The Dr. Kristin Lyerly Show

The Milwaukee Brewers are World Series champions, and Dr. Pat McBride, author of The Luckiest Boy in the World, was there at the beginning as the team’s first bat boy.

In 1969, as a kid, he won an essay contest to become one of the first bat boys for the Brewers. He went on to work as an assistant trainer, as equipment manager for the Milwaukee Bucks’ 1971 championship team, and for the Packers in Milwaukee.

In this conversation, Dr. Kristin Lyerly sits down with her friend and mentor to talk about what this title means to Milwaukee and Wisconsin: the “standard” built by Hank Aaron and Robin Yount and carried on by Christian Yelich, William Contreras and Jackson Chourio, plus Bob Uecker’s legacy, Bud Selig, Mark Attanasio, the 750,000-person parade, and why politics and sports can’t be separated.

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Dr. Kristin Lyerly is an OB-GYN based in northeast Wisconsin and a leading voice on healthcare, politics, and the issues shaping our collective future. As the named physician plaintiff in a landmark Wisconsin abortion decision, she brings a perspective to these conversations that goes beyond politics. New episodes drop every week. Subscribe to stay current on reproductive rights, health politics, all things Wisconsin, and everything else that matters.

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Renee Paplham is running for Wisconsin Assembly District 1 in Door and Kewaunee Counties, and Dr. Kristin Lyerly sits down with her one week before the November 3, 2026 election. Renee is a working mom and mediator who started organizing after Dobbs, and she’s building grassroots power in Kewaunee County’s red territory and in Door County, a purple bellwether that people across the country are watching closely.

They talk about why she’s running against incumbent Joel Kitchens, how mediation shapes the way she’d lead in Madison, and what’s at stake for Wisconsin voters: clean water and PFAS testing, the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship program, public schools, childcare, local services, and the impact of gerrymandered legislative maps. They also dig into why Door County keeps shifting, the community groups doing the work, and why every voter needs a plan to vote, all the way down the ballot.

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Producer: Abraham Lyerly

You need to know Brad Smith.

He's running for Congress in Wisconsin's 6th District (WI-06) against Rep. Glenn Grothman, and this race is going to be decided by who shows up.

Brad is a Wisconsin National Guard veteran, a tech executive, and the first Smith in seven generations to graduate college. And service runs deep in his family: his sixth great-grandfather served in George Washington's guard at Yorktown. He's been knocking on doors across the district for more than a year, and he's running on service before self, affordable health care, and an economy that works for workers instead of the people at the very top.

In this conversation, he tells us why he's in this fight, what he learned serving through Hurricane Katrina, and what's at stake right now on AI, rural health care and Medicaid, offshoring, and CEO pay. We also break down what this race looks like with independents and a third-party candidate on the ballot.

The clock is ticking, and every volunteer, every conversation, and every vote counts. Watch, share, and send this to someone in the 6th District. Then go to bradsmithforcongress.com and find a way to get involved today.

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The Dr. Kristin Lyerly Show brings you honest, unfiltered conversations at the intersection of medicine, politics, and the fight to build a healthcare system that actually works. New episodes on YouTube, Substack, and wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe so you never miss one.

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Dr. Kristin Lyerly is an OB-GYN based in northeast Wisconsin and a leading voice on healthcare, politics, and the issues shaping our collective future. As the named physician plaintiff in a landmark Wisconsin abortion decision, she brings a perspective to these conversations that goes beyond politics. New episodes drop every week. Subscribe to stay current on reproductive rights, health politics, all things Wisconsin, and everything else that matters.

Producer: Abraham Lyerly

Army veteran and West Point grad Ben Brist is running to flip Wisconsin's Assembly District 61 in Milwaukee County. Dr. Kristin Lyerly talks with Ben about the race, school funding and property taxes, and why this Greendale-area seat could decide control of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Ben Brist is a sixth-generation Wisconsinite, Eagle Scout, West Point graduate, 82nd Airborne paratrooper and infantry officer, and a graduate of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. In this conversation he explains why he's running, how he talks to tired and frustrated voters at the door, and what he'd tackle first in Madison. Plus, because it's playoff season in Wisconsin, Dr. Lyerly and Ben talk Milwaukee Brewers baseball, the Packers, and what makes Wisconsin special.

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The Dr. Kristin Lyerly Show brings you honest, unfiltered conversations at the intersection of medicine, politics, and the fight to build a healthcare system that actually works. New episodes on YouTube, Substack, and wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe so you never miss one.

Dr. Kristin Lyerly is an OB-GYN based in northeast Wisconsin and a leading voice on healthcare, politics, and the issues shaping our collective future. As the named physician plaintiff in a landmark Wisconsin abortion decision, she brings a perspective to these conversations that goes beyond politics. New episodes drop every week. Subscribe to stay current on reproductive rights, health politics, all things Wisconsin, and everything else that matters.

Producer: Abraham Lyerly

Becky Nichols, Democratic candidate for Wisconsin State Assembly District 53 (Menasha and Neenah), joins Dr. Kristin Lyerly two months after the EF-3 Fox Valley tornado tore the roof off her home. She talks about the storm, her 12 years on the Menasha city council, the attack ads, school funding and property taxes, and how to help before the November 3 election.

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Dr. Kristin Lyerly is an OB-GYN based in northeast Wisconsin and a leading voice on healthcare, politics, and the issues shaping our collective future. As the named physician plaintiff in a landmark Wisconsin abortion decision, she brings a perspective to these conversations that goes beyond politics. New episodes drop every week. Subscribe to stay current on reproductive rights, health politics, all things Wisconsin, and everything else that matters.

Producer: Abraham Lyerly

Mitchell Berman is an ER nurse, a hunter, a girl dad, and the Democratic nominee for Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District. He's taking on Rep. Bryan Steil on November 3. I sat down with him for a conversation that got personal real quick.

Mitchell has worked in the ER for almost two decades, eleven of those years at the VA. He's also a hunter, a fisherman, a small-town Wisconsinite, and a hard-fought girl dad. We talk about growing up in a working-class family, becoming the first in his family to graduate college, and why he left a job he loved to run for Congress.

He also shares a very personal story about his family's IVF journey. After a recent embryo transfer didn't result in a viable pregnancy, his doctor asked whether they wanted the prescription to manage the miscarriage sent to a pharmacy in Illinois, since some Wisconsin pharmacists refuse to fill it. No family should have to make that call in the middle of a loss, but many do. I'm grateful he was willing to talk about it.

The race is getting attention, too. Mitchell was just added to the Red to Blue list, his internal polling has him two points ahead of Steil once voters hear positive bios of both candidates, and he says lifetime Republicans are telling him they'll vote for him. In other words, he can flip this seat, which means that Congress would gain a health care professional at a time when health care is in crisis and about to get much worse.

Learn more and help him get the word out at bermanforcongress.com.

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The Dr. Kristin Lyerly Show brings you honest, unfiltered conversations at the intersection of medicine, politics, and the fight to build a healthcare system that actually works. New episodes on YouTube, Substack, and wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe so you never miss one.

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Dr. Kristin Lyerly is an OB-GYN based in northeast Wisconsin and a leading voice on healthcare, politics, and the issues shaping our collective future. As the named physician plaintiff in a landmark Wisconsin abortion decision, she brings a perspective to these conversations that goes beyond politics. New episodes drop every week. Subscribe to stay current on reproductive rights, health politics, all things Wisconsin, and everything else that matters.

Producer: Abraham Lyerly

Allie Phillips was denied a medically necessary abortion in Tennessee after learning her daughter wouldn't survive — so she flew to New York to get the care her state wouldn't allow. She told her story on TikTok, went viral, became a plaintiff in a multi-state lawsuit against abortion bans, appeared in the HBO Max documentary Perilous Passage: Birth in America, and is now running for Tennessee's State House District 75. And there might be a new movie about her on the way, too.

In this conversation, Allie and Dr. Kristin Lyerly — who appear together in Perilous Passage: Birth in America — talk about her abortion ban story, what she learned from her 2024 campaign loss, why she's running again in 2026, and what's actually at stake for reproductive rights and so much more in Tennessee this November.

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Dr. Kristin Lyerly is an OB-GYN based in northeast Wisconsin and a leading voice on healthcare, politics, and the issues shaping our collective future. As the named physician plaintiff in a landmark Wisconsin abortion decision, she brings a perspective to these conversations that goes beyond politics. New episodes drop every week. Subscribe to stay current on reproductive rights, health politics, all things Wisconsin, and everything else that matters.

Producer: Abraham Lyerly

A Wisconsin coal plant that was supposed to be retired got $19 million in federal taxpayer dollars to keep running — and its dangerous emissions nearly doubled in 2025.

In this episode, I'm joined by Brittany Keyes, Clean Air Policy Manager for Healthy Climate Wisconsin, to break down what's really happening at the Columbia Energy Center in Pardeeville, Wisconsin — and why it matters for every family in this state.

The Columbia Energy Center was scheduled to close. Instead, the Trump administration used the Defense Production Act to funnel $19 million to keep it burning. DNR data shows the plant's emissions skyrocketed in 2025 — and EPA modeling links it to 2,600 asthma attacks, 1,200 missed school days, and at least four premature deaths every single year in Wisconsin. On top of that, Wisconsin doesn't even have coal. We import it. And ratepayers are being asked to foot the bill.

This is not just an energy story. It is a public health crisis.

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The Dr. Kristin Lyerly Show brings you honest, unfiltered conversations at the intersection of medicine, politics, and the fight to build a healthcare system that actually works. New episodes on YouTube, Substack, and wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe so you never miss one.

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Dr. Kristin Lyerly is an OB-GYN based in northeast Wisconsin and a leading voice on healthcare, politics, and the issues shaping our collective future. As the named physician plaintiff in a landmark Wisconsin abortion decision, she brings a perspective to these conversations that goes beyond politics. New episodes drop every week. Subscribe to stay current on reproductive rights, health politics, all things Wisconsin, and everything else that matters.

Producer: Abraham Lyerly

What happened to high-risk pregnancy care after Dobbs?

Dr. David Hackney — a maternal-fetal medicine specialist and author of Impossible Choices — joins me to explain how abortion bans are changing decisions around preeclampsia, fetal anomalies, and pregnancy complications for doctors and patients across the country.

David’s new book, Impossible Choices: A Physician’s Guidance on High-Risk Pregnancy in a World Without Roe, is out now from MIT Press. Drawing on real cases — preeclampsia, ruptured membranes, fetal anomalies, cancer during pregnancy — he lays out exactly what’s changed for patients and physicians navigating high-risk pregnancy in banned and restricted states, and what it’s actually cost doctors to keep speaking out.

We get into the stories, the legal mechanics of “exceptions” that don’t work like you might think they do, and what it’s really like to be a physician-advocate in this moment.

Get Impossible Choices: A Physician’s Guidance on High-Risk Pregnancy in a World Without Roe at bookstore.org, amazon.com, and your local bookseller.

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The Dr. Kristin Lyerly Show brings you honest, unfiltered conversations at the intersection of medicine, politics, and the fight to build a healthcare system that actually works. New episodes on YouTube, Substack, and wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe so you never miss one.

Follow Dr. Lyerly:

Dr. Kristin Lyerly is an OB-GYN based in northeast Wisconsin and a leading voice on healthcare, politics, and the issues shaping our collective future. As the named physician plaintiff in a landmark Wisconsin abortion decision, she brings a perspective to these conversations that goes beyond politics. New episodes drop every week. Subscribe to stay current on reproductive rights, health politics, all things Wisconsin, and everything else that matters.

Producer: Abraham Lyerly