Mondays with Matenaer – Brewer Fever and Drag Brunch (Hour 1)

From the Civic Media World Headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, it's the Todd Alba Show.

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

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Good afternoon, everybody.

Todd Albault, along with Mr. Aaron Zomers, our producer and engineer.

It is six minutes past the hour of two o'clock on this Monday, back to work and back to school.

October 6, 2025.

It is a great day to be in Wisconsinite.

Welcome, everybody, to the World Headquarters, downtown Madison, at the crossroads of State Street and Fairchild.

On an overcast day, finally, Zomers feels more like fall.

Finally, and I'm very grateful for it.

You're wearing long pants today.

I am, and it's nice.

I like to be able to wear pants if I so choose.

Well, yes, we appreciate that.

Beautiful weekend in Wisconsin.

Warm weather, great opportunities to be out and about.

We're going to wait until hour two.

I'll tell you more about my weekend.

very humbled, very honored, very nice weekend back in Richland Center.

It was a big weekend.

The UW-Richland Alumni Association had their gathering, which I was a part of more of that later.

It was also Richland, my alma mater, Richland Center High School homecoming.

And it was the Center Color Fest, formerly known as the Center Color Fiesta, the Bacannian of Lights Parade.

And it was the open house of Oakwood Fruit Farm, one of our great sponsors here at Civic Media.

And I went up there more on this later.

I brought you back, Zobbers and Apple, as well as one for Luke Mathers and myself here.

They have a new varietal they're carrying at Oakwood Fruit Farm.

Learned all about it from Steve Lewis, one of the, one of the owners up there at Oakwood.

And it's it's absolutely fantastic.

And what it's called rave rave

rave

rave the rave apple also known as first kiss.

How about that?

Spicy.

So yeah, well, and we're going to talk more about that with our guest here.

We continue our Mondays with Matt Nair.

segment coming up at 235 today, our friend and colleague and co-host of Matt Nair on air, the one, the only, the legendary Jane Matt Nair.

It's going to be here.

We'll talk, what is Jane?

Is she an orchard kind of person in the fall?

And if so, what are some of her favorite activities?

Also going to talk about big story we covered last week continues this military raid.

I'm not sure what else you would call it at an apartment complex.

on the south side of Chicago and the lack of continuing ongoing coverage on the national scene.

We talked about the great local reporting by ABC channel seven in Chicago.

And now we're going to maybe play a clip of this later on new reporting from CBS local channel in Chicago.

But the national news media continues to either just not talk about it or downplay it.

We'll get Jane's thoughts on that.

And also going to find out where Jane McNair was back in 1982 as she was working in Milwaukee media and what the vibe was in the city of Milwaukee because that's where we're going to start today.

Oh, by the way, we have a what's worse an hour number two.

And we're going to tell you some winners of our green and gold text to win contest that wrapped up on Friday.

But I want to start if you're watching on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and the like.

You see that I am decked out in my October baseball brew crew postseason t-shirt.

Got the crew hat on and yes, the number eight, Bob Uker jersey because baseball is a very traditional, suspicious, superstitious sport.

And so I thought, well, we did this on Friday and the crew, not just one, but they've got a huge win over the Cubs on Saturday.

And so I'm like, well, you got to repeat that.

The Brewers play game two of the National League Divisional Series tonight in Milwaukee at Amfam Field.

Broadcast starts at 7 30 on many of our stations across civic media.

First pitch from Amfam Field just after eight o'clock local time in Milwaukee.

You can hear it live over the air on W R C E and Richland Center W ISS in Oshkosh W C Q M in Park Falls and on WBZ H and beautiful Hayward, Wisconsin Remember we can't stream it because major league baseball owns these streaming rights, but you can hear it live over the air What a game it was on Saturday.

I had this event for

the UW Richland Alumni Foundation on on late into the morning, Saturday and early afternoon.

So we didn't get back to mom's house until into the second inning.

And I turned it on.

There's the crew up eight to one.

Yeah.

And I'm like, what the heck happened?

It was it was a pounding.

By the Brewers on the Cubs what a way to start this best of five game series as we said that very important game number two Coming up tonight want to play you a little audio catch you up courtesy of our great sports reporter Mike Clemens who is there gave some great live reporting during the game over his social media and continues to do Yeoman's work for this network in bringing you some of the best cuts around

This is former Milwaukee Brewer manager Craig council now the manager for the Chicago Cubs on the first loss of the cubbies

Greg obviously one loss and not more than one loss, but just given how it went Does it change your view of the series at all?

Well, I mean we're down one nothing nothing nothing else changes besides that.

It's one nothing.

I don't think

You know I'm not sure we'd manage the game game differently on Monday up one nothing down one nothing So it I'm not sure it does we just we made it harder for ourselves.

We got to win three out of four now They got to win two out of four.

That's it

manager the Cubs Craig counsel Then he was asked about his clubhouse's reaction how the Cubs handle this

Devastating loss in game.

I'm sorry.

I'm chuckley by get a big kick out of this you understand as a as a brewers fan Here's counsel on the clubhouse reaction to the loss on Saturday,

you know like the game got away from us early So it's it's not like it did right it got away from us.

So And it's a loss and you kind of you move on from it quickly There's no penalty there's no it's it's one loss.

It's no doesn't count for more how you lose we didn't lose well, but

sometimes, you know, not, you know, a close game could have cost us some pitching type stuff too.

So we lost, you move on, that's how the club all fell.

Craig Council after the loss by the Cubs on Saturday.

Zombers, did you get a chance to listen or watch any of the game on Saturday?

I was watching it.

I watched the whole thing on, I think TNT is what it was on.

Yes, on TNT.

Which, let me tell you, I should have muted it and put on the radio as the audio because they were.

They were also making inaccurate announcements.

They'd be like, all right, it's bottom of this inning.

The score is five and one.

And they're like, no, it's eight and one.

How are you three behind?

The game was great, though.

The game was great.

I don't think the television crew for TNT baseball is not their main action.

I believe that is the case.

Yeah.

It was it was fantastic.

The only bad thing if you want to say a concerning thing for the Brewers really on Saturday was Jackson Cheerio.

Correct me if I'm wrong, Zabers.

I think Jackson Cheerio had three hits by the second or third inning and set a record and got another hit is third hit.

I think it was any any in the first inning he rounded.

I think second base or first base and kind of had a weird.

tweak it is in the way it was running.

And that may have affected his hamstring.

If you remember, he sat out for about a month during the regular season.

Sure, you did with a hamstring injury and those, they call it soft tissue injuries can be a real bear to recover from, but he did, came back and, and then he got this third hit.

I think it was, and he ran it out, was safe at first base, but came up a little gimpy and Murph and the.

uh, athletic trainer came out and checked on him and you could read Churio's lips and he said, I'm fine.

Well, they took him out anyway and, and they went in and did an MRI, uh, was pretty nervous, pretty nervous after the game.

It sounded like Murph, Murph used the word, I believe this could keyword could be devastating for him, but.

It turns out that for the MRI and Clemens had reporting on this that as of yesterday, Cheerio was in uniform and doing some light base running.

And now here today, here's manager of the Brewers, Pat Murphy, updating us on Jackson Cheerio.

The MRI came back and we still, it's inconclusive and it's not a serious hamstring strain.

But it's not necessarily something that won't limit him.

So we're going to kind of see how he feels.

He's going to go through some testing.

And if he feels anything, we're going to shut it down.

Pat Murphy

on, I think that's right approach.

You try, but you don't, you don't want to, I think it's better to use him sparingly, especially in today's game, if at all, and let him recoup a little bit.

You don't want to tear the thing or injured to the point where he can't play at all.

for the rest of the postseason.

So, look, I mean, they did really well.

I mean, maybe not as well without Cheerio, but they found a way to win without him.

So, but certainly concerning for the Brewers.

Definitely.

But I would much rather see him later in the season than see him a little bit today and then not at all.

Yeah, absolutely.

Terry and Wasall, the CWXCL, by the way, we're gonna be doing this show next week from beautiful...

WXCO, Bull Falls Radio.

They're having a big open house on Thursday.

We're going to broadcast the show live from WXCO in Warsaw.

So come down and see us more of that later.

Terry, listening up here at Warsaw, says it was on TBS.

I think it was the TBS crew, but boy, unless I was watching it on YouTube, but I thought it came across on TNT on my channel.

So

it's

all part of Turner Broadcasting.

Yeah, what I remember seeing and hearing.

Um, it's had the TNT logo on the bug.

Oh, when they were talking, they were saying, oh, TBS.

It's all, it's all a big glomer.

But thank you, Terry, for keeping me honest.

I appreciate that.

Um, here's Pat Murphy again, talking about the pitching for today.

Uh, Quinn Priestor have been scheduled, but here's Murph saying who's going to go to the mowing for the crew today.

Murph, what are your pitching plans?

Yeah, Ashby's going to start.

Um, uh, no, no, I don't, I don't know if Priestor will be next.

I really don't keep it a cagey

Murph is.

I love that.

Confusing Craig Council a little bit, keeping them off guard, off kilter.

So as Aaron Ashby on the mound tonight for the crew again, pregame on many of our fine stations gets underway at seven thirty first pitch from Amfam just after eight o'clock hit out wait.

It's going to be fantastic.

And when we need some good news in these times, we need a distraction.

from what can be a little overwhelming news and something that brings us together.

And I was in Richland County a lot this weekend, spent a little time here in Madison on Friday night.

People are pumped.

I walked by, got some Wonder State coffee this morning on the square.

I'm wearing this shirt by October Baseball.

Brew Crew shirt and the construction guys working on the new historical center up here on the square where the guys yells out, let's go Brewers.

I

have my hands full so I could clap.

Just like I just did right now.

But yeah, but people are people are excited.

People are into it.

And I really have time later will play this clip I've got of the Brewers organization went up to several of the players before the game Saturday and said, hey, what's the vibe?

And they all answered it.

And they seemed pretty loose in a good way.

Not a cocky way, but just like, hey, we got this.

And I think that was one of the biggest concerns coming into Saturday's game.

Were they going to be tense?

Were they going to be too tight, too wild and too tight?

But boy, they came out loose, ready to go, and ready to hit.

Pat Murphy was asked another question at the post game.

Press conference on Saturday.

Mike Clemens was there.

We're gonna play this for you.

You're not gonna want to miss it because he uses one of my favorite expressions.

Part of which had to be bleeped out.

We'll play it for you after this, Pat Murphy, with some censored material on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Come see what's brewing.

Come see what the good times are.

Come see what the brewers are doing.

Come monitor a superstar.

Be a believer in bluer fever.

It's fun to join in the cheering.

Stomp your feet, clap your hands.

You're part of the team sitting in the stands.

That's right.

Catch it.

It's Brewer Fever.

Welcome back to the title ball show on the Pacific media running at work.

23 now past the hour of two o'clock song made famous back in 1982 when the Brewers made that historic World Series run came up just a bit outside.

By the way, that great film just about outside the store, the 82 Brewers, our friends, Kelly Collins, Sean Hannish, Paul Geconi, Barry.

Super fantastic film still available and available at new places including to be if you watch Stream on to be it's available on there now in addition to Roku with a Roku channel Can can either rent it or buy it on Apple TV Amazon Prime and of course the DVD if you haven't seen it yet watch it because

It's we're gonna ask Jane McNair a friend and colleague of a co-host of Matt Nair on air after 230 because she was working in the Milwaukee market on radio in 1982 could ask her I think I shouldn't say that I think it she was in the Milwaukee market But we'll ask her what the vibe was in the media and otherwise.

I have not felt even though I know the Brewers went to the NC LS in 2018 now.

It's a big follower of that

lost game seven, of course, to the Dodgers, but I don't know.

I don't know what it is.

For me, I think it's just the buy-in of the players and the fact there are so many of, as they call themselves, average Joe's on this team.

It makes it more exciting than others.

For me, too.

And I've said it multiple times.

I'll say it again.

It's the attitude of all the players and the whole team and Murphy and everybody.

It's just, you know, we're going to do our best.

We're going to take ourselves seriously.

We got this, but not in a cocky way.

And, you know, honest and reflective the whole way through, like, yep, that wasn't my best.

Here's how I can fix it tomorrow.

Yeah, no, they had the Ted Lassel thing.

I can have a memory of a goldfish.

Yeah, just be a goldfish.

All right.

So here's I get our great sports reporter, Mike Clemens.

Nobody's covering this that's run by the Brewers better than our own Mike Clemens.

We're so fortunate to have him.

He brings us a cut.

Brewers manager Pat Murphy after after the game on Saturday.

The reporter asked him, I'm sure it was Murphy or Clemens or somebody else asks him Murphy about the handshake and why he doesn't do it and what's going on here.

This is beautiful golden, as they say.

Here's the interview or part of this interview from Saturday of Pet Murphy.

When they do the pregame chalk lineups, why don't you shake your players hands?

When we do the pregame, you line up on the first baseline.

Yeah,

all the players come right down they give their teammates high fives and then you stare Blake Perkins in the eye and don't shake his hand shake his hand.

Why do you do that?

It's tradition Yeah, it's been a tradition.

I've done it for 10 years now Whenever we've had introductions.

I just think it's I call it happy horse The newer I mean it's a bunch of happy horse Sounds better when I use the other word, but I'm not gonna use it because I don't use that kind of language

public setting.

But it's just like a lot of happy horseshit, you know what I mean?

Like you just keep, we got a lot of this, you know, and then you go down the line and shake their hands and then they go warm up and then they come in the dugout and you shake their hands and you do some crazy handshake with them, you know what I mean?

And I'm like, this is a lot of happy horseshit, let's play the game.

And it's kind of a tradition and then if you remember way back, I don't know what year, Arcea like punched me really hard in the chest, almost knocked me down.

Yeah, he's trying to really kind of doing that.

But he knows that he's been here since since then.

So some players like Vaughn was like so sincere.

He didn't know it.

Some guys forget.

But yes, I never go down and shake their hands.

I just go right to the line.

I didn't know you noticed.

I didn't think anybody noticed.

See, yet another reason I love Pat Murphy because he's not going to participate in that happy horse.

Hockey stuff.

He tried so hard to not say it.

It's one of my favorite terms to describe just, you know, ridiculousness.

It's just a bunch of horse.

Anyway, I thought that was, I thought that was great.

I think it's especially great because the first time he paused so long.

Right.

And then he was trying so hard.

He's like, I'm not going to say that.

I don't say it in public.

And then he just said it twice.

Because it doesn't have the same effect if you don't use the full word.

Anyway, again, the crew planned tonight pregame show at 7 30 across many of our stations.

First pitch that's after eight o'clock was Jane McNair here in a few minutes where she was back in 1982 or she was in the industry where she was working to get her memories on that and more serious news of the day as well.

Terry and cross planes listening on WM DX off the text line says, Todd, I walked past a lady with a cub shirt on and told her good luck tonight.

And she waved at me.

And I said, but no, not really.

No, I don't know.

We have all the details here.

Did she give you a one-fingered wave back?

Terry, is that why you got snarky with her?

Because there's no reason to amp this up.

We can be pleasant to each other, you know, unless she was a one-finger wave at him.

Right.

So I'm not sure we know the full details on that.

Alice in Cudahay.

Now, this is a beautiful.

She sends us on.

She is her front door and she has a Brewer's jersey on number 15 there.

And this is fantastic.

Cecil Cooper's Jersey and Cecil Cooper is throwing out one of the first pitches tonight I believe along with Bob Euker Jr.

And there was one of the player escaping my memory right now, but that's fantastic.

Allison Cudahay listening to us on WAUK has got that and also she says it's a picture of herself in a really cool World Series 1982 bucket hat.

That's great.

How about that?

Alice, thank you so much for your listenership and beautiful cut of hay on W. A. U. K. And way to way to represent and get ready for Brewer fever tonight on many of our fine stations.

So exciting.

Brewer's fever ketchup, little farm news from Pam Yankee Midwest Farm Report.

And then come on back.

You're not going to want to miss it.

Our own Jane McNair.

Where was she in 82?

What was the vibe like?

And also, a little more serious news on the national news, ignoring the truth of what's going on in this country.

Jane McNair is next.

Don't miss it on the Civic Media Radio Network.

from the stages of Milwaukee Riverside Theater, a starring role by our own Jane McNair and Phantom of the Opera.

Welcome back.

Well done, Mr. Zomers.

Wow, that's great.

Welcome back to the All Balls show on the Civic Media Ready Network.

35 minutes now past the hour of two o'clock on this Monday, October 6th.

Yes, applause.

for Xamarin's, for dialing up little Phantom of the Opera, for those watching on the stream on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, ex, Twix, whichever way you want to call it.

Jane, from a lovely home, has a lovely candelabra behind her, and I said it looks a little Phantom of the Opera-ish, and so that's why Xamarin's.

And of course, Jane and I are big fans of musicals, so.

We are.

Yes, we are.

You can hear every morning along with her co-host Greg Bach on Matt and Air on air across many of these fine stations of the Civic Media Ready Network from 9 until 11, the one, the only, the legendary Jane Matt and Air.

Jane, how are

you?

I am excellent,

my friend.

How about yourself?

I've got Brewer Fever.

As you can see, I got my Uker jersey up.

I got my October baseball shirt, my hat on.

I'm set to go.

You know, I am not felt this way since since 82 when the Brewers went to the World Series, of course, came up just a bit outside, as they say, against the Cardinals.

Jane, you are an institution of Southeast Wisconsin.

You're a legend in Milwaukee Broadcasting and Wisconsin Broadcasting, really.

Were you on the air?

Were you in the media, as they say?

And if so, where were you working at when the Brewers did this?

Well, not to the World Series yet, but well,

they got this kind of fever last time.

Well, Todd, in 1982, I hadn't been born yet.

I forgot, I apologize.

I apologize.

Yes, I still, you know, yeah.

So, you know, I started my career in 1981, but my very first job was in New Olm, Minnesota at KNUJ AM Radio, and then we launched

a an FN station.

One other person and I launched the rock station of the area of KXLP.

And so I was, I didn't move until back to Milwaukee, the Milwaukee area, southeast of Wisconsin until 1984.

But

in

1982, when I was working at that radio station, I was also involved in the community theater.

And we had rehearsals nights that the Brewers were playing.

So the show was the passion of Dracula.

I was Mina anyway, that's a completely side thing I would run back and forth because there was a bar across the street that had the game on and I would run back and forth and that was the game that we lost and and that Ended it, but I mean it was great.

It was very exciting.

I had gone to the Brewers a neighbor's father

Mike Cena used to take Liz and I to the Brewer's games when I was about nine and 10 at the Old County Stadium.

Yeah.

And so, yes, it was fabulous and very exciting, but I was not in cheese land at that time.

But you were behind the mic and doing what you always do, which is entertain and inform people.

And that's great.

And I just think that, I mean, what's it like you live in Milwaukee?

Can you tell just?

going to grocery stores and stuff.

Is there kind of a vibe?

Do you see more people wearing brewery stuff?

Do people seem excited about this living there in the city?

Oh, without a doubt.

Without a doubt.

There are people who have more.

I've never seen.

Well, and it's nice because everyone's been getting this stuff for Christmas for such a long time.

Now you can wear all of the gear that you have accumulated over the years.

And no, absolutely.

There's a lot of excitement, a lot of hope.

If you're like Greg, it's hope tempered by trepidation and fear.

And I'm kidding.

No, I

listened.

I was listening.

I sound loud.

I'm like, Greg, cheer up.

They won the first game.

But there's another game, Todd.

There's more games.

And I respect that too, you know?

It's not like Brewer's fans haven't had their hearts broken before.

But it's wonderful to see this team get this far and enjoy the experience.

Yeah, it really is.

It's something special.

Again, you can hear the the pregame show starting at 730, the first pitch just after eight o'clock on many of our great stations, including RCE and Richland Center, ISS in Oshkosh, CQM in Park Falls and WBZH in Hayward over the air, terrestrial broadcasting, as they say.

So so stay tuned for that.

And hopefully we could talk about another another win tomorrow.

So we shall we shall see.

They're taking the train.

There's a train going from Milwaukee to Chicago for the.

Wednesday game at Wrigley.

How fun would that be, Jane, to be on that?

And that is such a brilliant idea.

It is.

Because anybody who drives the stretch between Milwaukee and Chicago, that stretch of 94, can be very, very, very slow.

And I think that's really smart.

And I'm sure a lot of people are going to be traveling that way rather than driving, just trying to find a place to

park.

Yeah.

It's going to be, it's going to be crazy.

It's going

to be fun and hopefully get a win today and wrap it up.

Maybe at Wrigley on Wednesday, we shall see.

We're talking with Jay McNair, co-host of McNair on air every morning from nine until 11 here on the Civic Media Ready Network.

Jay, we were up in, did a couple of shows in, in Seanal last week and we're sitting up there and coming, came across my feed.

And at first I'm like,

Really is this and I had to do a little checking and here and we spent about 40 minutes last week What was it somers on on Wednesday show?

I think yeah Wednesday show on this that the United States Homeland Department Homeland Security and ICE did this raid on an apartment complex in South Chicago Starting off with a Black Hawk helicopter and then dragging people some half-clothed

without warrants, breaking in doors, zip tying children, separating people by the pigment of their skin, many of whom were American citizens.

And that morning, as I often do, I watch CBS this morning and there was no mention of this and no mention of it on on CNN.

And we spent 40 minutes of it on it.

I know you and Greg now have talked about it other places on this network, but.

What is your view of this, Jane?

As someone who's been in broadcasting for a long time and you know this industry better than anybody that I've known, what do you make of this, of this lack of national attention versus ABC7 in Chicago, which is the story that we used, which was phenomenal reporting?

Well, thank goodness that they still have that media outlet in Chicago where they have local reporters on the ground.

You know, as well as I do, Todd, that major mainstream media has been changing for a very, very long time.

And broadcast television, specifically CBS, ABC, NBC, depend on advertisers.

And the whole advertising model has changed.

And we've seen more local outlets get decimated.

Now, because so many of our large media companies are owned by big corporations with people who do seem to be especially friendly with this administration, that's how you control things.

Controlling information and the information people see, that is crucial and frightening.

And, but I think the media has been letting us down for the last 10 years.

I think we have, we have never talked seriously.

And Greg and I just talked about this last week.

Our current president is not well and does not appear coherent very frequently now in public in speeches.

And I don't hear that talked about at all.

You and I talked about this last week.

There is so much information.

There are so many stories on a daily basis.

The judge's home in South Carolina that was burned to the ground.

Did you see that?

Yeah.

And quite frankly, when I first saw that, I had to double check to make sure that the story was not AI generated.

Right.

Because there is so much.

there is so much to wade through.

But I do think that legacy media has abandoned their responsibilities a long time ago.

And for

those that might not have heard, Stephen Miller, the Trump administration came out against a judge in Oregon, I believe, who had a temporary restraining order on President Trump calling up

National Guard troops from California to go to Oregon, to Portland, and Stephen Miller came out and started attacking that judge.

And hours later, this judge on the East Coast House was burned down.

Well, and the judge on the East Coast had ruled against the Trump administration when they were trying to get a hold of voter records.

Yes.

And she was, they were targeted because of that.

Again, we'll see, you know, there's a lot of speculation there.

And that's another hesitation.

Oh, it's very dangerous.

It's very dangerous.

And I also think that the level of rhetoric coming from Stephen Miller.

Now the Democrats are satanic.

And I mean, the president said in front of a large number of military people over the weekend, they have to get rid of the net on their shoulder, which are Democrats.

Speaking to active duty Navy sailors.

Yes, and we know we've never seen that before Jane at least in my lifetime whether I don't care that was George W. Bush or Barack Obama Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan You didn't see our commander chiefs go before active duty troops and bring in overt partisan politics It just didn't happen until now

on well until now and the the level of obfuscation the level of

Trying to pretend that this is normal.

I challenge anyone to read a transcript of one of Donald Trump's latest speeches and explain to me what it all means.

Yeah, it's largely a

word salad.

It is completely word salad completely off the top of his head and and the fact that the media has not

Spent more time and trying to make it normal.

It is not normal.

It's not nor none of this is normal

Let's let's go

ahead and let's put a whole lot of time.

But name Barry Weiss might not mean a lot to a lot of people, but she has just been named essentially editor chief of CBS News.

And and she used to be at the Wall Street Journal for a time in the New York Times.

But she started this this thing three years ago, I think, called The Free Press, an online publication.

And and Paramount Skydance just bought it for 150 million.

Not bad if you can get it, Jane.

That's a good startup.

I.

She is friendly to Trumpism and MAGA and she has now been put in charge of CBS News.

Thoughts?

I think this is actually part of Project 2025, one of the, or actually, if you want me to get really off the rails here, seven mountains, dominionists, and the seven mountains to take control over include the media.

And I do believe that.

Peter Thiel and some of these other larger companies are very much a part of controlling them as much media as humanly possible in order to control the messaging.

Because information is power, knowledge is power.

Yeah, that's what I was taught.

I think you're right.

And and when both of us were growing up, whether or not you always agreed or not, I think there are you tell me whether you agree with this or not, that whether it was New York Times or the Chicago Tribune.

CBS ABC, there was some sense of certain guardrails that were going to play this down the middle.

We're not going to be overtly bought out by one side or the other.

And those journalistic ethics, Jane, just seem to have disappeared

nearly.

Oh, without a doubt.

Without a doubt.

The attempt to make it both side is when it is not has destroyed legacy media.

Jane McNair's gonna come back and talk a little bit about what's coming up on their show for this week, and also, is she an orchard person?

That burning question will be answered after this on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Maybe you're traversing Highway 29

or

Highway 14 in Southwest Wisconsin every morning from 9 to 11.

That's what you're going to feel like when you tune in Jane and Greg on Matt and Air on air.

You're going to feel like a little jazz party.

You understand?

You're going to get some news.

You're going to get some laughs.

You're going to feel better after you listen to Jane and Greg every morning.

So tune in for that.

They won the only incomparable.

Jane Matt and Air joins us live from her beautiful home in an undisclosed part of Milwaukee.

We're happy to have her here.

By the way, Joseph, watching on YouTube, says, Todd and Jane, thank you for highlighting Weiss and the free press.

They are MAGA dressed up in just asking questions, quote unquote,

drag.

Well, and the other thing that's maddening, quite frankly, are the lack of follow-up questions.

Yeah.

Because...

They are, I'm sure in some instances, if you ask a follow-up question, you'll never get another question.

They'll just cut you off, which again, is not healthy for democracy.

It's not.

Questions are not bad

things.

And in case you're just joining us, Barry Weiss, who had a career at the Wall Street Journal of New York Times and then started this online publication known as The Free Press about three years ago, CBS are...

Paramount Skydance just bought it for $150 million and named Barry Weiss, editor-in-chief of CBS News.

That's what we're discussing.

By the way, saying Joseph said, just asking questions, drag.

Have you ever been to a drag show, Jane

McNair?

a long time ago.

Really?

Yeah.

I feel like my gay card may be revoked at any moment because I'm familiar with the genre and I'm fine with it, but I've never actually been.

So maybe that's our next road show.

Jane and Todd do a drag show, Brunch.

That works for me.

Jane

and Todd drag brunch.

That would be a great show.

I think that'd be a lot of fun.

That would

work.

No drag show brunches, I don't think, but what's coming up this week

on Matt and Air on Air?

We do have a busy week tomorrow.

Pat Krightlow is going to be joining us.

Also our friend Pam Yankee, the fabulous farm babe.

You love talking to her.

Civic Media's own award-winning journalist.

And we call her the genie of just about everything.

Terry Barr is going to be joining us for a slice of Wisconsin, a great little feature she does about really interesting things around the state.

Later on this week, Darren Van Ruden is going to join us.

He is the president of the Wisconsin Farmers Association.

And I have a feeling we will be talking about tariffs.

I'm sure you will.

That's a real thing.

I think I heard Pam I talked in the Midwest Fire Department Park this report this morning and all you've talked about it I know Maggie Dawn's talked about it.

We've talked about our show I believe it's a national mental health awareness for rural and ag producers here in America really really important so I love that you bring on Derek van Roon because he brings a part of this state that's so important to all of us really

yes and

I appreciate you guys bringing him on because he's always a great guest I always learned something when I listen

Well, and that's why what that's what we try to do with our guests quite quite seriously There are so many things.

I don't know Todd.

It's embarrassing which is why we bring on experts who do know and Darren is just like you said, he's a terrific guy We've learned so much about Wisconsin and the industry and how our farmers really get used by all sides Yeah, pretty much

I thank you for crying.

I think I may have said Derek Darren is the right name.

Darren

Van Ruden.

All

right.

It's 56 minutes past the hour here.

Oh, by the way, by the way, neither one of us.

came in as the top dog in the old, uh, green and gold text to win contest.

I have spoken with director of operations, Luke Mathers, uh, and, uh, found out, and you, you talked about this and I couldn't get word, complete agreement.

The whole thing was rigged because they gave Hartman, uh, two, two, uh, words.

And so he beat us both.

And I, I,

I don't

think

it was

fair.

I mean, I, I texted you.

I know.

I texted you at the beginning and I said, I'm going to contest this because I am so delighted with how many people were excited.

Exactly.

And entered the contest.

It was great.

And what Greg and I always learned from it, that's why we went to Butternut.

Right.

And that's how we learned about Butternut.

I had never heard of it before.

I loved that it existed and we took a road trip and went there.

So that's one of the great things about...

about the text-to-win contest that we have.

We can tell you

now, as beneficial Jane teased on her show, apparently the grand prize winner has been contacted.

And we are pleased to announce that Dennis from Minakwa, listing on WCQM, Jane, Greg, and I have been there, is the big grand prize winner of the green and gold contest.

Can we say the words now that the contest is

over?

Don't.

Let's not.

Really?

Don't.

I can't.

All right.

Don't.

No.

Jane's giving me the look of do not do this.

Well, I'm on the air with you.

All right.

He's going to a game in November, a football game between Green Bay, yes, Green Bay and Minnesota.

That I can

say.

All right.

That's

what he's

doing.

Very good.

So congratulations to Dennis from Minakwa, the big grand prize winner in our green and gold text win contest.

Jane and Greg, we're running through other winners today.

We'll do that later as well.

Quick note, you've already gotten two invitations to drag brunches in Wisconsin.

Really?

Well, how about that, Jane?

That'll be our next big thing.

All

right,

quickly in the time we have left, are you an orchard

person, Jane?

Sure, I will orchard.

I love apples.

I love apple pie.

I mean, a well done apple pie is an amazing thing.

Apple crisp is good.

Sure, why not?

Yeah, well, I was just at Oakwood Fruit Farm in Richland County this weekend, one of our fine sponsors here on Civic Media, and it was a customer appreciation weekend.

It was packed, and I got myself some rave apples.

better known as first kiss.

You have a cross between a honey crisp and something else.

So, Zomers are gonna have those in hour two.

And so, do you peel them?

Or do you just eat it whole?

Or do you cut it up?

Okay.

Just bite that apple, baby.

Get that

crunch, that snap.

Enjoy.

Now, we enjoy you, Jane McNair, every morning from nine until 11 o'clock.

Greg Bach, McNair on air.

Thank you, my friend.

We'll see you next Monday.

Thank you so much.

Take care, Zomers.

All

right, stay tuned what's worse and Todd takes a bite of an apple in our two of the civic media ready network

From the Civic Media World Headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, it's the Todd Alba Show.

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

Across Wisconsin on the Civic Media Radio Network.

and streaming worldwide on the Civic Media app.

Good afternoon, everybody.

Todd Alba, along with Mr. Aaron Zommers, our producer and engineer on the board.

It is six minutes past the hour of three o'clock on this Monday, October 6, 2025, and it's a great day.

To be a Wisconsinite, welcome into the old World Headquarters downtown Madison, Wisconsin, and the crossroads of State Street and Fairchild Overcast Day.

Fall has arrived, Mr. Zombers.

Welcome to hour number two of the big broadcast on the Sam Davidson Street Cam.

For those watching online, look at that beautiful shot there.

Little cockeyed, I set the camera up today.

Grandpa used to say, don't be like the cockeyed seamstress, you couldn't mend straight.

Yeah, gotta be careful when

you're setting up cameras.

Gotta be careful of that.

But anyway, there are a couple of cars going by, not a lot of activity.

downtown Madison today, at least people, pedestrian traffic.

Maybe people are staying, people are staying inside Somers after the beautiful weekend that we had in Wisconsin.

Maybe, especially because at least on my way in today, it was drizzling a little bit.

So maybe people are just like, tut tut, it looks like rain, and they're staying inside.

It could be.

There were a couple of sprinkles earlier, but yeah, it's that time of year, a little fall-like.

There'll be a football game by the way, it's homecoming week here in Madison for the University of Wisconsin Badgers and some breaking news And I'm not sure whether this is good or bad Because you always like national coverage generally speaking

For our state for athletic programs.

It's just been announced according to channel 3000 WISD TV here in Madison the Wisconsin football team will host top ranked Ohio State on October 18th, and you can catch the game live on CBS The actual kickoff at 2 30 in the afternoon.

So the big Wisconsin Ohio State

game on October 18th here in Madison will be a prime time, at least prime time afternoon Saturday football viewing will be the key game on CBS at 2 30.

First, though, the Badgers face Iowa, whereas my granddad and grandma used to say, Iowa.

They faced Iowa this Saturday for the homecoming game.

It's a night game six o'clock at Camp Randall.

You can hear it on many of our stations, Iowa, taking on Wisconsin, four o'clock for the pregame show just after six for the kickoff on RCE and Richland Center, L-A-K in AMRI, W-F-H-R in Wisconsin Rapids, and W-R-P-N in Ripon Good Cookies, Wisconsin.

about that.

So that's coming up.

I'm going to the game.

You're going with me as our courtesy of our friend, Trig V. Olson, who will be in town.

I think he's going to join us on the show on on Friday.

That'll be a lot of fun.

And also other breaking news I can now confirm via our co-executive producer, Chris Paul's.

He has booked and this is I've been wanting this for a long time for a guest.

I can tell you that if you've ever gone to a Badger football game and heard.

First and 10 Wisconsin.

First and 10 Wisconsin.

There you go.

The man behind that voice is Mike Mankey.

Mike Mankey, and he is going to be here on Friday.

That's awesome.

We're going to interview Mike Mankey and find out what it's like to be the voice of the Badgers on the PA side, both for football.

He does volleyball, basketball.

So Mike Mankey will be here from the University of Wisconsin Madison PA announcer.

So I can't wait.

That'll be that'll be a lot of fun.

I think Brady Ewing may be along as well.

Former Badger and NFL veteran talking about homecoming.

I look, I hope that the Badgers can win this one.

It'd be great to win the homecoming game.

I'm pulling for him.

I want them to win.

But as our sports reporter, Mike Clemens reported, they lost at the big house over in Ann Arbor on Saturday, Michigan 24 and Wisconsin 10.

and Luke fickle chose to start the number three, the third string quarterback in that game.

And you know what?

The Badgers went down, scored first, seven, nothing.

I did not get to see much of it for another, I'll tell you why in a minute, but the Badgers play, look, I don't, I'm not hating on the, on the players at all.

I think they're giving it their all.

They played Michigan tough at Ann Arbor and it,

24-10, three minutes left to go, Wisconsin has the ball, and all three timeouts.

And Coach Fickle decides to essentially wave the white flag and not use any of those timeouts.

You're down two scores.

And I think what it says to your players is, there's no fight left in you, or at least that's the message you're sending.

And that was the takeaway from a lot of Badger fans on Saturday was, hey, you know what?

The players showed some progress, give them credit.

But now why is Fickle essentially giving up?

So... You just don't do that.

Very, very frustrating on the part of the head coach of Wisconsin.

So I'm hoping everything comes together and they can get a win this Saturday against Iowa for the homecoming game.

Let's hope that.

Hopefully hopefully he at least doesn't throw in the towel

right and you can hear the Badgers on the civic media app as well if you're out living with those cities that I mentioned So tune us in if you don't have the app you can download it and your Apple or Android device It's free.

It's what gale king calls a deal over there at CBS

That's a whole another kettle of fish.

But with the changes happening at CBS, I'll be interested to see her contract is up in May.

I'll be interested to see whether Gail wants to go another round of these people

or whether or not they want her to.

Well, yeah.

I just think that Gail is going to.

I don't know her, obviously, but from what I read and have admired her career over the years, I just don't know that she's going to want to be part of this new CBS.

Oh, a lot can happen between now and May.

It can.

As we know, it can be a lifetime indeed.

Much shorter time tonight.

If you watch on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, got my Brewers October baseball stuff on, got the Euker Jersey up here in the studio today.

Brewers in game two of the NLDS against the Chicago Cubs.

Pre-game starts at 730.

That's right.

It's a late game tonight.

First pitch just after eight o'clock and fan field you can hear that one only over the air on RCE and Richland Center W ISS and Oshkosh WCQM and Park Falls and WBZH in Hayward So dial it in there on those great stations looking forward to the crew getting at it tonight Gonna do what's worse for you in just a minute But I'm gonna ask for your indulgence for a couple of moments don't

Normally do this don't do it too often.

I don't think so much.

No But I do this for one reason number two, I guess number one to say thank you and and number two just to talk about the the subject of opportunity Was very honored humbled To go back to Richland Center this weekend for the University of Wisconsin Richland alumni Gala dinner that happens every every fall

because I started out my my comments on Saturday saying I think there had been a great mistake cap and they've ran out of people to nominee.

I was chosen along with four other people as outstanding alumni of the University of Wisconsin-Richland for 2025.

My fellow nominees or my fellow honorees, Ken Hansen,

class of 1965 at UW County Teachers College, Jane Goplin-Kinney, class of 67, Terry Kenothe, class of 76, and Julie Brock-Steven's class of 1973.

I am the class of 1991 at UW Richland.

Very honored, very humbled.

I don't know that I deserved it, but what it did give me is an opportunity to thank a lot of people in my life who

if I've had any success professionally or otherwise, it's because of them.

And so I used my time, and I'll give you a shortened version here, that what the campus to me means, and yes, I've talked about it on this show, my maternal grandmother, Marge Wallace, was one of the key people that started, that got that campus built in the late 60s.

She went on to be the first woman to serve as Dean.

of a UW System campus in Wisconsin.

The Student Center was named after her, the Marjorie Wallace Student Center.

Very, very proud of my grandmother.

Broke glass ceiling, certainly for women in this state.

And to attend that university and go to school there, it gave me the opportunity for a kid to grow up in a small town to meet people from other countries, the Central American Scholarship Program, which was.

helped to be started by former of the late Dean Tom Oates, Dr. Tom Oates, and Linda Gentis, who you've heard me talk about, passed away about three or four weeks ago.

And it had it not been for those people bringing the Central American Scholarship Program there, I would not have met a lot of people that are my friends that I call family today, including my two godsons, whose mom was originally from El Salvador and whose dad is from Spring Green, who went to that university.

That's how I met them.

And then I had all my professors there.

Jean Birkitt, by the way, my English professor and theater professor at 97, I believe, was there at this luncheon, and she is going to be back on the stage for the Community Players Theater for their latest production this fall.

And she is sharp as a tack.

Still

getting it done?

Still getting it done.

Professor Bob Hershey was there as well, one of the charter faculty.

John Poole, the great recruiter, so many other people.

Dion Kempthorne, one of the former deans at the campus.

A lot of people to thank there.

My public school teachers, Otis Scott, Ken Thied, Ken Lewis, Dr. Jerry Bauer, history professor at the campus.

And then I'll skip over the rest and my family, certainly my mom, my sister, my two nieces, Addison and Isabel, my brother-in-law, Mike, who all made the trip from Eau Claire to be there.

But I wrapped it up with this.

I told the story of the air, so I'll give you the shortened version now, that you'll remember this year we did the show at Green Bay Preble High School for the Wisconsin Public Education Network.

And we ended the show with having Nikki VanderMullen, the

first person with autism elected to the Madison School Board.

And she talked about the fact that in sixth grade, teachers told her parents that she never graduated high school, but her parents fought for her opportunity.

And not only did she graduate from college, now she's on the Madison School Board.

And so I think that what that, even though Jay Rothman and the Board of Regents and a number of people in the legislature and quite frankly, I'm disappointed in the governor.

Governor Evers about this, that UW Richland was closed, the brick and mortar, the bricks and the copper roofs, but our educational facilities in the state are more than brick and mortar.

They're an idea, a spirit, the Wisconsin idea.

And so even though our little college at UW Richland after 55 years was closed down, the spirit of that place lives on, not

It's not about me, it's about all the people that preceded me and came after me.

And the fact that the Alumni Association is still giving out thousands of dollars in scholarships to high school kids from Southwest Wisconsin every year to go to college.

They're still getting it done.

And that's what it's about, in my opinion, in rough times and public education is being attacked from K-12 through the university.

But whatever anybody listening to my voice

If you have an opportunity to give to someone, do it.

It does have to be money.

Just give people an opportunity because that's all a lot of people need is an opportunity.

And then they're gonna fly.

So...

Thanks a lot to the University of Wisconsin Mitchell Alumni Association, and I hope this inspires other people to take opportunities, give people opportunities.

We're gonna come back, give you our what's worse for today.

Don't miss it.

Speaking of reunions, are you a high school reunion person?

Well, let's play into the other side.

It's the all ball show for Monday.

On the Civic Media, ready or not.

You now pass the hour of three o'clock on Monday, October 6th, 2025.

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Getting some word from many of our listeners that the app, maybe have a couple of bugs in it.

We're working our fine engineers are all over, they're on top of it.

If you're not getting volume on the old Civic Media app, keep her fresh and keep trying.

You can also find us, I think still, at Civic Media.us.

Is that true, Zauberts?

People can listen there?

Yeah.

All right.

He's busy

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He's

working on it.

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You can check out there.

And of course on terrestrial radio over many of our fine stations here at the Civic Media radio network.

By the way, Harvest Moon tonight.

Harvest Moon.

I was coming back from Michelin Center last night as the moon was rising.

Andre Bad Moon rising.

What a Chris Berman's best nicknames ever on ESPN the big big harvest moon and reminded me my Maternal grandfather Warren Wallace was a great same my grandma Wallace and we go camping and there was a song harvest moon.

I apologize, but

We'll shine on shine on harvest moon up in the sky for I ain't had no lovin since January February June and July snow time ain't no time to stay indoors in spoon because I ain't had no lovin since January February June and July harvest moon ever sing that song

I have not

Our designers is looking like neither should you

No,

I'm just like, I have no idea what that

is.

You're a Boy Scout, Eagle Scout.

I thought maybe that was a campfire song people would sing.

That's not one that I ever learned at least.

I don't

know.

Maybe it was a Richelton Center song.

Maybe.

I

don't know.

Yeah.

All right, 24 minutes past the hour of three o'clock.

Time once again for what's worse.

Let's

go.

Once again, for what's worse, no prize money to give away, nothing to, no prizes involved, no cash to give away.

You see, it's been so long summers with the text to win.

I forgot how to open this up.

It is your chance to have your voice heard at all 10 news talk sports stations on the Civic Media radio network.

All right, then I was back at RC.

It wasn't really a class reunion, although the rich will consider homecoming.

For high school was this weekend and I think a couple of classes had their class reunion.

Oh, here's another this I won't forget this this is perhaps the best part of the weekend so Homecoming this weekend and you know, there's some not nothing destructive But you know kids still toilet paper trees

in

which one center during homecoming and so mom's house didn't get hit Directly because there's no real trees in her front yard, but our next-door neighbors got their their tree TP'd pretty well

beautiful job.

And it had not rained in Richland center at all.

And so it was all dry, right?

And so on Sunday, we go out and mom starts going over to, she goes, well, I'm going to take that off the neighbor's tree.

It's just going to blow over my yard.

So she goes over there and she wraps, she comes back with, with.

Half of a toilet paper old was unused.

They just got to land it in the yard and she'd wrapped up all this toilet paper by the tree and it was dry and she goes, well, I'm going to take this in.

I won't have to worry about toilet paper for the rest of the week.

You know,

fair enough.

If it works, it works.

And she's listening at home, which she oftentimes is.

She's probably saying, now, why would he say that on the air?

I said, you're not actually, well, why not?

And it was my brother law pointed out, it was not like cheap, you know, generic toilet.

It was like Charmin

double quilted.

No, it was like Charmin double quilted.

I mean, yeah, then that, you know what?

It's free, right?

As long as

it's

not all nasty.

No, it was, it was clean as a whistle.

So there you go.

There's a little news you can use.

Don't knock the teepee of the neighborhood during homecoming because you might be able to recycle.

Reduce reuse recycle that's a reuse right there.

I think just don't do it in the other order

Exactly right all right category today.

What's worse high school reunion or no high school reunion high school reunion or No high school reunion 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 what's worse high school reunion

or no high school reunion.

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The civic media app was worse high school reunion or no high school reunion.

Our own Catherine Lake.

General manager of WMDX here, Madison says of my old Harvest Moon song.

She says, if that song isn't a promo, I don't know radio.

Well, Catherine knows radio.

So I guess there you go.

Our work for today is done, Zombers.

You know what I'm doing, yeah.

And by the way, shout out to Catherine Lake and all of our great people.

I regret I wasn't in town.

on Sunday yesterday because they had the big Alzheimer's walk and fundraiser here in Madison.

And both Catherine and my family have been touched by dementia and Alzheimer's, as I know many of you have as well.

And John and Gordy crew, Dom, the Italian stallion Lee was out there.

Did you make it?

You did not.

No, I didn't mean to make you feel bad.

I'm so sorry to all of you that I couldn't go.

You couldn't go.

Not that I couldn't go, that I forgot.

I woke up, I checked my notepad of stuff to do it, and I'm like, you know what?

That was this morning.

But your intention was there.

It was well-intentioned.

But congratulations to Catherine, John, and Gordy crew.

Everybody here at WMDX, like Megan was there, Denise was there, a few other people, and raising money for Alzheimer's.

Do what y'all can, and I'll hope that it...

worked in my calendar to be there next year to help out.

So congrats to all of them.

What's worse, high school reunion or no high school reunion?

Robert in McFarland says high school reunion as long as we can drink.

So what's worse is none then, I guess.

I guess, yeah, I guess what he's saying is that if you can't drink.

and having it is worse.

But if you're allowed to, then not having it's worse.

Matt in Middleton says having reunion is worse, says I would feel pressure to go and in the cafeteria food, oh, and the cafeteria food has not improved.

More of your answers after this, I'll tell you a high school reunion story of my own.

High school reunion or no high school reunion, what's worse, 8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2.

Farm News is next to Pam Yonkey and the crew.

When some loud braggart tries to put me down and says his school is great,

I jump right

away.

Now what's the matter, buddy?

Ain't you heard of my school?

It's your number one in the state.

Great song.

I haven't heard that in a long time.

Thank you, Zommer.

It's a 35-minute style past the hour of 3 o'clock, Monday, October 6th, 2025.

Aaron Zommer is playing the tunes on the board.

Be true to your school.

We're right in the middle of today's what's worse, high school reunion or no high school reunion.

What's worse, having a high school reunion, having to go to that or not having a high school reunion?

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

Let's go to the phone lines.

Ollie, listening up in the Northwoods.

Ollie, hope you had a good weekend.

Welcome back to the show.

High school reunion or no high school reunion, what's worse?

Well, that's kind of a trick question, isn't it?

Maybe go to your high school reunion.

How will you know what's going or not?

Right?

Um, I suggest that you be careful for Carrie bar might have you on beats show Just saying that Right, yeah

I was a choir kid, you know, I'm the best voice but I haven't I haven't sung really in a long time

And your voice gets worse and worse.

That's a

great song

to sing too.

So you know that.

It's John in the

Harvest Movie.

I know it.

I used to work in home health and I worked with a gentleman whose brother would come and sing the ukulele and play the ukulele and sing lots of old time songs and that was one of his favorite songs.

Well,

thank

you.

See, I'm not completely crazy.

No,

you're not.

Good job.

Well, thank you.

Thank you.

So at the end of the day, what's worse, having a high school reunion or no high school reunion?

Well, I didn't go to my high school reunion.

But like I said, I think it's pretty hard to just

to decide if you didn't go, which one would be worse.

It might have

been worse if you did go.

Good point, Ollie.

I appreciate it.

Thanks for listening.

Have a great day up there in the Northwoods.

What's worse, high school reunions or no high school reunions?

855-752-4842.

855-752-4842.

Chris, listening down in beautiful Jamesville, VW MDX.

Chris says,

Worse is having reunions for years 10, 15, and 20.

All right, so you, but Zomers, I talked about this off the air, because normally it's every five years.

And you're saying Zomers, you did not have a five year class reunion.

I don't remember seeing anything about it.

And, you

know, what happened during COVID?

I graduated high school in 2017.

So that would be 2022.

So kind of, I

don't

know, maybe, maybe COVID just threw it off or maybe

I

wasn't invited or maybe it went to my spam or who knows?

Well, I mean, I think everybody in the class, if they have it, you don't necessarily have to get a personal invitation.

If it's announced, right, you're a member of that class, you're welcome to

go.

I don't remember seeing anything about it, but, you know, that

might be my

fault.

Also, Lori.

Lori, let's see up a beautiful Hayward.

Of course, we've done the show there several times for the Berkebeiner and the Lumberjack World Championship with Greg and Jane up there.

I love Hayward.

Our great station, WBZH.

Lori, listening in on WBZH and Hayward, I said earlier that my mom had, had recycled the, her neighbor's tree got toilet paper.

And the toilet paper was in fine shape.

And she said, well, I'm going to use this.

And I was laughing about this.

A mom have no fear.

Lori in Hayward is admonishing me saying hey Todd I like the way your mother thinks waste not want not Lori from Hayward.

So there you go.

Lori on mom's side Very good Brett in Brown Deer on WAUK No reunion is worse because I left school after I got a GED and joined the military So I never get the invite.

Well, that's terrible.

You should get the invite Brett

Come on now.

And by the way, thank you very much for your service to our country.

Extraordinarily important.

I think that's something, uh, as someone who, who works in military affairs for our former congressman, I think it's something that's not talked about enough today, which is nothing wrong with college, nothing wrong with tech school, nothing going into the workforce, but certainly nothing wrong.

In fact, everything right about if you feel a calling to join the military.

So.

God love you, Brett.

Thanks for doing that to everybody else who is chooses to go into our all voluntary military these days What else we have here?

Robert He did make a mistake Robert McFarland listening to the MDX as high school reunion as long as I see as long as we can do Oh, he was apologizing earlier because he said he was

He was driving while trying to text.

Don't do that, Robert.

Thanks for listening while you drive, but pull over if you're going to text.

Megan, in some prairie, listening to MDX says, I never had a formal high school reunion because of COVID.