LIVE From Lake Wissota: On Building Community (Hour 1)

Live on location, it's the Todd Alba Show.

And now, pursuing truth wherever it may lead, here's your host, Todd Alba.

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and streaming worldwide on the Civic Media app.

Good afternoon, everybody live from Lake Wissota and the quite little compound.

I'm Todd Albaugh live on location along with Mr. Aaron Zommers, our producer and engineer back at the World Headquarters in downtown Madison, Wisconsin.

It is Friday, TGIF May 23rd, 2025.

It is a great day to be a Wisconsinite and Zommers.

I only wish you were here because those watch you on the stream, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Twix, whatever you want to call it and the like.

Look at the shop behind us.

We got Lake Wissota next to me, the host of, uh, almost in the wrong show.

Mornings with Pat Critello now.

from six until nine.

Mr. Pat Critello, who is so gracious to be our host and our Northwest Wisconsin News Bureau Chief Pacific Media James Kelly, live here in in person.

Gentlemen, good afternoon.

Pat, thanks for having us.

My pleasure.

Welcome.

Welcome to Lake Wissota.

Welcome to the town of Eagle Points.

Welcome to the Memorial Day weekend.

Right?

This is so great.

It's almost great.

It was supposed to be down here on the pontoon.

There's a wind chill right now with this north breeze coming in right behind us.

But it's not

bad.

A little bit of blue sky over there.

A flannel little hoody weather.

Do you good?

It's really beautiful and Pat, you over look like with soda here.

You do your show here every morning.

Oh no, no, I do the show in the house.

there you can see the lake January shows just would not cut it here but I understand the sentiment it would

be nice

sometimes six o'clock in the morning

though

not not

not it

doesn't mind itself doing outdoors

not so much uh james kelly we talked to you a little bit yesterday down at wcfw downtown chipwell falls you made the short drive up here to uh to pat the place glad to have you along how you've been

oh you know i've been great since yesterday you know i feel like

You know, Pat, you could sell tickets to this view out of your whole business waiting for you.

I know, right?

This

is really

relaxing.

So you're saying I need to host more functions for Civic.

I get it.

100%

will set something up.

I've been saying this for the longest time, like, come on up guy.

And then you finally bring the show here.

This is this is outstanding.

Well, I do once or twice more.

We'll see.

This won't be the last time.

I'm sure.

Now with a view like this, my gosh, and the hospitality, it's absolutely great.

Big show today, by the way, coming up in hour two, we have.

Peter Rapine, managing editor of Epom's World, will be along with a humorous look of the wild and wacky of human behavior at around 3.30.

We also have another edition of What's Worse, Southern Accent.

I can't do a Chicago Accent.

or the late great now George w coming up an hour to also.

We have our part of me.

Brian's g from Wisconsin Badger on of course, that big ev green house in the town of the city of Oregon in D that's just below Madison and concession stand at C proceeds of that and also t auction for those beautif

3pm will tell you how you could also call in and bid or donate.

And Brian's going to talk to us about Wisconsin Badger Honor Flight in hour number two as well.

Coming up at the bottom of this hour, Brady Ewing, three-time Big Ten champion for the Wisconsin Badger football team, spent three years in the NFL.

He'll be here as well talking a little sports and life.

But right now, gentlemen, I want to get into a little cover.

It should be three dudes with a beer.

That's what we should have called

this.

I was thinking it's more like, I feel like this is more the Bartles and James commercial.

Remember the two old guys selling wine coolers and.

And then this is the, you know, the grandson has come to visit over here to learn about the family business, except nobody drinks bottles and James wine coolers anymore.

So there's your 80s reference for the day.

I love it.

Uh, at the hotel, I'm up here by the way, I should shout out because she wasn't listening yesterday.

My favorite youngest niece, Isabel graduated last night from Eau Claire Memorial High School.

home of the old abes, by the way, or just the just the abes.

But a beautiful ceremony last night.

Shout out to Mike Johnson, the superintendent of Eau Claire public schools and everybody else.

They did a did a great job.

So Isabella is graduating and shout out to her and everybody else.

You know, it's a big event because family friend Lisa and Sean Holly have come into town Lisa with her spreadsheet.

So it's going to be a three almost like a Pope coronation for the for the graduation here.

We've held graduation parties for both our daughters back here and for one of them.

I mean, we got the tent set up back here and everything and nobody left the house.

It was a deluge all day long.

Just the rain and I'm so glad that that didn't impact the graduation last night.

Yeah, all kinds of graduations happening around the state of Wisconsin.

I know this weekend both high school and probably maybe some colleges as well.

But guys, I wanted to get into

I want to forget about the headlines are important I know and Pat you always cover it so well in the morning on mornings of Pat Crite low But I wanted to talk about just having a conversation whether it's uh, oh Zomers is sending us a message here.

Well, we'll see here Oh, I need to turn myself down people have told me that for years.

Yes Zomers, how is that?

Be quieter

time.

Um, I want to have a little conversation by having a conversation because

My show is based in Madison.

We go all over the state.

We have many of our shows based in southeast Wisconsin.

Pat, you're the only network show that's based up here in northwest Wisconsin and having grown up in an out state, as they say, in a more rural part, I think that we don't spend enough time on just getting to know our friends and neighbors around the state of Wisconsin.

So I'm going to ask you guys about just having conversations, but I want to take a little bit of this.

This is from Katie Couric, former NBC CBS news person, and she now has a podcast.

She had the Midas Touch Brothers on talking about this from a little bit more partisan perspective.

Let's just give it a quick listen here.

This is Katie Couric with the Midas Touch Brothers.

I has right wing media been so incredibly effective.

People are suffering.

People feel pain right now and people want answers about why they feel pain.

They can't afford a home.

and they're seeing rich people with 10 jets and mansions and they can't afford a home.

They don't know if they're going to be able to, we have to listen to people and what they're saying.

Democrats people, listen to what people are actually saying to you.

People are suffering out there.

And I think that they're getting easy answers from right wing media about where their suffering is coming from.

They're being told the immigrants are doing it to you.

They're eating your cats and your dogs.

And that sounds stupid to a lot of people, but people want an easy answer about why they're feeling pain.

And when you can blame a marginalized community as they're doing it, they're doing it, and then somebody comes in and says, I'm going to make you rich.

I'm gonna make you the richest person ever, just like me.

You're gonna be so rich, you're not even gonna know what to do with how rich you are.

That message resonates with people who are suffering.

It's built on fraud But you combine the lies with a right-wing media network giving you a simple answer and That connects with people

now that's another minus touch brother is on the Katie Kirk's podcast next question Pat Crite low.

How do we connect with people better?

Well

That's a very good question because I'm thinking more about the onslaught of that messaging that they were just talking about and, you know, a right-wing media network that has almost unlimited funds to provide, you know, the aforementioned easy answers.

It's easy for us to say that this should all happen one conversation at a time.

And it should.

It should.

And, you know, James does this as a reporter.

One conversation at a time.

Tell me what's going on.

Tell me what I need to know.

And we should all be

better listeners.

I'm not taking any pressure off of that from people say on the left side of the spectrum.

I'm just simply noting that the scales of conversation are a little tilted these days because we have allowed people with literally billions of dollars to

you know, set the tone of the conversation.

It just makes it that much tougher for let's say a state senator is knocking on your door and asking for your vote and asking what's going on.

This person's already been fed a steady diet of, you know, the stuff that gets shoveled over here across the field.

And so all we can really do Todd, the short answer to your question is continue to ask questions of people and actually listen to the answer rather than necessarily pushing back or fighting back right away.

James Kelly, as Pat said, you're a lot of reporting up here.

You're going to a protest rally this afternoon.

You're also a sports guy.

You grew up in Long Island.

We talked a little bit about that yesterday.

I read an article here.

I think it was on ESPN recently on Brewers' Christian Yelich saying he's really become kind of the leader of the clubhouse, and he learned that now from the late great Bob Uker.

When they first met, Uker taught him and said, you know, don't don't ask about a guy's stats or his batting average.

Where'd you grow up at?

What do you do for fun?

Get to know someone.

What do you hear any reporting in Northwest Wisconsin when you go to a report?

Are people talking past each other?

What's on people's minds up here?

Yeah, I think before the 2024 election, we heard a lot about, you know, grocery prices, the overall inflation, and those concerns still exist today.

And I think.

what you've seen is kind of a shift in maybe where that blame is being placed, where before the election people were struggling, they wanted an answer, they wanted things to get better, so they went with the other party that wasn't currently in control.

And you saw that globally too, where a lot of countries that did have a more conservative leadership in their countries voted more liberal and kind of had that ideological shift because they're struggling.

And these are these are difficult conversations to have like

very much in depth and really explaining down to the brass tacks what's on each line of this bill, this bill, that bill.

Those are tough conversations to have and it can be easier to just say things are bad let's go with the other guy.

And like you said to demonize other people in this case the fight over Medicaid cuts and what I've seen all of our Republican members of Congress posting about is well we just need more of those able-bodied adults to get off the couch and work without them actually asking

Why are those people not working?

Do they have a child at home?

Do they have a disability?

Can they not afford child care because the child care crisis has not been adequately addressed?

If you get the answers to those questions, then you can truly help people as opposed to, you know, demonizing one group to get the votes of the other.

Paddy you go to you and your lovely wife sherry go to fish fries up here and spend a lot of time James at your public your private life is your private life I don't know.

Whatever you're out in the bottom.

You do I'm assuming you don't just sit in the newsroom all

night I

mean what what you guys here because why wasn't Hayward for the Birkenbeiner people were talking about the state girls hockey high school hockey tournament There are the maybe it was the boys, but the state hockey tournament.

They were talking about the NHL Playoffs is also at that time.

What are people talking about day-to-day around the Chippewa

Valley, James and Kelly or James and

Pat.

Well, definitely not the Bucks anymore.

There was a good bit of Bucks talk going on before that.

I think nowadays it really is one of the main conversations around here is revolving kind of around the unhoused population.

Even the Eau Claire Police Department just this week said we've gotten even more calls this past year than we did the year before.

It's getting worse and it's a visible problem.

So people are

seeing it every day as they're walking through downtown Eau Claire and that conversation carries over.

And then there's the usual stuff.

How are you doing?

You know, there's not exactly a local sports team around here to rally behind so strongly.

But I'm sure when the Packers come back, it'll be all Packers talk again.

And you know, around here, the again, the affordable housing crisis is something real when they talked about people not being able to afford a first home is a very real thing around here.

Previously, a lot of the conversation went around the health care situation.

up here when two hospitals, including St.

Joe's just across the field over here, abruptly closed.

There's just.

A lot of uncertainty, I guess, is the undertone of all of this, whether it's politics or the economy or, frankly, sports at times.

It's uncertainty.

People say, how do we get back to a more certain time?

How do we get back to something that's a bit more stable?

I don't have an easy answer to that, but I know that that's what I think that's really that lack of stability, security, consistency is what people think about a lot around

here.

I want to come back, have more conversations about having conversations.

But I want to talk a little bit about how do we turn down the tone so we can actually listen to one another without ignoring some really big and important things.

I think that's a big challenge right now.

And maybe a little fun along the way.

Stay tuned.

We are live on location from Lake Wissota.

And the quite little compound is the All Ball Show across Wisconsin on the Civic Media.

Ready to

work.

wherever it may lead and having fun doing it.

Welcome back to the Town Hall Ball Show in the Civic Media Radio.

Workout has led us to Lake Wissota.

We are live on location at the beautiful shores of Lake Wissota here at the Pat Crightlose Studios.

The Lake Wissota studio actually exists.

The pontoon is here, but it's way down.

It's a very steep bank that we're on.

If I lived here, Pat, up and down those, I'd be in much better shape.

Oh, yeah.

We're dead.

We're dead.

Either one would

apply in this.

We're packed quite a little course of mornings.

We're packed quite a little every morning from six until nine.

James Kelly, our Northwest Bureau Chief here for Civic Media News.

Before we go any further, Zomras has reminded us time once again for Free Ticket Friday.

Let's

go.

That's right.

It is time for a free ticket Friday.

Once again, your chance to win four club seat tickets to the Milwaukee Brewers.

Can I ask a question first though?

Yeah.

What's with the monkey's tune?

What was that about?

Well, if you were a true Brewers fan, you would have known back in the late 80s or late 90s.

They would win

the game.

They would win the game.

They'd play that song.

That was in the late 80s and 90s,

right?

Uh-huh.

Okay.

Continue.

All right.

Well, I'm going I'm going to the demo for this show is Millennium.

We're skewing meta-musical today, folks.

I learned something today.

I didn't know that when Todd's just in that song.

I was like, it's a good

song.

That's why you asked the questions.

I can't remember saying I heard that in person.

Normally, I do.

Normally, I like to know why.

James wasn't even a twinkle in the parents'

eye in late 80s or late 90s.

The

parents were a twinkle in anybody's eye.

Anyway, the ticket.

All right, the lawyers tell us this is a statewide contest I'll get thrown in the lake with soda if I don't say it.

All right, here we go now

Appears taught has briefly cut out for a second, but I can help out here So the tickets that we are giving away today are for the May 27th game at 640 against the Red Sox the Boston Red Sox, so that's a Tuesday

If you're not able to go, then don't worry about texting in.

All right, Todd is back.

Where

did we go?

I'm not sure what happened there.

All I said was the word score.

The sensors pulled our finger.

I sensed somebody probably

used their boat lift.

It's just too much of a drain on power.

But anyway, the word is score SCORE SCORE SCORE SCORE SCORE SCORE SCORE SCORE SCORE SCORE SCORE SCORE SCORE SCORE SCORE SCORE SCORE SCORE SCORE SCORE SCORE SCORE SCORE SCORE SCORE

talking to Pat and James a little bit more about having conversations with our friends and neighbors.

Pat, you, all of our shows, but you do a great job of morning talking about the headlines.

You're on the first thing in the morning and there is this fire hose of information.

How do you think that we don't play that down?

But also, I just think if we're pounding every day on that, people are going to get tired.

How do we have a conversation first before we get to the headlines?

I really come back to something that I used to say at the TV station as well.

And it's about having a balanced diet, not just of food, but of where you get your information, your information sources.

And by the way, as an aside, I made a lot of people feel really old yesterday when I told them it was the 20 year anniversary of my last day at the TV station.

W-E-U.

Yes.

But, you know, thanks to that.

that gig and also, you know, as a legislator, people feel like they can stop you at a fish fry or at the grocery store and say, what's the deal with this?

And so you look for trusted people to have conversations with.

And you don't just take everything that you hear on face value.

This thing we talked about this morning where the Chicago Sun-Times and some other newspapers ran a whole recommended books list for the year.

They had AI write it.

Wow.

Wow.

Most of the books didn't exist because nobody proofed it afterwards.

So it really is just about, look, I'm glad people get it from my show and from your show, but look around a little bit, ask some questions.

Just don't unplug entirely and say,

You know, it's all divisive.

I don't care.

To me, that's the one wrong answer.

But to balance out that diet of where you get all your information from.

James, you're a guy who follows sports the much I've ever asked you on the air.

Did you play sports in high school or growing up?

I did,

yeah.

What did you play?

Yeah, I played baseball and basketball growing up and then ran track in high school and then a little bit in college before I just kind of decided, you know what, I don't think I like running a half marathon every Sunday morning at 8 AM, especially in

college.

So we're going to pick up on this with Brady Ewing after the bottom down.

break, but just a person that spent time in the locker room and a teammate, how did you connect or how do you think it's best to connect with people just if you want to build a team and ultimately our community should be a team?

Yeah, I think, you know, every team has its kind of clicks, the people who just, you know, they play the same position or they run the same races, so they all kind of work out together.

And every team also kind of needs that one guy who is able to connect to those groups and just say, okay, I'm going to, you know, we used to go to like Chipotle before one.

of the meets that we had every year, uh, to which our coach would say, cool, you're all running the two mile now.

Just, just that one person who says, let's all just go together and we'll all sit together.

And like, you get to really bond in those times when it's just downtime, there's nothing else to worry about, but it's not someone you would probably typically hang out with.

And see, that's my point.

I think we need more.

I still, some people are going to sound stupid.

I don't mail bonding person bonding, but just do something away from politics.

Do some, just be real people.

Pat.

Yes, and that's what you have to do.

Go to those fish fries.

Go to wherever and have those talks with people.

People sometimes they want to talk politics with me and I just quickly deflect because it's just there's a time and a place, you know, for...

every kind of subject.

And leaders themselves, it's much like chemistry on the radio or TV, you can't manufacture it.

That leaders just emerge, chemistry just emerges.

And it's usually from the people who either work the hardest or have the biggest heart, you know, for one another, they strike up the conversations, and they can motivate each other, even if they don't have, say, the highest batting average on the team.

And, you know, then others, they have it all.

And we give them the afternoon show and travel all over the state.

And

no, that's not true at all.

Thank you

for being our big

toe.

No, that's not true at all.

I'm just here.

I'm the water boy.

I'm Pacific.

I'm Pat Crite-Lo.

James Kelly, thank you very much.

James has to run.

I'm going to do some housework.

You should carry on.

I'll be back later.

Captain Snooping here, the Pat with Crite-Lo compound.

Come on back.

It's the top of our show.

Live from Lake Wissota, there it is.

There's the hat.

Pacific Media Radio Network.

Brady Ewing's next.

Don't go anywhere.

It's yacht rock time.

That's what that gave us.

We're finally gonna score.

To this day, when I hear that song, I see you standing there on that lawn.

Discount shades, store-bought tan, flip-flops and cut-off jeans.

Somewhere between that set and the sun, I'm on fire, I'm bonerun.

You looked at me and I was done, but we were just getting started.

Welcome

back to the title ball show on the civic media radio network across the state of Wisconsin.

It is, uh, we'll call it 35 minutes past the hour of two o'clock on a TGI Friday here.

We are live on location at beautiful Lake Wissota home of Pat Crite low host of.

Mornings of Pat Crite.

A little every morning from six until nine.

We thank him for, uh, for letting us use this great space.

We are on his, uh, kind of a deck here.

We're the stairs that go right down to the boat dock and the pontoon is on the water.

Lake Wissota right behind us.

It's a beautiful day here in northern Wisconsin.

Joining us right now via stream yard back in the old hometown and equally beautiful part of the state in the driftless and Richland center.

three time Big Ten champion with Wisconsin Badger football team also served as captain his senior year and spent three years in the league.

As they say, the NFL for Atlanta and Jacksonville respectively.

Mr Brady Ewing for our bi-weekly conversation.

Brady, how the heck are you?

I'm doing good, Todd.

Thanks for having me.

Thanks for thanks for queuing

me in.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We appreciate you and always fun to sit and chat a little bit.

Have you, you know, Rachel, you guys ever, have you gotten up to Northern Wisconsin yet to kind of explore things or are they campers or I don't know.

I know they love the outdoors.

Oh, they're obsessed with the outdoors.

So I know they're watching today's show.

So you're probably planting a seed, which is good, but they love, they've tried to camp out on our land before.

That's the story for another day, but love being outside love, you know, harvesting things that you wouldn't think you could eat and figuring out if they can eat and crickets grasshoppers.

I mean, they're they're survivalists at their core.

So it's pretty pretty cool.

They would love it up there.

No doubt.

No,

I know this about your four boys and I really feel like you're not only are you begun your own starting four at least for a potential basketball team.

Honest to goodness, I feel like your four boys could do very well on survivor because they do have those survivalist instincts.

I think they could give them 10 years and I think you've got a real shot, Brady.

I.

I won't fight you on that.

I know they, they, I, we have watched naked and afraid.

I will say that they

love that.

They love that show.

So they like that

show.

They read the survivalist books and, you know, thankfully they blurred out and the people end up putting, you know, coverings on, but they love that show.

They, they like all the Al Gore stuff.

I think that's great.

Well, it's a, you know, it's a beautiful part of the state up here in, uh, in Lake Visota.

We're happy to be here.

Brady, I wanted to pick up on this conversation we were having before the break with Pat and James Kelly, our news director up here.

And just want to spend some time this week on this Friday because.

You know, the headlines could get overwhelming in the news, and it seems like there's always a crisis every day.

And, you know, in my opinion, some of them are.

But I think the first step in having conversations about building community is how we listen to each other.

Because I think too often we get in our own news or political silos and don't ever want to actually listen to somebody else.

All we want to do is try to convince someone that our way is the best.

And I think the first step is to get people to listen.

I read this great article recently interviewing Christian Yelich from Milwaukee Brewers.

And he made this point that Bob Euker taught him because when Yelich was traded from Miami to the Brewers to Milwaukee, they sent down a plane to get him in Miami to get Yelich.

And on the plane was Robin Yacht, Brewer legend, and Bob Euker.

And he

said that Euker just spent time on the way back just

saying, you know, well, so where are you, where are you from?

Where you have brother or sister is like, what do you do for fun?

And he really taught Yellowitch that if you want to build a clubhouse in sports, just

create a normal relationship.

Ask the same things you would of your teammates that you would your cousin or your neighbor.

In your time, you played four years for the Wisconsin Badgers.

I went to three Rose Bowls, three Big Ten championships, three years in the NFL.

Tell us a little bit about what you've learned in your time as a college and professional athlete about building community and relationships.

Yeah, we might have talked about it before, but I think Coach Abilma.

did a really good job forcing our hand on this a little bit during my you know some of my early time at Wisconsin where he would actually during fall camp encourage us to sit with different people at at dinner you know after practice then we would normally want to sit with our you know position groups or the people that are from the same part of the state you know he would he would try to you know force us to

have conversations to the point where he would actually give us questions to ask if we went to a hotel and they paired us up with somebody else.

And to your point, Todd, it wasn't anything earthshattering.

It was the basic questions to better understand people, to learn about their family, learn about their upbringing, what makes them them.

Because I think sport in the locker room has a way of bringing everybody together.

I talk about it all the time like a broke record, but bringing everybody together

to chase one goal so you're able to set some of those differences aside and find common ground in the in the fact that hey we're all here we all want to win we all aren't represent Wisconsin well when we were playing with the Badgers and to be able to set those differences aside and find the common ground the things that we all have in common those basic fundamental principles whether it's in a sports team whether it's in a community or a school wherever it may be

There's so much that we have in common.

And if you're just naturally curious to learn from other people, learn about them, learn what makes them tick, maybe you know that they have a different perspective or opinion than you do.

But why don't you try to find out why?

Ask questions to understand why they might hold that opinion.

And not asking the specific question in that way, but just learn about their upbringing, learn about their faith background, their familial situation.

And you start to have a genuine love for people that allows you to set differences aside and know that we're all here trying to do our best in a day-to-day situation in this thing we call life.

And to be naturally curious, seek to understand and just show love, you know?

Yeah.

Well, let me ask it this way.

And obviously without name and names, but what's like a big turnoff?

in a locker room or a team situation, what are things that put barriers up that make it really difficult to get to know someone or even work with them or trust them on a team?

Yeah, I think, you know, if they don't want to have a conversation with you, you know, I mean, you have certain guys that are in a certain part of the locker room.

I mean, we had assigned lockers, but

guys that wouldn't want to have conversations or when we went to have lunch, they'd sit off in the corner by themselves or, you know, they were very, very opinionated and it was their way or the highway.

I'd say it was kind of those two situations.

Either you were kind of an overshare on what your thought process was and your opinion was, or on the other end of the spectrum, you weren't willing to engage and have a conversation.

And so I think that's a good learning for life too.

It's like, okay, how can we...

I think it's okay to hold opinions and to challenge your opinions and learn about things so that you can continue to grow, but let's not be so quick to share those in the locker room or whatever we're doing.

It's just, hey, let's seek to understand first.

Let's be curious about other people for the genuine nature of just wanting to get to know them to have a better relationship.

We're talking with Brady Ewing three time Big Ten champion with the Wisconsin Badger football team as in my opinion one of the absolute best fullbacks of all time at Wisconsin and then spent three years in the NFL as well with the Atlanta Hawks or Hawks.

The other birds.

Falcons.

Yeah.

I've got my birds.

I'm out here in nature, Brady.

I'm getting my birds mixed up and with Jacksonville Jaguars as well.

Brady, you go around and talk to it to youth and if people want to get in contact with you, Brady.

He's on Twitter and on Instagram.

You can find him at BradyBRADIE.

And what is it?

It's Ewing34, right?

On Twitter?

B-Ewing34,

yep.

B-Ewing34, all right, very good.

And on Insta, is it just your name or what is it?

Brady.Ewing.

Yep.

Brady.Ewing, there you go.

Reach out to Brady because

I hope people get a taste, Brady, when you come on the show of just how inspiring and how fun you are to be around.

And this is the real deal, folks.

Like he's not, this is like exactly the way that we talk when we're not on the air.

And so I just find it a lot of fun.

I know you go out and you talk to groups, particularly athletic groups around the state.

How do you, when you're talking to, is it mainly high school kids, Brady, that you speak with?

Yeah, up until this point.

Yeah, it's been mostly mostly high schools could be Athletic departments could be specific teams but been doing a lot with just high schools in general too and they're in their General student population

So it's when you talk to that age group to you How do you change it or how do you make it more relatable to them in terms of just connecting with with?

their own peers

Yeah, I think it's it's first

you know, setting your own mindset, right?

That this, we're not, we're not seeking a specific end destination.

Like this is a journey.

And I think the coolest thing about the journey is the challenges, the people that you do it with, the successes you have along that journey.

And, and so helping reframe the mindset of, okay, I'm not, there's really no light at the end of the tunnel.

And that shouldn't be, you know, depressing or concerning.

It's, hey,

It makes you focus on the moment, focus on the here and now, the people that you're alongside, whether that's your classmates, your teammates, and I think it reinforces the fact that, really, it comes down to relationships, whether that's your friends, your teammates, your family, the people that you do this journey of life with, enjoying the moment alongside them.

We have only a couple of minutes here, and we're gonna come back and talk more directly about sports.

Monte Ball, one of your former teammates at Wisconsin, he was going to be on the show.

He had to reschedule.

His flight got mixed up and he said, come back on the show.

We're going to try to do it with you on a day.

Holy cow.

I went to this thing that he did in Madison here a couple of weeks ago, fireside chat with our friend, Kristen Brie, and the transparency, the honesty when he talked about watching the Super Bowl.

with the team he was drafted by the Broncos and he did it from a jail cell after he had struggled with alcoholism.

The impact and now where he's at in recovery and the ability to start reaching out to high school kids, that's the guy I want to be around with a teammate, Brady.

Yeah, I mean, I need to go back and hopefully they recorded that of some sort and I can get my hands on it.

I wasn't able to attend or tune in yet, but.

Yeah.

I mean, Monte's story, it's really encouraging the fact that he's using it for good, that he's in such a good spot now.

He's using it for good to then help inspire and empower others to, you know, hopefully choose a different path or seek to get help when they might be in those situations.

And so I think it's, yeah, just awesome to see.

He's such a good teammate.

And what you just said there, Brady, and he spent a lot of time on this is the stigma, like when he was at Wisconsin, running backs coach, he said, he tried to reach out, but there was a stigma.

If I'm really honest about what I'm struggling with, am I going to see less playing time?

Does it go all the way to the head coach?

I mean, these stigmas, when our friends or families or teammates, when they're struggling, we have to make it okay to not be okay.

A hundred percent.

And I didn't necessarily have that in my own, in my own right from a mental health perspective or.

you know substance abuse or anything like that but you feel that way because you put so much pressure on yourself to perform and you don't want to seem like you have a chink in your armor whether that be for me that was more injury related it's like okay i'm gonna you know hide these small little injuries that you know they think i'm just chugging along doing my thing and um other people in other other ways like montaid mentioned there so definitely a way to improve

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All right, Brady, before we get back into some sports talk, we have to give the

The key word, the key word in our free ticket Friday.

Last, we got, we got to do this again now.

If the boys are watching, uh, I probably should have asked your dad first, your mom, but I'm just going to say it on the air.

We will, uh, we'll coordinate and we will go down because I know one of the boys was deeply disappointed that we left in the eighth inning and did not stay for the ninth inning of the Brewer game.

Guys, we'll stay for the whole thing.

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We'll stay for the whole thing.

So you've been in these seeds, Brady, that we're giving away.

They're pretty darn nice.

Oh, they're great seeds.

You get the ability to come inside and check out the concession sands getting air conditioning.

I think I heard him cheering out in the living

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All right, Brady.

You're Alma mater the Wisconsin battle first of all they announced this week that next year's next year's first game against Notre Dame will be at Lambeau Field and Had somebody tweeted out right after that and said wow, that'll be a really good test for the new coach

That was quite the take I went up there actually my dad Brandon

And my dad, David, Brandon, my brother, and I went up to the LSU game.

Were you

up there?

You know, up at Lambeau, that was just quite the sight to see Lambeau filled with red and just a lot of energy in that game.

So that was pretty cool.

And the Badgers, the coach, Chris pulled it out, beat the LSU up there.

I think LSU was number five in the country when they beat him up there.

All right, so the over under on the Wisconsin Badger football team according to Vegas right now at least one of the booking online booking places Badgers five and a half wins that is the over under Brady Ewing I ask you do you take the over or the under five and a half

Man, that is wild.

I so I knew that schedule was tough and I had seen it but I pulled it up during break here and I'm

I'm just looking at it.

And, you know, you got some of the old, the games of old, where you felt like they were gimme games, right?

You know,

not

so much.

There's not as many, but you look at Illinois, you look at Minnesota.

I mean, even Indiana.

Yeah.

Those are all super competitive teams now.

And

I've got those all losses.

What's that?

I think they're going to lose all three of those that you just said.

In

addition to.

Yeah.

I mean, they got.

The first two games, first two non-conference games, Miami of Ohio, middle Tennessee, I mean, those should be winnable games.

But then Alabama, even Maryland now is playing better football, Michigan, Iowa, Ohio State, Oregon.

I mean, there's no off weeks.

You know, it's not like the Indiana of old when I was playing where, and even Illinois, you know, you felt like you could go in and get a hand.

Oh, handy full win.

I don't even know

if that's

a word.

So whatever

I was trying to

say there, an easy one.

Give me one.

That's leave it to the radio guy and easy win.

I'm a simple guy.

Get some of the, you know, second string guys, some reps and that just is not the case.

So five and a half is probably very realistic, especially with the way Badgers have struggled.

I hope, I hope we get the over and I'll take the over and optimism and true, true fast.

All right, I'm taking you taking the under.

I'm taking the under.

I think it's going to be another five win season.

I'm not.

I'm not happy about that.

You understand?

I hope I'm desperate.

I hope they're right.

And we were not our things are not our final predictions.

We'll wait till we get closer to opening weekend.

But I just saw that I was just the odds people.

I just thought, wow, that says a lot about where the program is at in terms of perception, at least.

Oh, absolutely.

And so then let's speculate if it isn't under or around that line is fickle there another year after that.

Well, that's the big question, right?

We just buy out too expensive or or do they say, no, they're going to give him one more.

I buy it.

Yeah.

And Monte Ball, when we asked, we talked to him a little bit after this event here in Madison a couple of weeks ago, and I brought this up to him because it just come out.

And he he was like, oh, oh, I don't know.

He didn't want to

say.

It puts you as a former player.

It puts you in such a tough position because I feel like we have such a culture of winning when I was there in these past couple of years.

Everybody knows how that has played out.

And it's just it's a tough position to be in because you have this eternal optimism that the program is what it has historically been.

And we just need to reestablish that.

And I am taking more of a positive note, excited about what I'm seeing with Jeff Grimes, the offensive coordinator, his background as a.

offensive line coach, a run game coordinator, and just what I'm hearing from him as far as philosophy of establishing the run, doing it in the trenches first, using pullback again a little bit when needed.

Excited about that, and I think that will be fun to see hopefully reestablish that run first culture that Wisconsin has had since the early 90s.

All right, Brady Ewing.

We thank you so very much.

Have a safe Memorial Day weekend.

The family up there might see you around the neighborhood.

We'll see.

But thank you, Brady.

We always appreciate you.

Have a safe weekend.

Oh, great.

Thanks.

Thanks for having me.

All right.

Our pleasure.

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But right now, coming up here at nine minutes past the hour of three o'clock, I want to turn to the phone line.

And joining us via phone right now is the chairman of the board of directors for the Badger Honor Flight, Brian Ziegler, who is on the phone.

Big event this weekend down at Kopkes Greenhouse in Dane County in the town of Dunn, just outside the city of Oregon.

They're having a broad stand tomorrow, Sunday and Monday.

And all the proceeds from that, as well as their big plant sale,

on Sunday at 3 p.m.

Goes to the 100% of the proceeds, the Badger Honor Flight.

Brian joins us via phone right now.

Brian, good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

Thank you so much for coming on.

Thank you.

When I get on the road, Brian, I get a little spacey and I thought I booked you for this hour and you were kind enough to show up at the top of the show.

So thank you for bearing with us and rearranging your schedule for us.

I really appreciate that.

No problem So so tell us a little bit about for those that might not have heard I know you get a lot of press at least a local television with these flights come back home But I'm sure there are people there like Badger honor flight.

What is this all about?

Tell for someone who might not have heard of yourization what you are

Badger honor flight is part of the honor flight network, which is comprised of 130

We're called hubs across the United States.

And our mission is to take veterans to Washington, D.C.

at no cost to them to visit the memorials built in their honor.

And so for us, it's a one-day trip.

We leave Madison typically around 7 a.m.

and we get out to D.C.

Ronald Reagan Airport.

And we visit the Arlington National Cemetery, the Marine Corps Memorial, Air Force Memorial.

Vietnam, Korea, and the World War II memorials, and sometimes the Pentagon 9-11 memorial.

And we do all that in one day.

Then we come back to Dane County Regional Airport here in Madison, and we have thousands of people there waiting to welcome them home.

We have a band that plays.

American Red Cross is there serving refreshments, signmaking area for the kids.

And it's just a great way to long overdue.

Thank you and welcome home to our veterans.

It's an incredible organization.

I can't say enough.

great things about you folks.

I know our friend and colleague Phil Knee and W.R.C.O.

Richland Center has had you on his show and talked to you.

I know our friend and colleague Jane McNair, McNair on air every morning from 9 until 11 on the network.

She's had to believe people because there's there's a, I don't know what to call a sister companion organization out in Milwaukee, right?

That does a similar thing.

Yes, there's actually six of us hubs in Wisconsin.

So yes, there's Stars and Stripes out of Milwaukee.

So this is a great way for people all around the state, wherever your hub is at to get involved.

But I'm most familiar with the Badger Honor Flight out of, out of Madison, like I say, the TV station, most of them do a really great job at these homecomings.

Tell us how this began, Brian.

My understanding was originally to honor World War II veterans as they started to just age to a point where they were dying before they ever got.

properly honored?

Was it with them or was it with Vietnam vets or how did this start?

Actually about two days ago was our 20th anniversary of the first ever honor flight trip and that was coordinated by Earl Morse out of Ohio and the World War II Memorial had been dedicated the year prior and Earl had worked in the VA hospital system and he talked to several of his patients who were World War II veterans

and quickly found out that these men and women didn't have the financial wherewithal to go visit the memorial that took so long to be built that was built in their honor.

And Earl got this idea together that, well, you know what, he was a pilot and he got 12 Cessnas to take 12 veterans out to Washington, DC.

And that's how he started it.

And then the other co-founder of the Honor Flight Network is Jeff Miller.

who started out a similar organization out of Hendersonville, North Carolina, in honor of his dad, we're a war two veteran, and he did a charter flight.

Earl and Jeff got to learn about each other, got together, and they have now formed, will be now called the Honor Flight Network.

And since 20 years ago, we have flown over 317,000 veterans nationwide.

Wow.

Congratulations.

That is just absolutely amazing.

Talking to Brian Ziegler, the chairman on the board of directors for Badger Honor Flight out of Madison.

Brian, talk to us a little bit because of Kopke's greenhouse.

They do this annual event.

I think Gordy said they raised north of, I have the number wrong, but I know it was north of $12,000 between the auction and the and the broadstand out there.

Do you do you folks fund Badger Honor Flight?

Is it totally funded on donations or how does this happen financially?

Yes Badger on a flight is funded 100% by donations and guardian fees and We are also 100% Volunteer RAM so we don't have any paid staff any paid facilities that we got to pay for So pretty we're proud to say that over 96 cents of every dollar that's donated to us goes straight to that flight day

That's incredible.

What do you say guardian fees?

What does that entail?

every one of for Badger

We, every one of our veterans has a guardian who is responsible for companionship, but more importantly, the safety of the veteran, everything from leaving Madison that day throughout DC and getting home that night.

So each of those guardians pays a $500 fee to go along on the flight.

Sure.

Sure.

Makes sense.

Got to pay for their ticket, obviously, as

well.

I just think it's amazing that the community, again, this is part of what makes Wisconsin great, Brian.

I don't care what party, what candidate people voted for.

I would hope that, and so many of us do, in Wisconsinites, we rally behind those who served.

Because, again, we might not always agree with the conflict or the war they were in, but all of us should be thanking and honoring the

men and women who put on the uniform to protect our freedoms.

And this is just an amazing thing that you all do.

Again, for those watching on the stream or for our listeners, if you want to get involved to help raise money for Badger Honor Flight, go to Copkeys Greenhouse in the town of Dunn.

Tomorrow, Sunday and Monday for their Broadstand, all the drinks proceeds and food proceeds go to Badger Honor Flight.

And then on Sunday,

at 3 p.m.

They're auctioning off about 45 or so of these big, beautiful planter pots live there at Copkeys at 3 p.m.

If you can't make it, if you're listening to other parts of the state and you want to help out, here's the numbers.

Omer's has it on the screen.

We'll put it in the show notes as well.

608.

835-7569-608-835-7569.

And as you just heard, Brian there say, 96 cents of every dollar goes 100% to the Badger Honor Flight.

Yes.

Each of these flights cost $135,000.

So when you donate money to us, we put every penny possible towards those flights.

We're very mindful of our generous donors and the money they give

us.

Yeah, just a couple of minutes left here, Brian, before we let you go.

Just give us a personal memory.

I'm assuming you've probably gone on at least a couple of these, or you've talked to veterans or their families, their guardians as you call them when they come back.

Give folks just a personal memory of yours, something that really touched you and why you're involved in Badger Honor Flight.

I got involved years ago by a fellow Iraqi war veteran

that I served with.

He got me involved and spent one of the best things I've ever done in my life.

But the personal is

actually in the last flight, so that's very recent for me.

We have an area out there.

They're doing a lot of renovation in D.C.

by the Thomas Jefferson FDR Memorial.

And the path is under repair.

I had a veteran and one of my volunteers out there say that this veteran and the guardian wished to walk on the walkway that we had said, please do not walk because it's unsafe.

And I come to find out that the veteran used to live in DC and him and his wife did and they used to walk this path for years and it would have a lot of sentimental value for him.

So I said, yes, I will go with them.

so that he could have one last memory, had his wife's photo with him, and he was holding it.

And every so often, he would stop, go by a chair, go by a tree, which had a special meaning.

And I've come across a lot in my years doing this with Badger on a Flight.

But to help a veteran have an extra special memory out there that was not related to a memorial, but more personal, that really hit home for me.

Incredible story, Brian.

And I think you just encapsulated it perfectly.

Each of these flights, there is a memory for each veteran.

It means something.

It's not just a trip, not just a day vacation.

It's a deep held meaning to have that for some people closure, for some people, a thanks.

But this is an individual and we talk a lot about how do we honor people?

This is by getting involved and donating to Badger Honor Flight.

You're giving each one of these veterans a personal memory, am I correct?

That is exactly correct.

Well, I hope everybody gets involved and have a great event at Copkeys this weekend.

We'll keep plugging it throughout the show.

Brian Ziegler, thank you so much and best of luck with these Badger Honor flights.

Thanks so much for being here.

Thank you very much, Todd.

Yep, our pleasure.

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Civic Media Ready Network here in beautiful Lake Wessona on the shores thereof with our host at the Crite Low Compound, the host of Mornings with Pat Crite Low.

Every morning from six until nine, Mr. Pat Crite Low.

Pat, we are going to maybe go off the pond too, but a little nippy right now.

We'll do it in a future

show.

I like how for years now, I've been in this house for 30 years and occasionally people refer to it as the Crite Low Compound.

To see it in writing down here on the screen now on social media is

That's a little off-putting to be honest.

It sounds like there should be, you know, bars up to keep you from getting out.

It's like the Kennedy compound, you know, as long as there's no... Okay, okay, okay.

You're better off with the Gilligan's Highland references.

than chap, a critic or anything else like that, right?

So, yeah, we could do a, could do a three hour tour here.

Yeah, I think so.

Maybe a few for the

show.

Many thanks to Brian Ziegler of the Badger Honor Flight, great organization, Pat.

He would say like there are six

chapter is basically around the state of Wisconsin.

I know you've talked about on your show, Jane's talked about on hers, but they do such great work for our veterans across Wisconsin.

Well, of course, and it's just so important to not only maintain that level of respect, which is done in many ways by the way, you know, protecting health care and things like that, but also the signs of appreciation and the signs of

honor that, as you said, was started with an aging World War II generation and continues on.

Yeah, people want to donate this weekend.

Again, the number at Kopkes is 608-835-7569.

608-835-7569.

Before we do what's worse, quickly on the phone lines, I believe we have Ollie.

Ollie from the Northwoods.

Ollie, guess what?

I'm north of Highway 29, so I'm technically in the Northwoods.

Sam, I'm looking for Ollie right now.

Ollie, what do you

want to say?

I just wanted to say that I had heard earlier about your honor flight program and the flowers.

And it reminded me that I had seen an episode on NCIS of an actual honor flight thing.

And it was in season 14, episode 19.

I looked it up.

It started with Miguel who was a Vietnam of that and it is really quite moving and would people would definitely enjoy Watching that program and seeing just how how it's handled and how good it is for the veterans.

Um,

well,

that's great

I really appreciate you sharing that.

Thank you.

Very nice little TV tip

there.

Our friend Kelly Call, former president of CBS, appreciate the diligence of MCIS.

Especially now with this streaming age, you can look up anything like my episode.

Thanks, Ollie.

I really appreciate that.

A good shout out there.

Great when television can take a moment to salute real life as well.

All right.

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All right, Thomas, timely, timely indeed.

It is Memorial Day weekend.

Lots of people coming to the Northwoods, right, Pat?

You get the influx of the fibs of all the folks coming in from Illinois.

So today's category, timely indeed, what's worse, a Southern accent or a Chicago accent?

A Southern accent or a Chicago accent?

A Freedian slip.

A lot of freeways there.

855-752-4842.

855-752-4842.

Or you can text us on the Civic Media app.

Todd, I feel like you've got to be really careful with this one.

Like you're hitting, you're potentially upsetting two very important groups of people.

The RHS has a southern accent, and the new Pope has a Chicago accent, or is at

least from

Chicago.

Well, okay, I'll grant you one there.

But honestly, do I get a vote?

Of

course, you're

here.

You're a

host.

What's worse?

It's gotta be the Chicago accent the southern one when you meet we've got people on our staff We've got an outlet in North Carolina.

We've got people from Georgia and they just have this lovely little to their voice, you know But then then Chicago I

think I totally

agree with you.

I

think he puts it best.

He just says oh Chicago

But the tourism area is up here.

We love you.

Bring your money.

Absolutely.

Come.

Come talk to us.

It's not about football, please.

And Shumacher, who's on all the time.

He's just up the river right now and is insufferable during Cubs season.

Really?

Yeah.

And Bear season.

855-752-4842.

855-752-4842.

What's worse, a Southern accent or a Chicago accent.

Summers, I don't have my text up in front of me here.

So if you got a text in, let me know.

I

will

do that.

You can read it out.

I tend to agree with you, Pat.

I think I find Southern accents kind of cool and charming on most people.

Most people.

Now, it can be done, as you a lot of times see in the movies, like in a very condescending way, you know, Buford T justice on Smoky and the Bandit or something like that.

Usually if it's some kind of a boss hog.

Boss hog.

Yes.

Pico

train.

Yes.

Really, it's a hobby, dude.

It's two old guys in their rocking chairs talking about old TV.

You know what?

Do you know, years ago, because Tom Wopat, who was on that show, was from Lodi, Wisconsin.

And, uh, what Schneider was,

uh,

yeah, uh, they were Boa Luke Duke or whatever.

My, my mom and sister and I, right before the show went on the air, they were at the Viola Zoo in Madison, Wisconsin before, before they were Boa.

They were big deals.

Yeah.

And so you had a Wisconsin guy, Tom Wopat trying to do a Southern accent.

Oh gosh.

on Dukes of Hazard.

Yeah, remember they show very well.

All right, well, we're out of time.

I guess I'm going to say, I'm going to say Chicago accent is worse.

All right.

Well, come on back.

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On the Civic Media radio network.

On location from beautiful Lake Wissota in northern Wisconsin.

This is the title of all show on the Civic Media Ready to Work.

It is 35 minutes now past the hour of three o'clock.

T-G-I-F.

That means it's Friday.

No better way to end the week than with our friend, our ongoing contributor.

He is the managing editor of Epom's World.

Joining us from beautiful Brooklyn, New York.

It's Mr. Peter Rapine.

Peter, how the heck are you?

All right.

You're doing great.

I'm here with you.

Oh, you're too kind.

You always feel better when you join us, Peter, because at the end of the show, we have a smile on our face after we've laughed a little bit, and it always makes us feel better spending time with you.