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Good afternoon, everybody.
Todd Albaugh along Mr. Aaron Zommerns on the board.
It's six minutes past the hour of three o'clock on this Monday, September 15th.
2025, welcome into hour number two of the program here for the World Headquarters of Civic Media, downtown Madison on State Street, Zomers, not a cloud in the sky, a beautiful fall day.
I know it is very blue.
It's fantastic.
Looking forward to that.
Many thanks to Dale Schultz for beating the program in hour number one.
Talking about civil discourse, always a good thing.
And looking forward to more of that coming up here in hour number two.
Coming up later this hour, what's worse for you?
Dentist or doctor?
We'll talk about that the lesser issues the lesser serious issues here coming up on on hour two Gonna be talking with state's Eric Kelle Royce in just a couple of minutes here, but before that I mean because I'm wearing my October it's October baseball Milwaukee understand Brewer's clinching the national or the spot a spot in the playoffs not the central yet and But on the week on Saturday Andrew Monosterio Mona
Better known as Mona and he had a walk off hit in 10 innings brewers were behind six to one and came back tied it up went to 10 innings.
It was on Fox Sports National Program.
Here is how they called it on Saturday in Milwaukee.
We're waiting.
There we
go.
How
about that what a great end and and Freilich was there because Durbin came across the plate to score the winning run Freilich mobs Durbin they go over they mob Mona
It was just a great time, had by all, really great post-game celebration, locker room.
Kristin Yellowch had what I thought was a fantastic, tempered speech.
And we're going to play that a little bit later on in the show.
So stay tuned.
But right now, I want to turn our attention to matters here in that we rarely have a two-shot.
We rarely have a two-shot.
We have a two-shot today for those watching on the stream.
Our guest here in person, she's been on this program before.
We really appreciate her stopping by today.
It's an exciting day for her.
She is currently the state senator for the 26th Senate District here in Dane County representing parts of Madison and Middleton.
But today, after much anticipation,
and not necessarily a surprise at least to this anchor.
She announced her run for Wisconsin governor on the Democratic side, joining us in studio, none other than State Senator Kelder Roy Senator.
Welcome, congratulations.
Well, I appreciate you coming by and doing this in person.
I know you got to have an enormously...
a long day today.
I want to start this out if you want to do what we do with other candidates.
I want to play about the first minute of your announcement today so people can hear this.
We'll come back and discuss it.
So we're playing about the first minute for all the candidates.
Here is Senator Royce's announcement for governor this morning.
But I've been in this fight before.
When Scott Walker attacked Wisconsin workers, I was there.
Now, as extremists attack our freedoms while families struggle to get by, we're fighting back together.
We've never contemplated having such a lawless person at the helm of our country.
I'm Calder Royce, and for 25 years, I've been fighting for Wisconsin alongside you and delivering.
In the Assembly, I helped 80,000 Wisconsinites finally get affordable healthcare.
In the Senate, I worked with nurses to pass a bipartisan law repealing outdated regulations and expanding health care options for rural communities.
As a
woman, I know what it's like to experience a physical examination to go to a gynecologist's office.
I know what that's like.
And if you guys want to regulate this in this body, then you can stand here and listen to me speak about it.
That's leadership.
See the problem.
Build the coalition.
Deliver results.
I've done it while raising five kids and running a small business because when something matters, we find a way.
Now, with everything on the line, Wisconsin needs a governor who's been training for this moment her whole career and who knows how to deliver.
That is State Senator Keller Royce in part of her video announcement this morning.
A great T's there.
If you want
to learn
more,
thing, go to KeldaForgov, that's Kelda, K-E-L-D-A-4 spelled out, F-O-R-Gov, G-O-V.com, KeldaForgov.com.
Senator Royce, why are you running for governor?
We need two things from our next governor.
This is a challenging moment for Wisconsin, and we absolutely need someone who is going to stand up.
to the way that the Republican regime in Washington is harming Wisconsin families, and we have to protect Wisconsin families from the worst brunt of that chaos and corruption and the high costs that they're causing.
But at the same time, it's a moment of real opportunity in our state, and we need a governor who knows how to deliver
whether the legislature is Democratic, Republican, or split.
And I have done that throughout my career for more than 20 years on the issues that matter most to Wisconsinites.
What do you see as you travel around Wisconsin?
You've talked about it on this program.
What are you hearing?
What do you see as the top couple of issues facing Wisconsinites in this run for governor?
Definitely the high cost on the issues, the things that matter most to people, healthcare, housing, prescription drugs, utilities, childcare.
Trump ran promising to lower those costs, and everything that he's done is making it higher and harder for Wisconsinites.
So we need our governor to prioritize increasing people's wages and reducing the costs on those big ticket items.
Healthcare is right up there, as it always is, and public education, which we know has been underfunded for decades in our state, and our schools really can't do it anymore.
take some of the burden off our property taxpayers and help make sure that teachers and kids are prepared to succeed in the classroom.
Hate to ask this question, gonna do it because we've talked about it on this show and it's unfortunately it's pertinent once again.
You've been on here before, we had political violence in Minnesota.
You said it gave you pause thinking of your own safety, that of your family.
We heard from my former boss, State Senator Dale Shultz and said, he thinks more of the reasons that elected officials are so scared.
is that they're not getting out and meeting their constituents enough.
You're someone who has been out there, did your safety, did your family's safety in light of what's happened recently, play into your decision, and how do you feel about that today?
Certainly it is something that is on my mind, and it has been on my mind for over 20 years, because I was, I had just taken the helm at Narrell Pro Choice, Wisconsin, when I got my first death threat.
I think I was 24 years old.
And it...
It really underscored for me the fact that some people are really willing to commit violence to show you how much they disagree with you.
And it is something that has become more and more prevalent in recent years.
But I think I cannot stop speaking out on the things that matter.
And I think all of us as Americans have a responsibility to say, listen.
We get to disagree in this country.
That is okay.
But we do not get to use violence to solve our disputes.
And when you look at the rhetoric and the actions of this president, he's essentially giving a permission slip to his constituents to attack people with whom they disagree.
He pardoned the January 6th writers.
pardoned people who are serving time in prison for attacking reproductive health clinics, right?
I don't know what that is, if not a permission slip to violent actors.
Amira, you and anyone else who gets in an elected office today, thank you for doing that and keeping the civil discourse going.
crowded field.
David Crowley was on this program last week.
Mayor Kevlar Johnson in Milwaukee has endorsed him.
You've got yourself out there now.
Lieutenant Governor Sara Rodriguez is out there.
That's just on the Democratic side.
How do you differentiate in this primary that's getting more and more crowded and win this primary before going to the general?
Well, I think it's really important to show that I can appeal to Wisconsinites in every corner of the state.
And I have spent my whole career, not just my time in the Senate and on the finance committee, really deeply listening to people in every part of Wisconsin, traveling to the state, meeting with them face to face in small groups and enlarge and hearing their concerns and then taking them back and turning them into real policy and getting it done.
And often it takes years to do that, right?
Building that coalition, especially across partisan lines.
But that's my specialty.
And that's what we need in our next governor, somebody who has that track record of getting things done.
You've run for governor once before in 2018.
I have my own feelings, but I want you to tell your own words.
What's different about this run for governor versus your run in 2018?
I mean, obviously in that race, if you want to sort of get into the horse race aspect, Governor Evers had a huge head start and deservedly so because he was a very popular three-time statewide elected official as state superintendent.
And at that time I had been
out of politics for six years.
I had been in the assembly for two terms, but then was running my small business and having my kids, and yet still I was able to build a really, I think, exciting movement around the state, finished in the top tier, and kind of built that out of nothing.
Now I have an incredible infrastructure of support all over the state.
I mean, I've told you it's off the air as well.
I think you've grown as a candidate, grown as a legislator, and the fact that you have by more of those people that's out there listening to people, I think it makes you a stronger candidate this time around.
But I want to give you time on this, because this is your time announcing your run for governor at State Senator Calderoy's, joining us here live in the studio.
What have I not asked you?
As you hit the road, what are you going to get the message from Superior to Green Bay to Richland Center to Milwaukee to Madison to Monroe?
What are you telling
I think people out there are feeling really frustrated and, in some sense, hopeless, right?
Powerless.
Because we see things happening in our country that we never wanted to see.
And it's scary, and it can be exhausting.
And sometimes you just want to turn off the news and look away.
I get that.
But...
What I am hearing from people is they want something more, and they know that we can recapture some of that progressive, innovative spirit that helped make Wisconsin such a great place to live for our parents' generation.
They want that, and we can build that here.
No matter who you are or where you're from, as your governor, I am gonna help you and your family thrive.
As you look, I wanna be respectful of the time.
A couple of minutes left here before I gotta let you go, but healthcare in particular,
you've worked with women's health care reproductive rights and we look up at the Chippewa Valley in terms of of hospitals shutting down
there.
We see less access potentially what's happening to Washington.
What specifically if you were governor if you were sitting in that chair what would you do for Wisconsinites to help on health care?
those who are suffering the effects of those hospital closures actually get the funds that they need.
We have got to support our rural providers, critical access providers, and those in urban and underserved communities, right?
That's one thing we have in common.
But we also have to make many more investments in mental health care and behavioral health because we've got to stop the opioid epidemic, and that's the best way to help people thrive.
You know, it's going to be a tough couple of years for Wisconsinites as hundreds of thousands lose their health care coverage, thanks to the Republicans bill.
And we need a governor who's going to prioritize that.
Can you do you have your time in the legislature now?
Is there a way if you were governor Keldoroyce that you can reach across?
I know you want.
Democratic majority is the legislature, but let's say at least one house is still Republican.
Can
Absolutely.
And, you know, my career shows that, Todd, because most of the accomplishments I've had have been done while either there's total Republican control of the legislature or one house has been Republican.
And even though I'm a Democrat,
I have always worked across the aisle to build Republican support for my policies and to compromise where it's needed, because that's the state we live in and that's what our constituents expect and
deserve.
Kelly Royce, State Secretary Kelly Royce, I cannot thank you enough for coming by this program.
It means the world.
You have an open mic here anytime.
Exciting race, safe travels out there.
We'll look forward to talking to you soon.
My pleasure.
You can find more at KeldaForgove.com, right?
KeldaForgove.com.
Come on back with more after this through those
who the Civic Media's title will show on the Civic Media.
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Welcome back to the Taliban show on the civic media radio network and it's 22 past the hour of three o'clock.
Well, how about that on Monday, September 15th, 2025?
Many thanks to former stuff for four.
Well, my former boss states in our jail, Schultz, the hour number one, but from current state senator, Kelle Royce, Democrat, stopping by the studio in her announcement today that she is running for governor of the state of Wisconsin.
Appreciate her time.
Appreciate it staffs time.
It takes time when you do these things I know I've been on that side of it to coordinate everything And it's not a small thing to get around to media.
So I really appreciate them taking this time Look, I've said I think the Democrats have a lot of good candidates coming out here now I think there's a lot of great choices.
I I like lieutenant governor Sarah Rodriguez
I think she has a lot of unique, from her background, to being a statewide elected official, to her common sense approach, I like that.
I think David Crowley, being a county executive of Milwaukee County, the state's largest municipality, getting the endorsement from Mayor Kevlar Johnson, and his experience, and he spent time in the legislature, I think that's great.
I think that states there are Keldor Royce, having done this once before, running for governor.
And I really do think,
that she has grown as a legislator in her time in office.
She's held true to her beliefs, but she's done a great job of maturing in a way where she listened to the other voices and remains curious and has traveled the state.
She's come out to where I was from originally, Southwest Wisconsin, talking about two-year colleges out there.
So I think the Democrats have some great choices.
maybe more to come, although I like this field.
I kind of like the field where it's at.
I'm fearful if it gets too depleted in terms or too deluded with too many candidates, that's just going to split up the vote.
I don't
But I haven't got a horse in the race.
I'm not choosing sides in the Democratic primary.
I wish them all well.
And, uh, but many thanks to a state's air KELDA race for coming on again, Kelda for F. O. R. Kelda for gov.com is where you can watch that entire announcement and have, uh, have, uh, more information there.
All right.
25 minutes past the hour of three o'clock time.
Once again, for what's worse, let's go.
Once again for what's worse.
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It's that time.
I want the people I mean the annual I am my annual physical couple three weeks ago Kind of the the sports physicals for high school kids is over.
Well, unless I guess you got kids going into winter sports.
That's still to come
Also the time of year, maybe when you're gonna get some dental work done.
So, as we say, Mike Lucas says, timely, timely indeed, the category today, what's worse?
Dentist or doctor?
Dentist or doctor?
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What's worse, dentist or doctor?
By the way, Zomers you watch any of the Emmy Awards last night.
we'll talk more about that Maybe an hour in the second half hour here.
I watched the most of the Emmys last night Nate Brigetti
was the host and he's mixed reviews at best
I'll talk a little bit more about this later.
It was kind of a interesting stick to start the show off, but it
kind of didn't go real well, I don't think.
It was, I'll tell you, the brief part of it was he, because a lot of these people, they go too long on their acceptance speeches, and so they try to shorten them to 45 seconds.
And so Brigetti starts off by saying, hey, I've got a couple of kids here from the Boys and Girls Club, great organization, by the way.
I'm donating $100,000 to the Boys and Girls Club of America.
But for every second,
that a celebrity goes over your 45-second acceptance speech, I'm gonna deduct $1,000.
It was funny at first, but he didn't let up and then, you know, people worked all their lives and they're up there, and while they're giving their acceptance speech on some of them, they put a tally clock up on the screen saying
how much money they
took away.
It kinda got old after a short time.
So we'll talk more about that later.
Uh, what's worse, dentists or doctors, eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two, eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two.
And by the way, we're not calling out like this, the specific people.
I love all dentists.
Anybody in healthcare is a hero to me, but the experience going to the dentist.
going to the doctor.
Charles in Milwaukee, listening on WAUK says they both are horrible because they take all your money.
Well, that's true, Charles, to a right.
I mean, it's not necessarily the doctor or the debtor's
Right.
I mean, that's a. That's a larger.
That's a
hard large kettle of fish, as they say, right?
Why?
Why things are so expensive.
But yes, they.
If you're paying for it out of your own pocket, or you don't have great health insurance, well, yeah.
PJ, watch on YouTube, says, I will say the dentist, going to the dentist is worse, because it's more expensive.
Is it?
Well, it depends, like if you're going to get a root canal and a crown, versus getting your teeth cleaned.
I've told this story before.
I had to go in.
This is several, you know, I mean, this is like, what?
Let me think now.
This is probably like circa 2021.
I had to go in and just for, to get medication, I go into the doctor to get it.
Doctor never touched me.
Four hundred and some dollars just to go in for 10 minutes because I never insurance at the time.
All right.
Come on back.
What's worse?
Going to the dentist or going to the doctor, eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two.
We'll wrap that up and more on the other side.
Pursuing truth wherever it may lead and having fun doing it.
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35 past the hour of three o'clock on Monday, September 15th.
Glad to have you along.
Zomers on the board right in the middle of today's What's Worse.
We'll talk Emmys before we get out of here.
Also...
Have a cup a great cut from Christian Yelich basically the the leader of the Milwaukee Brewers as they clinched a playoff spot this weekend gave a great speech Can let you hear that courtesy of Mike Clemens here coming up and Also a little bit of a 10 year old who puts up things in perspective and we'll hear from Stephen Colbert before we get out of here, but right now Dentist going to the dentist or going to the doctor.
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Paul in Spooner, listening on WBZH, says, I have been taken from my dentist's office and my doctor's office, each by ambulance.
Fainting and seizures is my specialty.
I hate going to both of them.
I
too if I had gone through that.
Wow, that's... I've heard of that before.
You know, going to the dentist and it's not the dentist's fault, it's just, you know, you have a condition where you might get a lot of anxiety or...
your eyes.
Right.
Adverse medication, but yeah, that's... Heart goes out to you, Paul.
That's a tough one there.
Also, a shout out, by the way, to David New Berlin for listening in via the stream.
He helped us out.
Zommer is always great.
Saying there's a lot of doctor's songs.
I said, what's that one this doctor doctor?
And Robert Palmer is the artist David New Berlin gave us that one.
So thank you very much Dave for playing today's edition of music trivia on the stream Megan in Sun Prairie listening on WM DX says the doctor is typically worse I have had doctors that don't seem to be paying full attention and just want to usher in the next patient
My questions don't always get answered.
Never had a dentist do that to me.
Megan, now this is a great point.
And I'm not, I have no pain endorsements here, but my doctor at university of health in Madison now, Dr. Donbaugh, great guy.
And really, I talked about this a couple of three weeks ago after I had my physical, my annual physical, listens to you, doesn't rush you out.
And he said that he consciously has changed.
how he practices medicine to do a better job at that.
So really appreciate anybody, but particularly those in healthcare that say, wait, I gotta do a better job at my patients.
Oh, absolutely.
And we've talked before about my great dentist at First Choice Dental, Dr. Rob.
So he's fantastic as well.
Well, yeah, Henry, listening in on medicine, the WMDX says,
Going to the dentist is worse.
My last visit, I was told I needed a crown, but first I needed a root canal.
$4,000.
Thank you, sir.
May I have another?
It adds up.
I mean, we're fortunate to have kind of basic dental service here, and very thankful for that.
But I've been in the position, like I said before, where I didn't have dental insurance and really didn't have health insurance.
Right.
Some of my friends have gotten Invisalign, you know, instead of getting braces as an adult because the dentists looked at it and they're like, okay, your teeth are fine now, but it's not going so well.
In the future, this will cost you a lot of money and cause you a lot more problems.
But it's not strictly necessary, so
his
He eats up a lot of your...
Monthly budget, certainly.
Ali listening in Madison, WMDX says, going to the dentist is worse unless you're going in less, she says, unless you're going in for a colonoscopy.
And she says that now timely, timely, indeed of the responses.
PJ, watching on YouTube, first one, he said, the last time I went to the dentist, I spent over eight grand on my teeth, just to get my teeth restored.
And he follows it up with saying a colonoscopy isn't that bad.
I had mine done last year.
And I think it's a great reminder in all seriousness.
Look, if you have a history of colon cancer and things like that in your family, you've got to have that done.
My doctor is having me do the old cola guard.
Poop in a bag and send it in type of thing.
you've got to find out.
Now you're saying you don't hear this very often.
You said over the break you want to colonoscopy.
I'm not laughing at you.
You don't hear that very often.
Exactly.
But it's because my digestive system is very messed up.
I just want, instead of all the guesswork that happens, like when you're a young person with digestive issues and you go into the GI doctor, they're like.
Oh, you tried this.
We'll try this.
We'll
try that.
We'll try this.
We'll
maybe what's worse is not having a colonoscopy.
I've heard, like I said, I've never had it, but I've heard that it really isn't that.
It's kind of like getting your wisdom teeth out.
People have told me where you go in, they kind of put you under it, put you, sedate you slightly.
And then when you wake up, it's just, you don't really remember anything.
So.
Get that done folks in all seriousness.
Um, don't, don't mess around with your health.
Jenny, our very own Jenny brand is on brand on YouTube says the doctor because it's worse.
She says, because far too many times I don't feel very heard and my concerns are overlooked.
At least I walk out of the dentist office with the work done.
Well, I've heard that a couple of times today.
Thanks, Jenny.
Appreciate that.
That.
But I think that's a good reminder.
Like I say, my doctor, Dr. Donald Buck at EW Health said specifically that he, I don't know if it was a class or a seminar or what he does now.
And he asks you before you do it.
He has a special software program where he says, okay, if I record our visit.
And so he starts that off on the phone.
So everything we talk about is recorded.
And then I suppose it's all voice tracked.
And so the computer then summarizes that and it goes to my file so that he can then reflect on that in future visits.
We can go back and say, we talked about this and this, or at the end of the, and then at the end of my visit, my physical, he reviewed it.
Not necessarily, it wasn't from the recording, but just said, okay, we talked about this, we talked about this, we talked about that.
Here's what we're going to do.
Uh, is there anything else that was on your mind?
Alley listening in Madison.
sorry, I already did that one.
All right, very good.
I'm sorry.
Thank you.
Yeah.
On dentists is the worst, less a colonoscopy.
Get it.
Get it.
Nobody wants to necessarily talk about it, but unless you're summers.
No, but but it's important stuff.
Don't mess around with that because too many and younger people are being diagnosed with colon cancer because they ignore the warning signs and don't go in and have these tests done.
If you're able and they're available, especially if you have health insurance or Obamacare, go in and get this done and have those tough conversations with your healthcare professional.
I know it's uncomfortable, but they're, you know, they're
Correct.
Terry, our very own Terry Barr, watch on YouTube, says, dentists frighten me.
Really?
Really, Terry?
They frighten you?
Like the person themselves or the experience of going to a dentist?
Because I love going to my dentist.
I don't know, I just, they're very friendly.
Like, do you feel better after I'm done?
So...
I don't know.
Oh, great.
That was a great rendition, a great addition.
Well,
didn't give our answers.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Thomas, what's worse, dentist or doctor?
I like the doctors that I have found some like a couple of specialists and a GP that I really like and, you know, are attentive and listen.
But as others have said, especially for women and as somebody with three sisters, I've seen this happen a lot.
They'll bring up something that's wrong and then the doctor will be like, oh, it's cuz you're a woman or you're anxious It's not real and they won't listen and this is this problem is getting better But it still is a real issue and it can be so much harder to find what's wrong when you're considering your entire body for the dentist you go in and They look at what's wrong and tell you right and Most of the time they can just see it and it's one part of your body.
So for me, it's just simpler and I like that I
get that
I appreciate that.
Like I said, I don't mind going for both.
I'm thankful that I have health insurance right now that I can go see both and not have it cost me an arm and a leg.
I would say I guess if I had to choose one, the experience of the doctor is worse.
no offense to any of my physicians, but usually I don't go to the doctor unless I'm truly sick, unless it's for a checkup, where a dentist is a lot more preventative care, cleaning that type of stuff.
So I don't always have a quote unquote problem when I go see the dentist more often than not.
I have a problem before going to the doctor.
So all right, great addition to what's worse, more tomorrow in the three o'clock hour on our what's worse.
Addition all I want to get to this is 45 minutes past the hour or quarter is either 45 past three or quarter to four whichever you prefer I want to get to this Christian yellow Brewers clinched a playoff spot.
That's my October baseball shirt over the weekend Their magic number now to win the National League Central down to eight to get the number one seed and the overall number one seed in major league baseball It's 11 postseason by is six
So eight gets you the L central the important next step Kristen Yellich on Saturday after the Brewers clinched a playoff spot They gave a champagne toast It was not one of the big shake all the bottles everybody gets wet.
It was just a simple toast after the game if they got that big Comeback win nine to eight over St.
Louis and Christian Yellich stepped forward and gave this toast to the team from Saturday night
You should never take the postseason for granted.
You know, people play their entire careers and never get to experience it.
We've been fortunate here.
You know, guys that have been here for a while, we've got to experience it a lot.
We haven't accomplished what we want to accomplish, but there's something to be said for being on a postseason team, playing winning baseball.
Guys that are doing it for the first time, they realize how hard that is, how much the commitment you have to make to yourself and each other, right?
to mentally prepare and physically prepare to go out there and put it on the line every night.
And the cool thing about these celebrations, and hopefully we have a bigger one than just this tonight, is you remember that for the rest of your life, right?
You should enjoy it and you should take it in.
But it's not the end, right?
We're this kind of team because of how much we care for each other and how we play for each other and how good our friends we are.
And we have the opportunity to be friends for life.
We go and do this whole thing and go where we want to go.
Everybody in this room is friends for life and that starts with the belief.
You speak into existence, you see it, you visualize it, you believe that we can do it.
We're playing with house money, right?
Like Merch said, nobody thought we could do this.
Nobody expected us to be here.
Everybody thought we were going to have a losing record.
Look at us now.
That is Christian Yelich.
The de facto captain of the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team after they clinched a playoff spot on Saturday Plus got that comfort behind big wins Saturday night nine to eight the crew did over St.
Louis and Zamas I just when I listen to me to watch it and to listen to it as well That's the real deal.
I mean there's no acting going on in my opinion.
There's these guys truly care about each other and
and they're motivated for all the right reasons.
Yeah, really, really great.
They're off today.
The Brewers are back in action at Amfam Field on Tuesday, tomorrow night.
Pre-game show at 6.05.
first pitch just after 6.35.
You can listen in Richelon Center, Oshkosh and in Hayward on the Brewers Radio Network.
Who sang me a goodbye?
I have my own version of the Family Von Trap.
We'll play it for
you.
Not go on the mission after this on the Civic Media Radio.
Welcome back to the Top of All Show on the Civic Media already at work.
Glad to have you along.
Mr. Aaron Zommers on the board at eight minutes before the hour of four o'clock on the top of the hour at ABC or CBS News.
Depending upon which of our great stations you're listening to, a check of weather by Brittany Merleau.
Fabulous.
That's what the weather is.
Fabulous fall day here in the state of Wisconsin.
Gonna be nice in the 80s until later on in the week.
little rain coming into the forecast, things cooling down, but all in all pretty nice.
Mike Clemenson with Sports Brewers, as we said, are off today back in action against the Los Angeles Angels at six o'clock for the pregame show of the Brewers Ready Network.
Tomorrow played that cut from Christian Yelich after they clinched the postseason last segment.
Our old friend, my former Methodist United Methodist pastor, Sarah Cheney.
Sarah Joe Cheney, thank you very much Watching this down to Facebook in the great state of Missouri or if you're from there, Missouri She writes as a DNA Cardinals fan.
You're welcome.
It's the Brewer's year and joy great speech by Yelich all true And she she's a hundred when she says DNA like it's in her.
I don't remember exact years.
She came to a peace church
It was two or three years after the Brewers or the Cardinals beat the Brewers, the World Series in 82.
And from the pulpit on one of her first speeches, she was bragging about the fact that she was a Cardinals fan.
It did not sit real well.
And you start to wonder about somebody like that.
Turned out she was fantastic about everything else.
So that's big for Sarah to congratulate Brewers fans.
So I appreciate that, Sarah.
She does know I became a Packers fan too.
That is true.
I'm not sure if that was before, after the football Cardinals left St.
Louis.
But she let's just give her the benefit of the doubt.
She did become a Packers fan as well.
All right, let's get this in quick Emmy Awards last night.
Biggest applause of the evening when Stephen Colbert came out to do a presentation at the beginning and then won the award for Best Talk Show.
because he's never won before.
And CBS canceled the show earlier this year, gonna be done in May.
And when they announced that Colbert won the room erupted, here was Stephen Colbert's acceptance speech after winning the Emmy last night.
Sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it.
And 10 years later in September of 2025, my friends...
I have never loved my country more desperately.
God bless America.
Stay strong.
Be brave.
And if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor.
Woo!
I love that.
When the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor.
The ultimate optimist.
I really love that about Stephen Colbert.
Congratulations.
We got time, I think, for the 10-year-old cut.
This is this is one of those there's some music behind it because one of those I found on Instagram and I apologize I don't know who the kid is.
He what here's the setup He went to an event in Los Angeles for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and I'm sorry I don't all the Dodgers It was one of the famous Dodgers that sitting there at a meet and greet Clayton Kershaw.
Thank you Zomers Clayton Kershaw famous Dodger and this ten-year-old boy has the husba to go forward go to the microphone in front of everybody and
and says the following and what he does here and Ken Shaw, Ken Shaw, right?
His response is... Kershaw.
Thank you.
Kershaw's response was fantastic.
Here is a meet and greet with a 10-year-old boy and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
I want to tell you a quick little story.
Okay.
Um, so...
My grandpa loved you.
He watched the 1988 series and he wanted to meet you and Vince Scully one day.
So this moment is important to me because I'm meeting you for him.
He was from Modondo Beach a little while ago.
A few years some years ago he died from brain cancer.
Oh, come
here, dude.
It's great to meet you.
Thanks for telling me.
That took a lot of courage to tell me that, so I appreciate that.
It's great to meet you.
Your dad sounded like an awesome guy.
Yeah?
Okay.
Thanks for coming up.
That took a lot of courage, man.
That was awesome.
Thanks, buddy.
Thank you for your
time.
Absolutely.
Thanks for coming.
All right.
Is there a, do you have a parent here or
anything?
Yeah.
I wanted to play that because I just, it kind of talks to your heartstrings.
I love the fact that this 10 year old kid has the hoods but to go up in a room full of adults and be so articulate until a hero appears.
I'm here for my grandpa.
that died and couldn't be here.
And Crenshaw had the humility to come around from the table and give the kid a hug and compliment him and say, hey, that took a lot of courage.
And then the kid says, thank you for your time.
And Crenshaw, are you here with a parent or anything?
Because the kid's all alone in the front of the room.
I have my own serenading.
You heard the sound of music, the Van Trapp family?
I was with the family Von Ewing yesterday at the Brewer's game.
Brady Ewing's family his dad a brother-law all all these boys a fan nothing better than going to a baseball game with kids and When I when they let me out at my place here in Madison all four boys unannounced Gave me a singing send-off.
I said do that again.
I'm gonna record it.
I asked Brady if it was okay if I played it So here is how I got serenaded out of the SVUV yesterday in Madison by the brothers van Ewing
How about that was
right?
Just all four of them unannounced by And Brady said they were singing that all the way back to
Rachel
But it was fantastic for great guys and their two cousins as well Nothing better than seeing the joy and excitement on a kid's face at a baseball game.
That's what it's all about Hope everybody
Thank you very much for our State Senator, Kel Royce, for being here on our announcement for Governor, and Dale Schultz as well, talking about civility.
Thanks to Zomers, all of you for listening.
Maggie Dawn is next.
Don't miss it until tomorrow.
Todd, say whatever you're fighting for, whatever you believe in, do not give up.
Keep banging your drum.
We'll see you tomorrow.
Thanks
everybody.
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