2/6/26 11AM: Praise, Politics, and Hard No’s

Hour 3 opens with The Milwaukee Experience, as Sherwin highlights upcoming events and what’s happening around the city. He briefly pivots back to politics before the phones light up with listener love—first from Andy Positive, who calls in to praise Sherwin and famously struggles to hang up, and then from Marty, who applauds Sherwin’s interview from the previous day. The hour takes a serious turn when Marty asks whether boarding schools should make a comeback. Sherwin responds with a firm “no,” using the rest of the show to explain why forced solutions, historical amnesia, and bad ideas recycled as policy do more harm than good—especially in a moment already shaped by racism, political greed, and eroding civil rights. It’s a lighter hour on the surface but still grounded in the deeper conversations driving the day.