Bradie Ewing Named Honorary Badgers Team Captain (Hour 1)

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Good afternoon, everybody.

Tal Abba along with Mr. Aaron Zommers, our producer and engineer.

It's six minutes past the hour of two o'clock on this TGIF Friday, September 5, 2025.

September 5, 2025.

September 5, 1995.

Zommers.

It's before I was

born.

I was working for Congressman Scott Klug, and I believe that's the evening that there was a tailgate for the Badgers.

If memory serves, they took on number one Colorado at Camp Randall and Chris Farley, the late great Chris Farley did a fundraiser for my former boss.

That's the night I got to meet him.

I believe that memory serves correctly.

Anyway, it was a great 30 years ago.

It seems like just yesterday in my mind.

Welcome everybody.

It's a great day to be Wisconsinite at the World Headquarters of downtown Madison's Civic Media.

Partly cloudy skies, sun is coming out.

A beautiful fall day if you're watching on the stream, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Twix, whatever you want to call it.

I have my, it's a whiteout tomorrow at Camp Randall.

Go into the game with my lovely and talented sister.

Got my whiteout gear on.

And they're taking a look at the Sam Davidson Street Cam in beautiful downtown Madison.

Look at that.

A beautiful fall day at the intersection of State and Fairchild.

You can see the big glass over your center there in the background.

People meandering, crossing there.

Now those folks crossing correctly waiting for the cars to stop and getting the stop the the the go-side to cross So it's gonna be a fun field weekend big weekend in the in the state capital We have the Badger game tomorrow And by the way, you could hear that game tomorrow on many stations of civic media kickoff at three I believe the pregame show starts at one here on these

Todd's

looking at the the printout that tells us this information It's been moved a little bit too far away from him

now.

We got it.

Here's the problem We share a studio with John and Gordy our morning guys here in Madison Windsor great guys, but we set the studio up differently

And so I forgot to move stuff back the way that so I have an arm's reach understand I like to have the stuff in arm's reach Here's the details for you You can yes, I was correct one o'clock broadcast pregame show across many of our stations Wisconsin taking on Middle Tennessee State

Or maybe it's just middle Tennessee.

W R C E and Richland Center W L A K in Amory W F H R and beautiful Wisconsin Rapids and W R P N in Rippon.

You can hear that game tomorrow on Saturday.

If you're going to the game like I am, if you got some white gear, take it because they're trying to do what's called a white out tomorrow so they can take a photo.

or whatever, or intimidate middle Tennessee.

And here's the deal.

If middle Tennessee needs intimidation, we may already have problems here.

But I'm hoping for a big blowout.

I'm hoping for a great game.

Again, for those watching the stream, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Twix, whatever.

I also have hanging next to me my autographed.

Thank you very much.

Number 34, Brady Ewing, Wisconsin Badger Jersey.

which I will be wearing tomorrow at the game.

Here's my dilemma.

It's a home jersey, so it's cardinal red, and we're supposed to be doing the whiteout tomorrow, but I don't care.

The numbers are white.

I got my white traditional Bucky hat on.

Big day tomorrow, and coming up at the bottom of the hour, we will tell you why.

A very special honor for our very own Brady Ewing, our friend, our ongoing contributor here at the show.

a really cool day for him.

He is in town today over at Camp Randall and he's gonna be joining us via phone here in just a little while to tell and we'll talk about why I got Brady's jersey up and why he is being honored tomorrow at Camp Randall.

Really, really cool thing for Brady, super happy for him.

Also, coming up at 3.06, a little earlier than normal this week.

our very own Peter Rapai, managing editor of E-Palm's World with a humorous look at a week in review.

A week in a football, indeed, NFL kicked off last night.

We'll talk about that game last night.

I watched it on NBC.

And before the thing even started, he had a guy throw it out.

It was incredible.

We'll talk about that a little bit later.

But so we got the NFL going on.

The Packers kicking off.

You can hear the Packer game on Sunday on many of these stations starting at one o'clock in the afternoon.

The Packers taking on the Detroit Lions in a huge, huge game to kick off the NFL season for the Packers on Sunday.

And we got, of course, college football.

So it's the first full throttle weekend of football.

And I don't know what's worse.

Coming up next hour deals with that.

What's worse?

a weekend of football or a weekend without football.

We'll take your calls next hour.

And to cap it off, nobody knows the Packer beat better Wisconsin sports better than our very own sports reporter, Mike Clemens.

He'll be joining us live from Lambeau Field in beautiful Green Bay with the absolute latest up-to-date injury report list.

This whole deal with Micah Parsons, is there any reason for concern?

Is he gonna play tomorrow after the big trade?

How does it all look?

Clemens will have the latest Boris coming up at 335.

So a huge show coming up today.

I'll just go to the phone lines quickly.

Troy, listening in in beautiful Mount Horrib.

Troy, what do you have for us?

Hey, according to John and Gordy, you're coming over there tomorrow.

Maybe, maybe.

If they set it three, they're lying because I will be at the Badger Game at three.

Well, I didn't in the middle of that one.

I know there's a big for those.

I mean, for people listening to Madison WMDX, there's a listener appreciation party in town tomorrow.

Does it start at three?

Yeah, it's three

to

six PM at Downdran's Distilling.

Yeah, three to six people.

Unless it's a very quick game, Troy, I will not make it.

That's one of the big selling points is you showing up.

That's false advertising.

Maybe I could be

your consolation prize.

Sure, Zombers will go on my stand.

You'll get to meet Mr. Zombers.

Well, Troy, I've already met you and your lovely wife at the Brewer's event down in Waukesha.

So, you know, now you can meet us.

Absolutely, and that was a lot of fun, too.

It was.

It really was.

Thanks, Troy.

I always appreciate your leadership.

Have a great weekend, all right?

Have a great day.

Hey, thank you.

Troy, out there, a beautiful Mount Horb, listening on WMDX here in Madison.

13 now past the hour of 2 o'clock.

Normally, we don't introduce news segments with music.

But I couldn't resist on this one.

Here is an update from Washington, D.C.

Yes,

right!

What a great song.

Keep that playing, Zombers.

I love that.

Who sings that again?

Edwin

Starr.

That's right.

Edwin Starr.

War.

This is from Politico.

Politico.com headline White House Doree Brand Pentagon.

The Department of War.

That's right.

You heard it correctly.

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order today, allegedly, to change the Department of Defense's name to the Department of War.

Part of a broader effort to present a more aggressive victorious military to the world or so says Trump a senior administration official confirmed the change which would likely require an act of Congress But the White House is looking for other alternatives that would avoid a vote So here's the deal What they've come up with is it will still technically be called Department of Defense, but the subtitle

will be Department of War, so they don't have to go through Congress.

That's how they get around that.

A war department, a war department that existed after U.S.

independence until 1947, when the Truman administration split the army and air force into separate military branches and joined them with the then independent Navy to form a new agency.

An act of Congress two years later coined it

the Department of Defense, Secretary of Defense.

Currently, Pete, I haven't seen a bottle.

I don't like Hexeth, who has embraced, quote unquote, war fighters as a part of the Pentagon's identity.

Simply posted this week, Department of War, quote unquote.

Now, here's something that's interesting for those of us that might be concerned about financial concerns, you know, spending our tax dollars.

According to Politico, it'll likely cost billions.

That's right, with a B, billions of dollars to change the names of hundreds of Pentagon agencies, their stationery, emblems, plaques, and other signings at the Department of Defense, along with bases around the world.

The expense could put a serious dent.

into the administration's efforts to slash Pentagon spending and waste.

But Trump's effort to rename the department fits within the administration's wider reshaping of the federal government from firing tens of thousands of federal employees to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles and Washington.

And remember, it was Adam Kinzinger, veteran, former congressman, Republican,

who pointed out that when Trump deployed the National Guard to D.C., he did so on a 29-day order.

Now, why would he do that?

Because in order to get full reimbursement for our guard troops, it has to be a 30-day order or more.

So, Trump and Hague Seth intentionally made sure that our National Guard's people, who are heroes all, by the way, in my opinion, got screwed over financially.

I just part of this article political pointed out.

Part of the impetus of Department of Defense was because they combined these other independent, you know, Army and Air Force, Navy.

We're all kind of independent out there.

And then they've combined them into Department of Defense made it more streamlined.

The other reason that they chose Department of Defense and not Department of War.

is because rather than having our image in the world being one of an aggressor and conqueror, they said, wait a minute, probably better if we realize that as the strongest nation in the world, we wanna send a signal that we wanna have a department that will defend our homeland, that we ain't looking to go out and conquer or take over other countries, that we're going to defend what we have.

So very different thing right in your mind if you say a department of war or department of defense And now you have Donald Trump again wanting to make up for other things that he is deficient in Like smart like smarts I suppose and It's kind of like these guys that ride the I'm not talking like a regular motorcycle.

I'm talking about these little tiny crotch rocket things

and they go around Madison, and it echoes all through downtown, and most of the guys are way too large to fit on these little tiny motorcycles that are just annoying, and they rip through neighborhoods and weigh at high speeds, and cops can't even keep up.

And weave through traffic.

Weave through traffic.

The reason they do that is because they have small genitalia, and they're trying to make up for something.

And it's the same way with Trump here.

He's trying to make up for something, and so I'm gonna make it the Department of War.

Ridiculous idea and gonna cost us the taxpayers billions of dollars Take your phone calls after this eight five five seven five two four eight four two eight five five seven five two four eight four two on the text line as well Come on back.

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22 now, past the hour of two o'clock on this Friday, September 5th, 2025.

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Glad to have you along.

Just a great Friday.

Very excited.

Lots going on.

Badger home football game tomorrow.

Gonna talk with Brady Ewing here after the bottom of the hour.

Huge honor for him tomorrow.

He's gonna join us live to discuss exactly what that is, but we almost forgot it.

But thankfully we wrote it down this week.

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He's part of the John and Gordy morning team here on WMDX and Madison are very own Gordy young Gordy.

Uh, how the heck are you?

John, I'm doing very well.

I'm traveling on the belt line right now.

I'm sorry about that.

No, I know the best.

Anyway, so I just got word from my sources that you're not coming to the WMDX appreciation party.

I just want to let you know I'm crushed.

Extremely

disappointed.

I don't think anybody will be disappointed.

I'm not there.

They're coming for you and you and John and and and Dom

Well, you know, here's the other reason they're gonna be there cuz down to the downers Distillery is a great place.

It is number one, but number two, you're going to miss out on getting a free complimentary Ballpoint pen from WDX with our logo on it.

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I know so you're out

You're out of the running on that.

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point.

Well, I think when I told Catherine I would be there or try to be there, I thought the game was an 11.

I thought, well, if they don't get some done in time, I'll drive out.

Well, now the game starts at three.

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Well, let me get this straight.

You'd rather go to a badger game where they're playing some community college for Tennessee that come to the WMDX Lister Appreciation Party and greet all your fans.

There's more, there's more going on on Saturday and we're going to tell folks about that after the bottom of the hour.

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a little press for time CJ and Jean I apologize if we have time we'll try to get to you next hour But you know Gordie had to call me call in and and make sure that he stressed eyes you yeah, just which I guess I deserved I just like how

Well, normally my social calendar is not that full, but this weekend it is.

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Farm News is next with Midwest Farm Report Pam Yankee, and when we return, we'll be joined by Brady Ewing, three-time Big Ten Champion, and tell you why he is suiting up again this weekend.

Kinda sorta.

We'll explain after this.

You're not gonna wanna miss it.

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I'm gonna be having fun tomorrow for those watching on the stream Facebook YouTube and Twitter I have my Badger whites on

My Brett Bielema pullover, my traditional Bucky emblem white hat, and I got the number 34.

Brady, you in Jersey, hanging up beside me in the studio today.

We are joined by our friend, our ongoing contributor, three-time Big Ten champion, NFL veteran.

former captain of the Badger football team joining us live from just outside of Camp Randall here in Madison.

Brady Ewing, Brady, thank you so very much for taking time on this busy day to call in today.

Yeah, you bet.

Thanks.

Thanks for having me.

Exciting weekend for our family and excited to be a part of things tomorrow.

Well, for those that don't know, tomorrow, now you may recall, Luke Fickle at the beginning of the year, so they were not going to officially name

team captains this year, like Brady was, along with Russell Wilson, Aaron Henry, and who else was team captain that year, Brady?

Pat Butchram.

Thank you, Pat Butchram.

They were going to not have that, and so they're doing honorary captains, alumni, and tomorrow.

For the coin toss walking out onto the field Representing the card a little white once again and God I only wish he had some eligibility left our very own Brady Ewing Honorary captain tomorrow.

Congratulations, Brady.

This is really cool

Thanks, Todd.

Yeah, it's it's an honor I mean I can remember walking out with those guys that you had just named and Going out on on the field for many coin tosses my year but to be able to come full circle and be able to walk out with

Some of the folks from the current team in Camp Randall Stadium and having my family there and just a lot of people that have, you know, impacted my journey to come full circle.

It's pretty amazing.

So excited for it.

Yeah, well, it's well earned.

You're very modest about this, but I think those of us who are a little bit more balanced, honestly, goodness, Brady is one of the most successful and best fullbacks to ever put on the uniform for the Wisconsin Badgers.

Very, very successful for those that might not know, started as a walk on and then earned his scholarship and then ends up being a captain.

his senior year, and it was a huge contributor to the three Rose Bowls that the Badgers went to, was honored enough to be the last one that he was in in 2012.

Brady, when they called you, how did they let you know you were being chosen?

Was it your record as a fullback at Wisconsin?

What was it that wanted you to come back as a captain?

I

guess they didn't specifically say, but I got reached out to

by John Richter who works in the with the football team and we were actually in cross planes for a scrimmage for Bennett my oldest son they had a scrimmage there for his fifth grade tackle team and had a text afterwards I had saw come through from an unknown number so you know just saying hey Brady this is you know John Richter with the the football program and wondering if we can set up a time to chat here

coming up and so I had a chance to talk with them later that afternoon and he just said you know they would love to have me as a honorary captain and mentioned you know continuing to work to get back to the Wisconsin Roots and the program and you know full back being more involved this year so I guess he did give me a little bit of reasons but um yeah was was super excited and honored and

Luckily, Bennett's team, that same team that was scrimmaging that day, plays in Edgewood tomorrow morning, so it works out

really nice

with a three o'clock game, so it's gonna be an action-packed day of football in the Ewing household.

I guess it will be.

Wow, Bennett's in the morning, and Brady in the afternoon.

I'm so happy.

I mean, I'm really thankful that the football program is reaching back, and I'll give them credit.

I've been a little rough on them once in a while, but I give them credit that...

they're reaching back to guys like they had JJ Watt there in the in the pregame guys like you who really understood the culture of Wisconsin football and what made it successful.

And you pointed out that I mentioned there.

I mean, last couple of years under the former offensive coordinator with the big air raid offense, they completely got rid of the full back position.

They're trying to bring it back a little bit more this year.

But.

What a cool thing for you now that your kids, your sons are old enough because I mean, obviously they have what you can tell them why I played there.

But how cool is it going to be tomorrow to walk out on that field that you won three big 10 championships on and have your four sons there with you and your wife?

That's what I'm most excited about them getting the chance to be a part of it.

And.

They've seen some of my jerseys, heard some of the stories, but to have them be there and take in practice and the game down in the field and just start to develop some of those experiences for themselves, it's really going to be fun.

It's going to be a good time, let alone family and friends that are going to be at the game, that have played a big part in that journey too.

kind of a moment of reflection and a way to look back and celebrate all the cool things that often times when you're going through them you don't get a chance to do it just because you're you know one game at a time mentality onto the next thing and now to take some time to just slow down reflect back and to be a part of it as an honorary captain it's

It's going to be really cool for the family.

Well, it's really well deserved.

And lucky that, you know, my friend Rob, we do have season tickets.

It turns out he couldn't use them this week.

So my sister Heather and I are going, we can't wait to be there.

We're digging out.

As you know, because Brady autographed this for me years ago, I rarely wear it.

It's only on the most special occasions.

So we're digging out the 34 Jersey.

And yes, we will stick out like a couple of red cherries in the sea of a whiteout tomorrow.

Yeah, yeah, we had some some group chat stuff going on in my family, too Is that are we gonna try to do the whiteout or we're gonna rock our jersey?

So I Think

I look I mean, you know you got the 34 jersey got a rocket, right?

Yeah, it was good luck.

He

said it was.

I don't believe the Badgers a few times have worn it since that Rose Bowl.

I don't think there's but a game I've worn it to or the Badgers have have lost.

So I'm good as gracious.

I mean, hopefully against Middle Tennessee.

It won't be too close of a game, right?

I hope not.

Yeah.

Continues to play really well and offensively they can.

You know, saw some good things last week.

And I think there's still some opportunities for definitely some opportunities for improvement, but I like systematically some of the things we saw with shifts and motions and just some physicality up front.

So hopefully we can continue to build on that as the season is going to ramp up real quick after these non-conference games.

Well, in Alabama, which, you know, I thought

was going to be maybe a little tougher.

I mean, got taken to the woodshed in the opening week by unranked Florida State that maybe Alabama isn't quite as tough as we thought they were Brady.

Potentially.

And it's, it's interesting.

You see, you know, coaching transition and just how college football continues to evolve.

And we've talked about that a lot.

It'll be interesting to see what happens for them this week.

I, I have to imagine that things will turn around quickly and they'll get back to.

you know, the Alabama of historic that everyone's kind of used to.

Whether that's national champion caliber play or not, I'm sure it will be a really tough challenge for the Badgers.

So Brady Ewing, former fullback with Wisconsin Badgers, spent three years in the NFL, three time Big Ten champion talking to us on the phone.

Brady, do you know yet?

Are you going to get a chance to address the team or at least the running back fullback room or anything like that?

That wasn't on the itinerary that was shared with me but I would be lying if I didn't say I didn't start to think about it a little bit just in case I was on the spot and they they asked me to you know if I wanted to address the team or anything like that so if I got the chance I'd love it and I think my messaging would be around just some of the history that I've had with the program and that runs deep at Wisconsin and although college athletics is evolving

Just challenge those guys to take a look back at the history, not just from the time I was there, but well before that, I want Wisconsin football was all about and some of those values that it was founded on.

Brady, what are you most looking forward to tomorrow as you are honored as an honorary alumni captain at tomorrow's game?

Yeah, I think just pregame as the stadium fills up, I think we'll bring back some really cool memories and

to be side-by-side with my kids, my family, to be pretty special.

Yeah, it's going to be amazing.

I can't wait to see you out there, my friend.

It is well deserved, well earned.

This is the first great thing that the fickle era has done, in my opinion.

So well done on the fickle folks for choosing Brady Ewing as tomorrow's honorary captain.

And I'm being serious because of what your message you bring and what you and those guys I named.

You know, we had the pleasure of our family of following you and being at some of those games and.

and the attitude, the swagger, the team family commitment you guys had to each other, in addition to the skill, but it was all those tangential things that I think that brought those three Big Ten championships consecutively, and I'm glad that they're bringing that attitude back, and I'm glad that you're gonna be out there tomorrow.

We're gonna be cheering for you in our 34s, Brady.

Thanks, Todd.

Thanks for all your support through that journey, too.

It's been fun.

And this is, like I mentioned earlier, just a really cool chance to reflect on that.

And it's really nice to see some alumni get involved, like JJ.

I know Joe Schobert was involved last week as an honorary captain.

Just excited to have some alumni help bridge that gap to the past and to the current Badger State of football.

Great.

I know you're going to practice.

We'll let you go.

Don't want to take up too much of your time.

Thank you for being as you always are, so generous with your time with us, Brady.

Congratulations.

Have a great day tomorrow.

Thanks, Todd.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Our pleasure.

Brady Ewing, the honorary captain for the Wisconsin Badger football team tomorrow cannot wait to go.

Could happen to a better person, a nicer guy.

And I'm just excited, you know, because I

For those that haven't listened to the show before, our families, our parents are basically next door neighbors that live a house apart.

And so I've gotten to watch Brady's family grow up.

He has a lovely wife, Rachel, have four boys.

And I've been around him a couple of times and we went to a brewers game together last year and we went through P-Walkie.

And I said that a couple of the boys were in our car.

And I said, can you name the famous teammate that played with your dad from P-Walkie?

and they really kind of give a bunch of hints.

Finally, they got JJ Watt and the Watt brothers.

But to see Brady's sons now being old enough to know what's going on and being able to remember this day tomorrow, I think that's really, really cool.

And I'm glad that his kids are going to get to see the crowd start applauding and hollering when they introduce Brady on the field tomorrow.

That has to be an incredible feeling for Brady, I know, and for Rachel, his wife, and for his parents.

Well, David, Andrea, and his brothers and sisters, because they're a very tight family.

And this is a great day for the entire Ewing family.

So congratulations, number 34, and Brady Ewing will be there tomorrow.

We'll talk about it on Monday when we come back.

When we come back, we're going to do a few more news headlines for you before the top of the hour.

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Welcome back to the title of all show on the civic media radio network eight minutes before the hour of three o'clock another big hour Today big show today love these kind of shows our number two Peter Rapine managing editor of e-bombs world Wild and wacky news of human behavior we can review normally at 3 30 But Peter was so kind to move up

Because at 330 our very own Mike Clemens our great sports reporter is gonna be along Give us the absolute latest up-to-date information live from Lambeau Field in Green Bay on the Packers kickoff on Sunday against the Detroit Lions at 3 o'clock You can hear that game on many of our civic media stations Also talk about the game.

We were just talking about with Brady and again many things to Brady Ewing former badger

who is one of who is the honorary alumni captain tomorrow for the game.

You can hear that game starting the pregame show at one o'clock tomorrow on some of the stations on civic media as well.

And Clemens will talk about the the Brewers who get back in action tonight against the Pittsburgh Pirates pregame show at 505 first pitch just after 530.

on some of our Brewer stations here at Civic Media as well.

So big second hour.

Really appreciate everybody for being here on a big Friday.

I want to bring an update on this.

We talked about this a little bit yesterday.

And now there is a very interesting twist.

And I gotta clean it up for radio a little bit, obviously.

But you ever heard the phrase, they can't seem to get their crap together?

That would describe the assembly Democratic caucus.

So we brought you the story yesterday that one of the Democratic state representatives, Sylvia Ortiz-Velez, had been banned from the Capitol by human resources because of an alleged threat.

Somebody had said that Representative Ortiz-Velez had made a threat involving the AR-15.

And so, look, I'm not blaming human resources.

That's a pretty, especially in these times, nothing to monkey around with.

So they banned the state representative until they got to the bottom of it.

Well, we have an update.

Courtesy of whispolitics.com, great site, whispolitics.com.

A spokesperson for assembly speaker Robin Voss says an alleged threat

that Democratic State Representative Sylvia Ortiz-Velez made was found to, quote, not be credible, unquote, and her capital access was inappropriately revoked.

Luke Wolf said no member of the Assembly is barred from the capital.

This is the spokesperson, I believe, for Representative Voss, quote, human resources made the decision in error.

and it shouldn't have happened.

We will discuss internal policies moving forward to make sure this doesn't happen again.

Wanna stop there?

Okay.

We all good so far?

Here's the kicker, according to Voss's office, quote, Representative Greta Newbauer reported it to the Capitol Police who found it not to be credible, unquote.

So it turns out,

that the Democratic leader in the state assembly turned in a member of her own caucus.

You can't make this crap up.

Ortiz Velez, Democrat of Milwaukee, told WizPolitik's, yesterday or Wednesday, that she'd been barred from the Capitol amid an investigation into an alleged threat that she'd made about using an AR-15 against one of her colleagues.

Ortiz-Velez denied the accusation and said while she is a gun owner, she does not possess such a weapon.

Ortiz-Velez didn't immediately return calls to his politics last night.

In Wednesday's interview, Ortiz-Velez said Amanda Jorgensen, the director of the legislature's human resource office, had informed the Milwaukee lawmaker that she was barred from the building.

Jorgensen also did not immediately return an email seeking comment.

Capitol Police yesterday directed with politics request for any complaints that had been filed against Ortiz Velez to a Department of Administration spokesperson who did not immediately respond to request for comment.

Meanwhile, Neubauer, Democrat of Racine, guess what?

Declined comment!

Other colleague during the Capitol news conference yesterday, other than again to say Ortiz Velez was no longer a member of the caucus,

after the Milwaukee lawmaker indicated to Demo Democratic leadership that she planned to leave.

I mean, this is absolute chaos in the Democratic Party over there in the assembly.

I mean.

And again, if this were real, I don't care whether some of your own party or not, you do the right thing, right?

But the Capitol Police have investigated this and found out that.

What the leader of the Democratic caucus representative Greta Newbauer made a complaint against her own caucus member Representative Sylvia or 10s valets or teeth valets and it was quote-unquote not credible And now she's out of the caucus.

I guess she's still gonna vote Democratic But she's not she's gonna be essentially she's not going to caucus or go in the private meetings with Democrats

I mean, this is not exactly a great look for Democrats in the Assembly trying to get control for the first time.

And now they got fairer maps.

They have a pretty good shot.

But this is just a self-inflicted political wound over there.

I don't get it.

Pretty par for the course for 2025.

What do they say?

Once again, snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory and the Democratic Assembly caucus.

Our very own Dan Schaefer, political editor and founder of the Reconbibulation Area, who's going to be with us next Thursday.

Mark your calendar, set your VCRs.

He sent this out last night.

And I said, let me get this straight.

There he goes.

Yup.

I said, you can't make this stuff up, and I love every minute of it.

Truth is stranger than fiction, so it is.

Peter Rapi will be here in hour number two with a humorous week in review on what's worse on football and our very own Mike Clemens with the latest from Lambeau Field.

You're not gonna wanna miss it on the Civic Media Ready Network.

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

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Good afternoon, everybody.

Ta-da!

Along with Mr. Aaron Zomers, our producer and engineer, it's six minutes past the hour of three o'clock.

Welcome into hour number two of the big broadcast on this Friday, T-G-I-F, September 5, 19, 19, 2025.

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But time right now to bring in our friend, our ongoing contributor, the managing editor of E-Bombs World.

And in Manhattan, they simply call him a man about town.

Mr. Peter Rapine joins us live from Manhattan.

Peter, how are you?

I'm doing great.

It's a lovely Friday.

Isn't this the time of year if you're going to visit New York, Manhattan?

This is when you want to be there.

This is that's exactly correct September is the best month to be in New York.

It's not too humid The city's like full again college students back in town People are back from the Hamptons Yeah,

I recommend

I recommend September or like late May

early June

All right.

And normally, I let him in used to say, this is the time of year, well, the rats are satisfied enough that they're not going to bother you too much.

And they're

fairly content.

Yeah.

All right.

Now, Peter, you join us every other week.

We appreciate it with weird and wacky headlines from Epom's world.

But you're also going to help us out today very quickly here.

It's time once again for what's worse.

Let's

go.

Time once again for what's worse.

In this case, nothing to give away, no prize money involved, but it is your chance to have your voice heard on all 10 Civic Media News Talk sports stations across the state of Wisconsin.

All right, quickly, because the emphasis this half hour, of course, is Peter Rapine.

But we're asking the question because of the big football weekend.

Badger is tomorrow at home.

Packer kickoff on Sunday.

And of course, the NFL started last night.

That was a wild wacky game in Philadelphia, spit flying everywhere, people getting ejected.

So the category today, what's worse, a weekend of football or a weekend without football?

A weekend of football or a weekend without football?

855-752-4842, 855-752-4842, or you can text us on the Civic Media app.

I know Peter, you're not necessarily a huge football fan.

So, you know,

I'm not.

So I'll say a weekend with football is worth.

Do you have

friends that are just obsessed with it?

You're like, oh, man, I want to go hang out, do something else.

Yeah, I have a friend who's a Minnesota Vikings fan and he's pretty obsessive.

Because some of these people,

they do the draft, like the fantasy drafts that they get, they get very hyped up.

Yeah, I think he's a sports gambler.

So,

you

know, it's like.

You know, his favorite time of the year.

He's making

his money.

I also have some friends who are really big Niners fans because I'm from the Bay Area, which if I were going to root for a team, it would be them.

But no, I don't care either way.

So Peter's in Peter's on the record.

A weekend with football is worse for him.

All right.

Very good, Peter.

Now you curate these stories like to remind people this is not fiction.

You don't have a writer's room.

These are actual stupid human beings doing very stupid things.

Yes, I always like to say we're funny, but we're not this funny And our first story of the week comes to us From the world of dating which dating all right or in the mid 20s or Honestly, no matter what age you are and if you're trying to date online you probably know how difficult it can be and There's a new term that people are throwing around to talk about their dating lives and it is similar It's not quite a ghosting term ghosting meaning

you go on a date with someone who you don't like and you just never talk to them again.

This headline reads Shrecking is the new term for dating someone uglier than you.

Shrecking is

the new term for dating someone uglier than you.

Good Lord, give us the

details on this.

Run down on Shrek, which obviously takes his name from the movie Shrek.

Right.

It's when people purposefully go out and try to find someone who might not be in their league.

Purposefully.

Purposefully in hopes that they are obsessed with them, that they worship the ground that they walk on.

Get out.

Yeah.

This is the thing.

It's a thing, uh, which I wonder, I think most people who are partaking in trekking, uh, have forgotten that in the movie Shrek Fiona also turns out to be an ogre as well.

Right.

Uh, so I don't know if that's the people who think this way, but yeah, it's just, it just seems to be a sign of the times.

Um, I'm not sure if you're familiar.

There's an app called Raya, uh, which is like a invite only date.

It's called Raya.

Okay.

And it's a invite only app.

for like hot creative people.

So like

celebrities or artists or anyone who's just kind of cool.

And it's like I said, invite only.

And currently the waitlist to get on it is 2.5 million people long.

What?

Yeah.

Who is deciding who gets on the

inside?

That's a good question.

That is a very good question.

Is it one person or is it like a committee?

I don't know.

I actually have no idea.

I have some friends who are on RIA and have been on RIA for years.

Sobrius has

something.

What do you

guys?

It looks like RIA applications are reviewed by a committee and can take months to be processed.

Now, this, I don't mean to get delayed.

And people know in this regular segment, I do not look at these before we go on the air, because I want it to be in real time for me.

I've never heard of this.

I'm fascinated by it.

And I'm thinking to myself as you're going through this, Peter, would I mind being the Shrek?

Like, if there is some hot 30-year-old dude that wants to make me be the Shrek, I think I'm OK

with that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I would be the opposite of Shrek from Shrek.

I would invite anyone into my small.

Do you want to come into my small?

The door is open.

I am taken.

So

I'm just going to ask you now because you brought this up and we always appreciate when you give us an update.

Peter is in love and you're off the market right now.

I am.

Yeah.

I hope I'm

not being Shrek.

No, you're not being Shrek.

Come on.

Come on.

Yeah.

All

right.

All right.

Oh, that that was that was very interesting.

I had not heard of that until right here.

So look at breaking news, folks, on our E-bombs World Peter

Rapine segment.

All right, Peter.

Next headline.

Next headline comes to us from the front lines of the war on AI.

Headline reads.

Taco Bell rolls back AI drive-thrus after someone broke one by ordering 18,000 cups of water.

I love this so much.

Taco Bell rolls back AI drive-thrus after someone broke one by ordering 18,000 cups of water.

Explain.

Well, a lot of people thought that, you know, ensuring AI won't take our jobs might look more like Terminator.

But it turns out it's going to look a lot.

like the sketch comedy show on Netflix.

I think you should leave where Tim Robbins character orders 55 French fries, 55 burgers in a skit.

That's kind of a meme and pretty famous.

And yeah, so one guy went to a Taco Bell drive-thru realized he was talking to an LLM and decided to hack it.

LLM,

large language model.

It's what a chat GBT is.

I learned so much of this

segment.

All right, go ahead.

Uh, but yeah, he decided to hack it or mess with it and he ordered 18,000 cups of water and the machine malfunctioned.

Go ahead.

No, he just couldn't process his order.

It was like, can I compute?

We don't have that many cups.

Like in case

people haven't been through a drive through lately.

Now.

I usually go to Culver's here in Wisconsin, and there's no AI there.

They're wonderful, real Wisconsinite people, or if other states in Wisconsin have real people.

But some of these bigger ones, I think I've been through at McDonald's or other places where they can't find people to work there.

So now AI, a robot is taking your order, right?

Yes, it's clearly not a technology that's ready for the big time.

And the Taco Bell chief executive or chief technology officer said that Taco Bell is, quote, learning a lot still about these

cases.

What do you think, though, that pretty soon, especially with ACME, I'm not being serious about this, with AI that eventually will catch on and be like quippy in a smartass?

I mean, something like that, you know, like it'll know that it's a ridiculous word.

Yeah.

I mean, yeah, you think eventually it would.

Yeah, probably.

Well, I love it.

I love every part of it.

So, uh, there you are.

One more before the break here, Peter Rape.

I know of Epom's World.

You can find all these at epomsworld.com.

All right.

A man named Mark Zuckerberg is suing the real Mark Zuckerberg for banning him from naming his Facebook page, Mark Zuckerberg.

A man named Mark

Zuckerberg is suing the real Mark Zuckerberg for banning him for naming his Facebook page, Mark Zuckerberg.

Explain.

I guess it's kind of explanatory.

Yeah, which you got to feel for, you know, these people who have names.

I mean, there's a really famous guy on Twitter whose name isn't Matt Gates, but it's Matt Gertz.

And he's been confused as Matt Gates for years and years and years.

So it's obviously not easy being named after a famous person on the internet, especially Mark Zuckerberg, when you are a guy named Mark Zuckerberg, who wants to be himself on Facebook.

So, so he has his own, I mean, he really is named Mark Zuckerberg, not that Mark Zuckerberg, but a different guy.

And he has a Facebook page.

And do they just say he can't have that?

Because they're afraid it's going to look like he has both a personal page and a business page.

And his personal page has been taken down four times.

And his business account, which shares the same name, has been removed from Facebook five times.

I think he's got a

lawsuit.

I think he does.

Yeah.

Right.

Was it his fault?

He was got named Mark Zuckerberg.

No.

No, I probably just have to prove that he really is named Mark Zuckerberg.

And then the actual Mark Zuckerberg won't be able to do anything about it.

Well, I'd sue his

rear end off from, you know, assume for $10 million, he might walk away with half a million.

I mean,

you know, I mean, why not?

What the heck?

All right.

Don't go anywhere.

Don't shrek us.

We'll come back with more headlines from E-POM's World and Peter Rapine after this, as well as what's worse is the all-ball show for a Friday on the Civic Media, Ready Network.

Tell them I'll show them the Civic Media Radio Network now, 22 minutes past the hour, three o'clock on a TGI Friday, September 5th, 2025.

Many things going on here.

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I had a fever growing up, but I guess I grew out of it lucky you might only gotten worse the older I got we're right in the middle of our free ticket Friday giveaway for Milwaukee Brewer's tickets for Saturday September 13th again, St.

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What's worse, a weekend of football or a weekend without football?

8-5-5, 7-5-2, 4-8-4-2.

Quickly, Mark, we're up against the clock, Mark, but can you do it quickly, Mark?

What's worse, a weekend of football or a weekend without football?

Well, I could do it without football, but I guess a weekend without, because sometimes you need a Packers fix, and if they're tromping on the Vikings, all the better.

I love it.

Thanks, Mark.

I hope you have a great weekend.

Enjoy the football of both the pack.

I have a Packers fix once while Brett in beautiful brown deer.

If you had to be a UK and walkie-shot says no football is worse because it gives me more time to worry about what the big orange idiot is doing going to do next.

All right.

Yeah, you need to be preoccupied, right?

No idiot on this segment.

Only the best writer to press curator, the best all around guy.

Mr. Peter Rapine joins us, managing editor of E-bombs World.

Peter, we're going through headlines, the news, the weird, the wild, and the wacky.

Next headline.

We're just going to jump right on this one.

Man arrested for rubbing one out at corn concert.

That's why I came in with the song freak on a leash by corn

Man arrested for rubbing one out at corn concert

37 year old man from Pennsylvania was arrested at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey after he was filmed shucking his cog in the middle of the corn show

He was sitting front row in his section, and the band was playing the song Blind, which if he can't control his urges is what he will be one day as he was seen pretty aggressively going to town on himself.

People were yelling at him, a guy even assaulted him, but eventually the police came by, put him in the handcuffs and dragged him out of there.

Not before.

Putting his pants back on

What what is it with people because I did you see that there was a couple of weeks ago?

There was a male female couple at some baseball game and this dude was Helping her out in the middle.

Yeah, I mean that was crazy a Yankees game wasn't it might have been yeah But they were from Cleveland or something.

I don't know it was just

But the headline,

the headline alone man

arrested for rubbing one out at corn concert

also

for shucking his.

Whoever wrote about the shucking the car in the front row, that was incredible.

Is that your work, Peter?

Oh, my God, that that that really I mean, that that's well done.

Well done.

That that one needs to be set aside and clipped out for best of all time.

Well done, my friend.

All right.

Next headline.

Okay, Australian rugby player post a video of himself drinking from the toilet says it helps recover the muscles

Australian rugby player post a video of himself Drinking from the toilet says it helps him quote-unquote recover the muscles I hear dogs doing this by meeting people don't do this

Yeah, I think he probably needs a wellness check And I don't follow rugby by a guy named Reese Walsh

filmed a video of himself flushing his toilet before putting his hand down the bowl and, you know, scooping up a couple laps of water for himself.

Short and sweet.

Hopefully it helped.

Yeah,

that's I some me says that was a little bit for social media clicks or whatever.

But I mean, who knows?

Yeah, I think you're right.

The guy clearly needs Australian rugby player needs.

I know rugby guy either.

But some of those guys, I think clearly are not quite all there.

All right, right by next headline, two minutes.

Some dude breakdanced up to the podium at a city council meeting, did a back spin.

asked why his taxes went up and then boogied

away.

Some dude breakdanced up to the podium at a city council meeting, did a backspin, asked why his taxes went up and then boogied away.

We have we have video of this.

I'm going to do my best play by play.

All right,

so

I'm going to go to the Cranford town meeting.

Here we go.

Take

a drink.

I can do the backspin.

Anybody want to see me do the backspin?

The audience looks like, don't do this.

He's in a polo

shirt.

A middle-aged man, late

middle-aged.

This is at a live city council meeting.

He's getting down on his hands and knees.

And now does a backspin as a very bad break dancer.

And the people in the audience are like, I cannot believe he did this.

He's asking he's asking for applause and nobody's mind Now that I guess that takes guts.

Oh, do we know the point was very pipe 30 seconds left?

Probably tension

All right, if you don't know a back spin is when you get on your back kind of like a turtle and you kind of spin around in a little circle, right?

That's down did a little spin try to get a little rise from the crowd.

No response Nobody responded

And then he started asking about why his taxes have gone up so

much.

Hey, he

got us to talk about him and his taxes,

I guess.

Peter Rapite, always a pleasure.

Have a great weekend, my friend.

We'll see you in a couple of weeks.

You can find all these stories at ebombsworld.com.

Thanks, Peter.

Stay tuned.

Mike Clements, live from Lambo Field is next.

You're not going to want to miss it.

Stay here.

The touchbacks now come out to the 35.

Defence number 98.

So Jalen Carter the focus and the star for the Eagles on the front line out for the game before a snap.

Here he goes.

He walks there in front of Dak Prescott.

Did he spit?

Did he spit on him?

I think he did.

And the official was right there to throw the flag who was keeping an eye on that confrontation.

No idea obviously what was said but Jalen Carter out of this game before a snap.

Chris first of all I got no idea what he's thinking and second this is massive in terms of the

game.

I got to tell you he's the best player they have on their defense and about.

80% of what we were going to talk about on this broadcast.

Because to beat the Philadelphia Eagles, you have to double team Jalen Carter.

And it's almost like Micah Parsons now gone from the Cowboys.

Same impact now with Jalen Carter

gone.

And that was the way we kicked off the NFL season last night.

on Thursday night football courtesy of NBC Sports and Peacock, the great Mike Turico and Chris Cowlesworth giving you the play by play there.

It was right after the kickoff, not even an actual play really other than the run back Jalen Carter from the Eagles gone after he was literally caught on 4k camera spitting on.

Cowboys, QB, Dak Prescott, here to break that all down and helping us out with a weekend of sports and especially football.

Nobody covers it better joining us live from Lambeau Field, our very own sports reporter, Mike Clemens.

Mike, what a wild and wacky way to kick off this NFL season.

Hey, Todd, nice touch, too, with the 4K.

You're absolutely right.

Yeah.

So Jalen Carter.

is this defensive lineman that when he was coming out of the draft a couple years ago everyone said this is the best player in the draft this kid out of georgia i mean he can wreck an offense six foot four three hundred fourteen pounds but you know it's right around before the draft he's involved in it would turn it to be a fatal car accident he kind of walked away from it didn't report to you know his role or whatever early on so he dropped in the draft and the eagles

You know, controversially, they took him ninth overall, but that's why he dropped from the top spot.

When we

were in New Orleans this past February, covering the Eagles and the Chiefs and the Super Bowl, I didn't want to get into that accident thing.

I just want to learn about this guy as a player.

And he was there at opening night.

He was up in the seats where you couldn't really reach him.

I thought,

well,

they'll talk tomorrow.

I'll talk Wednesday.

And they hit him all week.

They claimed that he had a cold.

In fact, they were just trying to protect the kid because they didn't want, you know, the national reporters would bring up the accident from a couple of years ago, the week of the Super Bowl.

So, you know, he's not known for being, you know, the sharpest knife in the drawer, as

John

Matten once said, right?

So here's the thing, the thing of beauty about this.

So it's the cowboys.

and the eagles everybody thinks the cobwebs are going to get blown out after this ridiculous trade with michael parsons to green bay but kenny clark he was in their plane the pat the player that the packers gave up on the defense of line and uh... the cobweb to have a pretty good showing they held fake one barkley the star running back to the eagles to about sixty yards rushing and they end up losing a game twenty four to twenty there was an hour delay in the third quarter they had to call the game because of lightning so the players all had to leave the field

You know, the folks would understand the fans and so it's like 1231 o'clock at night and I'm still kind of editing tape and watching this thing, you know, in the background here up up in Green Bay.

And when they get done, you know, Jason Garrett used to be the head coach of the Cowboys.

You know the red-haired guy of course he was there when they when they drafted drag Dak Prescott So now that he's an analyst a part of the NBC TV team that did a pretty good job being a reporter He got up to Dak as he's walking out the field.

What was that thing with Jalen Carter?

You know, how does this guy spin and he goes?

He says I spit first, you know, and he thought I was doing something he came over so so Jason Garrett the former coach he calls up to the booth and NBC goes through their

video of their from the fork a cameras and they caught that on tape so what you see in the sequence is this there's the opening kickoff there's a player down there's an injury time out and so that press got it's got his huddle rut getting ready you know for waiting for the rest to blow the whistle to call his play and he has to he has to get rid of some spit so he shoots it over the shoulder pads of his offence of lineman between their helmets it lands in the neutral zone

Jalen Carter sees this land on his turf and he walks over and essentially says, you know, what the hell was that?

Right.

And then Dak is like smiling.

So that's when Carter returns fire and drops a luke right on Dak Prescott's chest.

Of course.

This is right in front of the crew of referees who throw the flag and eject them from the game.

Yeah.

Well, I appreciate that.

You're kidding me.

I appreciate that you're reporting because I went, I stayed up until the lightning delay.

And I think I lasted maybe 20 minutes, a half an hour.

I'm like, all right, this is enough.

And I went to bed and when I woke up this morning and saw the score, I'm like, wow, Cowboys made more of a game than I first thought.

But I had not heard what you just said there that Prescott may have.

the first shot as it were but but not on anybody.

You know hey kudos to the former coach who you know went to that player that he knew and got the whole story and then to NBC that they still had the video to show the whole whole sequence but it's almost like the Seinfeld episode with you know the magical Luke.

This is a multi-billion dollar business.

We're showing two millionaires spitting

at each other.

Yeah, it was a wild way to kick off the season.

I'm glad that the game was close from just a game standpoint.

But for those of us who are into football, Mike Clemens, I know your answer on this, or what's worse today, what's worse, a weekend of football or a weekend without football, for those of us who are into football, this is kind of like Christmas comes in September.

Well, yeah, for me, it's a difference between whether or not there's going to be a freelance check in the mail at the end of the month or not.

That's part of it there too.

So this week though, Todd has been pretty incredible in Green Bay.

It went from being kind of a quiet camp to we're like one of the number one sports story around the world with this incredible Micah Parsons trade about a week ago.

So this guy is just this outstanding pass rusher, gets to the quarterback, like, well, not since Reggie White, and he comes to Green Bay, and then after he's been here a couple days, this story comes out.

Yeah, it turns out the guy really does have a back injury, which is why he wasn't participating, partly, in the Dallas Cowboys training camp before they traded him up here to Green Bay.

So then they, you know, you start getting details, like, you know, from ESPN, like, yeah, it's the L4 and the L5, and he may need an epidural, like a painkiller injection on game day to get through that first game, like, you know, and of course the fans, your listeners are like, are you kidding me?

You know, you just, you just traded away Kenny Clark and two first rompics.

and sign this guy to a four-year hundred eighty eighty eighty eight million dollar deal highest paid NFL player outside of a quarterback and he's he's got back problems and by you know by thursday i started thinking about this i also thought that you know something that JJ Watt the former Badger said was you know guy's getting painkillers for backs that's the whole league we're football players you know everybody that plays football is going to have

some sort of a sore back.

Heck, you and I get a sore back from sitting in the studio to

buy what we were talking with them.

Mike Clemens, a great sports reporter live from Lambeau Field, talking about the Packers kicking off the season literally and figuratively on Sunday against the Detroit Lions.

Hear the game across many of these stations starting at one o'clock with a pregame kickoff three o'clock, Mike.