Meteorologist Mace Michaels on the winter’s large surge into March (Hour 1)

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This is a Tuesday night, a version of our show, which is one of the best versions, really, frankly, that you could be part of.

I am joined by my co-host who sits just across the stage from me, Mr. Greg Bach.

Hey, buddy.

I would say Tuesday is one of our five best versions of the show really when it comes down to it like top five when it comes to our show versions Tuesday is a top fiver.

It's a no-brainer.

It's it's a it's special It's we give it our all on Tuesdays

as

opposed to the other days of the week.

No, it's a great It's a great night to be here and I think it was Newman on Seinfeld once that said Tuesday has no feel and Kramer said I feel Tuesday and Wednesday

And Jerry told both of them to shut up.

But I like these days.

I like it's like we're back in the flow of the show and things

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It's a great day.

I always think of that line from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where he says it must be Thursday.

I can never get my head around Thursday.

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We've got great guests tonight, folks.

As you know, you may or may not know.

If you live in Wisconsin, you dealt with weather the last few days.

I certainly did up here in northeast Wisconsin.

Mace Michaels, civic media weather guru, Mace Michaels will be here at 5.35, kind of giving us a storm roundup and putting a bow on this horrible storm that has crippled much of northern Wisconsin.

So we'll talk to Mace in just a few minutes after news, sports and weather.

And then we've got our pal Rob Thomas, the great Madison film critic and city cast Madison newsletter editor will be here at in the second hour.

So that's a show, Greg.

That's, I mean, and not only that, we've got, we've got a, got a question of the night.

We're going to be talking about all sorts of things.

We may or may not have a keyword for a big contest.

I mean, Pete, this is a jam pack show.

And

frankly, I

feel like everyone should be like, I don't want to say thanking us, but, you know, like maybe tipping their hats quietly.

That thing of like, you know how like when two guys like, they do that thing, like, good job.

That's what we've been getting.

Knowing not.

I think that's a great way to put it.

We've got six hours of material that we're going to try to jam into two hours.

So we're going to talk fast.

Um,

Dumbly.

How are you doing tonight, buddy?

I'm doing pretty good.

It's Taco Tuesday.

When I'm going home tonight, I'm going to go get some tacos.

I'm excited.

I got

chills.

I just love that.

It's Taco Tuesday.

Yes, it is.

That was so

unrelated to anything we were talking about, which just exemplifies how much you are looking forward to these tacos

that you felt you

need to shoehorn that into the conversation.

I love it, Dom.

Where do you get them from?

I get them from Aldi, and I get to meet from Aldi, and I make them myself.

That's why I like Tuesdays,

you know.

Yeah.

I love that.

That's very

great.

Taco Tuesday with Domlee.

I love it.

I also love it.

Would you like to invite us over for a taco?

Maybe.

I'll put you on the wait list.

Apparently it will.

It's got a full house over there.

There's a line across the street.

It gets some Domlee tacos on the Tuesdays.

I love it.

Oh my goodness.

Oh my goodness.

I love it.

Don't ever stop being you, Domlee.

Thank you.

Let's uh guys we have a fun question tonight as you know, it's st.

Patrick's Day, so You might venture a guess as to what kind of question the night has to do with but let's not leave any doubt Dom go for it, buddy.

Let's talk about the question question question

question

All right, ladies and gentlemen, what is your favorite or least favorite thing about St.

Patrick's Day?

We'd

love to hear from you on

that

one.

Favorite or least favorite thing about St.

Patrick's Day?

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It's Tuesday, damn it.

It's Taco Tuesday.

It's a special edition of St.

Patrick's Taco Tuesday, where the meat is green and the spirits are high.

You could make corned beef tacos.

That'd be kind of sweet, right?

Oh my gosh.

That's

a good idea.

Okay.

Call them O-tacos or...

Yeah.

Mctacos.

Taco the Irish?

I don't know.

I'm gonna go buy food dye.

I'm gonna go buy food dye.

Make a taco rice to meet you.

See, now we're venturing into... I don't want to be...

You know we've had this discussion.

Let's get to because I know Greg wants

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the tortillas are calling me at Dom Lee's house at the house of John Lee

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This is a funny text we've already got from Cam, who is in the 651.

He says, my favorite thing about St.

Patrick's Day is that I used the wish I got from the leprechaun to get unbanned.

Oh, let's keep it that

way cam.

Okay.

Yeah.

There you go.

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Stu listening on WMD.

Oh, yes.

WMDX in Jefferson is assuming I'm Irish because I have red hair and my last name starts with a MC.

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All

right.

There you go.

I see I'm mostly Irish, but I'm Schwaba.

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I mean, except for the fact that Pete, we don't have.

Dom Lee made tacos here.

Missed opportunity.

Missed opportunity.

Well, you're the one who brought this up, buddy.

So we're going to keep on bringing this up for forever.

All right.

But I think we're ready to move on to the three things.

The first

big

story.

I couldn't remember which one we were going to do first grade.

You wanted to start

with St.

Patrick's

Day.

Well, I thought it was apropos.

Okay,

so

I'm mostly Irish.

I like St.

Patrick's Day.

I have to say I haven't celebrated it like in the way of making corned beef and cabbage or going to

a

parade in many years, but I still

You know, it's weird.

I've talked about this before.

I think it's weird when people are proud to be something they had nothing to do with.

You know, if you're a good person, you can be proud of that because you made yourself that way, maybe with the help of others.

But I am Irish and I guess I'm proud to be Irish.

My ethnicity matters less to me.

I tell myself that because I had nothing to do with it.

But on St.

Patrick's Day, I do get kind of excited.

There you go.

I mean, that's, I mean, I am, I am, according to, you know, depending on where it lands on 23 and me, because it changes it, like I spit into a cup and send it into space.

And they were like, there you go.

This is, this is what you are.

Um, but.

I'm a little bit Irish, more Irish than I expected, but I don't do, well, you know, I'll talk more about my thoughts on St.

Patrick's Day in the second hour, but I don't do that anymore because I think one reason is because of what you just said, Pete, but also the other thing is for me, I don't like to go out and party and do stuff like that anymore.

It's just like, oofers, it just feels like there's a lot happening.

well it's a big it's a big drinking holiday too i haven't had a drink in a few years and i i would still go out if friends were going but it's it's kind of like when i was younger and could tie one on and have a great time i will say my favorite thing about being irish and you don't need to be irish to do this but you know my dad's kind of an irish tenor he's got this beautiful singing voice

I don't have a great voice, but I used to sing to Rallura when I was walking my daughter, Kate, trying to get

her to

sleep.

And at that moment too, I was kind of like, I'm glad I'm tied to this lineage, if that makes sense.

Well, there's also always the opportunity of doing research into where your family comes from, specifically in those places.

I mean, I feel like there's opportunity for folks to go out there and learn more about themselves, especially now.

We have so many ways to...

to not just like it's you know family stories are great the the the oral tradition is great and in the family to like talk about where you come from but honestly like I think it would behoove people to really do deep dives into where they come from because I think it just gives you a round about

idea of yourself as well as how you connect with others especially when we talk about this conversation of like you know America we are a nation of immigrants and people want to say like oh I'm you know it's we want to say we're a nation of immigrants and we're like no I'm an American but then you're like but I'm Irish like well you can be all of those things but I think it just makes more sense to then find out about yourself and where you come from I just see nothing but benefit

I see nothing but benefit and even if I found out like my relatives I guess are from County Cork, if I found out like one of them was a horse thief, I would think that's really cool.

I don't have that history.

I don't know.

I would love it if I knew that rebel in the family.

You do not know.

Who knows?

It's true.

Very true.

If Larry David found out on a TV show that his like great great grandfather fought for the Confederacy and he never knew there may be a horse thief in your family Pete.

I believe in you.

It could happen.

Well, fingers crossed.

We'll see fingers crossed.

Absolutely.

But we'll get more into that in the second hour.

Plus we will get more into our big three things because.

We got things to talk about here folks then coming up after the news.

We're talking to civic media meteorologist mace michaels.

That's just fun to say more about that and Yeah, we're I'm very just it's a fun show so far.

Happy st.

Patrick's day Pete Happy st.

Patrick.

I think it's going well so far.

We'll keep at it top five I must say all right You are watching or listening tos nightlight with Pete Schwabba and Greg Bach here on the civic media network Don't go anywhere.

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That's

another thing I like.

I like the music too.

Love Irish music.

Hey, this is Nightlight with Pete Schwabba and Greg Bach.

Welcome back.

Dom Lee, working the board and holding down the fort in Madison.

Great to have you with us tonight on this Tuesday.

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What is your favorite or least favorite thing about St.

Patrick's Day?

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75 Civic, leave a comment on the live stream or give us a call like Jack from Merrimack right now.

Good evening, Jack.

How are you and happy St.

Patrick's Day?

Thank you, although I'm definitely not Irish.

My friends used to say I was probably one fifth Scotch and most of the rest of soda.

But one of my favorite things used to be to go to a friend of mine gig in an Irish bar in Milwaukee here

and

Ah, the leprechauns always stop the phone call.

That was Scottish.

That was Scottish.

That's okay.

My Irish accent is so offensive.

Jack, call back if you can.

Sorry

we

lost you there.

Not sure what happened.

Hope Jack's okay.

But in the meantime, let's get to our next big story.

The second big story.

This one's a big one because we're seeing the first resignation out of the Trump administration high ranking person in there

Excuse me Joe Kent who it was a US is a was a senior US intelligence official He was appointed by Donald Trump last year has stepped down because he can no longer support the war in Iran Saying I cannot quote I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran Iran pose posed no imminent threat to our nation and is a clear and it's clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby that is

Big

that

is

huge Greg because I you know all of our I have friends that are oh, we're just doing this for Israel This

is

Israel's behind this and you know it makes sense But who can confirm that well this guy Joe Kent can and that

yeah

just let the cat out of the bag And it's if and he's he's got his ear to the ground.

He's in the rooms Now we know and that that's I wonder how in mega is splintering a little bit.

He was big-time mega

Yeah.

So I don't want to, I want to read this for people.

This isn't the CNN, CNN article that I'm looking at.

This isn't a guy who is like middle of the road, you know, sorry.

This is what they say.

The resignation is the highest profile rebuke yet of the war effort from a Trump administration insider and staunch supporter of the mega movement, albeit one instantly drew criticism for alleged anti-Semitism.

So this guy is not like you're, you know,

sort of liberal in the middle guy working for the Trump administration.

He loves and stood for MAGA.

So this, I think this, this is how, in my opinion, Pete, this is how things begin for, for the downfall of certain movements.

You see, you know, I think them bowing to the pressure for Christie known to be fired.

Well, reassigned Greg Bovina, Greg Bovino in, in, or yeah, but yeah.

Dan Bongino, Greg Bovino, Greg Bovino in Minneapolis being reassigned and he's going to retire now.

So it's like these small things happening that make a big deal.

This guy doing this publicly, I think is a big deal for the fact that he, as you said, let the cat out of the bag.

This is, this is, and, and it's, and he didn't say this, but I believe this to be true.

It's also a deflection from the Epstein files.

Yes, I would agree with you there and I think it's interesting too Greg because there was another story that I read today that I shared with you a Guy that's big in the Twitterverse

the

right-wing poster Milo Yiannopoulos.

I think I'm right.

He said

who cares if you say his name, right?

He sucks go on

go on, but I had my doubt.

I know Trump.

He's a showman He's you know does big things to promote himself that assassination attempt

I'm not saying I have definitive proof.

I don't, obviously, but there was something, the timing, everything about it just seemed suspicious.

This guy is coming out now and saying he doubts it.

Here's what's interesting, though, Greg.

He says he doubted it from day one.

So you doubted it from day one, but you stuck with him all this time and now you're coming out because the ship is taking on water.

You're still just as bad a person if you're not saying something initially because someone died.

So I don't know.

There's issues in the mega world right now, though,

for sure.

Milo Yiannopoulos is a terrible person.

So whatever happens to him, whatever.

He is a disgusting human being.

And I'm surprised that he is casting doubt.

I won't say he's jumping ship, but he's casting doubt.

But then again, he's a grifter.

And grifters got to grift.

And they got to,

you got to, you got to, at all lengths, you have to protect yourself.

And

when

you realize that there's no more value in it for yourself, yeah, of course, because he needs headlines because the last time we were talking about him, it's when he said, well, you know, what's so wrong with certain forms of pedophilia?

It's not that bad.

Is that bad?

Did he say that?

Oh, yeah.

He's a terrible, terrible, terrible person.

Oh, dear.

Oofers bad.

I was at a couple parties with him.

I thought he seemed like a great guy.

How wrong was I?

No,

never had the plater.

I do think he's weird.

I've seen him on talk shows, but I

didn't know

that.

That's on another level.

Yeah, he's a God awful awful person.

He's a lower level.

I could talk about him for an hour and just bore you to tears.

But I won't do that.

No, don't worry.

I'm glad you brought it up because it's important to talk about the downfall of things that are definitely we will.

I'll tell you what, we will get to that third thing after our conversation with civic media meteorologist Mace Michaels.

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And now it is time to talk to our very first guest of the evening, who is a coworker and is going to explain the craziness that's been happening this week.

Civic Media meteorologist Mace Michaels is here this evening.

Good evening, Mace.

How are you today?

I am good.

I hope I can explain this to you.

I'll do

my

best.

Well, the thing is, like, so, you know, as everyone knows who's listening, we had a huge snowstorm specifically in northern Wisconsin area down in Kenosha, where I live.

We got just a harrowing three inches of snow.

Oh, my goodness.

But and I think a lot of people are like, oh, my gosh, why this?

Why is this happening?

But we have to remind ourselves, Mace, it's March.

It's still winter and this is Wisconsin.

We followed such a warm period.

I think that's why it was like hello back to winter again.

It just felt odd.

Same thing.

I'm in the Minneapolis area and we have been so, we have no snow in my backyard.

And then, you know, here we go to this, obviously not the 30 inches pizza up north, but this has just been quite a storm for forecasting and just to be out with it slowed down so many folks and caused so many problems, obviously.

Mace, here in northeast Wisconsin, we like to call it a 32 inch dusting.

Oh, it was intense.

Sorry, I

was off a couple inches.

It might be 30.

You're the guy.

Listen, I defer to you, obviously.

But what part got the worst?

Like, are we in the worst area?

If we got 30 inches, I know Warsaw got hit somewhere in the UP.

Who got it the worst as far as you're concerned?

The zone of the heaviest snow started in southern Minnesota, and that was roughly 20.

And then went up right through to just north of Durand, Osio.

And that was around 22, if I remember right.

And then, like you said, was up to you was the band that got into the 25, 30 plus inch stuff.

Just a crazy amount of snow and a short amount of time went day, day and a half.

So it jumped for that day.

Yeah.

I'm going to ask a question.

It's going to be really dumb, but I'm going to ask it anyways because I'm just, you know, me.

Uh, does this seem like possibly the last big snowstorm of the season or, you know, what, what, what are, what are your numbers looking at right now?

What are you seeing for the next, at least the next seven to 10 days?

And should we stay hunkered down?

It's a safe bet that I wouldn't have to forecast another 30 inch storm.

All right.

I'll go out on a limb or that for that.

It also looks like the jet stream patterns just going to shift a little more northwesterly and that tends to bode better better with.

quicker moving systems and less moisture slash energy.

So you get these little clipper type lows or fast moving fronts that zip through, but they don't bring a lot of problems.

So you might get a little shot of rain, a little shot of snow, depending on where you are.

And then they move through rather quick.

It also looks like we're going to warm up.

That's, you know, part two

of

this.

Yeah, does this mean

any... Oh, I'm sorry, Mace.

No, go ahead.

We're just filling it.

We're going to warm up substantially, which it's going to get sloppy and we're going to melt the snow.

Does this mean anything as we move forward?

Does more snow mean we're more susceptible to tornadoes or mosquitoes?

There's so much moisture that's going to go into the ground.

What does that mean?

Do you have any idea what we'd be looking at in the next few weeks?

You know, in a lot of areas, at least through southern Minnesota and parts of western Wisconsin, I know it's kind of been on a drier side for the winter.

So this actually probably helps topsoil talking with farming folks in western Wisconsin and also in Iowa.

It's actually good.

This is the right amount of time, you know, right time.

Get that in the ground now before planting season.

So

a good on that side.

You know, the overall trend can shift so much as you pull it further into the spring months that what's going on now doesn't always relate to what may go on in mid-late April.

So it's probably not a good bet for me to say that, but at least now through the beginning of April, our pattern is going to shift more into that Northwest flow.

So that means faster systems, but we don't have a lot of cold air with any of them.

And any cold air that sticks around will be brief.

From years prior, we've seen

Winters with very little snow to the point where you know politicians had to set up funds for businesses that didn't do well because of the lack of snow How does this this winter so far?

I mean we're almost towards the end of it.

How does this winter?

Compared to other ones in the past like five years or so has it been a bigger snowfall fall as I mean I remember I mean seeing the snowfall in November and December of last year I was actually shocked But I mean we've had a really in my mind a very snowy winter.

Is that what you're seeing as well?

You know, it really depends on where you are.

It started that way.

And then I think, you know, especially for us, for my side, over here in eastern Minnesota, western Wisconsin, we've had a couple of

decent snow storms and shots of cold air, but we were running behind on precipitation.

Now, yes, over your way, there's definitely been more.

So it's, you know, the typical Midwest type situation where some areas really get a lot and then others don't.

I feel like the lake effect season was really going there for a while for like folks in northern Wisconsin and the UP and then it kind of backed down a little bit and now it's sparked up the storm a touch.

But it really didn't seem like anybody was excessive.

We weren't into the huge amounts of snow that lasted for persistent amounts of time.

Our guest is Mace Michaels.

He covers weather for civic media.

He is also a proud employee of Severe Studios.

He does all the work and predicts the future, basically, so that we don't have to.

Tough job.

Mace, I wanted to ask you, when I live in Marinette, Greg is only like.

180 miles south of me.

There are days it's 30 degrees warmer in Milwaukee than it is here.

Does that seem fair?

No, it doesn't seem fair.

It's

not

surprising to me either.

It's horrible.

Apparently Mace Michaels is both meteorologist and Pete's therapist.

Is that fair?

It's warmer down there, isn't it fair?

It's terrible.

I know you're a big baseball fan, buddy.

How is spring training going for the

twins?

They're a younger team.

So this will be quite a year I have a feeling.

I have to be good, though.

I'm a twin's employee, so I'm

a fan all

the time.

Wow.

Anybody listening, if Mace is not employed by you, that's a miracle because he's a very busy guy.

Well, Izzy is a question mark.

I just work with a lot of places.

So I juggle a lot of things at once.

And other times I'm staring at the wall.

So it's feast of famine.

Mace, you got to reframe that viewpoint.

You're in the hustle is what you're in the hustle.

Oh, yes.

Yes.

That is what

my friend who works over at the hip hop station here in town.

Mace, you have hustle.

You're like,

yes, OK.

Thank you.

You're on that meteorologist grind.

That's what you're doing right now.

Uh, question I wanted to ask for you with regard to the, you know, you mentioned it just a few moments ago is that it's going to get a lot warmer in the later week.

I know down here where I live, we're going to be seeing temperatures as high as 60 degrees on the weekend.

And luckily for us, it's not fair.

I know this is not fair.

It's just not fair.

Someone's on, someone's on team Pete.

It's great.

Um,

Now for us in in Kenosha, it's not that bad because we didn't get a very large snowfall, but for up there where Pete lives We're gonna see flooding then because if that weather is getting so warm that that snow is gonna melt it will will we have to look out for the flooding

You know, there probably will be some areas that see some flooding.

It's just going to be kind of a question mark on how quickly it melts.

I mean, if Pete is able to get up there in a 50 to 60, which probably won't happen right away, that would be a bigger problem.

So hopefully we'll hope for a slower, more gradual melt.

But that would be my concern.

Plus, if we got another system later on, maybe beyond the two week period, which doesn't seem to show up yet,

But if things buckle just a little in the jet stream, that could change.

And I'm looking at the longer pattern in the April here real quick on one of the models.

And we just kind of stay active, but we get back into at times a little more southwesterly flow.

So that can bring up better chances for rain by the time we're into April.

So expect a fairly active spring, it looks like right now, at least from what the models are saying.

Does that sound fair to you,

Pete?

Look, I'm just a passenger here.

You know, I, uh, nothing is fair when it comes to weather for where I live, but I'm here voluntarily and there's a lot of other good things about marriage.

I did

look at my opening day forecast and that's not good to do as a meteorologist two, two weeks out and it's a quiet day right now.

I hope it stays that way because I am working the opener.

So

I don't know anything to worry about because the brewers have a roof.

Yeah, baby.

Yes, they do.

Best.

Thank you so much for stopping by and sharing your thoughts with us.

Love hearing your input and great night, buddy.

Anytime.

You too.

Anytime.

Anytime.

All right.

Take it easy, guys.

Thanks.

That is Severe Studios and Civic Media's own weather guru meteorologist, Mace Michaels.

He just makes the weather fun.

Like I hear

a

broadcast

throughout

the hour and he's got like this upbeat voice and, uh, yeah, he's got great weather

forecast.

I feel like we should have him back because it's just, yeah, there's, there's a good, there's a good, it's fun.

It's, it's fun to talk about whether that's terrible.

You know what's funny?

I actually, I've fallen into that category now where I do talk about weather and it used to drive me crazy when that would be like all people talked about, but it is.

Fascinating.

I mean, like these guys that chase storms, I know Corey does that.

Yeah.

That blows my mind.

I mean, here's the difference.

I mean, okay, if you chase storms or you know somebody who chases storms, that's, I think that's very much a very exciting conversation.

But there does come a point in your life, and I've been there too, where I'm sitting here going, oh man, the winter hasn't been very snowy this year.

In the back of my head, I'm going, dude, you used to own 22 guitars and play in a band, all right?

What's wrong with you?

All right.

Why are you talking about the snow right now with a stranger at Farm & Fleet?

Because that's what you do.

That's good.

It's

cold, though.

It's good guitar playing weather.

When you're holed up through the winter, it's fantastic.

That's

what I'm going to do when I get home.

I'm going to play some guitar.

What do you think the weather was like, Greg?

when once unfair.

That's what it was.

No, once famous Baywatch actress was arrested.

Should we squeeze in our third big

thing?

Why not?

Let's do it before we go to break

the third big story.

You know, go ahead.

I've tried to find the story right now.

I don't know where it went to.

It was on my list here.

There it is.

There it is.

OK.

So there was a show on TV called Baywatch.

Alexandra Paul was one of the stars of that show.

And she was arrested in Wisconsin, uh, uh, re arrested in Wisconsin Beagle Farm break, break in.

Yeah.

Uh, she is an animal activist and she was, uh, trying to break in at a Wisconsin Beagle breeding facility two days ago.

She is 62 years old, Joan by over 52 protesters and illegally entering a ridgeline farms in blue mounds, not blue mound like in Brookfield.

Blue mounds about 30 miles outside of Madison.

The activists took 23 dogs to an undisclosed location, according to both the farm and activists.

Way to stay active after the show gets canceled.

I mean, look, I

if you're willing to do that and put yourself out there, good for you.

I didn't even know there were Beagle breeding farms.

I didn't even know that

was

a

thing.

Well, I mean, they're, and essentially those sound like puppy mills to me.

And if I had the wherewithal, I think I would do, I love my dog so much.

I don't want anything to happen to any beautiful little puppers.

And I don't know, I don't endorse crime, everybody.

I thought you'd say that.

But Alexander Paul,

good work.

Somebody bail her out, will you?

All right, we're coming right back.

We'll remind you what the keyword is.

And we're going to talk about Madison, which made a really cool list.

Heard of

it?

All right, the dime has.

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We've got the Civic Media Network, and it is great to have you here, folks.

It's a Tuesday night.

Our question of the night is, what is your favorite or least favorite thing about St.

Patrick's Day?

We will jump into some texts and a little more discourse about the question of the night after the news at the top of the hour.

Dom Lee is in Madison working the board, doing a phenomenal job as per usual.

I didn't have to say per there, did I?

As per usual.

Once

in

a while, I slip into that memo office thing, and I don't know why.

I've worked in very few offices, but you could just say as usual.

Dominic Lee provides a sense of synergy that brings this whole...

corporation together when we want to talk per year requested how I believe Dom is doing.

I think he's doing an exemplary job and shall be given a congratulation star on his report.

No pay upgrade, no title bump, but you know, a star.

Good job.

I'm blushing now.

Thank you.

Thank

you guys.

How did you like that?

You didn't think you were going to get a job review when you came in

tonight?

I had no idea about that.

I'm talking about tacos and

I had no idea this was going to happen.

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I saw this article, I thought this was great.

Madison, Wisconsin has always been one of my favorite towns.

Even when I was doing a stand-up in the 90s, Greg, in Chicago, and I could not wait to work Milwaukee and Madison, both great comedy towns.

So I've always had a soft spot in my heart for it.

My brother went to school there.

I host a show.

I go down once a month for it.

It's just a great, really, it's a town with an energy that is very positive.

And Madison has become one of 16 communities in the running this year for the national strongest town contest.

It's a little vague, but they're with Chicago, Sheboygan.

What?

West Alice.

Yeah, it's not a bigger little city thing.

They're also seeking recognitions for efforts to improve urban life.

It's an active group that tries to make city living better for people in the community.

And how about that?

I mean, everywhere I go, I sometimes feel like cities are against you with what they charge for parking or tickets or whatever.

But Madison has got this great bus line now and these heated, it just seems like a town that loves its residents and takes

care of them.

Well, I mean, I think they understand that

When you want to build a strong community, whether you're talking about a village, a town, a city, a state, a country, a world, whatever you want to, when you want to build up a good community, you have to invest in the people.

You have to make, you have to want to give them a reason to live there and you want to make them proud.

You want to build a morale.

And that is so very important when you talk about quality of life.

I mean, that is the number one thing when people look at there when they're going to move is quality of life.

What are the schools like?

What's the government like?

All those things make a difference in cities like Madison.

cities like Chicago.

I'm gonna say Sheboygan as well.

If you're on that list, understand that we're trying to make a good place for our citizens.

We're trying to make it attractive to visit, possibly live here.

And I, you know, that doesn't surprise me.

I love Madison.

I've spent so much time there.

And it's because of Madison that I met my wife, essentially.

So I think Madison and also comedy as well.

One of the greatest comedy clubs in the country is there, which is the comedy is comedy on state.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's no question.

And the aim of Strong Towns, it says, is to exactly make cities more livable, reducing sprawl, which results in higher costs for public infrastructure.

I think it's a great group.

I'm really fascinated to do more research on this group because the winner will get a documentary made about their city.

And it will be this inspiring, and it's a non-for-profit group, Strong Towns.

Kind of a cool thing.

I read that in the CapTimes and I wanted to share it.

I think that's great.

I love that.

I would love to see more Wisconsin towns on there.

Uh, I think it's funny you, you, um, let's see.

Yes.

You said, you said Sheboygan and I was driving up from Chicago back home the other day and I saw a billboard that said, come to Sheboygan, Malibu of the Midwest.

That is their, that is what they call themselves.

I saw that too.

Cause they, and then there was a, whatever, wherever I saw that, there was a video of people surfing.

In Sheboygan, and I know they do that in Lake Superior, but

Yeah, I thought that was cool.

And Sheboygan right in the lake, just beautiful.

And another great city here in

Wisconsin.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Not Sheboygan Falls.

Trash.

I'm just kidding.

I'm just kidding.

Sheboygan Falls.

I love you.

I love you.

I've done comedy there.

It's great.

It's great.

It's great.

I don't want to get in a fight with anybody.

I don't know Sheboygan Falls.

It's right next door.

It's fine.

It's cool.

It's like Manitowish and Manitowish Waters.

They're next to each other.

And there's an unspoken dislike.

I don't understand it, but it's their problem, not mine.

That's not

cool.

Hey, we're gonna read some of your texts when we come back after the news.

Rob Thomas will be here at 6.20.

Can't wait to talk to Rob, but we'll talk to him about what's going on in Madison.

That's the city he lives in where he reviews movies from, and he is also the city cast at Madison Newsletter Editor.

That's a great follow if you want to stay kind of in touch with really cool stuff to do in Madison, they do a great job.

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I enjoyed

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Crazy.

Or was that just a downright?

You

know, that's more, more fun than you should have on a Tuesday, even if you're having tacos.

Even if I am.

I just can't wait, man.

My mouth is watering.

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I didn't, I mean, I don't have tacos.

Dom didn't bring any tacos for anybody's.

Those

are all like, those are all like Castle Dommington apparently, but it's fine.

It's actually fine.

It's fine.

I'm fine.

So are you're the chef in your house?

Dom, is that how that works?

Yes.

You live with your girlfriend, right?

I don't, I don't.

I live with

a

roommate right now.

But it's still true.

I'm still the chef and he should, he needs to start making some stuff.

You know, I haven't really

outright told

him that.

Does he eat when you make food or is it like you're making your dinner Dude has to make his own dinner.

How does that work out?

It's normally like I usually like hey, I'm making for example tacos today, you know, I'm making tacos You want some that's kind of how it goes and it goes.

It's like that pretty much five of the seven days of the week Wow, yeah,

so

hey roommate, you know do better do better

does he pitch in more rent because of that?

No, he does not.

But he does the dishes more, so, you know, he takes the good with the bad.

I don't know if I like this.

I feel like every once in a while you throw in somebody like, hey, here's some, here's some dinner money.

Like, there you go.

Tacos,

it's not like you're giving them a hot pocket.

I mean, there's take some effort to get the tacos going.

Even hot pockets are expensive nowadays.

Hey, what do you say we remind people of the question of the day?

I think I need to be reminded as well, because I forgot I'm just getting a dental.

No.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Question.

Questions.

Oh, what is your favorite and least or least favorite thing about St.

Patrick's Day?

Happy St.

Patrick's Day again, by the way, folks.

Hope you're having

a great

one.

But tell us what you like about it or what you don't like about it.

You can share that on the text line at 855-752-4842-855-75 Civic.

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We'll start right with us a live stream comments.

Stacey sued, uh, listening on the live stream says favorites are corned beef, St.

Patty's day parade with bagpipes.

Also turning the river green in Chicago.

Was that my stomach again?

That was your stomach again.

Thinking about

Dom's talk.

Thank you very much, Stacey for getting in touch with us.

We really appreciate you.

Uh, let's see here.

Uh, Dave on the live stream says worst thing.

COVID started on March 17th.

Oh, wow.

That's right about that.

Huh, what a reminder.

That was a bad one.

Yeah, that was a bad one.

On the on the social media, Amanda, our, our favorite Amanda, the social media queen goddess, the one who procures all of the stuff for us, she says

Bothers me greatly.

His name wasn't Patrick.

He wasn't Irish and wore blue, not green.

Forget the Saint.

Just celebrate being Irish.

There you go.

Wow, she's really sticking to the Irish there, I think.

Well, you kind of wanted to do the same thing.

I'm not going to lie there, Pete Schwabba.

So here's the deal, everybody.

I was going to wait until now to bring this up.

So

every day, we have a chat on the show, and we talk about what we should talk about.

And one of the things we always talk about in the morning, usually earlier in the morning, is what is the question of the day?

And Pete, do you want to tell the people what your original version of this question was?