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State Senator Jeff Smith is standing by for a conversation for this half hour.
Then in our next half hour, we will be talking to Mike Clemens.
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Time to bring in my friend Senator Jeff Smith here from the Chippewa Valley, who
will be up for reelection in 2026.
And so there have been developments on that front.
Senator Smith, how are you?
Doing great.
First, I want to start with what a great season the Brewers had and all the records, the positive things they did.
And it's so sad to see that at these three games, they just set a record for the first three games that hasn't happened since 1906.
Holy Moses.
That's not the way I want to see them finish.
No, it said all these positive team records and now they're setting a couple of team records they'd like to forget about fewest hits in a five game span and others like that.
And it's unfortunate.
It can't take away from a great season.
but the whole thing on the sweatshirt where it says built for fall, no.
We were built for summer, we were built for the regular season.
I'm good, thanks.
It's intriguing to see how things are coming together.
We're gonna talk about the governor's race field here in just a bit.
But as I explained to folks earlier,
The way that things got set up when Wisconsin finally got fairer maps and got rid of the worst of the gerrymandering is we saw a lot of changes last year in the assembly elections because the whole 99 member assembly is up for reelection every two years.
But because of Senate four year terms, only half the districts are up every two years.
And the ones that were up last year, not a lot of them were made newly competitive where there are some districts that were changed and they will be up for election for the first time.
time in 2026 that includes yours, including the fact that you as an incumbent Democrat and an incumbent Republican Senator are going to wind up in the same district.
And Republican Senator Jesse James announced that he is going to be going ahead and running for the seat that you're in right now.
You've announced that you're already in right now.
So I guess you won't be bored in 2026, right?
No, no, you
Well, I mean, it's competitive in that you've got these two incumbents who are involved in, you know, Jesse James is, you know, no stranger to the legislature or to the Chippewa Valley.
but he has a record as do you as well.
And you, because you have always been in a purple district, to put it mildly, you have been able to thread the needle of being competitive in a purple district while staying true to your own progressive values.
Now that you have this newly drawn district, does your job get a little easier or a little harder?
That's it's always actually really fun and interesting to introduce yourself to new voters That's and I because I've had to do that a couple times during these last decade But at the same time, I just want to point out that I like Jeff and Jesse's we get along pretty good But his announcement was homecoming.
Well, Jesse never moved
He did mislead people and say, oh, I moved to Thorpe.
Well, he never really moved to Thorpe.
Even when we were knocking doors in Altoona, one of my staff members came across Jesse raking his yard in Altoona.
So I mean, Jesse never actually left.
And another thing to point out is interesting is that I did not vote for these maps.
I voted no on these maps.
I stuck to my guns here about how
Maps should not be decided by the legislature and chosen by the legislature and and I did not vote for these but but but Jesse did.
So no complainant.
This from Jesse.
I better not hear any complainant.
This is the map he chose.
So here we are.
Well, and here with with a record.
And when I think of the record in terms of representing, you know, Western Wisconsin, there's certainly a lot to be said for how things were handled, you know, on the matter of the hospital's closing and
water, you know, water contaminated with PFAS and all kinds of things.
And we can get into the local issues a little bit later on, but from a broader state perspective, what does it mean that now that you're going to these more competitive state Senate districts and you've got the governor's race up for grabs, how would you really kind of outline the stakes over the possibility of either a Democratic governor and a Democratic controlled legislature versus
keeping a Republican-controlled legislature and then getting a Republican governor.
What's at stake?
And just going back to 2024, out of the 16 Senate races that were up, we didn't lose any Democrats, but we flipped four Republican seats out of 16.
So we actually did pretty darn well, which moved us from 22 to 11
minority to an 1815 minority which is which right now the Republican obviously see the writing on the wall their backs up against the wall and that is why actually instead of Jesse running for the seat that he already holds the 23rd district they have convinced him to run in my district to try to prevent us from getting to that majority which we really are on the verge of getting and and we feel pretty confident about that as long as I
hold this seat so it has become like the linchpin right now is the 31st senate district as to which way we go.
I spoke at length in the last hour about one of the parts of your record that you'll be running on and that is you know how you how you feel things should be handled in the state budget and governor evers put out a note yesterday about the the ending surplus for the this just completed fiscal year.
at, I believe it was $4.6 billion higher than originally forecast.
And, you know, that that should have been a reason for bipartisan attaboys.
And instead, I read a release from a Fond du Lac Republican Assembly rep, who felt the need to, you know, tear into the governor and say, you know, you didn't, you know, you didn't do this.
It was our legislature that did it, to which, you know, my response was give me a break.
I mean, they had to be dragged kicking and
screaming to support the people whose taxes fill those coffers by investing in education and roads and things like that.
Do you feel like you'll have a compelling case to make the voters to how you would choose to engage in financial stewardship versus the Republicans?
It was still a Republican budget.
Yes, I voted yes on that budget because we had a situation here where the hospitals closed and we had 40 some thousand people who had lost their
access to the hospital system that they were used to.
So we needed to get that a billion dollars in that Trump, by the way, and the Republicans in Washington were about ready to cut from us.
So that was even the Republicans here in this state realized they were a desperate need of passing a budget that did not lose that billion dollars.
So that's where we're at.
But they did not fund our schools.
sufficiently they're still on this mission of breaking public education so it and that's I state I repeat this statistic over and over and over when this session ends the Republicans will have held a majority in the legislature 30 out of 32 years for them to even go after the governor
They are misleading people about how government works.
The governor doesn't sign anything, can't pass anything.
It's up to the legislature to send good bills and good funding to the governor for him to sign.
Well, and that's where we get to this notion of taking care of our homeless veterans and the facilities that had to close, including the one in Chippewa Falls and this.
disingenuous attempt to somehow blame the governor for a line that they zeroed out in the budget.
And I don't believe you have stopped yet trying to help lead your Republican colleagues into being a little bit more supportive, stop playing the blame game and find ways to get homeless veterans in the Chippewa Valley and elsewhere the services they need.
the options for our homeless veterans from the Klein Hall in Chippewa County, which had the most beds, 48 beds, the 17 beds in Green Bay.
We are now on the mission of reinstating and rebuilding that program, but it's really
just baloney with them wearing red, white, and blue and draping themselves in the flag and talk about how they support veterans when, in fact, it's absolutely hogwash when they've done what they've done to our veterans with closing those facilities.
We're talking to State Senator Jeff Smith, who is going to be running for reelection next year in a very competitive district at a time when there's going to be a very competitive governor's race as well.
Yesterday, we had Senator Kelder Royzon for a visit.
Other, of course, candidates for governor have been coming through the area.
Just give me your broad assessment of the field.
Does it strike you like 2018, where you had a wealth of good potential choices out there?
Do you feel like there's the...
the possibility of a lot of backstabbing and things, or are Democrats looking at a healthy primary for governor next year?
I think what we have from our side we should be bragging about is we have experienced legislators, we have experienced and progressive candidates who know government, know how to operate, know how government works.
I can't say that on the Republican side.
And yeah, you have Tom Tiffany, who's who's been in the legislature and in Congress, but Tom Tiffany is been an embarrassment in the legislature and in Congress.
Well, I mean, he's got the the wrote a whole that says I've been in these, you know.
Rock Ribbed Republican deep red districts for my state Senate career and my congressional career.
And now he's got to run statewide, which is why you see him already trying to run away from his stance on abortion.
So your point is extremely well taken.
We're talking to State Senator Jeff Smith about the 2026 campaign cycle and his own particular race that's shaping up in the Chippewa Valley.
And still to come, we will be talking to Mike Clemens.
We'll talk about the Brewers losing that third game to the LA Dodgers game for is tonight.
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So keep it right here to your favorite civic media station, all kinds of shows and guests coming up throughout the course of the day, including my guest here, State Senator Jeff Smith from the Chippewa Valley, who is running for re-election and will be challenged by Republican Senator Jesse James from a different district.
Anyway, you mentioned in your announcement or in welcoming Jesse James to the race that he has some explaining to do because of simply towing the line with Republican leadership rather than being an independent voice for the Chippewa Valley.
And that includes, and these are your words, botching the hospital closure funding.
totally agree with the word.
I'm just saying it's your word, not mine.
And now to explain to the listener, what do we what do you mean?
We know that Sacred Heart closed.
We know that St.
Joe's closing ship will falls.
Can I know you're going to get asked this on the doors?
What is it about the hospital funding that could have been done but was botched?
Back to the fact how important it is to be in the majority.
That's where Jesse has been serving.
He's been serving in the majority.
You know, it's one thing to put on a show and that you support the funding.
And I know actually, in his heart, Jesse did, but he did not have what it took to get his leaders and the rest of his caucus behind him to simply
past the $15 million over to the Chippewa Valley and let us do what we needed to do to continue to give access to healthcare to people.
And he just, I can tell you on the floor, you know, he was silent about it.
He put his head down.
And on the last day of session last year, I was most disappointing and disgusted of all.
We both stood up to speak on the matter at the same time out of consideration.
I sat down, let him speak on it about why we shouldn't pass the bill that I had proposed, which was disappointing.
And then as I stood up, they called for the vote, gaveled me out, would not let me speak, and walked out off the floor.
That's who Jesse James is when it comes to towing a line with his caucus, rather than being the
big brother in that caucus and demanding that they do the right thing.
That is stunning to me, although not surprising because, I mean, we just talked this week to Senator Keldoroy's and to Senator Chris Larson about that last Senate floor session with the resolution where Republicans wanted to
basically, you know, canonized Charlie Kirk, you know, and talk all about his wonderful qualities and everything.
And then when it came time to actually have an honest telling of his story, again, Senate President Mary Felskowski would rather, and again, this is their word, they created the word, not, not progressives, snowflakes, that this inability to want to have a full debate on things and just pound their little gavel and run away is
Not normal.
That is not what you and I have seen in the state capital previously, Jeff.
When you quote this guy, it's shameful that they want to honor him the way it is.
And I think they know that, right?
They know that.
But they're trying to appease really extremely radical
side of the of the Republican Party now and pretend like his quotes mean nothing, but they are paying all of that on their around their necks now.
Yeah, we're talking to Senator Jeff Smith from the Chippewa Valley here and getting
Getting back to the budget for a moment, we saw new numbers this week on general state school aides and that out of the state's 421 districts, only 26% will receive more aid than in the last school year, while 71% of districts are getting less general state aid.
So I mean, if you had to run on nothing other than the ongoing underfunding of our public schools in your Senate district, you could probably just run all day on that.
They're discussing the closure of three elementary schools, which has people really upset and and I certainly have lived that myself and I know what it's like and closure of schools really is frightening and actually unexpected.
People just don't expect that to happen.
They support their schools.
They support their public schools and and it's it's been a decades.
decades-long mission of the Republican Party to dismantle public education and here we are.
Yeah, state senator Jeff Smith is running for a reelection and will be facing off most likely against incumbent Republican senator Jesse James because of the redrawing of the maps and it will make for Really a bellwether race as you have a competitive gubernatorial race.
You've got in the third congressional district You've got multiple candidates already there looking to run against Derek van Orden So there will be a lot for people to hear at all the levels at all the levels of those races and so
if you live anywhere in Jeff Smith's district, expect to see him at your door because he's he's a little tireless that way.
I'm glad you're trading in your your farm boots there for your running shoes and we'll look forward to seeing you out on the streets here.
Good
All right thanks Jeff.
Talk to you a little later and we're also working on rural broadband speed.
so that we get all the all the better connections, only the best connections.
By the time we get Jeff Smith done out there in the legislature.
All right, coming up, we're going to be talking to Mike Clemens and we're going to be talking about the brewers.
And we're going to be talking about the badgers.
But don't worry, we're going to be talking about the Packers too.
So we'll have something to hopefully look forward to a little bit more than what we've
might be facing tonight in Los Angeles and tomorrow at Camp Randall.
That is all still ahead.
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We are joined now by Mike Clemens, who's going to give us a preview of all the sports that's coming up.
this weekend, the good, the bad, and the ugly.
And we are going to start with what has really been ugly.
And that would be the National League Championship Series.
Brewer is now down three games to love.
Talk about what's surprising and what's not surprising about that with Mike Clemens.
Mike, good morning.
How are
you?
Hey, Pat.
Hey, guess what?
Pitching is important in the postseason.
How about
that?
Have we ever talked about this over the years?
We have, yes, I know.
And boy, are we finding that out the hard way.
And what really makes it tough, Mike, is that we beat them all six games in the regular season.
If it had been anything but that, I think, we might be looking at this differently, but we're like, wait a minute, how did we beat them six times and now this is happening, but it's time, it's injuries, it's a whole lot of things, isn't it?
Yeah, well, you know and this young brewers team is bringing up guys like Caleb Durbin and Isaac Collins And so there was that three game stretch against the Dodgers and now you're you know Okay, so you've got the best record of baseball currently and you're getting hot and and and better every day And you got these young team but here comes the defending World Series champion and you sweep them But you know we knew that week like the guy that should beat you last night titled it last now He was just coming off an injury back then
And they were missing some other guys from their bullpen.
And Mookie Betts was on his phone after, like, the game two lost this summer at Ampham Field.
And I'm over there in the visitor's clubhouse, and he's on the phone.
And then the Dodger reporters were going up to him.
He goes, hey, just one second.
He's rolling his eyes.
You know, he says, wife, contractor, you know, we're building an extension on the house.
I mean, that's where these guys' heads were at.
But the defending champions, this high-paid profile team, they got their guys back.
They snuck into the wild card, and now they're on a roll.
And so, you know, Blake Snell just blows you away at home in game one, game two.
Yamamoto, who only lasted an inning against you this summer.
You know, I was at that game two this summer in Milwaukee.
He pitches nine complete innings.
I've been like eight years since a guy did that in the postseason.
And then last night, Tyler Glass now.
And so the Brewers, you know, they lose last night, three to one.
They're down 0-3.
uh... the last day and then they had the stat on tbs after the game that i looked up uh... the bruise only have nine hits so far in the series the last time uh... uh... team performed that poorly at the plate was in nineteen oh six the chicago white socks they were going against the cubs in the first cross-town world series and actually the white box one the series for games to do because they were this outstanding defensive team but the newspapers back then called
the hitless wonders i mean you know that
well
that's how much the brewers offense has been snuffed out this week by this extraordinary dodger pitching and i think i show you that dot on a to deal with
Well, sure.
Why not just, I mean, if you're going down, just go down with Otani on the mound, too, if that's the way that things turn out to be.
The other one, and again, some of these stats get really obscure, but this one I thought was still worth noting.
You go back to game three of the division series.
So in the past five games, the Brewers have just 18 hits.
That's the fewest amount of hits in any five game stretch in franchise history.
There could not have been a worse time for the bats to go silent.
Right right and you know it and again It comes it's the same Brewers story You know remember the Brewers used to have sluggers and then they would lose in these Playoffs series and and now they've got this team this young and fast and steals bases and they just get on or they walk Etc.
And and then they you know they work the bases and then you know a few miracles happen along the way They've been very disciplined at the plate this year and in winning the most game but
You know, when I started out on this, I got hired in August of 82 by the flagship TV station as a producer.
And I got so I got to cover that World Series.
And with all those sluggers they had on the 82 team with Robin Yachton, Gorman Thomas, et cetera, they came up short in pitching.
Remember Bud Selig said, if we had rally fingers, we could have done this.
But the Cardinals had, was it Joaquin and Andrew Har?
To beat him twice.
You know, and I'm looking at Pete Ladd on the mound.
I mean, come on.
You know, it's just, you know, yeah.
And so again, the whole offseason will be once again, the Brewers ownership needs to come up with the bankroll for the mound, for the pitching.
And they were hoping that, you know, the wheels started coming off in September when they started losing those games.
And
Brandon Woodruff couldn't go and that take them out of the rotation.
So Mizorowski, you know, he did a nice job the other night.
Not enough.
That's not enough.
That's just it.
I mean, it's great that he continues to find his footing, but it is kind of on the job training.
And sometimes it works out really well for us.
But Mike, I have said repeatedly, I want to say it one last time, because I probably want to get to say it one more time.
I very clearly remember the 2004 Red Sox being down 0-3 in the American League Championship Series and watching all four of those games, four, five, six, and seven.
And it's not that I was a bit...
Not like I was a Red Sox fan.
I was a David Ortiz fan because he'd played for the Minnesota Twins for years before going to Boston.
So I mean, it was, that was an incredible four game stretch to watch.
And so I know it hasn't happened before or since, but I got a hope.
I got to put my hopes on something that it actually has been done at least once before.
And the last time the Red Sox won the World Series was 1918 before
that, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So it's a curse of the Bambino and all that stuff.
So game four is tonight, 738, a little bit of a different starting time tonight from Dodgers Stadium.
If a miracle happens, game five would be tomorrow night in LA, then they would come back for Monday and Tuesday night in Milwaukee if they could take it to a game seven.
But the Brewers are back against the wall and we're falling out of an ounce until later this afternoon.
Who's going to be his opener or starter tonight for the Dodgers?
All right, again, 7 o'clock, the pregame begins on some of the Civic Media radio network stations.
We've got college football as well with the Badgers taking on Ohio State.
Again, coverage begins at 12.30 with the pregame for the game against Ohio State.
The Badgers taking on the number one ranked team in the country.
It's not.
Well, no actually this is a genuine question have have ever or how many times have the Badger football team in their history ever knocked off the the number one team in the nation
I don't know
And I don't know that the number isn't zero.
I'm just saying, I haven't looked it up and I have to admit, Mike and Parker gets a little frustrated with me here, but I keep telling everybody, this is the game you want to watch because if history's made, you're going to want to say that you got to see it.
I'm not saying it's going to happen, but if ever there were a time to make history for Luke Fickle, it better be tomorrow.
Well, drive to Madison and I'm sure you'll be able to find someone selling your tickets because this is not going to be good.
This is not going to be good.
CBS Sports this morning has got them Ohio State Buckeyes, the undefeated 6-0 number one ranked team in the nation right now, as 26-point favorites over a Badgers team a year ago.
Remember how Iowa, Wisconsin games for the longest time since Kirk Frenz has been over there.
It's like 21-20 or less.
They're tough physical games.
and last year the badgers lost forty two to ten and fickle said i'm gonna turn this thing around and last weekend i was thirty seven and nothing in favor of iowa and you know that the point is where's the progress where's any kind of anything any bright spot anything and read resembling identity as to where this badgers football program is going minus you know a quarterback getting hurt again
Where are you going?
What have you got to hang on?
You'll lose this thing tomorrow, and maybe a couple more to Oregon.
What story do you have to show for recruiting next year?
It's getting serious real quick there.
Yeah, it is.
Parker actually has an answer to my little made up trivia question there.
Parker, Badgers ever beat a number one?
maybe.
There you go again.
I don't have the badgers in 2010 were as as in dire straits as the 2025 Badgers.
But again, we'll see 12 30 for the pregame to 34 the kickoff the backers.
Meanwhile, head to Arizona, you're going to be heading there as well for that game against the Cardinals.
Yeah, you know, the Cardinals, you know, they've struggled and Collar Murray, their scrambling quarterback got injured a couple of weeks ago.
Marvin Harrison, Jr., their standout wide receiver, missed last week.
They're questionable going into this game this weekend, and they've lost four in a row, but by a total of nine points, like LaFleur said the other day, they've got a pretty good defense.
One guy to look for is Josh Sweat, linebacker, he'll line up usually over your left tackle.
This is a guy who's on that Eagles team that just rolled over the Chiefs in the
in the Super Bowl.
This guy had sacked Patrick Mahomes like three times in that game and had six tackles left in free agency, signed by the Cardinals for a four-year deal worth $74 million, I think.
So I was talking to Alton Jenkins, the Packers' Center, about that.
And he said, yeah, sometimes he'll line up with his hand in the dirt.
Sometimes he'll be standing out there and roaming around.
So that's somebody that Jordan Love and the offensive line have to keep their eye open.
Packers beating the Bengals last week, but you know the Bengals team that they beat Joe Flacco gets there on Tuesdays got four days to prepare and And then Jamar Chase is number one receiver.
He gets the flu and after the game Jamar Chase I went over the visitors locker room and he said yeah, I had like 12 reps with this new quarterback I mean, you know, they got to know each other literally during the pregame they were drawn up plays in the first half in the dirt and
Uh, just about and they scored 18 points in the second half So, you know, that's that's kind of a warning light by the way The Bengals beat the Steelers last night four days
later
Flacco Flacco
meeting Aaron Rodgers
They'd be out.
Yeah.
So and now Aaron Rodgers now he gets, you know By this weekend and then they'll be waiting and Pittsburgh for next Sunday night will be there to cover that one too Steelers and the Packers but, you know
And where were the Browns thinking?
Getting rid of Joe Flacco.
I still don't
get that.
Yeah, that one
makes no sense.
Yeah, yeah.
So leadership and experience and everything.
So the Packers, they're looking at themselves in terms of what they need to do to be a team that's desperate for a win because the Cardinals have lost four in a row and who's going to be out there for them on Sunday.
Oh, it was funny.
Elton Jenkins got mic'd up in that game against the Bengals last Sunday.
And during the timeout, he yells over to TJ Slayton, who now plays for the Bengals.
He left the Packers in free agency.
He's a defensive lineman.
He said, TJ, what are you guys running next?
What are you?
Nickel?
Dime?
What are you going to be in?
And I interviewed Elton.
I said, did you get an answer?
No.
No, I said, well, that's kind of rude.
You know, try helping brother out, right?
Oh, I like that.
I like when they're miked up.
That's fun.
And then finally, we've got the NBA season is getting set to get going, the Bucks wrapping up preseason.
Yeah, the Bucks wrapped up their preseason with a record of 3-1.
They lost to the Thunder the other night.
And Doc Rivers says, got to work on being sharper on defense.
And Bobby Portis, their veteran, said, yeah.
And also, we've got five days now left to get ready, because next week, Wednesday, they host the Washington Wizards.
And then it's like bang, bang, bang, 10-11 games.
After that, they don't want to get off to the bad start that they had last season.
So time now to get in shape.
Uh, and then Yanis, you know, this, the stories from ESPN about that, you know,
even though
he's,
I mean, you know, where, where John Horst, the GM had to fly to Greece this summer in August to work out a deal.
They signed Alex and Tete Kupo, another, another brother of Yanis to the roster.
Hey, what, whatever it takes.
Mike Clemens, travel safe, enjoy Arizona.
We'll talk to you later.
Thanks Pat.
All right, we'll see ya.
All right, we will wrap things up.
Here's some final news and notes from Lake Wissota coming up on the Civic Media Radio
Network.
All right, one more time brewers taken on the Dodgers tonight.
I hope it's not one more time.
I mean, one more time we announce it on this show.
I hope there's a game tomorrow and Monday and Tuesday.
We'll see what we got to get through tonight.
Pre game starts at seven o'clock first pitch 738 on several stations across the civic media radio network head to civic media dot us to learn more.
Badger pregame coverage begins at 12 30 tomorrow Packers pregame coverage begins at one o'clock on Sunday and Parker has been doing extensive research on the Badger football team and its record against number ones a Fellow by the name of Chad Holmes tells us on YouTube.
They Badgers beat the top ranked Michigan Wolverines in 1981 and they beat number one ranked Northwestern in 1962 Does that check out with your research as well
Believe it or not.
Well, as well, you should.
If you remembered the others, that would be, you know, any idea of the paranormal.
go.
Yes.
Let's let's try to avoid.
dealing with the dark arts at this early hour of the day and reincarnation and things like that.
Let's see, next week on the program, we're going to have author Laura Bird on and we're going to be talking all about bookshows.
There are some bookshows that are coming up that she's going to talk about and exactly what a book show is.
Which is kind of an important thing to know if you're gonna go to one of these things are the books that are singing and dancing or you know What exactly happens at these things?
Do you have to wear costumes?
For example,
I hear show and I think show tunes.
It could have been any of these things.
So we don't know.
We'll have Bill Hegseth on as well from the Group Grow, which is a Western Wisconsin organizing group that does a lot of canvassing to talk to people about the issues that are out there, what they need to know, and what politicians could be learning if they would hear more from the people whose doors that they knock on.
And of course, we've got Han Brighton Moser talking about farming issues.
and bringing along a guest, Steve Bow, who will be joining us as well.
For this weekend, I sense I would like to be picking up some leaves.
Well, not I don't want to pick up leaves.
I would like to be mowing some leaves, but they're going to have to dry out first after the rain here.
So we'll we'll see if that becomes the plan.
I don't know.
You do not have raking leaves in your plan for this weekend.
I don't believe
Oh, that's right.
That's right.
So
Yeah, I could see where that would be.
That would be an issue for you.
What will you be doing?
Whitewater playing football?
I haven't looked at the YAC football schedule
Whitewater actually plays tonight against Stout.
Friday night, late game in, Whitewaters will be hidden down there this evening.
What else do I have?
You can check out civicmedia.us on, I assume, Saturday, but definitely later on in the weekend.
We'll have statewide coverage of the No Kings protests I will be covering.
what's going on in Madison, and I know that we've got folks all around the state covering a good number of those many, many, many, many protests, Pat.
Would you like me to read them all again?
I've got them all right here in
Monday.
I enjoyed doing that because it harkened back to the two olden times when you didn't have internet and to find out if your school was closed during a snowstorm.
You had to sit there and listen for a guy, you know, reading on the radio, all of the schools, and you're waiting, and you're waiting, and you're hoping it's alphabetical, but sometimes it's not.
And then you finally hear that guy or that girl say your name, you're like, yes, you get to stay home.
You had to only get that through the guy on the radio, then eventually TV started with their crawls.
I
it on
Really making myself sound old at this point.
Now it's just like everybody gets a tech message.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So instead, the only way you could find out about all the No Kings rallies around Wisconsin was to hear me go through the whole list.
No wait, there's a website.
No Kings dot org where you can get that.
And by the way, if you're if you're going to one of these things as a participant.
Keep in mind, as we discussed yesterday with Cindy Greening, there may be hecklers, there may be counter protesters, whatever the case may be, don't take the bait.
You're there for what you want to do, do what it is you want to do, give the message that you want to give.
Mostly it's about numbers, about just understanding that
You are not alone out there that there are lots of friends and neighbors who feel as you do and that you want to You just want to express that in a way that is you know That is nonviolent that is community focused and you certainly don't want to give any ammunition to the people that go Oh, you're part of antifa and you get your your George Soros Bay checks and you're part of Hamas or whatever Let them wallow in their own fantasies elsewhere.
There's no need to feed the trolls on there
So also in the YAC football schedule, so you mentioned Stout at Whitewater and then tomorrow's games, our River Falls at Stevens Point, La Crosse is at Platteville and Eau Claire is at Oshkosh.
Yes.
See, I feel like we need a special YAC football segment out of you.
Well,
Why have you not talked about this before on this program?
All right.
Well, marketing, buddy.
It's all marketing.
I want a detailed breakdown of next week's show
all about it.
don't.
Look at these things I learned.
learn.
Bring up the closing credits music here.
It is time to bring a wrap to the work week on this fine program.
There it is.
If it sounds a little 70s-ish, there's a reason.
It's actually from 1978.
For no particular reason, I was thinking of one of my favorite radio shows growing up.
And so in honor of the Canon mess, we bring up this little ditty to tell you that the producer, Mornings with Pat Quite Low Powered by Up North News, is Parker Olson.
The executive producer is Luke Mathers.
We feel him watching us, even when he's nowhere near Madison at this point.
He's always watching.
The consulting producer is Greg Bach, who I hope does not burn his brewer's jersey after this weekend.
Take heart, my man, there's always next year.
The medical consulting for this program, Dr. Kristin Lierly, we hope that she is enjoying another margarita from where she is on her off weekend.
Thanks to this week's guests that include Senator Keldoroy, Senator Chris Larson, Representative Jody Emerson, Superior Mayor Jim Payne, and many more.
I'm Pat Breitlo.
Enjoy a wonderful weekend.
We will see you back here bright and early Monday morning, 6 a.m.
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