Greg Bach
Alternate Realities
Earl kicks off the show discussing the fears surrounding artificial intelligence and the potential dangers of becoming to involved in virtual reality. Greg Bach from As Goes Wisconsin shares his thoughts.
Guaranteed Admission for Top Students (Hour 2)
If you are in the top 5% of your high school class, should you be guaranteed a spot at UW Madison? Republicans have introduced a new bill that would guarantee admission into any UW system school for students who graduate in the top 5% of their class. We have some questions.
Pick your Poison with Extreme Weather (Hour 1)
Considering the air quality in the midwest due to the Canadian wild fires, what if this became a regular thing? Would you consider moving? But to where? With extreme weather having different effects everywhere, what's the "best" or "safest" place to live?
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A Woman Of “Value” (Hour 1)
Can you be a woman of value if you don’t get married and have children? Cause apparently to the speakers at Turning Point USA’s Young women’s Leadership Summit - you cannot. This past weekend marked the conservative organization Turning Point USA’s annual Young Women’s Leadership Summit. Which is an event that meant for high school and college age young women. Media Matters’ Madeline Peltz reported her time there and observed some variation of the same speech from the roster of conservative speakers imploring young attendees to give up their career aspirations and their birth control.
The Daily Wire’s Candace Owens literally wrapped up the convention by telling attendees, “Every ill that we are fighting right now in society has been brought forth by women.”
We discuss the hypocrisy of these career focused women (Owens, Alex Clark, Allie Beth Stuckey, Laura Ingram) evangelizing young women to not have a career, what a "traditional" wife actually is, and what the political end game is in preaching this message.
Define the “economy is doing well” (Hour 1)
How do you think the economy is doing? What has to be happening in the economy for you to be happy with it? The leading indicators economists use to measure the economy all say that we are going ok, but yet only 18% of Americans would agree with that sentiment.
More people are skipping healthcare (Hour 1)
Have you skipped any healthcare because of cost? The share of Americans who skipped medical treatment last year because of costs rose substantially, according to a Federal Reserve survey out yesterday, "Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2022. We talk about the times we have done the same.
Then we reflect on what gun laws have been passed in the year since Uvalde.
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The past and future of conversation funding in Wisconsin (Hour 2)
Jason Stein from Wisconsin Policy Forum joins to discuss funding for Wisconsin's natural resources.
Then we talk to Laura Packard from Courage for America - an accountability campaign speaking out against MAGA extremists’ agenda. She is fresh off of their nationwide "Back Off Our Benefits" bus tour including a stop in La Crosse on April 15th.
Does Mustard go in the fridge or pantry? (Hour 3)
What squabbles do you have in your household over which items go in the pantry versus the fridge? We break down some of the common misconceptions of what goes where.
Then author, Jim Bastian, joins to discuss his two books, Wisconsin Logging Camp, 1921, and its sequel, Willa's Pursuit.
Election Discussion Continued (Hour 2)
We spend more time talking about the election but discuss more of what the down ballot races mean and how those referenda passed so easily.
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Unapologetically Happy about Justice Janet Elect(Hour 1)
Kristin, Jane Greg Bach and Joe Zepecki spend the hour debriefing last nights election results and ask "is this the beginning of the last chapter of Wisconsin's democracy desert era?
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