about Giannis possibly leaving.
Good Lord, Mike, the National Press will not leave this alone.
Yeah, and that's what my feeling was in August or so.
And until the details came out this week and say, huh, okay.
The fact of the matter is the season ends for the Bucks.
Daniel Lillard goes down with the Achilles.
And so the Bucks make these bold moves where they release Dane Lillard.
They make the trade for Miles Turner from the Pacers.
They rebuild the roster.
They move on.
They moved on from Middleton and then Brooke Lopez.
And in June and July, they present this to Yanis.
Thought that they had a deal.
And then the next thing you know, John Horst gets a call and he's flying to Greece.
to meet with yonis and his agent while yonis is playing for the greek national team in the european leagues and yonis is like you
know
what would it take for me to get into new york like he thinks of new york as another destination if he was interested if you want anywhere it would be that but anyway he constantly challenging the team what can they do with the roster and they've done everything that they can really so it it's come out that down to that
They did have talks with the Knicks in August, but the Knicks gave up four or five of their first round picks to get to Macau Bridges.
You have to now watch between the period of February 1st and February 4th without going into details.
There's a window there that maybe that the Macau Bridges could be moved when his contract reaches a certain spot, if you're honest, goes with that deal.
So I think it'll pretty much be
All right, we'll see how the season is going and then maybe you make a final decision before the trade deadline February 4th.
All right.
Well, we got them for now to start the season.
That's the important part is get get the season off to a strong start Badger football the Badgers with their two and three record will be hosting Iowa at 6 p.m.
On Saturday So the pregame will be starting at 4 o'clock on some civic media stations there and then let's get over to the the NFL here where the Packers are gonna host the Cincinnati Bengals and a little deja vu at 325 kickoff Sunday 1 o'clock the pregame starting on civic media stations and the deja vu
being Joe Flacco, guy that they just played a couple of weeks back when he had Cleveland uniform on.
This is something you never see in the NFL.
No, no.
One of the reporters joked when the floor came in and said, so when was the last time you played Joe Flacco?
I was like, yeah, couple of weeks ago, right?
Joe Flacco was brought in as a quarterback for the Browns this year.
You know, the Cleveland fans have been ripping on because he's too conservative and not, you know, driving the ball downfield.
And he's 40 years old.
And these quarterbacks, even Brett Farve has said that.
He said, you know, I was a different quarterback when I was 30 years opposed to 25.
I was I was safer with the football, believe it or not.
And, you know, you just tend to be that way.
Aaron Rogers, the same thing.
Anyway, they moved on in Cleveland with Dylan Gabriel.
The the Bengals are desperate because Jake Browning, their backup is
thrown 80 interceptions.
They've lost their last three games.
They're trying to hold the phone for Joe Burrow when he comes back from toll surgery at some point.
And so they get flacko.
And LaFleur and Jeff Halfley, the defensive coordinator of the Packers, think, hey, there's a good chance that this guy could actually adapt to this, that sort of pocket offense that the Bengals run
anyway.
So he'll be out there at 325 on
four days to prepare for a game one thing we're watching those the kicker situation brandon mcmanus your thirty four-year-old eight kicker for the packers at wednesday's practice he's kicking balls also and tweak feel something in his right quad in his kicking leg in his thigh and he said you know what this happened to me three years ago i got through it it happened on a wednesday i still kicked on sunday i kicked a forty yard or fifty yard or so uh... he might be a question mark for sunday's game at kicker
All right.
Well, and back to Favre today is his 56th birthday.
And so if he's making comments about his playing shape, I mean, we're facing Aaron Rodgers in a couple of weeks here.
Maybe the game between that, the Arizona, maybe we end up facing Favre at 56.
Maybe he feels like he's got something to prove there.
Anyway, Packers Bengals again coming up this Sunday and Mike Clemens will be following it all and we will talk to them all about it next Friday as well.
Safe travels, Mike.
Have a great weekend.
You know, we laugh about that, but stranger things have happened on the NFL.
Have a good
weekend.
Stranger things have happened.
Thank you, Mike.
Appreciate it very, very much.
And again, 325 kickoff.
One o'clock is the pregame for the Packers and Bengals for the Badgers against Iowa.
Coverage begins at four o'clock tomorrow for kickoff at six homecoming against Iowa and Brewers and Cubs.
Pregame starts at 630 tomorrow.
Some final news and notes back home in Lake Wissota after this on the Civic Media Radio Network.
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All right, let's look ahead at what you'll find across the Civic Media radio network later on coming up on the matinee on-air program with Jane Mattener and Greg Bach.
Dan Schaefer from the Recombobulation area joins Jane and Greg just after 10 o'clock this morning.
And then get this, Todd Alba today at 235 is going to be talking to Mike Mankey.
the PA announcer for Badger Athletics.
I've been hearing some promos for that.
The man behind the voices, Todd, likes to say.
So that should be a lot of fun.
I'm really excited about that.
I want to make sure I hear that today.
But you'll be napping.
You're always napping at about that time.
I am.
Oh, I'm actually really going to have to nap because I'm going to be on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba tonight.
So I actually
might wait, wait, wait.
Wait a minute.
Let me scroll down here.
I don't know.
I haven't looked.
It's it's not on here.
Are you sure?
Are you somebody pulling your leg?
All I see under nightlight with Pete Schwabba is Bar Band Friday.
Includes the original song Baseball on the Radio in honor of the Brewers written by Southern Wisconsin musicians.
I'm not seeing any Parker Olson here.
I'm pretty sure.
I'm pretty sure me
and pulling your leg.
Me and Greg Grundersen, I think are going to be on tonight.
Okay,
talking
about sports
show.
Maggie Dawn has Jeremy Janine from Urban Milwaukee.
See also Jennifer Sullivan, Director of Health Coverage Access for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, talking about the rising cost of health insurance because of Republicans cutting subsidies for the Affordable Care Act.
And also Terry Barr will join Maggie for What's Good and Local but Overlooked.
But getting back to Todd here for a second, not only does he have Mike Manke coming on, but it says here at 306, weirdly specific time, but after the three o'clock news, there's going to be a VIP ticket giveaway to the world premiere of No Packers, No Life, the incredible story of an avid group of Japanese Packers fans making their way to the Mecca of Lambeau Field, debuting at the Majestic Theater in Waukesha.
And Todd's going to have VIP tickets to give away for this thing.
Wow.
How fun is this guy?
That's very fun.
He's big time.
How about that VIP VIP tickets?
What do we what do we got?
We don't even have tickets looking around.
I don't even have I mean, I can give away my Roy Kent coffee mug.
That's that's about it.
You're not
separating yourself
from that.
No, no, no, I'm not totally not.
No.
Are you going to be watching your Whitewater football team in action this weekend?
I don't even I should have gone over the YX schedule with Mr. Cummins while he was here.
Yeah, that's all right.
Whitewater is playing against Stevens Point this weekend.
Stevens Point is how you would say how you would say lowly.
They
are
not good.
So
I might not watch.
I might just listen
and watch something
else.
Okay.
Let's see.
We've also got UW Eau Claire is traveling to UW La Crosse.
Yeah.
And we've got Platteville heading to River Falls.
Again, Whitewater at Point and Oshkosh heading to Stout for
the, the standings here overall.
Yeah.
I mean, it's only week two, you know, I mean,
so
at the top, you've got Plattville, La Crosse, Oshkosh and Stout all with one and O records.
And then now at the bottom with O and one records, Oak Claire, River Falls, Stevens, is that whitewater really down there at the bottom?
Whitewater lost in double overtime to La Crosse last week.
So,
Is that a symbolic victory?
Can we can we make it like 0 and 1 and 1?
Oh, no, no,
no,
no.
It was not that it felt like we've lost four games because we're up 17 nothing at a half time and we didn't score until overtime.
No symbolic victories here.
Okay, I gotcha.
On the text line from Tiffany and River Falls talking about Shannon Zimmerman saying, I think our assembly district gets forgotten because we're so close to the Twin Cities and we're part of the Twin Cities media market.
We have to seek out Wisconsin news and it's so frustrating.
But it's why I love civic media and I tell everyone to listen.
And Tiffany, we appreciate that very much because again, both from
Up North News, which is part of Courier Newsroom, and Civic Media, a real core focus has been getting Wisconsin news out to places that have a tough time getting Wisconsin news.
places that are in the Twin Cities TV market or the Duluth TV market, or they're down there, you know, closer closer to Chicago, and it's just tougher to get Wisconsin news into some of these places.
It's kind of like Parker the way every year we have members of Congress introduce bills so that you can actually see the Packers everywhere in Wisconsin, including if you're in the Twin Cities TV market.
And yet nothing ever comes of it year after year after year.
Yeah.
It's tough to get.
It's tough to feel like you're a Wisconsinite in some of these border communities.
It is.
It sucks.
I think, I think that's part of two why you see so many Cubs fans at Brewery Games is because they're all right there.
Yes.
Yeah, exactly.
So, so again, you've got organizations like these that are trying to put more Wisconsin news, Wisconsin sports into these places and kind of bring more of Wisconsin together and feel a bit more united.
It's way too easy to feel like you're more part of a TV market than it is than what's inside your state borders.
But who your legislator is in Hudson, you know, in in St.
Croix County and in Pierce County, you know,
These things should matter a lot to the voters there, but you'd never know listening to Twin Cities media.
So I'm glad we're filling a role there, especially around the third congressional district.
You know, we've got so many stations in and near the third district so that people are hearing much more about the importance of the of the congressional representative for that area, whether it's Derek Van Orden this year or whether it's, you know, one of the other candidates that wants to unseat him.
These are uniquely Wisconsin issues that people deserve to hear about.
It's part of what we talked about with Congressman Mark Bocan yesterday and why he's doing town halls throughout the third congressional district because the current representative there isn't holding any.
And so once again, you got people with a focus on bringing news to all of Wisconsin so that you have
you know, the right representation in both Madison and in Washington DC, when these elections are all over.
Well, Parker, have you hope you have a good weekend?
Good luck to whitewater anyway.
And of course, to the brewers, the badgers, the packers as well.
We will be summing all of it up.
Of course, Monday morning, 6am back here up north.
I'm Pat Crite low founding editor of Up North News, the Wisconsin outlet for Courier, a pro democracy news network building a more informed, engaged and represented
Have a great
weekend.
See you Monday.
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