It’s Time For The State To Step Up On Childcare (Hour 1)

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It is now six past the hour of two o'clock on this Friday, TGIF May 16th.

It is a great day to be Wisconsinite.

We have made it to the end of the week, Zommers.

Friday is here.

Thank goodness.

Yes,

I am looking forward to some R&R.

Yes, you and me both my friend Overcast skies little sun poking through here at the world headquarters of civic media in downtown Madison right here on State Street

Rough weather last night summers.

Wow.

We talked about it was kind of breaking out during our show yesterday And I know parts of Wisconsin really got hit hard and I wanted to start off the show just by offering our thoughts our prayers and and and Good vibes being sent out to the communities across Wisconsin who really have gotten some some strong damage of some tornadoes hit touchdown and parts of the state yesterday a couple of stories wanted to hit on hit on here

First of all, from Channel 3, the CBS affiliate here in Madison, great anchor reporter Brady Mallory is in Mayville, Wisconsin today and showing on his Twitter feed some of the storm damage up in Mayville.

But then he's also reporting on this really great inspiring story.

And we've talked about on this program before that the late great

Fred Rogers, i.e.

Mr. Rogers of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, was fond of telling kids, but really all of us who are kids at heart, he would repeat what his mother told him, that in times of trouble or disaster, look for the helpers.

Look for the helpers.

And Brady Mallory, Channel Three has found

Helpers up in mayville, wisconsin today just kind of north of the beaver dam area and he posts on his twitter brady says call it a post storm Post-it at open door coffee in mayville people are paying forward Which is routine here by buying their neighbors coffee and treats and leaving it post-it notes customers can come in grab a note

and get a free little pick me up.

And it's really awesome.

People saw this this store called open door coffee in Mayville.

People are going and writing kind of inspirational notes to one another on post it notes, putting it on a wall and then buying a coffee order with that so people can just come in who are going through hard times in Mayville today and

get an inspirational message and get a free coffee courtesy of their neighbors.

So a great reporting by Brady Mallory of Channel 3000 and WISC here in Madison.

Those are the kind of things I love.

Those are the kind of stories that in the midst of destruction that people still step up.

And again, this is a great example.

I bet nobody's going into open door coffee in Mayville and saying, well, I want to only make sure that this goes to a Republican voter or a Democratic voter.

Nobody cares.

They're doing it because it's helping each other out.

And that is the spirit of Wisconsin.

That is part of what makes Wisconsin great that I love to focus on and love to talk about in this program because there are helpers everywhere.

All we have to do is look.

It's just there.

We have plenty of people who just want to do the right thing.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

So a big shout out to Brady Mallory of Channel 3 for bringing that story for their broadcast and just thought I would give them a shout out for doing that.

Also, according to the Marshfield News Herald, it says in the town of Colby, and of course Colby, famous for Colby cheese, which was founded here in Wisconsin in the city of Colby, said within hours of a tornado tearing through the Colby area, residents, neighbors, and others were out in the community yesterday.

volunteering their woodcutters and chainsaws to help clear as much debris as possible before the sunset.

The National Weather Service of La Crosse confirmed a tornado near Colby, moving northeast at 45 miles per hour at around 5.21 yesterday afternoon.

Law enforcement confirmed the tornado was on the ground according to the National Weather Service.

The intensity of this storm has not yet been determined.

It says by 7.45 last night, just over two and a half hours later,

Later, groups of volunteers, EMS and electric linemen were out cleaning up the numerous downed trees and grounding the live wires from approximately 20.

downed power structures.

Their focus was getting all of the roads open according to USA Today Network Wisconsin videographers on the scene.

According to Excel Energy's Electric Outage Map, nearly 500 customers in Colby, Spencer and the Unity area were without power due to storm damage as of 12 a.m.

this morning.

Several homes in the Colby area suffered damage as well as a Colby Chrysler Center where the local dealerships once pristine vehicles now sit

battered in dens from flying debris and shattered windows, glass in the parking lot.

Colby Chrysler Center building suffered damages as well.

So thinking about all those folks at Colby, as we said in the Mayville area, I know Juno is also a place that got hit fairly hard and I know there were other communities that I'm not calling out specifically, but to everyone across the state of Wisconsin who was affected by these storms last night, we're thinking of you.

If there's something we can pass along in terms of fundraisers for you, if there's anything that we could do to be supportive, please let us know because we want to do that.

But again, it doesn't matter whether you're in Mayville, paying it forward, buying coffee for your neighbors or folks here in Colby who were already out last night helping to clean up before the sun even set.

And again, who was it?

Groups of volunteers, EMS and electric linemen.

And how many times do we go to parades in the summer or we see a brought stand and it's a fundraiser for our local EMS or volunteers?

And we think, well, I don't know, I don't have time.

Take the time and even if you don't want to brought, give them five bucks, give them 10 bucks, give them 100 if you can afford it.

Because these are the people, our volunteers, our EMS, our first responders, the electric linemen.

All these folks who we don't think of often enough throughout the year, but by golly, when we need them, we need them.

And we're all so thankful that we come out and support.

That's the Wisconsin spirit, folks, right there.

So I wanted to start off the show with a big shout out to our local communities and all those first responders and people who are cleaning up around the state of Wisconsin after those storms.

I believe it might be a couple of much more minor storms, kind of your garden variety, rain and thunderstorms later on this afternoon in parts of Wisconsin that are cool down zombers, kind of cool in the 60s across the state of Wisconsin this weekend, but all in all.

Not too bad.

Can't complain at all.

Big show today.

Coming up at the bottom of the hour, we have Brynn and Mike Schieffer here of the Faith Lutheran Child Care of Cameron, Wisconsin up in beautiful Barron County.

Not too far from our station up there in Amory and they're going to be here.

They are in town lobbying for the child care programs in Wisconsin.

Of course, we had folks on earlier in the week talking about

The Republicans on the joint finance committee who are cutting the funding for childcare in the state of Wisconsin They are down here lobbying on that.

We're gonna talk a little bit about their business and again what these cuts really mean to people

in the childcare industry and people who use the childcare industry.

Those are the things I want to get to is what, what does this really mean to the average Wisconsinite who is in need of or is currently using these services?

So we will talk to them.

Also, and what's worse for today, Todd tends to lose things.

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We'll ask you that in hour two and take your phone calls and much more fun along the way.

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Coming up as we said at the bottom of the hour here just after the news and farm report with Pam Young brought a Brynn and Mike Schieffer from Faith Lutheran Care in Cameron, Wisconsin will be here in studio.

They're in town lobbying the legislature on childcare.

Going to catch up with them a little bit and talk about that.

And then after that, going to get into what I

find a beyond disturbing story that the Department of Homeland Security good old Kristi Noem dog shooter that she is is considering a reality show where immigrants compete for citizenship.

You cannot make this up.

We'll discuss that a little bit later Trump firing the FEMA director Trump firing the director of the US Copyright Office Who's gonna be left out there to it's just it's chaos Or is it my former classmate back in high school ones called it Chow's Also, here's a little bit of good news for you Mono Raju from CNN.

You know that guy very famous reporter

I did not know this, as Johnny Carson once said.

He is a University of Wisconsin Madison alum.

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He was in town for the West Politics Luncheon and revealed his first big break he got was at the Badger Herald.

And so we'll talk a little bit about that later on this hour.

And we have a quiz for you later on or later on today.

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This weekend going on today says even with Donald Trump's president, Donald Trump's win in November, Brian Shimming could soon face moves, a move to remove him.

Quote, somebody else needs to have the opportunity that can fundraise and unite the party.

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One former Wisconsin GOP leader said and also said, we really need that ahead of 2026.

If we're going to have a chance to take out Tony Evers or.

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So what's going on in Rothschild today?

The chairperson, chairman Brian Schimming, is being challenged by, I know this may sound weird to some people, but even in today's iteration of the Wisconsin Republican Party, there is an, I would call it the Uber MAGA part of it.

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And then there are other people like like shimmying and others who are like, hey, you know, basically, yes, Trump's our leader and we love him, but.

We have to kind of adapt things here for for Wisconsin as well.

So he's by the Uber Maga part of the party.

The challenges are coming from Milwaukee County, Brown County, which is Green Bay.

And I think there's a Claire County or the Cross County as well.

So big voting blocks within the Republican Party.

So we'll see how that goes on Monday.

We're going to be joined by somebody from Wisconsin to watch.

Wisconsin Watch will also be at the Republican Party.

of Wisconsin convention this weekend.

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We'll see if we'll see if as I like to call him the shim sham man.

Tony, watching on YouTube says someone dares challenge the shim sham man.

Yes, Tony.

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As a matter of fact, they're they're going to try.

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We'll let you know on Wednesday whether a Brian Arthur shimming survives that.

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The state Senate votes to make sharing deep fake nude images.

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So the bill's author says legislation is needed to protect residents as AI capabilities advance.

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does not cover images of real people generated by artificial intelligence, but Senator Andre Jacques and his floor speech cited a DHS study that found that 90% plus of deep fake videos posted online are non-consensual pornography.

The bill passed on a 33-nothing vote.

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coming to you from downtown Madison just a block from the state capital lots of people in town lobbying for different causes as the joint committee on finance pushed together the state budget and we're talking about all week here childcare one of the things that affects all of us across the state of Wisconsin

And here now, joined at the desk, and we're very honored to have them in studio today, are Brynn and Mike Schieffer.

They are the founders and owners of Faith Lutheran Child Care in beautiful Cameron, Wisconsin, in Barron County, not too far from our station up in Emory.

Brynn and Mike, thanks for coming in, welcome.

Thank you very much for having us.

Well,

we're pleased to have you here.

Tell us a little bit about yourselves, how long you've been in the Cameron area and how did you come to start this child care

service?

So we moved to Cameron 2007 and joined Faith Lutheran Church about 2009.

And in 2010, we were like, hey, this is a great space for a child care center, which I had been doing in home off and on and worked at other centers previously, went to the church council, and they loved the idea.

So September of 2011, we opened up a small center.

And it grew from there.

In 2016, we were able to purchase a second center, and that allowed us to care for infants and toddlers on top of preschool and school age kids.

And when COVID hit, that it had a big impact on our church center, and we ended up closing that down permanently in August of 21.

So many dates to remember.

And

so we've been keeping the second center that we purchased.

We've been keeping that going since then.

But it's slowly getting smaller and smaller, harder and harder to find qualified individuals

to

work.

And the funding that we do have, which is federal funding, is set to run out in July.

We have been in town this week.

basically demanding funding for childcare for the state of Wisconsin because once that goes away the estimates are upwards of 25% of centers licensed or certified centers in Wisconsin will close down and the rest will have to raise rates drastically and working families just can't afford it.

How many families and or children do you care for right now?

So I currently have 24 children, roughly 20 families.

Wow.

And then there's five employees.

So we're pretty small.

I mean, we've been as big as between the two centers, almost 70 children and 16 employees.

And now, yeah, but shrinking down.

I have a great base right now.

I don't want to see, you know, I don't want to lose that.

But Mike, don't you think this story is not unique that there are how many, I can't even imagine probably hundreds of childcare facilities like yours that might take care of 24, 30 children.

And you replicate that times hundreds across the entire state.

It affects a lot more people than people might think.

I would agree with that, yeah.

And I'm here more as a representative of support staff.

As far as the husbands and families that are there supporting our wives that are passionate about this and stuff like that.

So we feel it.

long care, storm removal maintenance, things of that nature.

That's my role.

So

you're kind of the maintenance guy of the operation and what other parts of the business do you help with?

That's pretty much yet.

I have my own separate job and stuff otherwise.

But

you run kind of the business side of it together or more or less?

Myself and then we do have like an account an accountant and things like that and we are a board-run nonprofit So any other nonprofits out there that are you know shying away from standing up for childcare?

Please stop get out there and advocate for us.

We need you to I

like to go back to what you said earlier We're talking with Brendan Mike Schieffer from Faith Lutheran Child Care in Cameron, Wisconsin here at our studios

Go back to what you said about you rely on federal funds, but explain to people, these aren't necessarily funds that come directly from the federal government, they come through the state, correct,

currently?

Yes, so it is federal money that's ARPA money from coronavirus is a response to that.

And so this is called childcare counts funding.

We apply every month, so we get a certain amount per child, per staff that we have.

Some of the money goes towards staff bonuses.

and the rest goes towards daily operating expenses.

And like I said, that money is set to run out.

Currently, the state of Wisconsin is only one of six states that provides no, there's no state dollars.

It's only the federal dollars.

The fact that they don't provide any money and this money is running out.

how detrimental it will be to the workforce,

to

every family that counts on us.

Like you just said, we're one tiny center, but you replicate that across the state.

And you're talking about a workforce without care is an economy that grinds to a halt.

And that was what we were trying to show this week.

As somebody who's not in childcare, doesn't have children of my own,

I could appreciate the best I can with you saying, well, we're just one, in your words, a tiny center.

But I know people who run centers as big or smaller than yours.

And I would kind of argue that, but to those families, you're everything.

You might consider yourself a small business, but to those families, you're everything.

Because to try to find alternative care, talk a little bit about the situation in Barron County.

Is there a waitlist for childcare there?

Like in most places?

Yes,

there's always a waitlist every center that is around and there is another Center in Rice Lake that will be closing very soon Decided that they they couldn't stick around for it anymore in which I completely understand I'm hoping that will come out on the other side and will come out successful

So we also have a very good question from Tony watching on YouTube He says has State Senator Quinn helped you out at all?

No.

And he has been invited to our center.

We'll get to that in a second.

But I wanted to just go back because I think this is so fascinating for those of us who might not have kids or not in this industry, when you say that many of the federal dollars now are coming from money that were approved during COVID.

So the question I have is, what did you rely on or what did you use?

prior, were you still getting federal funding prior to COVID or what was the situation then?

No, the only other funding that comes through is Wisconsin shares, which is a subsidy for low income families, but that just offsets their cost.

So there's no other funding.

It was all based on parent rates.

And when our other center closed down, that's when we started going into the red most months.

And so that was it, losing that enrollment is what?

is slowly eating away at us.

So if I get it right, before COVID, it was 100% or close to it on tuition paid for by parents.

Yes, it was.

And I wouldn't say it was good then.

We've always been having this fight, Worthy Wage Day, that just happened here.

And for childcare, we still don't have worthy wages.

Right.

clawing for $13 an hour out of our ask of $480 million.

And currently, you know, childcare workers, we're in the bottom 2% of earners.

And we have one of the most important jobs.

We're raising up the future, the future of the state, the future of our country.

And we invest, the state of Wisconsin is investing, investing nothing in them.

So they should have it right.

There were no federal dollars or very little prior to COVID.

The industry was already probably, I don't want to call life support, but you were facing challenges.

COVID came along.

If you want to call it a silver lining, although I hesitate with the devastation of COVID, if there was any silver lining, I guess, is that these funds were made available, which kind of put up maybe a temporary bandaid on the problem.

They did.

And now that those funds are not being continued by the federal government and the Trump administration,

And the state legislature isn't putting money.

Now we're right back to the crisis mode pre-COVID.

Is that right?

Yes.

Well, we're definitely in crisis mode now.

I mean, with the rising cost of everything, we're in crisis mode.

And no longer can we, myself, my husband subsidize doing this, paying for things out of our own pockets, things like that.

It's time for the state to step up and recognize us.

That was a big thing too when the federal funding did start coming in.

We felt like for the first time, we were seen.

We were, you know, that people saw us and valued what we were doing.

You know, asked us, told us, please stay open.

Please stay open.

Please take care of our first responders and our medical professionals and everybody that had to go to work.

And we did it.

We did it day in and day out.

And it was that that was fatigued.

Let me tell you to not know day to day what was going to happen and no help.

Well, I know we said a story for Colby and Stormstruck Chippewa Valley last night.

I mean, those first responders, those EMS people, well, we need them.

We want them there.

Well, if they have child children, those kids have to have some place to go.

Yes.

And I think people don't associate that ripple effect often enough.

that if the kids don't have, we have a business person on earlier this week that they literally didn't hire someone because the person they wanted to hire didn't have childcare.

And so it ripples down in the economy that way as well.

Yes.

Well, trying to, if you're trying to entice an employee to come from other parts of the country or into your community to support your businesses, they need to have a place to raise their family.

Yes, we need to be family friendly.

So

I

understand you guys are part of Wisconsin Early Childhood action needed and we're down here to lobby the state legislature to try to get this.

So my understanding is you try to get to see your Senator, Senator Quinn and Representative Armstrong.

I know the assembly has been in session this week, but I've heard the doors have not necessarily been thrown open for you.

Correct.

And we have some more stops to make before we head back home today.

I mean, have you met with staff?

Some members of we can have.

And what what is your response when these Republican members of the legislature so far at least their staff?

Maybe there's concepts of a plan

That's encouraging

as I say

sarcastically That's been enormously frustrating because look I mean, what is it four and a half five-hour drive for you guys?

Three hours three hours

three 40 or whatever

it's a little bit of a hike to get down here you stayed overnight

Yes,

and and all you're trying to do is meet with the your elected official

to talk about an issue facing their own district, and the fact that they can't make time for you to me is just, as someone who used to be a legislative staffer in that building, is appalling.

Well, and if you request information through listening sessions, 80% of constituents want child care funded.

We'll come back to talk a little bit more with Brynn and Mike Schieffer from Faith Lutheran Child Care in Cameron, Wisconsin.

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Right now we are here in studio at World Headquarters in downtown Madison of Civic Media.

And in studio we have Brynn and Mike Schieffer.

They are the owners of Faith Lutheran Child Care in Cameron, Wisconsin.

I guess technically owned by the church, but you guys founded it and run it every day.

But I think it's a creative concept because of 501c3, right?

It's what you do it through there, but but you're the ones that really do the day-to-day operations

Yes, well it was a ministry of the church You know they when I when I came to them because the there was a need in our community You know we had a congregation of how many hundred hundred and some people that were like yes, let's do this let's focus on this and

So again, we need to see that collectively, people coming together and supporting the children in

our state.

And as someone who grew up in a faith community, I'm not sure there's a better actual tangible example of true Christianity than taking care of children and taking care of each other.

I mean, some people might not connect that to a faith or a religion, but

To me, as a very, very imperfect Christian myself, that seems to be a fundamental tenet of Christ is to take care of people.

Yes.

Absolutely.

So the irony is not lost on me.

Some of the people block up the street under the capital dome of my former party that I left in 2011, who like to parade around a lot.

You know, it reminds me a little bit, not to get too biblical, a little Pharisees that, you know, like to talk a lot about about.

God and religion, but they don't seem to want you practice it when it comes to putting their mouth or money or their vote where their mouth is.

And to me, if you truly are a person of faith, you would want to make sure that we take part of the $4 billion surplus in the state and fund basic childcare.

And is that too much?

Yeah.

Apparently it is.

No, it is not too much.

Matter

of fact, the ash should be even bigger than the 480 million that we're seeking.

Quality child care is extremely important.

There's varying numbers about the return on investment for every dollar spent on child care, what our returns are.

And I've heard numbers between seven and $13 per dollar that we're spending.

That's phenomenal.

What's the return on investment when we send people to prison?

Can we stop investing in that and start investing in our children in our future?

Well, if you don't want to disclose this fine, but I'm just one of our viewers had a question just roughly What's what's the what's the cost now for a tuition for for a child that goes a daycare?

So in our

Up by me and I know that we're a little on the higher side It's 250 a week for an infant and then school age for full-time is around $200 and I know down here It might be a little closer to $300

a week for

an infant.

Yeah, you know, I think I think I don't say Milwaukee is paying like 25 grand a year.

Yeah, that's you know, you that's one child

right

you start talking about two or three a you know a Making childcare affordable for everybody not

not just certain people.

And I know a big thing on the Republican platform is to not raise taxes, to not take money out of the working man's pocket.

You don't invest in childcare.

We don't have childcare.

It's coming out of your pocket one way or another.

Somebody could lose their entire income because grandparents aren't around to babysit aunts and uncles aren't around to babysit.

You know, most people don't have that luxury.

Quite a few families in my center

You know, they've said they don't know what they would do if we close because they're not around extended family.

And, you know, unless we start, you know, they want to send their kids to the bargain basement on licensed daycare.

Good luck.

You know, you have accidents happening and other bad things.

The your your state senator Quinn representative Armstrong might not want to meet with you I do know for a fact there are some Republicans that listen to this show I'll give you each about a minute work up against the clock here What would you like to say to to the Republican senators representatives on this issue?

Invest in child care now You need us the state needs us that the children need us first and foremost, but the parents and the employers everybody needs us our economy

runs on childcare.

Mike.

I would agree.

And, you know, people might not be showing it with the way they vote currently, but when things start to hurt, maybe their eyes will get opened up and you may not want that.

I have a friend of mine who lives in the Milwaukee area and she and her husband have one child and they said they'll be paying, they're paying $450 a week this fall for a two year old and they have friends with two kids and it's $47,000 a year.

in the Milwaukee area.

And I think Barron County is one of the lowest rates in the state.

So it wouldn't surprise me, obviously, when you get into these areas that those costs grow substantially.

I think that people that don't have children have no idea of the cost.

Correct.

And then people, again, because you don't walk in someone else's shoes, we have the audacity to judge.

and say, well, why isn't that person working?

Why are, you know, what's the big deal?

And they don't understand that it takes so much of the income just to take care of the child.

And to your point, Bryn, that the family networks, the grandparents and things, it just, people have had smaller families and those opportunities aren't there.

So it would seem to me that...

You're literally doing God's work in my opinion.

So thank you both for what you do.

Thanks for making the trip down here.

Thanks for coming on our show.

And I want to continue to follow this.

If we could be helpful to get the word out, to clarify things we're here for

you.

Thank you.

Thank you for having us on and helping us get the message out.

Because yes, you just said it, the people that maybe it's not, they're not faced with it every day.

They don't understand it.

Hopefully this gives them a little more understanding.

Talk to somebody.

Talk

to somebody you know that has children.

Ask them what their struggles are and how you can help.

We appreciate you.

Brynn and Mike Schieffer from Faith Lutheran Child Care in Cameron, Wisconsin.

Thanks for being a part of What Makes Wisconsin?

Great safe travels back up there.

It's a beautiful part of the state, all right?

Thank you

so very much.

Thank you.

Come on back, everybody.

We're going to have hour number two, What's Worst?

Lost Keys or Lost Phone?

And read my next notes, but I can't find them.

Come on back.

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It's the Tahleball show for a Friday TGIF May 16th, 2025.

It is a great day to be Wisconsinite.

Overcast skies right now in downtown Madison, the world headquarters, along with Aaron Zommer is our producer and engineer.

Welcome into hour number two of the big program.

How about Bryn and Mike Schieffer Zommer's?

That was

great.

I

mean, yes, fantastic people, fantastic business owners.

Like you said.

literally doing the Lord's work.

Doing probably the most important job there is taking care of kids.

And just we hear the same or very similar heartbreaking stories so many times across our state and the country, but especially here.

It's

a statewide issue.

I don't care whether you have kids or not.

Even if you're somebody like me that doesn't have kids, childcare is going to affect us one way or the other.

Whether it's in terms of hiring someone, not hiring someone, having places that are under or no staff at all, childcare is a necessity.

And if you weren't with us in the first hour, you guys go back and listen to us at civicmedia.us.

Go to our show page and you can hear the podcast form of it.

It was really a great conversation with the Bryn and Mike Schieffer of Cameron, Wisconsin, childcare providers up there at first Lutheran childcare in beautiful Barron County.

I wonder before we move on, because I thought this was really, really important.

We were talking about the costs up there and after we got off the air, they said, Bryn and Mike said, one of the Republicans

a tax on us basically knocks on us is that we're not charging enough that way it's an unsustainable model because we're not charging enough compared to as I said before a friend that has pays a lot more in the Milwaukee area but Corrine Hendrickson who was on the show earlier this week she

on Facebook is watching and says it's important to note that rural counties cannot charge as much as we don't have the family income to sustain it.

But we still have the costs.

It varies widely.

Supporting families together.org has a state map.

So supporting families together.org.

So be aware of that.

Oh, people calling in.

on my cell phone, though, instead of the, instead of the over the airplane, I should turn that down.

If you want to call in, talk a little bit more about this, 855-752-4842.

855-752-4842.

But Korean brings up a great point.

Coming from rural county myself in southwest Wisconsin and knowing people there that do childcare, if they charge the same prices that say someone in Milwaukee County is charging, they wouldn't have any clients.

or they end or they go out of business because folks in that part of the state other parts of the state just can't afford their wages aren't commiserate with the prices of child care in the Milwaukee area for the most part for the most part so there is a bit of regionality to child care depending upon

what incomes are where in different parts of the state.

So really appreciate Korean watching and calling in about that.

855-752-4842.

855-752-4842.

Let's go to Lori, listening on WMDX here in Middleton.

Lori, thanks for calling.

What do you want to add?

I was just telling your producer that I'm just so impressed with just the staff and the guests and what have you that are on civic media.

They're just good souls.

I don't hear the vitriol and the hate that I hear on other right wing stations.

I mean, it's like truly about goodness and kindness and helping.

And I just, it's just a breath of fresh air.

That's all I can say.

And I so appreciate you all.

Well, you made my day, Lori.

Thank you for your listenership.

Thanks for calling in.

That means so much to me because, look, I'm not always right, but as we say, we pursue the truth, and I want to do it in a meaningful way.

It doesn't mean that I might not have opinions or other people, but I want to do it thoughtfully and not in a mean way, and I hope to get...

information, right?

That's the thing we're really trying to get

out is

honest, truthful, accurate information to lift us all up and do it a little bit of fun along the way and realize that we're all in this together.

So, Lori, really appreciate you.

Have a great weekend, all right?

Thank you so very much.

You, you also sir.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you so very much.

Well, how about that, Summers?

I mean, those are the we love that and thank you very much for for calling in and voicing that support.

Before we go any further, let me remind you we are smack dab in the middle of free ticket Friday.

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We're going to talk about a serious story.

I know some people think it's funny.

I'll explain why I don't think it's funny.

But Kristi, no, remember her hair extensions?

Former governor of North Dakota likes to make she play a cosplay cosplay.

It's costume play.

She plays police officer because she goes out on these quote unquote raids and she wears the regalia acting like she's a police officer and most

Many actual police officers and military people are always calling her out online on Twitter saying you don't know how to wear a flak jacket.

You don't know how to aim her rifle.

She's a cosplayer.

She's a fake.

All right.

When it comes to when it comes to law enforcement type of stuff, but she does it for and I'm not trying to be.

I guess I am being derogatory.

But I mean, it's like glamour shots.

Glamour shots for cops, basically, when it comes to how she presents herself online.

It's all about the clicks.

You know, I think calling her a cosplayer is an offense to cosplayers because they represent things that they love and do a lot of research into making it right.

And

clearly she has not done that.

She has not done that.

And of course she was the former governor of North Dakota that shot her puppy dog because it wouldn't stop barking.

And now she's the head of the Department of Homeland Security.

Well, she has a new, she's working with the member Duck Dynasty.

Great moments in TV history.

I say that sarcastically.

Duck Dynasty producers are working with Kristi Noem now apparently and they're considering a reality show where immigrants compete for citizenship.

We'll explain.

I kid you not.

Also, I'll give you a quiz here in a bit on Wisconsin tourism.

Tell you why the Trump actions in DC are going to have an effect on places like Wisconsin Dells and Door County and all those great tourist destinations and Monoraju.

University of Wisconsin Madison grad got his first big scoop here in Madison all that and more but right now it's 14 minutes past the hour of three o'clock time once again to play what's worse let's

go

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All right, timely, timely indeed.

I'm gonna be on the road this weekend, Zommer's going up to Shawano.

That's not how you say it.

Shawano, I'm going to Shawano, just west of Green Bay.

Go up to see Dad and Mary, my stepmom.

Hang out with them a little bit.

And inevitably, when I go on the road, I misplace things.

All right.

And so today's category, what's worse, lost phone or lost keys?

What's worse, a lost phone or lost keys?

855-752-4842, 855-752-4842.

What's worse, when you lose your phone?

Or when you lose your keys, eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two.

Also give us a text on the old civic media app.

Excuse me.

I had a burping here.

What's going on?

All I have is water and coffee.

You understand I'm not drinking any other adult beverages on the air.

Maybe.

Did you earlier?

No, I didn't.

No, I

know.

I'm not a day drinker.

I know, I

know.

That's Pat's job.

No, I'm kidding.

I'm kidding.

I only say that because Todd

is maybe next week.

Maybe next week, because we're we're so here's the deal.

I'll let everybody into the little secret.

Crite lows on vacation, but he's going to be back next week.

So we're going to do this show big.

We're on the road for for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday next week on Wednesday of next week.

We're going to do the show from the town of Dunn.

just outside the city of Oregon here in Dane County.

We're going to be at Kopkes Greenhouse, one of our great sponsors here at Civic Media.

In fact, I was just down there this morning, bought some plans to take up to Sean O and we're going to be down and talking to Gordy.

Gordy Kopke and the Senate Law, Josh, who helps now run the place.

Great place, local greenhouse, talking about their big event for the Badger Honor Flight.

They do this every Memorial Day weekend, where they, you come out, they got live music and they got concessions, and then they have an auction for one of these beautiful planters.

And these things are worth about...

80 to 100 bucks if you go out and buy them, but they're gonna auction out all the proceeds go to Badger honor flights to get our veterans out to Washington DC to be honored So it's a great fundraiser.

We're gonna be down in a copkeys greenhouse on Wednesday of next week Talking about that gonna have a lot of fun and then on Thursday and Friday of next week We're going up to Eau Claire the Chippewa Valley and do the show from up there and if the weather holds there is a chance

We will do the show from Pat Critello's Pound Tune Boat next Friday.

Fingers and

toes crossed.

As my friend and former broadcast partner, Kevin O'Connor, is fond of saying great potential, great potential for disaster.

and just he could go either way.

So we'll see.

It could be the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, but we hope not.

855-752-4842.

855-752-4842.

Let's go to beautiful Brookfield, Wisconsin.

Listen to the NWA UK gym in Brookfield.

Gym lost keys or lost phone.

What's worse?

Well speaking from someone who's lost both probably more than once I would have to say the keys are worse because If you do lose the phone at least you can drive the car to where you think you might have lost it You can also have somebody call that phone, but if you lose those keys you are locked out of your car You're not going anywhere or if you're you know, it's the home key haven't forbid you're not getting into that house So I would have to say lost keys are worse

I appreciate Jim before you go.

Where's the weirdest place you ever found your keys?

At the trailhead at Lampam Peak State Park at the ski trailhead, it was in the middle of winter.

I was about to ski a race out there and I noticed, oh my God, I lost my keys because it's in such a hurry to pull my skis out of the car.

Fortunately, some young youth skier, the kids race, said, mister, are these yours?

And pulled them up out of a snow bank and there were my keys.

Wow.

That's good.

Yeah, it's well, I'm going to wait until after we get up against the clock and do a break.

I'll come back and I'll share with everybody the time I lost my keys and almost my mind and I'll tell you where I ultimately found them.

Your

mind, your marbles.

No, well, I still haven't found those.

But yeah, I've lost my keys.

It drives you crazy, right?

And I reminded of the old George Carlin bit, you know, what he said he said one time, you know.

My mom said, well, you know, I lost the dog.

And she went to say, well, just get up and walk away.

Well, it just got up and walked away.

Come on back.

It's the title of our show for a Friday.

Right in the middle of what's worse, lost voter, lost keys, 855-752-4842.

Give us a call more after this on the Civic Media Ready Network.

I'm

the civic media radio network summers cut that off

Very, very quickly.

Twenty-two now past the hour of three o'clock.

What do you dial up?

There's hours.

Party up by DMX just because, you know, it talks about losing your mind and,

you know.

People that know me well know that I often lose my mind.

We're talking about losing things.

What's worse, lost phone or lost keys?

Way in.

855-752-4842.

855-752.

Uh, something has happened.

It appears that Todd is no longer audible.

Really?

Oh, now we can.

Nope.

Briefly, your microphone stopped working.

Everybody, we're

good.

Lots of things have stopped working with Todd.

I lost the connection

momentarily is what I think happened.

My my sister listen listening up a beautiful Eau Claire after after getting out of school here She's a teacher.

She says the song in every teacher's head at the end of May

Once

worse lost phones or lost keys 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 or text us on the civic media app.

Alright, so before the break

I once lost my car keys, my truck keys.

Let's drive a Dodge Ram.

And this has been several years ago now.

And I came and I was, I'd come home, I'd run some errands and gone grocery shopping.

And then I was going to go out later in the evening and I could not find my keys.

And I'm like, where on earth?

And I tore everything up.

I went through like dirty clothes piles, even though I hadn't changed my clothes.

You know, you look every you look in the stupidest places, like I throw them in the trash can.

Did I I went down to my truck.

The truck was locked.

I looked inside.

I leave and no, no, I had to.

I couldn't have left them inside because I needed it to get into my apartment.

So they had to be in the apartment.

Well, they finally to bring the story to the clothes.

I finally found them.

I opened up the freezer and

I

put the keys because I put like whatever, eggos or ice cream or something in the freezer I bought and I must have had in my hand and just in a rush I put the keys in the freezer.

And that was several years ago and I thought, good, gosh, do I need to go get myself checked?

But you're paying it, right?

Do weird things

when you're in a rush, yeah.

Also, Ellen and Cedarburg called in.

I don't know if I accidentally hung up on her or what, but we seem to have lost Ellen and Cedarburg.

If you want to call back

in, we'll definitely

take your call.

Otherwise, I'll share what she said with me if we

don't hear from her.

Well, call in Ellen.

And Cedarburg has a great cheese factory as well, by the way.

Cedarburg cheese.

Give us a call back, Ellen.

We will not hang up on you this time.

All right, Zomers, what's worse, lost phone or lost keys?

I think.

I don't know, I think I am gonna have to go with lost phone being worse.

If it's dead, if you don't have an easy way to find it, because if you lose your keys, you can call somebody else to pick you up or whatever.

True.

But at the same time, I know that you can also have someone call your lost phone if it's not dead.

I don't know, it's a tough one because either can help you get the other.

Yeah, yes, I absolutely agree.

I'm gonna go though with one of our earlier callers I think if I lose my phone especially now with the with the newer iPhone I got here this year upgraded and so he has to find my phone and all that so so I feel like if I

I mean, I would, I have panicked if I misplaced my phone.

But if I lose my keys, I can't, especially if I'm out somewhere, I can't get into my truck.

I can't get into my apartment.

You know, I don't know.

I feel more helpful, helpless, I think, when I lose my keys.

A couple more calls here.

855-752-4842.

Here we go.

Ellen and Cedarburg calling back.

Ellen, I'm sure we hung up on you earlier, but thanks for calling back.

Lost phone or lost keys?

What's worse?

Well, they're both awful.

And they happen to me all the time.

I would say lost keys because with a phone, if my daughter taught me, somebody else can call the phone.

And if your phone is on, then you'll find it.

Yeah.

That's a very practical and good answer.

So I appreciate that.

By the way, what's your favorite Cedarburg cheese?

Oh my gosh, it would have to be Parmesan.

Really?

All

right, that's

interesting.

I've never, I've never tried that before, but I'll give it a try.

You have great cheese up there in Searbury.

All right, thank you, Ellen.

Have a great weekend.

Thank you so very much.

Yeah, I appreciate you.

One more here.

Tony on, uh, watching on YouTube says keys are worse when you lose them.

You could drive to work without your phone.

Great point, Tony.

Absolutely.

All right, they're

being convinced.

That wraps up another edition of What's Worst Here For Today.

We'll be back on Monday with a brand new edition of that.

I want to mention this quickly here before we get out of here at the end.

I have a news update that will come back with this more serious story on Kristi Noem.

But Manu Raju, great reporter at CNN, was back in Wisconsin at a West Politics luncheon this week and

He's a badger.

I did not know that he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and he broke a legendary story in 1999 before he ascended to CNN as an anchor and the network's chief congressional correspondent.

Now, I'll kind of summarize this quickly, but back in November 13th, 1999 at the Wisconsin versus Iowa football game at Cape Randall, Ron Dane broke the NCAA's all-time rushing yards record and that was the big story.

But

As it turns out, he did the highest one at the 50 yard line that let him run all the way to the 100 yards down the field and the crowd is going crazy.

And nobody knows who it was because it was pre-iPhone.

They didn't show it on TV.

I'm not talking about Ron Dane, by the way.

I'm talking about a guy who was a streaker who ran out on the field but naked.

But Raju knew and he interviewed Tim Condon.

Condon for the Badger Herald identifying the Streaker, and that was his first big story.

Raju said, and then he became a true campus legend.

People were having house parties for him, raising money to pay off his fines he'd gotten.

He was the news.

Wow.

So you never know what your big break is going to be for Mono Raju.

It was the Camp Randall Streaker.

Back with more serious news after this is the All Balls show for a Friday.

You're listening to Civic Media all across the great state of Wisconsin on the Civic Media radio network.

Welcome back to the Taliban show on the civic video.

You're ready to work is now 35 minutes past the hour of three o'clock.

Glad to have you along Aaron Zahmer is on the board to get to this story on Kristi Nome in a minute, but first some breaking news and also some special weather statements.

I want to pass along to you.

We talked about this at the top of the show that after the thunderstorms and and tornadic activity that rolled through the state yesterday, there was a chance for kind of more pop-up garden variety showers and thunderstorms and a possibility of severe weather this afternoon.

And now that is happening and we want to bring you up to speed on this.

I want to start first of all for our listeners on WISS and Oshkosh and WGBW in Green Bay and Zama

this is for your old hometown area, the Manitowoc area.

There is now a severe thunderstorm warning in effect until 4 p.m.

for Manitowoc County.

At 332, a severe thunderstorm was located near Manitowoc, moving northeast at

45 miles per hour.

60 mile per hour wind gusts and quarter size hail have been associated with this storm.

So if you're in the Manitowoc area and two rivers area, certainly get to shelter and be inside at this time.

Again, a severe thunderstorm warning for Manitowoc County until four PM this afternoon.

Then moving closer for our WMDX listeners in the Madison area.

There is now a severe thunderstorm warning in effect until 4 15 this afternoon for southeastern Iowa County and Western Dane County.

And looking at the radar there, there is a severe thunderstorm right now.

Basically right on 18 151 between Dodgeville and Mount Horrib.

And that storm like the Manitowoc storm is moving

north northeast right now.

And so towns in the path of this storm, certainly in the Mount Horeb area, Barnabale right now, parts of Verona, Middleton, Wanakee, and the city of Madison will be right kind of on the edge of that storm.

So be aware that that thunderstorm warning lasts until 4.15 this afternoon.

Those are the only official severe thunderstorm warnings right now in effect across the state of Wisconsin.

They have a

a special weather and well, they actually just upgraded it from a weather advisory now to another severe thunderstorm warning.

This one in effect until 415 this afternoon for Waukesha County.

So our listeners on WAUK in the Waukesha County area.

This is for you, Waukesha County, also southeastern Jefferson County.

So parts of MDX listening area there.

So again, that one lasts until 415 this afternoon.

Zooming in our radar right now, we can see that the storm is just right around the Palmyra area, and that is moving east northeast right now.

So areas in that path of that storm are Rome, Eagle.

Ottawa, North Prairie, Douseman, Summit, and then Waukesha area, Pewauke area, Heartland, and eventually Brookfield.

So be aware of that.

That's a severe thunderstorm warning in effect until 4.15 this afternoon.

So if you're in the Waukesha area, certainly in the Jefferson County area, also in part of Eastern Iowa County and Western Dane County, including ultimately the city of Madison, and then Manitowoc County,

also all under a severe thunderstorm warning at this time.

Also for listeners on WGBW in just north of there, our good friend Pete Schwabba in the Marinette area just kind of.

west of Marinette.

There is also a severe not they don't qualify as severe but they're calling it a strong thunderstorm right now for Marinette, Menominee, Accanto area and that storm is moving through there strong but not severe at this time.

So hopefully not as destructive as yesterday's storms but wanted to bring you that.

There is a cluster of stronger to severe weather moving from say Reedsburg, Wisconsin and Southwest Wisconsin down to the Illinois

line and all of that is headed to the east northeast right now.

So be aware of that.

We'll continue to update you as we go through the afternoon.

Also breaking news over the wires at this time.

Many thanks to Zomers for giving me the heads up on this.

The U.S.

Supreme Court this afternoon has blocked President Donald Trump from moving forward with deportations under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act for a group of immigrants in northern Texas, siding with Venezuela.

who feared they were poised for imminent removal under the sweeping wartime authority.

The decision is a significant loss for Trump who wants to use the law to speed up deportations and to avoid the kind of review normally required before removing people from the country.

But the decision is also temporary and underline legal fights over the president's invocation of the continued

invocation has continued simultaneously in multiple federal courts across the country.

No doubt Maggie Dawn will have updates on this being the attorney that she is on her show.

But again, the breaking news at this hour, according to the wires, the US Supreme Court blocking President Trump from moving forward with deportations for now under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act this afternoon.

So lots of news going on.

It always seems to on a Friday, but we'll keep you up to date on the weather and on the news as we

throughout the afternoon.

Also, don't forget we're running out of time now.

On today's free ticket giveaway, at least for our portion of it, up for grabs today, a four-pack of Milwaukee Brewer tickets for next Wednesday's game.

This is for May 21st against Baltimore at 12.10 in the afternoon.

So if you're able to go to that game next Wednesday afternoon, May 21st, text us on the Civic Media app right now.

Click on one of the first 11 stations.

Click text and then text the word season.

Singular.

S-E-A-S-O-N.

Season.

S-E-A-S-O-N.

Text us right now and you'll be eligible for the giveaway at the end of the day for Milwaukee Brewer's tickets in the club level for next Wednesday.

Maggie will have a word of the day on her show as well following our show.

Speaking of the Brewers, trying to continue the gotta win here last time around.

Last time they were out on the field on Wednesday.

Tonight they take on the Minnesota Twins at Amfam Field.

That game gets underway across many of our stations on the Civic Media Radio Network over the air at 6.35 with a pregame show.

Don't forget you have to listen over Terrestrial Radio as we cannot stream it on the Civic Media app.

42 minutes now past the hour of three o'clock.