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The DEI Boogyman Part 2: Dog-Eating Myths and 401k Truths: How Fearmongering Shapes America
Send us a text What happens when we allow catchy slogans and fear-based rhetoric to shape our understanding of diversity and inclusion? Rauel and Anto...
April 10th, 2025 - Democracy's Breaking Point: Will We March Into Hell for a Heavenly Cause? - Democratic Representative Al Green stood up during Trump's congressional address and declared "no mandate" when Trump claimed a mandate to cut Medicaid. For this truth-telling, Green was escorted out and later censured—with even ten Democrats joining the rebuke. This incident exposes a disturbing double standard: when Joe Wilson shouted "You lie!" at Obama, or when Marjorie Taylor Greene repeatedly interrupted Biden's addresses, they faced no similar consequences..
April 24, 2025 - The DEI Boogeyman: Myths, Facts, and Why It Matters The weaponization of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion has become one of the most troubling developments in our current cultural and political landscape. We dive deep into how DEI—a framework designed to create more representative and equitable institutions—has been deliberately transformed into a divisive political issue through coordinated misinformation campaigns.
Our Recent Episodes
Thursday, May 13, 2021The Legacy of The Land: Buddy Huffaker-Part 2
Part 2 of my talk with Buddy Huffaker the Executive Director of the world renowned Aldo Leopold Center. Buddy is funny, knowledgable amd passionate a...
Thursday, May 6, 2021The Legacy of The Land: Buddy Huffaker - Part 1
In this episode I talk with Buddy Huffaker the Executive Director of the world renowned Aldo Leopold Center. Buddy is funny, knowledgable amd passion...
Thursday, April 29, 2021The Heritage of Horticulture: Jane Stevens - Part 2
Part 2 of my interview with Jane Stevens an accomplished entrepeneur and Horticulturalist with a deep apprecation and understanding of all things gree...
Thursday, April 22, 2021The Heritage of Horticulture: Jane Stevens - Part 1
Jane Stevens is an accomplished entrepeneur and Horticulturalist that has a deep apprecation and understanding of all things green. Join us for insig...
Thursday, April 15, 2021The Reverence of Remembrance: Carol and Steve Stevenson - Part 2
Part 2 of my interview with Carol and Steve Stevenson. Still "sweethearts" (after 30 + years), but after both having very successful careers they use...
Thursday, April 8, 2021The Reverence of Remembrance: Carol and Steve Stevenson - Part 1
Carol and Steve Stevenson are preservationists of the highest order. Still "sweethearts" (after 30 + years), but after both having very successful ca...
Thursday, April 1, 2021Torchbearers for Teenagers - With Kyle Crosby
So let's admit it. When many of us think of Teens, one of the first descriptive words that can come to mind is, unfortunately, "Difficult". We do so ...
Thursday, March 25, 2021The Recollection of Recreation - With John Lehan
Recreation is one of those words that can seem super serious or somewhat frivolous depending upon your perspective. It comes from a late Middle Engli...
Thursday, March 18, 2021The Fortitude of Farmers - With Alana Voss
The Physical and Mental well being of today's Ag producers is perhaps more critical today than ever before. As our nation has changed from a primaril...
Thursday, March 11, 2021The COVID Connection - With Dr. John McAuliffe - Part 2
Part 2 of my discussion with John McAuliffeIf about Health care ( a topic that is intricately woven into the fabric of our families and communities) a...
Thursday, March 4, 2021The COVID Connection - With Dr. John McAuliffe - Part 1
If you want to have a discussion about Health care and how COVID has affected that as well as the very fabric of our communities, Dr. John McAuliffe i...
Thursday, December 31, 2020Healing with Hope - Rev. Bill Harris and Nathan Tolliver
On a chilly winter morning in 2012, Bill Harris, the founder of People Helping People, watched a group of homeless men leave the Baraboo Warming Cente...