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much, because yesterday was the 21st.

But, you

know, it says the 21st night of September.

Exactly.

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works.

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Welcome into fall.

And it's upon us.

Busy one, busy day ahead.

Can out wait.

Great things.

There's going to be a costume change, by the way, today, at halftime during the show.

because I'm going to change in from my brewers polo shirt.

I'm going to get to that in a second into my Packer polo shirt.

I know, I know.

We heard a great sports reporter, Mike Clemens, talk about it.

Packers, ridiculous loss yesterday at the end of the game, 13 to 10 to Joe Thomas' Cleveland Browns.

I know who's happy about this.

Joe Thomas,

I'm sure he is and you know, but see here's the thing Todd's no fair weather fan.

No, I'm no no fair weather.

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And what better balm to put on our packer loss wounds than a brand new film from our friends Sean Hannish and Paul Gikoni Barry two of the great producers of the film just about just a bit outside the story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers

Exclusively on our show and we appreciate it when that happens Sean Hannish and Paul Geconi Berry are going to be here alive in hour number two at 335 giving us the details on their new film called No Packers No Life.

You're gonna want to be here for this.

I've seen some stuff from it.

It's very exciting.

Sean and I met

He was in town this weekend, was filming some stuff this weekend, and we met up for coffee.

And he showed me under threats of non-disclosure agreements and castration.

He showed me the trailer, and he said, no, you can't talk about this until next Monday.

And I didn't.

I didn't even tell Zabers exactly what it was about.

I

can

confirm.

Yeah.

But I've seen the trailer.

It's fantastic.

It's about a group of Japanese Packer fans in Tokyo.

who end up, and they'll explain how and why, come to Green Bay for the first time and discover the magic that is Green Bay and Lambeau Field, a disarmers point.

I know a little heartburn after the Packers lost, but this will make you feel better and remind us all why we're Packer fans.

So looking forward to that.

And speaking of that team in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in hour number two, we are going to launch...

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name the location, the specific field or stadium in which they play.

So we have to use all these things like green and gold, a football team, a professional team, and Green Bay.

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Many people are saying

many people are saying So that'll be a lot of fun and at the bottom of this hour Natalie are of Wisconsin watch will be here to talk about Wisconsin College's vow to keep supporting Hispanic students despite federal cuts want to start with the crew back to back to back

National League Central Division champions, Murph and the Boys got it done yesterday.

Well, kind of sort of.

They actually lost.

They came in St.

Louis, weird game yesterday, but the Cubs lost to the Reds and that clinched it for the Milwaukee Brewers.

They got to celebrate down there at Bush Stadium in St.

Louis.

It was a orgasmic champagne jubilee in the locker room.

Let me tell you, it was fantastic to watch.

Here's a manager, Pat Murphy.

after the clinch.

Like I've always said, it's about the who that's in the room.

And these are the right guys.

They know how to play, they know how to win, they know how to bounce back.

That's what's

special.

Well, Yelly's been in the middle of all of that since 2018.

You think about Yelly, Woody, Freddie, what they've done to establish excellence at the level of competition that you demand.

Yelly brings that standard of how to play the game.

He understands the little things.

This team does the little things.

And Yelly's the one that sets that tone.

He means the world to this team

way beyond the numbers.

A manager, Pat Murphy, after the Brewers got the clinch via the Cubs loss yesterday.

They are now the National League Central Division champions.

Sal Freelake, my favorite Brewer was interviewed after the game in the locker room drenched.

In Champaign, here's what Sal had to say on the culture of this

team.

Sam, this is three years, three playoffs, three division championships for you.

Just when you look back at maybe the through lines of the themes of these teams, what allows you guys to

do this year

after a

year?

It's just the culture.

I think they built something really special here.

We have a really good group of players, and that's all credit to the front office, Murph, getting the right guys in here and putting this uniform on.

Yeah, it's really just the culture.

We show up every spring training with the goal of winning the division, so it's been great.

fortunate that

I've been able to do it every year.

Yeah, I mean, like you said, he reminds us every year that like guys go their whole careers without ever getting to spray champagne.

I've been here for it's my third year and I've done it three times and he just keeps saying to us young guys like just know how lucky you are make sure you're aware of what it takes to win and never forget that feeling I think that's just important to reiterate that.

So where was your believe level at in like May 24th?

Yeah I mean...

right where it should be.

I mean there's never, I know we started off slow whatnot but like the season's so long and so much can happen and that's what baseball is that no one ever kind of strayed from that goal.

even after the first weekend, the first month, whatever it might be.

So, if you always do it, you probably end up here.

You talk a lot about the winning culture.

What do you talk about?

How much does that have to do with the culture?

Yeah, I mean, we got the right guy, you know?

He's someone who just encapsulates that and reminds us every day when we're not doing the things we need to do, just to get us back on track.

Without him this whole entire year, I don't think we would have gotten back on track.

So, all the credit goes to him.

That is Sal Freelick of the Brewers of the culture of Pat Murphy.

Gonna hear later in the show if you have time from Pat.

There was a great special.

I didn't get to watch the whole thing.

I saw excerpts of a great special on the Major League Baseball Network last night with the great Bob Costas sitting down with Murph talking about and the fact that he picks on Freelick so much.

He goes, I know I don't say that much nice about him, but you can clearly tell.

that if Freelick isn't Merv's favorite player, it's one of the top three or four.

Because he called Freelick the it factor.

He says he's got the it factor.

He does everything that he wants him to do.

I'm so happy for these guys.

I'm so ecstatic about this run.

Some really rough news yesterday with the Brewers and we don't know the whole things.

We want to be very careful about this.

But Brandon Woodruff, great pitcher for starter for Milwaukee.

apparently had some sort of a, he didn't re-injure the arm, the shoulder he had surgery on, but it's a muscle or a tendon around that that got tweaked.

And very concerning, he's on the 15 day IL.

May, keyword may be done for the regular season, we'll see, but that could give the brewers some picture problems down the stretch, which they don't need, but let's, let's just focus on what they've done.

Back to back to back.

and L division champions.

Fantastic.

They're back underway tonight in San Diego 805 for the pregame show.

Late one on the West West Coast.

First pitch just after a 30.

The crew taking on the San Diego Padres, which they could see potentially in the playoffs.

Don't forget the Brewers, although they clinched the National League, they're still trying to get the number one seed in the National League.

I clinched the NL central, I should say, trying to get the NL and major league baseball number one seed, which they would give them home field advantage throughout the playoffs, including the World Series.

The magic number to secure that now at four games.

There are six games left in the regular season.

Exciting times indeed.

Also, by the way, the big sports weekend for better or worse.

Badger football team basically had a must win at Camp Randall's Clemens reported the loss to Maryland it

was 27 to

10 and Fans were chanting the student section by the third quarter fire fickle.

I Mean it was audible over television

And now you got Chris McIntosh, the AD, coming out, giving him a vote of confidence.

Be careful, Mac.

It's the same thing he did to Paul Christ two weeks before he fired him.

We'll get into that a little bit later in the show.

But when we come back, a Republican candidate for governor has found himself in some throuple.

Well, I love it when hypocrisy happens to my former party.

We've got the sultry details on the other side.

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I love

Every part of this story by Daniel Bice in today's Milwaukee Journal sent no and I'll tell you why as a former Republican who left the party in 2011 My former party is famous and not just the Republican conservative politics, but also some particularly fundamentalist MAGA churches mega church type people

They say one thing in public.

And it's not just they say it.

They harp on it.

They demonize.

They say if you're whatever you are, if you have a certain sexuality, a certain sexual preference, a certain you're a deviant, terrible person, you're going to hell.

And then it turns out they're doing the same damn thing behind closed doors.

And I love it when they get called on the carpet for it.

And this isn't about.

Uh, in my opinion.

Look, as long as people are of age and it's a legal practice, live and let live, baby.

That's where I'm at.

Have fun with life.

But here you got to, here's the, here's the headline.

GOP Governor candidate Bill Barion scrubs Link to Sexually Explicit Social Media Accounts.

From Daniel Bice of the Journal of Sentinel as Republican running for governor.

Whitefish Bay businessman Bill Berrien is campaigning as a conservative leader who stands up for family values.

Berrien's CEO of Pindall Global Precision is especially critical of transgender individuals, saying they are engaged in, quote, radical social experimentation, unquote.

Quote, take it from a dad or a coach.

I will keep boys out of a daughter and our daughters keep boys out of our daughter's sports and locker rooms, unquote.

Barry instead at a recent TV ad.

The new ad praises President Donald Trump for, quote, protecting our daughter's sports, unquote.

But Barry's online footprint tells a very different story.

One that he quietly tried to hide and erase in recent days on medium.com.

And apparently this is a, oh, I never heard of it until this story.

Had you, Zommerz, your more in tune person, medium.com.

I guess it's an old platform like precursor to whatever, Facebook or- Yeah, I know it exists, but I never used it.

Substack or whatever, yeah.

It says it's similar to Substack.

Barion, who's age 56, had an account that was following a transgender porn star named, quote, Jizz Lee.

And other several other authors of especially sexually explicit essays unquote Now when you follow some what on social media it means to subscribe to their account and their posts show up in your personal feed Other writers that the republican was following include Octavio Morrison author of quote seven types of orgasmic sensations unquote and quote three terrible reasons

to have a threesome, unquote.

And Emma Austin, who calls herself, quote, a wholesome perv with a touch of whimsy, unquote, who has posted such items as, quote, I love getting jackhammered, unquote.

Vice writes, not your typical men's health magazine headlines.

I encourage you to go out and read this.

It is a fascinating story.

One of the articles that Barry is still following as of September 16th, the sexography blog, our two individual accounts with sexually provocative content called the nine types of couples who you want to have a threesome with and three parts of transformative orgasmic pleasure.

Here's the reason I'm laughing.

Here's the, because you guys, remember it was the Republicans who went apoplectic a block away from where I'm sitting.

When Joe Gao and his wife, the chancellor at UW-Cross, in their own personal time, in their own personal account, had an adult film cooking show where they got frisky with another woman.

And these Republicans went apoplectic, oh my gosh, we can't have this.

Somebody just quoted, maybe Barion was just doing research, they say.

This is horrible that this is happening.

Please give me the link right now so I know to never go there.

And you give people like Barion who are attacked the most vulnerable of our friends, neighbors, and family.

And yet this guy is clearly, people forget that stuff lives out there forever.

And by the way, he's not denying it.

Baryon, his latest post today, I won't read the whole thing, says, is this the best they can do just days after I promised to stay in President Trump to protect our state, stop the woke indoctrination, and keep boys out of girl sports.

They come after me with some failed attacks they tried with President Trump.

He's not denying it.

In fact, his staff basically confirmed it and said, yeah, it was him that went in there.

But now they're saying it's an unfair attack.

You know Trump got attacks for the Epstein vials Trump hasn't even admitted that Barry is at least admitting that he's he's on and as I say Live let live baby By the way at the Charlie Kirk funeral down in Arizona Phoenix Grindr online Grindr got a huge amount like a record number of hey, this is isn't working type of stuff same thing that happened happened at a Republican National Convention

Down which I say down in Milwaukee down in Milwaukee last year remember our old friend Kristen Brian I got and yes, I'm on grinder I'm a single gay man, and it's a it's a quote-unquote dating app by the my longest dating dating relationship did come from grinder Oh good.

That doesn't happen on that out here.

Let's be honest.

It's also a hookup app

Right, that's the primary function as far as yourself and be open about it Don't attack other people for who they are and the legal things they enjoy and then do the same thing behind closed doors Jeff Perry says I think maybe Barry and has been spending too much time at the regal Beagle keeping up with the three's company theme come on back

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Let's turn to more serious issues of the day here at 36 minutes past the hour of 2 o'clock our friends over at Wisconsin watch you always do a great job headline Wisconsin colleges vow to keep supporting Hispanic students despite federal funding cuts Joining us via stream yard from Wisconsin watch Natalie are Natalie.

Thanks for joining us.

How are you?

I'm great.

Thanks for having me.

It's our pleasure.

Whenever someone comes on the show for the first time, we always like to ask to have you tell us a little bit about yourself, where you grew up, how you got into the journalism field, and ended up at Wisconsin Watch.

Absolutely.

Yes.

Okay, I grew up in Southern California in Irvine and my mom is from Wisconsin originally and I came back here several years ago and I spent several years working at the CapTimes and recently moved to Wisconsin Watch where I report on pathways to success.

We think of that as being basically about

jobs and job training and how people get into family sustaining work and what's sometimes keeping people from doing that.

That's fantastic.

We appreciate you joining us.

Anybody who watches or listens to this show knows I'm passionate about education in this state, particularly higher education as well.

one of the things I think the gets lost we always like to take these these federal issues and say how does it apply to Wisconsin your reporting does just exactly that a it talks about Wisconsin colleges but a growing segment of Wisconsinites are Hispanic either their mom or dad might have been or both parents what have you and and

It can be tougher.

You know, oftentimes people from minority families come from lower social economic backgrounds.

It's tougher to pay for college, tougher to get in, tougher to have access.

And now with federal cuts in DC, people are wondering what the heck is going on here.

Tell us the premise of your story and how you came to report this.

Yes, so indeed what you said Hispanic students are I believe the fastest growing population of college students in the country and there was already a lawsuit from that started a few months back about the question of whether Hispanic serving institutions were constitutional or not, whether they were violating the Constitution.

To rewind a step, there is a thing called, quote unquote, Hispanic serving institutions that is a category for colleges and universities in the U.S.

that have at least 25% of their full-time undergrad student body being Hispanic.

And that category was created by the federal government about 30 years ago.

And institutions that meet that criteria are eligible to apply for what is now millions of dollars in grants each year.

It doesn't mean that they get it, but they can apply for those funds to do various different things to improve their schools from supporting teaching and supporting building.

creating new buildings to other forms of student support.

Those exist.

There's a special category of grants that this year was slated to be, oh, I don't want to get the number wrong.

I won't say that.

And there was a lawsuit filed this summer that aimed to take that on, filed by the same group that took on affirmative action.

in previous cases and led to that Supreme Court ruling that essentially overturned affirmative action in college admissions.

That lawsuit was already pending and the federal government had announced that it was not planning to defend.

the Hispanic serving institutions program in court.

So that already wasn't looking good for Hispanic serving institutions.

And I was already working on a story about how would that affect Wisconsin, where we have four of these institutions.

And then a few days ago, the federal government announced that it was indeed cutting that grant program and other grants for other types of, quote unquote, minority serving institutions.

So.

that is how the story came about.

We are talking with Natalie Yar.

She is from Wisconsin Watch.

You can find this work at everything else at WisconsinWatch.org.

That's WisconsinWatch.org.

I appreciate the reporting because even as someone who thinks I follow higher ed in this state,

I was unaware of this.

And correct me if I'm wrong, I've heard of the HPUs, particularly in southern United States that

that make sure they carve out niches for black African-Americans in this country.

Is it similar to that only with Hispanics in this country?

And is this something that is all across the U.S.?

Obviously, it's a federal fund, it must be.

I just never heard of, because in your story, I was taken by the fact that you call out Elverto College, Herzing University, Gateway Technical College, and Mount Mary University here in Wisconsin.

I've heard of those.

But I'm like, why doesn't this apply to the old Wisconsin system of public universities?

What's the unique about this program and why are they more focused on private universities?

Yes, so the program is not specifically about private universities.

Yes, they exist throughout the.

country, there are about 600 schools that currently have this designation across the US.

And many of them are public universities or community colleges or all sorts of different gateway technical colleges, a public technical college here in Wisconsin.

So first of all, are they similar to the HBCUs?

I'm not an expert on HBCUs.

I will say like in

in some ways, yes, but also it's quite a different thing.

By my understanding, HBCUs and also the tribal colleges are both very specific designations that I think are somewhat historical.

The HBCUs being

historically black colleges and universities, I believe that they had to have been started before 1964 and that this was about schools that were created to serve populations that were not accepted at other schools or were not being served at other schools.

And this is a broader type of category that...

the Hispanic serving institutions and there are others in this minority serving institutions category so the HBCUs and the tribal colleges to be clear are not part of this minority serving institutions category that was cut by the federal government.

They were kind of exempted I think in part because of their historical role and maybe there was also some political motivations there.

This designation is instead just for as far as I know

any college or university that meets a certain enrollment threshold as far as their student body has, for example, in this case, that is 25% Hispanic can apply to have this designation.

And the reason that other Wisconsin schools aren't in this vote, by my understanding, is simply that they don't have enough Hispanic students yet to fall in this category.

And so these schools do not

have anything about like their founding that was for Hispanic students or anything like that.

It's just that these schools are acknowledging, hey, a big part of who

is in our student body as Hispanic students, and they would say they want to do certain things to ensure the success of those students.

You speak with Anthony Hernandez, an education policy researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies Hispanic-serving institutions, and you quote Professor Hernandez in here saying, quote, for the most of U.S.

history, minority students were either explicitly excluded from higher education or funneled into segregated

underfunded schools, unquote.

I thought that was put it well, put a point on it to what you said earlier, is that this is about integrating and learning from each other.

And I've spoken to this show before, someone who grew up in a 99% white community in Southwest Wisconsin and went to UW Richland, having the Central American Scholarship Program where you had 18 fellow students from around the world who were Latino, Hispanic, who were coming there out of

350 students, it made a huge impact on my life and it helped me grow.

I got more out of it, I think, than probably what they did and going back to the country.

So I think this program benefits not just the student, but also the entire institution and everybody who's going there.

Did you find that in your reporting, Natalie?

Yeah, so my story doesn't necessarily get so much at that side.

I mean, that's certainly

one part of the argument for why these institutions should exist, certainly what Professor Hernandez said about these are, this is a demographic of students who often, of course that would not be always, but who often may have for one reason or another been less served, less well served by.

the K-12 education system or by the college system.

And therefore, it could make sense to allocate additional resources to support those students in some way.

And so that is certainly the argument that was made for why this should be created in the first place.

This program should be created in the first place.

Of course, now the Trump administration is saying that these

programs are inherently discriminatory and unconstitutional, and that they want to, quote, reprogram those funds.

So we're talking about $350 million that was allocated to these.

There's seven different minority serving institution grant programs that were providing resources to Hispanic serving institutions and some of the other programs were for different groups of...

And they want to quote reprogram those funds to other types of education programs that they do not consider unconstitutional.

Of course, the courts have not actually made a ruling on whether they were unconstitutional or not and making headlines like.

the day that my story published was the news that they were in fact allocating $495 million in one time funds for historically black colleges and universities, so those HBCUs and for technical colleges and universities.

So yeah, basically they moved those funds and some more for this coming year to those schools that were in

different category.

What is not what among the things that are not clear is if the program if they do indeed succeed in cutting this funding for the future whether

those funds will, what will happen in the future for those funds?

Hold that

thought.

We're up against the clock here, Natalie.

We'll come back and talk more about Natalie Yarver, Wisconsin, a watch on funding Wisconsin's colleges when Hispanic student funding at the federal level is being cut.

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But right now, we continue our conversation with Natalie Yar of WisconsinWatch.org.

You can find her work and her fellow reporters at WisconsinWatch.org.

Great publication.

Wonderful story, important story.

On Wisconsin College's vowing to keep supporting Hispanic students despite federal

funding to support Hispanic students despite federal funding cuts.

And Natalie, before the break, start to get into this a little bit, but expand if you can, please, on which colleges in Wisconsin are affected and you didn't necessarily get responses from everybody that you reached out to.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So there, as we were discussing before, you know, this, these cuts will,

eliminate grants to seven different types, sorry, will eliminate seven different grant programs that were designed to support minority serving institutions in the U.S.

and Hispanic serving institutions, which is what my story focused on, are one of those categories.

In Wisconsin, that's the only relevant type that we have anyway.

That's the only type of institution that was cut that exists in Wisconsin.

our four Hispanic serving institutions are Mount Mary University, Alverno College, Gateway Technical College, and Herzing University.

And I contacted all of those schools to try to find out what they were thinking about this, what their plans were, how much funding they get through this.

And the only one that I got actual,

answers back from was Gateway Technical College, which is the technical college in Kenosha.

So they are the newest of the

They are the one that has most recently received this designation and thus most recently become eligible to apply for these grants.

And they had applied for 2.8 million for a grant for 2.8 million.

And they were waiting to hear back on whether they were going to get that grant, which I believe was going to be over a five year period.

And then this news broke that the program was getting cut.

So clearly, unless.

something in the courts or in Congress manages to stop that.

They're not getting that 2.8 million.

I have also seen reporting from last year when herzing.

received this designation that they also got a grant for, I believe it was 2.7 million over five years.

And the announcement last week that cut those grants also cut any future payments on existing grants.

So if it's true that Herzing had 2.7 million allotted, then I'm guessing probably around 2 million or so hasn't come to them yet and isn't coming any longer.

I know a lot of this is the spirit of this, but we heard that the institutions that you've named all private colleges, universities, and so these aren't going to come from this commitment to support Hispanic students, despite federal cuts, not going to come from taxpayer funding.

Is this coming from endowments?

Is this coming from specific people giving grants, or do we know yet?

Yeah, and I should be clear also one part we haven't talked about so I reached out to those four schools asking about their plans and like I said all those other numbers, but I also reached out to The schools in Wisconsin don't have the number in front of you right now, but it's around ten other schools eleven schools that are Quote quote unquote emerging Hispanic serving institutions now.

That's not a designation given by the federal government.

That's given by

and association of education leaders.

These are schools that are trying to achieve the full on status of Hispanic serving institutions and Wisconsin has more of those and I could list them all off but I won't right now and many of them responded to me to say we are still trying to become like

we are still trying to become Hispanic serving institutions, like meeting the full criteria for that, the 25% enrollment numbers, et cetera, even if there's not going to be money behind it anymore.

And it's all very unclear whether that category will even exist.

in the future if the federal government no longer runs this grant program but basically they were saying we consider it very important to our mission and to serving our students to meet the needs of our Hispanic students and we intend to keep doing that and we will look for other ways to do that.

We did not get into the finer details of how they would or whether they'll be able to make up those funds.

I mean I would I would guess that it's very possible that some of them intend to keep doing that work.

but may not have the same resources to put behind it, at least at first.

I think what they were trying to express is we still have the same intentions and we are not going to stop talking about our Hispanic students or we're not, you know, there's clearly a change in the climate also regarding higher education.

And I think that, for example, when I spoke to the president of Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, my ad, he was,

basically just saying this is just part of how we serve our community well because they were like we are close to 20 percent.

Hispanic student body, Milwaukee is 20% Hispanic.

This is what it means to do our job.

I'll be good to the clock.

Sorry about that.

I got a hard break, but thank you very much, Natalie Yar at Wisconsin Watch.

We appreciate you finding her story.

Everyone else is at WisconsinWatch.org.

Thanks Natalie.

Have a great day.

Thank you so much.

You're welcome.

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You'll want to see the video version because at the bottom of this hour, our old friends from just a bit outside the story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers, Sean Hannes and Paul Gecone Berry are going to be here only via StreamYard, but they're going to be here live.

They have a brand new film out, Wisconsin Sports Film called

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It is.

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Well, they come on.

It's fantastic.

It's going to give you all the feels just like the Brewer's film did with a twist.

It's not just about Green Bay fans in Wisconsin, but halfway around the world.

We'll tell you about it coming up at the bottom of the hour.

No Packers, no life.

New film by Sean Hannes and Paul Geconi Berry.

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But first, some breaking news for you.

Jimmy Kimmel Live will return to the air on ABC tomorrow night.

The network announced in a statement, quote, last Wednesday.

We made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country."

A spokesperson for the Walt Disney Company which owns ABC said in a statement to CNN.

It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and insensitive.

We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy.

And after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday, unquote.

Jimmy Kimmel Live was abruptly and indefinitely taken off the air last week after the FCC chair, Brendan Carr, and networks of affiliate stations threatened ABC over comments Kimmel made in a monologue about the MAGA movement's response to Charlie Kirk's assassination.

It was really pointed at Trump himself.

We played the same clip.

A couple days after Kirk's assassination and Trump was on the way to the helicopter and a reporter I think was Fox News reporters.

How are you doing?

Mr. President after your friend's death and he has a smile on his face He says I think very well right over here is the new ballroom to the White House Clearly showing this wasn't as big a deal to him as as he let on And I did not watch the whole funeral thing yesterday.

I've seen a couple of clips from it.

I'm not gonna get into it.

It's just

It was a Trump rally That's what it was.

Let's just say what it was in any event Kimmel is going to be back on the air tomorrow night on ABC Could I be very interesting how this all breaks out what the real work reasons were we had Keegan Kelly from crack.com on last week when all this happened and Keegan pointed out that a lot of this apparently seemingly

Had to do with the fact that just like Paramount was trying to merge with Skydance for eight billion dollars and needed the FCC's approval and paid Trump 16 million dollars through a bogus lawsuit as essentially payment for that now Disney Trying to do a deal via Hulu and other mergers are like six billion dollars worth needs FCC approval for that

And there's a lot, I haven't even gotten to this yet.

I mean, here's a Hollywood reporter story.

Ex-Disney CEO Michael Eisner weighs in on Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, quote, where is all the leadership gone?

Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner appeared to take aim at Bob Iger, his hand-chosen successor at Disney, and Disney brass on Friday as he railed against the decision to suspend Kimmel.

As we said, quote, whereas all the leadership gone, if not for university presidents, law firm managing partners, and corporate chief executives standing up against bullies, who then will step up for the First Amendment?

Unquote, Eisner wrote on a post on X on Friday.

Eisner called the decision to suspend Kimmel Show, quote, yet another example of out of control intimidation.

He wrote the suspending indefinitely of Jimmy Kimmel's immediately after the FCC chairman's aggressive yet hollow Threatening of the Disney Company is yet another example of out of control intimidation Maybe the Constitution should have said Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or the press except in one's political or financial self-interest unquote Eisner I did I added by the way

For the record, this ex-CEO finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny.

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All right, I gotta do this quick last bottom of the hour do not go anywhere our great friend Sean Hannish and Paul Geconi Barry From the producers have just been outside the movie are gonna be here and announced their brand new film Called I can say this right no Packers no life Which is completely different than the other thing we were

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What's worse, Badger Football in 2025, or Badger Football in 1989.

So we're all aware of Badger Football in 2025, how Luke Fickle with his famous air raid offense ends up being nothing better.

There's a former

offensive coordinator's offense, yeah.

Oh, gotcha.

He got

rid of him.

And now

we got Grimy.

We got grimy with the new off, which the offense is slightly better.

It is

improved.

Either way, Luke Vickles Badgers have to clean up a common phrase for radio, craft the bed repeatedly.

Can you eliminate the 1989 Badgers sports?

For you

youngins out there, including Mr. Zombers, who are not alive yet.

Correct.

The head coach of Badger football in 1989, Don Morton, who

Dave McClain, great guy, good football coach, got the Badgers to a ball game, did the best he could, died suddenly and tragically of a heart attack.

And they brought in Don Morton for the new era of the Badgers, brought in something called the Veer Offense.

And it was pitiful, terrible.

The Badgers tanked.

And that's when Donna Shalala became the University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor.

Hired Pat Richter away from Oscar Meyer.

He was the CEO there former Badger football player and alum to be the social or the athletic director and they went and hired the defensive coordinator at Notre Dame Away from Lou Holtz after winning the national championship a guy by the name of Barry Alvarez Who of course completely changed the program so what's worse Badger football in 2025 or Badger football

in 1989, 855-752-4842, 855-752-4842.

Jerry Perry, our friend Jeff Perry on the old Facebook line says, I believe he was heir to the Morton Salt fortune.

Don Morton, yes.

You're right, Jeff.

PJ on YouTube says, I said from the first day that fickle was not a good choice.

So Badger football in 2025 is worse.

Look, there's all kinds of stories.

We'll pick up on them throughout the week.

Not going to have time to do them all today.

But Mike Clemens, our great sports reporter, put me under this one in SI, headline Wisconsin Badgers AD, seen with ex-packers Cowboys coach after endorsing Luke Vickle.

Chris McIntosh met with the former Super Bowl champion NFL head coach the day after

The Wisconsin Badgers lost to Maryland.

Again, to speed up the story, McCarthy, of course, won a Super Bowl with Green Bay, went on to coach the Cowboys, got fired last year, part of the ways with Jerry Jones.

He still lives in Wisconsin.

He has a house somewhere, the greater Green Bay area, and his family lives here.

Now, there are reports that his daughter might want to come to Wisconsin to play volleyball.

Maybe that's why they were there together.

But boy, if I'm Luke Fickle and my boss is sitting in a suite the next day,

With a guy who's won a Super Bowl who lives in Wisconsin and is currently unemployed I'm not sure whether that's settling or not.

I'm I'm sweating.

I'm sweating Other stories out over the weekend great piece and Badger wire Headline of Wisconsin decides to move on from Luke fickle who could the target be for the next coach and in the Journal Sentinel Wisconsin 80 Chris McIntosh Ways in a Luke fickle after fans chant for the football coaches ouster fix and trouble

I'm just going to say it.

I mean, I, I have only half jokingly said at the start of the season that he would not make it through the end of the year.

And Alvarez would coach at Minnesota for the acts.

It's

interim.

It's looking, unfortunately, like a pretty good prediction.

Zombers, what's worse?

I'm going to say 2025, just because of the way social media amplifies everything and because of this info from Clemens about the meeting with

McCarthy.

I'm going to say Badger football 2025 is worse.

because in 89, we had no expectations.

We were, you know, the bar was so low.

But Luke Fickle, I'm sorry, I'm sure he's a nice guy.

He's had going on three years, and the fundamentals aren't getting any better.

It goes beyond wins and losses.

We will talk about wins and losses at Green Bay, a new film called No Packers, No Life.

We're going to discuss it with filmmaker Sean Hannish and Paul de Coney-Berry after this.

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35 minutes now, past the hour of three o'clock on Monday, September 22nd, 2025, Wisconsin's...

I would say over, I mean, the Brewers, but you got some nasty twins fans up there in Northwest Wisconsin.

You got some salty Cubs fans in Southern Wisconsin, but overall, I guess got a few of those horned people over Minnesota, but overall, I mean, what's more of a Wisconsin team than Green Bay Packers.

We're going to talk about that next, but let me clearly for the lawyers on the 12th floor separate and remind you completely separate from what we're going to talk about right now.

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Now completely separate from that discussion.

Let's talk about the Packers joining us our whole friends of via Streamyard from the movie just a bit outside the store the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers as a whole another bottle of Miller High Life Sean Hannish and Paul Giaconi Berry of the new film no Packers no life guys.

How you doing?

Doing great, Todd.

Thanks for having us on.

Yeah.

Thanks, Todd.

Really excited

to be here.

Well, I happen to be in town for another project and he was still kind by threat of verbal NDA and I'll never speak to you again.

He showed me a little clip of the film and I was instantly in love.

And tell us, guys, how did you come to find this film?

Well, you know, Todd, we obviously, you know, we

had this amazing success last fall with just a bit outside.

Thanks to you, your listeners, and all the fans around the state of Wisconsin.

That film did really, really well in theaters.

And so we were doing an encore screening of it in Madison at the Wisconsin Film Festival this spring.

And lo and behold, I saw in the program a movie called No Packers, No Life.

And I was like, well, that sounds about the Japanese.

Japanese Packers fans.

And I was like, well, that sounds interesting.

So I went to see it.

And it was a sold out show there at the Barrymore in Madison.

And it was raucous.

People love this movie.

So what we did is, you know, I showed it, I got a link to share with our team, including Paul.

And we all thought it was such a joyful expression of what it means to be

a Green Bay Packers fan that we can get into the story in a minute, but we were like, maybe we can do the same thing with No Packers No Life that we did with Just A Bit Outside.

And fortunately, our good friends at Marcus Theaters agreed.

And they're opening No Packers No Life, this wonderful, joyful documentary about the Japanese Packers' cheering squad on October 17th statewide, which is amazing.

I can't wait.

And

Paul, tell us a little bit about the premise of this story, because my favorite packer is cheerleaders.

There's a group of young people in skirts and pom poms.

No, no, no.

Tell us where this came from, Paul.

Absolutely.

So, Ty Morse, who is a businessman over there in Wisconsin, he does a lot of business in East Asia.

And he was walking through Shibuya, which is the big intersection in Tokyo.

and happened to see a Japanese person walk by wearing a Packers jersey and was like, what's going on here?

So he very quietly said, go Pat, go.

And the guy turned around and said, go Pat, go!

And then he said, go Pat, go!

And then he said, go Pat, go!

So then this guy said, hey, come here, I wanna show you something.

Takes him up through these alleys and into a karaoke bar upstairs the middle of this huge building.

And there is the Japanese Packers cheering squad.

So it's three dozen, four dozen Japanese people who for various reasons have become super fans of the Green Bay Packers.

And they show up at two in the morning on a Monday morning because of the time difference and watch games and cheer on their favorite team.

And so Ty said, you know, this is so incredible.

I have to bring them to Green Bay to watch a game.

So this film follows that entire story.

And it's really, you know, Sean put it best.

It's joyful, and it is such a celebration of how the things we love, in this case, you know, the team that we love, the Green Bay Packers, brings people together from across the world.

So it's just, it is a, it is laughs and smiles from beginning to end.

And we could not be more excited to be sharing this with the statewide in Wisconsin, you know, thanks to our friends at Marcus Theaters.

So we're just, we're just

thrilled.

And you nailed it, I think, Paul.

And it was Sean, you and I talked about this.

It's a crazy world out there right now, and there's so much divisiveness out there.

And boy, anything that can bring us together as Wisconsinites, as Americans, I'm all for.

And by the way, Zomers, keep me honest, I talked to you after I talked to Sean.

Did I say anything about our conversation that would give anything away?

You said the Wisconsin sports film, sorry, I can't say more yet, you know?

No,

I kept my word.

So now now.

That's

impressive.

Because I was excited as Sean knows.

But now it's OK.

We can show the trailer, correct?

Yes.

So here from Sean Hannes and Paul Geconi Berry is a trailer for No Packers, No Life.

We're wandering Tokyo and I see a guy with a Packers jersey on.

And I'm like, no way.

I just quietly say, go back, go.

And he shouts back,

go

back, go!

The Japanese Packer cheering team.

Packers number one.

I love Packers.

No Packers, no right.

Insanely passionate.

To a degree which probably most people from Wisconsin are.

Wisconsin!

I said, you guys are welcome to come to the Pac-Man game anytime.

I couldn't believe that.

Why?

And who are you?

The Green Bay way is to host, and we say, OK, come with us.

We'll show you the time.

We want them to experience the Green Bay way.

This is creepy!

Go,

Pac-Man!

This concept is huge.

So one team in the NFL that's owned by the people.

It gives people a connection that no other team offers.

No

Packers, no life.

No Packers, no life.

All of you Marcus Theaters on October 17th, we have the filmmakers joining us live via StreamYard, the great Sean Hannes and the great Paul Geconi Barry guys.

Just like with a bit outside, when Sean showed it to me on Friday and now I'm seeing it, it just does something to you as Wisconsinites, Sean.

Well, I think it does because, you know, as Wisconsinites, we kind of, you know, on our sleeve is our heart is on our sleeve and we say,

Please come visit us.

We're a lot of fun.

And I love what they say, and it's in the trailer there.

All of Ty and his friends, Jada Merritt and Brandon, were like, we want to show them the Green Bay Way, which is essentially the Wisconsin hospitality.

And I mean, a lot of these people who were born and raised in Tokyo had never been to the States before.

And imagine their first stop is Green Bay, Wisconsin.

And they get immersed in this community with these wonderful people, like both wonderful visitors and wonderful hosts.

And that they shared a lot more in common that you would imagine.

I mean, they compared

Green Bay to one of the tourist, kind of like vacation destinations outside of Tokyo.

So there was a real around being a fan of the Green Bay Packers, true lifelong friendships developed.

And I think you find that whenever you go

uh anywhere outside of wisconsin certainly here in los angeles or when i've been in in france in paris i've been to woes bar every city around the world seems to have a packer bar and have a packer following so this is kind of like just taking like dipping our toe into what it's like in tokyo for these folks and really what they in a way it's a it holds a mirror up to us as wisconsinites that is packer fans and kind of shows us you know

What we have is really special with the Packers and people around the world appreciate

it.

Time now for my obligatory plug for the great underground sports pub in Hamosa Beach owned by our friend Kelly Call.

When you're in the greater Los Angeles area and you

want to take

in a Packer game, make sure you go to the underground pub in Hamosa Beach.

I've been there.

The steak sandwich is fantastic.

You're right.

It's the best Packer bar in Los Angeles.

It

is.

It really is.

Paul.

Talk to me, you guys probably know me.

Packers had a rough game.

It's been a rough day for Packer fans in Wisconsin today.

Just a weird game, losing 13 to 10 yesterday at the Browns.

But Zommerz, I were talking before the show.

And Paul, talk a little bit about this.

I think, and I've always seen the trailer, but to me, anytime that we can see something that we might take for granted through the lens of someone else, it makes you appreciate what this team means to the state.

Well, I mean you hit the nail on the head there for me, you know before we made just a bit outside I had never set foot in Wisconsin and The welcome that I received over the course of making a film I mean subsequently I've been to Wisconsin more than anywhere else in the country and the welcome and the hospitality and just the the joy and heart of the people of Wisconsin has stuck with me, right?

And so when we saw this film

that is really about that.

I feel like an adoptive son of Wisconsin.

I'm going to put that on my driver's license, adopted by Wisconsin.

Because it is just such a welcoming, warm place filled with joy.

And you have so many great things there.

And people don't necessarily recognize it until they really come and see what the state has to offer.

I mean, yes, Green Bay Packers, everyone knows the Green Bay Packers, but

Not until you actually go to Lambeau not until you actually experience it in person as I did just earlier this year for the first time did that did it click for me and It really is this movie is such a love letter to the Wisconsin way It is such a love letter to the people of Wisconsin and I am beyond delighted to be able to share this with the people of Wisconsin So they can you know as Sean said a mirror reflected back to them they can see

just how important and how special of a place they live in, so.

Sean, about a minute and a half before the first break here, but talk to us a minute and a half here up to that.

A little bit about, again, you guys kind of took your experience from just a bit outside, and is it fair to say maybe cleaned up and sweetened some of the visuals and some of the sound to kind of get it ready for greater distribution from the original?

Is that fair to say or not?

Well, I think it's fair to say we took what we learned, yes, from just a bit outside, both the marketing and distribution, but also in, you know, just the storytelling arena of, like, what do people expect when they go to the theater?

And, you know, we shared that with the filmmakers, Craig Benzine, the director, and Time Horse, the producer, and they were incredibly amenable.

In fact, they had been watching just a bit outside and then seeing the film and were like, we kind of want to do what those guys did.

And, you know, through an incredible stroke of luck, we met them.

back there at the Wisconsin Film Festival.

And that's the path they're following.

I mean, listen, the film is, it's 90 minutes of pure joy.

And it's worth, just like just a bit outside, it's worth wearing your jersey too.

Wear your Packard jersey, come early, have a couple of beers, you know, tailgate, and get ready for an incredible joy ride.

That's what the movie is.

It is in Marcus Theorist starting on October 17th.

We'll come back and talk more about this great film, No Packard is No Life with Sean Hannes, and Paul Geconi, and Barry after this on the Civic Media.

Ready to work.

I think it's time, Terry, that the Lombardi trophy goes home to Lambeau Field where it belongs.

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That's enough.

You need also score yourself some tickets to a brand new movie called No Packers, No Life.

It debuts in Marcus Theater throughout Wisconsin on October 17th.

And here to join, joining us are film makers, Sean Hannish and Paul Giacote Berry live from Los Angeles, California via StreamYard.

Paul.

Talk a little bit more about this film in the context of distribution.

It's going to be in Marcus Theaters, we know.

And how can people get tickets?

Because that's the first thing people are going to start texting and asking me, Todd, I want to go.

How am I going to get there?

Absolutely.

So first of all, we are going to have a VIP premiere of the film at the Marcus Majestic in Waukesha.

Tickets for that are available now at NoPackersNoLife.com.

That's NoPackersNoLife.com.

There's a link right there that'll take you to buy tickets to that VIP premiere.

We're going to have some celebrities, members of the Japanese Packers cheering squad will be there along with, of course, the filmmakers.

And we're going to have some surprises down the road.

We'll be making some announcements about some other folks who are going to be joining us.

So keep your ears and eyes peeled.

But it's going to be a great night.

Recommend getting tickets early to that.

And then for everyone else, as we say, the film opens October 17th, Marcus Theaters.

Tickets go on sale October 3rd.

So those will be available at the Marcus Theaters website or at any of the box offices starting October 3rd.

But we want to get the word out early and encourage everybody as soon as tickets become available, please go out and get them.

But tickets are available now for the premiere, so get them while they're hot.

It's fantastic.

I can't wait.

I could talk to you guys for an hour easy and have a beer.

I mean, it's just you're so easy to talk to, it's so fun.

Sadly, we've got about four minutes left here or so.

Sean, I'll let you take it wherever you want to go and talk about what you think people across the state really need to hear about this film.

Well, I think the thing is, you know, we're really, really proud to be Packer fans.

here is Wisconsinites and I think you know anytime you know we're at a game and somebody comes to visit right from you know New Orleans you know a Saints fan or a Rams fan or you know somebody like that a Broncos fan you know we roll out the red carpet for them we really do and we're like the nicest fan base you know that that exists so I think this movie is about that but in the extreme

And so far as you have these people that are I mean They're a world apart literally they're on the other side of the world in one of the world's largest cities and They are almost more fanatical than any Green Bay Packer fan that I've ever met That's how much they they love this team And so there's that that tells you the magic of the Green Bay Packers that they you know, they're

People love them around the world.

Why?

Why?

I mean, it's because it's community-owned.

It's because it's in a city of 100,000.

It's because, you know, the whole state and the whole region, frankly, the whole country embraces them.

I mean, there's a mystique and a charm about Green Bay, and it's so fun through this story to really, you know, I think those of us who are fans still kind of take it for granted.

You know, I think we do a little bit.

Paul, what if I not asked you about this film yet you want people to know?

Oh boy, um it uh That's a really good question.

I wish I was prepared for that.

No, um You know, I mean, I think what does it mean to you?

What does the film mean to you?

The film means to me You know, I think you actually said it best the film This is a film that I think we all need right now It is such a breath of fresh air just spend 90 minutes with people who come together over the team that they love and they bridge

language and culture and time zone and everything else and I just I tell you every time I watch it I've watched a bunch of times now.

I just I feel my shoulders ease I feel my I just I feel full with You know what fandom can do and how special of a place you guys have to call home.

So I mean It's just all it's just all joy and all love.

I said earlier this show another story in college had a

opportunity to be around a lot of students from Central America.

And I learned more about myself through them than I think they got out of the education here.

And I get the sense that I'm going to do the same thing as a Packers fan.

I'm going to learn more about living in Wisconsin, being a Packers fan and appreciating that more, watching it through people who are seeing it for the first time.

I totally agree.

I mean, honestly, we're giddy.

I was giddy.