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Hey, welcome to nightlight ladies and gentlemen Happy Monday.

It is I like to say it's finally Monday because I look forward to being back on the air and talking about the fun cool stuff I get to talk about on a nightly week nightly basis with my co-host Greg Bach who joins me from downstate I am upstate and Dom is in Madison.

It's great to be back on the air with you guys.

How we doing?

I'm doing quite well.

Happy Easter Monday to those who celebrate.

I have to say, I don't know that I've heard that term before, Easter Monday.

It's

not a federal holiday.

I celebrate

Easter.

I went out to brunch yesterday.

I think that means I celebrate Easter.

That just means you went to brunch.

I sure did.

It's not a federal holiday, but it's actually recognized as a day.

Like, so like, if you look at calendars, it will say Easter.

Monday, which to me fits into my question that I asked as a young kid in Catholic school.

You say that he died on Good Friday and rose three days later.

That's Monday, not Sunday.

That's two days later, and I always would get in trouble when I was being totally serious with my question, but now this here Easter Monday makes everything make sense.

It's so funny you say that Greg I used to think that as well and I actually did the math in my head and I thought well if it happened early on Monday, and he arose late on Sunday you could Lawyer ball your way into a three-day Resurrection nope.

No,

thank you.

I like I like consistency.

I like I like consistency

when it comes to resurrections or just in general

Yes

Yes, let's go with that.

Oh, that is great.

I hope everybody had a great Easter if you celebrate.

And if not, I hope you had a great Sunday.

I did mention, I did go to brunch and here's my issue.

Like it

was

lovely.

I went with my parents, my wife and my sister.

Boy, by the second time you go through a brunch line and those tongs or those handles are resting in the food game over.

It's like, I'm not eating that.

It's kind of unsanitary.

Oh, I thought you meant like the temperature of the tongs or something.

I wasn't sure.

No.

Oh, God, I don't care.

People's

grubby

fingers on it, and then now they're in the food.

Come on.

We're

better.

Oh, I see what you're saying.

Yeah, I'd still just pick it up.

I'd pick up the eggs with my own hand.

I wouldn't even need tongs.

I don't care.

That's worse.

That's the world we're living in, my goodness.

I think you're a

pretty clean guy, Greg.

I'm making

an assumption.

But

I still think that's maybe worse than the

tongs.

It's gross.

It's gross.

We didn't do anything on Sunday.

We had a big, we had a big, very active Saturday.

There was a lot going on Saturday.

We ate our own human weight in a food at a place called House of Gerards.

Gerards.

Gerards.

It's a German, like traditional German restaurant with all the servers are wearing the, you know, the later hose in the garb

and all that

stuff.

And the food is built to fill.

That

is when you find out the difference.

That's the difference when you find out the difference between a six-ounce steak and an eight-ounce steak.

An eight-ounce steak makes you go, oh my god, I'm gonna die.

So what was the occasion?

Were you celebrating your your outstanding night of stand-up comedy Friday and Oshkosh or

no

pre-easter thing or

one?

So it was a celebration of my wife's birthday her birthday is tomorrow and she asked that we do some stuff and we went bowling which is what she wanted to do so we went bowling at a local bowling alley and then we went to dinner at this place and she's originally it was We can go for drinks afterwards and she looked at me about it like like halfway through the minute She goes we're not going out for drinks.

We're going home

We had to just, we had to lay out.

We just, it was, it was absolute.

We were so, so full.

It was great food.

Great time.

We'll go back again, but you like go hungry to places like this house of Gerard Gerards in Kenosha and go hungry.

Good to know.

Yeah.

So I will

say it's fun time.

I will say last, yes, we ate at the buffet yesterday morning and a lot of time went by and we weren't hungry all day because that's

how it

works with buffets and all of a sudden we're starving at like 7 p.m.

Yeah, nothing is open in Christmas City, USA, Marinette, Wisconsin.

So we went to McDonald's and guess what Dom?

Guess what we did not order even though

we were hungry.

Oh, man, you really serve left like right in the face just oh mean Well, you didn't have an arch burger.

You didn't have an arch burger

We did not and my wife looked it on the menu.

She goes that looks gross So she got a fish sandwich, which I don't know how less gross that is but and I got a big Mac But we did not go for the arch burger and it was

right

there I probably won't be back to McDonald's for five months and I still passed up my opportunity

It's still the same amount of whatever.

It's just a smaller portion right taste like, you know, you really don't do don't go getting like all up in your house

and forget how you were raised when you're like, I got a fish fillet instead of a big arch.

Listen,

bikini season is right around the corner.

I

could

see why you go for the fish fillet over the big arch.

Both of us, but anyway.

Hey, we have a great show tonight guys.

And I would like us to introduce the guest Greg.

And then I do want to hear about your standup gig.

Cause I was kind of living vicariously through you.

That's kind of cool that you, you had a standup gig.

I had one

in

February and I don't know how often you do that.

So I do want to hear about it, but

We have a great show tonight.

Dom de Liberto will be here.

He is a climatologist and award-winning science communicator.

Very excited to talk to him about all things weather.

And then my pal, Frank Anderson, and soon to be Greg's pal, will be here in the second hour.

Frank is the founder of Wisconsinology.com, and he can tie anything to our state of Wisconsin.

He is very patriotic when it comes to WI, all caps.

He will be here in the second hour, so that'll be fun.

and coming up tonight.

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But before we go any further Pete, I feel like we need to ask a very important question.

Do you have a question for the audience for the night?

I do, Dom Lee.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay, question.

Question.

Question.

Pregunta.

Question.

Question.

Okay, I have a question.

Questions.

This question.

Domanda.

Question.

Question.

Questions.

What is the best TV show theme song?

That's a great one.

What is the best TV show theme song, folks?

Have fun with this tonight.

We all have those songs, the shows we loved growing up, or even now,

What is your favorite?

Let us know at 855-752-4842-8557.

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So be part of the show and let us know what your favorite TV theme show is.

So many great ones to choose from.

Um, Dom, have you given that question some thought?

I have,

but I'm going to wait on it.

I do.

I have a

good one.

All right.

Very good.

I

just want to make sure you're ready.

Born right.

Okay.

Uh, so before we get to our three big stories, Greg, how was, uh, the standup?

Did it go well?

Did you crush?

Uh, it was fun.

We had a really good time.

I, you know, I did 15 minutes at a place called Fifth Ward Brewing Company.

My friend, Mattie Field.

He's a really, really, really good buddy of mine.

Excuse me as I hiccup a little.

I'm still I'm still getting over yesterday's or Saturday's dinner.

I barely ate anything yesterday.

By the way, I was so full that I barely ate.

That's that's how much food there

was.

But the show on Friday was really fun.

I did 50 minutes.

I was a feature.

I was the second feature of there was four total comics.

And I think I had a good time.

I had a good time.

I think they had a good time.

They laughed.

I tried some new stuff that I've been wanting to do for a while.

And it was it was a good time.

definitely makes me want to do it more.

It's just finding that right flow and balance within the life and saying like, you know, I'm not going, I'm not going on the road anytime soon.

And I'm not, you know, like, we're going to fly you out to wherever to do some.

No, it's so we'll see what happens.

But it was a good time.

And I did miss it.

And it's nice to be able to know that I can like stand on stage and still be able to do it.

You know, there's always rust there, you know, especially when you go like, I, you know, with my work that I did at the club, I would only do

three or four shows a year.

And

so there was always like a considerable amount of rust.

I always felt like I had, but the room was real warm.

The people were really laid back.

We had a really good time.

So it was, it was fun.

And, and I have some, you know, and of course I didn't record it cause I'm like, I don't want to record.

I don't want to listen back to this one.

And I should have because there was some good stuff in there that I want to reuse for like, and rework whatnot.

So it was good.

We'll see what happens next time if there is a next time.

Glad to hear that

is

fantastic Outstanding well that is that's a new story, but let's get to our other

three big

stories of the day Dom if you please the first big story

Well speaking of happy Easter the president wanted to wish everyone a happy Easter and he did that on his truth social

website by posting the following which I'm going to edit because I don't want to get fined by the Federal Communications Commission Tuesday quote Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day all wrapped up in one in Iran and adding open the effing straight you crazy.

I'm not saying that word or you'll or you'll be living in hell.

All caps, just watch.

Not even like a dot dot dot, by the way, Happy Easter.

It was just that on Easter Sunday.

But by the way, also, quick question for everyone out there.

Do you think that, you know, the army wants him saying what they're doing?

Or maybe in the fact of they don't think he like they don't they're not doing that at all.

They're like, we had no plans on doing that.

We're like, we're just trying to figure out what you guys want.

Next to Pete Hegseth firing all these generals, but that's for another day to talk about but yeah That's what he tweeted on his truth social website very very in the realm of Easter celebrations.

I He might I'm just guessing he's the first president to drop an F-bomb Easter in an address to the

entire country.

Yes.

Yes.

He's break.

He's breaking those records every day.

It's great.

It's

wonderful.

I mean In you know, you just said it was interesting what you just said Greg.

I don't want to break any rules here

or get fined by the FCC.

Well, he's the head of the FCC by default.

He's the one putting this stuff out there.

I mean, it was like, it gave us something to talk about over brunch.

I will say that, but it was a little crazy and a little unhinged.

Oh, a little?

Well, for him, he went on to say he wanted to say that, you know, in another post, because he posts 38,000 times a day.

He said quote rescued the seriously wounded and really brave F 15 crew member slash officer from the deep from deep inside the mountains of Iran Calling operation.

Oh an amazing show of Bravian talent and that's great.

I'm glad that person was rescued That's wonderfully went on then the US military sent dozens of aircrafts armed with the most lethal weapons in the world But his tweets to retrieve them.

He sustained injuries and will be just fine.

Well, you're not a doctor So stop saying that but it's just like

This is a man, by the way, we've never talked about this.

This is a man who doesn't get daily reports.

They show him sizzle reels of what's

going on and they show

him explosions every day.

So he's like a little kid who's like, yay.

So all of this delivered for you on Easter Sunday.

Yeah.

Yeah, there was all kinds of rumors about the president too over the weekend that we're kind of crazy too on social media, speaking of social media, but we've got, we've got more.

News coming up, we've got a couple more big stories we'll get to after this very short break.

We are so glad you're here folks on this Monday.

What is your favorite TV theme show song?

Text us in, text that in and be part of the show.

We've got two great guests, a fun question and lots

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still coming up.

This is Nightlight with Pete Schwabba and Greg Bach on the Civic Media Network.

Just one more morning.

I had to wake up with the blues.

Welcome back.

This is Nightlight with Pete Schwabba and Greg Bach.

That is a Dom Lee spin of the tunes and working the board on this Monday night.

Hope you're having a great day and a great evening and I hope we we hope.

Well, we hope we make it even better, folks.

We got Tom Liberto will be here.

He is a...

Deliberto.

Deliberto, I'm sorry.

And he is our first guest tonight.

He is a science communicator and a climatologist award-winning in both areas.

And he'll be here to talk to us about weather.

And then Frank Anderson, our pal from Wisconsinology.com.

Also a documentary filmmaker and commercial director and all things show business.

He'll be here in the second hour.

That'll be fun right now.

We were in the middle of our two, well, two remaining news stories.

The second big story.

All right.

Well, this year's NCAA tournament is about to come to a close.

The championship game for the men is tonight.

Michigan squares off against Arizona.

Michigan's heavily favored.

Also, we need to mention the UCLA Bruins women's basketball team, one of their first ever national championship.

Greg, what do you think about that?

Fantastic.

They beat Tel Carolina, handily 79 to 51 to win their first ever.

That is, I love it.

I love it.

It's their first since they had done that.

UCLA women's basketball has been in existence for 44 years now and their first, first time they get to cut the net.

See, I know what happens.

I know things.

Everyone who beat me up in middle school

for not knowing women's basketball.

That was a tough school.

I, I didn't know they had, I thought they had been around longer than that.

That surprises me that it's just been 44 years.

But this is their first title.

That also surprised me.

And watching their celebration was just so much fun.

Like the highlights, it was so great.

So congrats to the UCLA Bruins.

I'm, I'm sorry to Damah

is fighting a line.

Is that you guys,

you guys are out.

So.

are either of you gonna root for anyone, or are you just gonna watch the game and enjoy like I do when I see baseball teams who don't matter to me?

Tom, go first.

I think

I'm going to root for Michigan.

I think I'm gonna root

for

Michigan.

I've been to Michigan quite a few times.

That's just, that's

what I'm gonna

go for, you know,

also

Big Ten, you know, so.

Yeah.

I don't know, that's what I'm going for.

Pete, what about you?

Typically with you on the Big Ten thing, I just find something irritating about Michigan.

I was really pulling for the Align Eye.

I used to cheer for them before I switched to the Badgers in the early 90s.

I still like the Align Eye and I thought if they would hit half of their free throws or three more three point, they couldn't hit anything.

I felt like that game was theirs for the taking.

So that was frustrating.

But yeah, I guess I think I'm going for Arizona tonight, guys, even though they're like, I think a seven and a half point dog.

Well, I mean, okay, that's all I got.

What about you, Greg?

I just want everyone to have a good time and play their best Very diplomatic.

I'm down for a tie if they can do a tie.

I'm totally in for that as well Good good good good on you guys.

Yeah.

Mmm.

Good job basketball

College

basketball at that too.

Whoo,

that would be about the worst thing ever a tie Yeah,

I don't know how long they would have to play I feel like it's one of those things where they would say like if it like let's say you Well, here's a question so like in

in a hockey and in soccer, they'll do shootouts in games to like settle ties.

And I know there's some rules like with championships, like they'll say, no, just keep going until someone wins.

Is there a rule in basketball?

Does it keep going over times?

Or maybe they say, call it for the night.

We'll meet back tomorrow and keep playing.

Yeah.

I think it goes and goes until someone wins.

So it could be like 14 over times until someone.

And I don't know this 100%.

But I know this a hundred percent.

There's no way there would there would be a tie under any circumstances for this game.

You

heard you heard it here, folks.

Pete.

Come at me.

Making Pete making his assumptions and his he's projecting that cannot be.

It's impossible.

There's no way coming to you straight from Christmastown, USA.

Christmas City, USA.

Go Zona.

Go

Zona.

Go Zona.

All

right.

That sounds like an

Arizona tea line.

Arizona iced tea.

Go Zona.

That would be even better.

if that's what they were named after and beat Michigan.

All right.

It's time for our third big story.

All right.

The third big story.

This has to be you Greg.

It's K Tom, baby.

I mean before you know it There's gonna be statues everywhere around this state Al Malanaro better known as Al from happy days is they have built a statue This has been done and it will be installed in Kenosha by the port We are going to be we're working on getting the the artist on the show to talk about this But here's the thing is I didn't know that Al Malanaro was from Kenosha.

I didn't know he's from Wisconsin You know we that's I mean everyone

I can't shut up about Mark Ruffalo being from Kenosha, but Al Marlonaro, my goodness.

So he will be getting a statue emblazoned onto the property to the city limits of Kenosha celebrating it.

I just love this.

I personally love this.

And I know I'm about to say something wildly unpopular.

I love this more than the bronze bonds.

So I think that that statue is a weird addition to Milwaukee.

I know everyone loves it.

People go to it all the time.

It's a huge.

Tourist thing to a certain extent, I guess, but is a character.

It's like the Rocky thing in

Philadelphia,

you know, and Bill Burr has made that joke.

I'm not going to rip off his joke, but just like, let's get real people some statues.

Like we got the crusher in South Milwaukee.

Amazing.

Yeah, I'm kind of with you.

The fonts thing is fun, but I, but Al Malinero is a real guy really from Wisconsin who played the same character.

Like that's fantastic.

And the fonts thing I love growing up.

I love the fonts.

I've talked about this before on the show like when I was There's so many Italians in my neighborhood in Chicago.

They wouldn't even say did you watch happy days last night?

They would say you see the fonts last night They just love the font so I love the fonts, but you're right He's a fictional character and it might be different if they actually Filmed the show in Milwaukee

in any way shape or form period one like even like a like an inch of film, but no Not at all,

but I love

The El Malonero statue.

Love that he's from Kenosha and they're putting it there and he seems like a great guy.

And the Happy Days theme song could be in the running for an answer from someone for Question of the Night, which is one of your favorite TV show theme song.

That is our Question of the Night.

And

don't

forget, in

the second hour, we're going to be giving you that keyword in our win-your-way into the Milwaukee Film Festival.

So get your device ready.

Get ready for that keyword.

We'll give

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Great film festival.

And we are coming back very shortly, folks, after the news with our

Our new friend, a climatologist and award-winning science communicator, Tom DiLiberto.

He will be here.

We're talking all things weather, what better for Wisconsinites.

It's Nightlight with Peach Chihuahua and Greg Bach on the Civic Media Network.

Great tune.

You like talk talk, Greg?

I do.

I do.

I can't say them the biggest fan, but like songs like this are great.

I mean, it just also has a just, you know, those songs that just like punch you in the gut nostalgia wise for a certain decade, there is those 80 songs that have like what you're just hearing now, those that synth sound.

You're like,

oh,

1983 1987, you're like, middle school, grade school.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

New order.

Love all

that.

Hey, welcome back, folks.

This is Night Light with Pete Schwabba and Greg Bach.

I am coming to you live from Christmas City, USA, and Greg is coming to you live.

Downstate, for me, from the world-fabulous K-Town, where the new home of the Al Malanero statue.

Congrats to you guys, Greg.

That's a

big, that's a coup.

Not to be that guy, but I'm in Racine Yeah, but you

live Okay, you live in the suburbs which is K town or is the other way around I don't know we tried

to get that statue here in the

city

But you guys beat us

Wait, what?

How did the, stop it.

Don't try it.

Don't try to crack jokes covering up the fact that you don't know where I'm at.

And also, by the way, I'm just watching my computer melt down in front of my face.

I'm fine here on

the live show folks.

I'm here, but one of my computer screens is like, yeah, we're done working right now.

That just happened with me too.

That happened with me too.

I love technology so, so very much.

We are currently waiting on our guest, Tom DiLiberto right now.

He is a word winning climatologist and weather communicator.

And we'll be, hopefully he'll be joining us in a little bit to talk about the work he does and whatnot.

And yeah, so really quick though, like we were talking about it before Pete, as far as like the standup stuff, you know, you

We're so excited about me doing stand up and I really appreciate that because like, you know I do it so infrequently that I get like very like Should I be doing it?

Like I get very insecure.

I'll be I'll be totally honest with you like all jokes aside if they get very insecure because I'm surrounded by comics who do it like three four times a night or three Well many times a night many times a week a month they tour so I kind of feel like oh should I be doing this and that's all you know in my head but like for you

You you don't do stand-up as much as you used to of course, but you know you still get opportunities What do you feel like when you are like, you know someone says do you want to come do a gig not like a big event to host but like just hey come to this Little theater or come to this bar do you 20 minutes?

I feel nauseous, right?

Really?

I, uh, I just don't do, I did it full time.

It's weird because it seems like it was a much bigger chapter in my life, but I was a full time, a full time standup from like 90 to 97.

When

I

moved to LA, I kind of went up around town a little bit and then I kind of segwayed into writing and I just sort of stopped.

I would do it occasionally, like if a buddy called and said, Hey, come and open

for

me.

I would do that and I would love that because you get to hang out.

But it's been so long since I've done it full time that I do get kind of a pain in my stomach.

I'm just nervous.

I still write jokes down throughout the course of the year because I host this football fundraiser up here in Christmas City.

That whole day, I'm kind of nervous and it's not a fun day.

When I get on stage, it's fine.

Yeah.

And, you know, sometimes I get really good laughs and sometimes I put something out there.

I think it's a great joke that does okay.

And I'm like, that's a better joke.

Oh, it's because you're not really a stand up comic anymore.

You

don't

polish it up and know how to perform it.

So, you know, I don't know.

That's how I felt.

So I was excited for you.

I was like,

yeah,

this is fun because that was a great time in my life.

And I remember, you know, not ever getting nervous.

And I sometimes wonder how I got there.

Even when I would go on TV, I'm like, I'm not really, you know, you're act and that's all you can do.

Yeah, exactly.

And there have been moments of nerves and I think that usually comes with.

the location so if it's a location with a lot of people or I feel like you know like when you're opening for somebody that you really respect and like and and and you know you're the you're you're gonna set the mood if they don't like you that them not liking you might make them not like the person you're opening for so that's how I would get nerves I'd never got nerves like there's so many people like I don't know what like I knew what to do

and

if jokes don't go well I know enough from improv and how to how to do that to make it work

And that's kind of like what it was for me on Friday was the fact that I don't want to say low stakes because, you know, you don't want to be the, you don't, you don't, as, as Mrs. McDonald used to say in, in, uh, in, um, uh, choir, she would say, don't be the poop in our warm frothy milk.

I didn't want to be the poop.

And, um, but my friend said, come do the show, do 15 minutes.

You don't have like your, your sandwich in the middle.

you'll have fun.

No one's like gonna say, Oh, you can't do this anymore.

And that's what I did.

And I had a really good time.

And that was the thing.

Like, we've all seen those comics will go on stage and have a thing of, All right, I'm here.

Let's do some, you know, like, I wasn't, I wasn't apathetic, but I wasn't trying so hard to like, I got to make you guys laugh.

I'm like, I'm up here for 15 minutes.

I'm going to make you laugh.

I know I'll make you laugh.

And some will be better than others.

Let's try this.

And that's what that was a good feeling.

Cause it like I

remembered

that.

Oh, I've been doing this for a while.

So let's actually like, you know, make ourselves useful here and be a part of the show.

And it was a really good time.

Well, it's interesting.

You say that because the only times I would get nervous is if I worked with someone big, who I didn't really know, case in point, Ron White, I worked

with him

before the blue collar comedy tour.

I had a similar joke to him.

He pulls me aside after the show.

And he goes, you got to watch every show.

We have a same joke.

You can't do that joke.

I'm the headliner.

I thought he was a jerk.

And then at the end of the week, we're getting paid.

and he pumped me up in front of the club.

Like he did things exactly the way he should have.

He pulled me aside, didn't embarrass me, but then end

of

the week, he was really cool.

And I'm like, what was I nervous about?

You know, that's so anyway.

Gotcha.

Well,

I loved having that talk and we should talk more stand up later because right now we are welcoming our guest climatologist and science communicator, Tom DeLiberto, to the show.

Good afternoon evening.

Tom, how are you?

Good how you guys doing

much better now that you're here.

We love

having you This is gonna

be fun.

We're big fans of yours just from doing our research.

So it's

great to

have you here.

Thanks for

being

here.

Yeah, absolutely So really quick, you know climatologist and science communicator Start there like we know what climatologists are but like what is your like?

What do you do as a science communicator that like goes along with climatologist?

Tom are you

there?

Yeah, sure.

I always say that I really I want to become a scientist and then Yeah, I was I was becoming a scientist and I realized I like talking about it more than doing it so I ended up kind of shifting more into Science communication so my job on the media director now of a nonprofit called climate central whose job is basically to help communicate all that's going on climate wise on our planet and

It's it's it's been fun.

Basically.

I'm trying to think of ways of communicating a really complex topic so that people can understand it So in the end people can make the best decisions they can with the best information

Great.

Yeah, that was a great answer.

I still have a question though like with what you do What is your typical day like when it comes to weather?

You've got so much education You've got so many titles you wake up you go to work.

What does work like for you on a day-to-day basis and

And what is the most exciting thing about your job?

Like, what's the part of your day you can't wait to get to when it comes to weather?

Yeah, so like it gets back to the beginning of why I got into this field to start.

Like I've wanted to be a meteorologist, climate person since I was like eight or nine years old.

I was always like super interested in the weather.

I always wanted to be that kid in elementary school that was able to tell the rest of the class when there was going to be a snow day.

or snowstorm would pop up.

So like, and that's never changed.

So every day I'm just kind of waking up and seeing what's going on weather wise across the world, across the United States.

But my day to day, it's there's always something going on somewhere.

It's there's always some extreme occurring.

There's always something that needs to be explained.

So normally when I wake up, I'll take a look at what's going on not only across the United States, but across the entire world.

And I have these other kind of projects where

trying to figure out the best ways of communicating these really huge planetary style things in a way that like is understandable to someone.

who may not ever see or experience that in their own home.

So it's neat because every day it's something new, every week it's something new.

And I'm also a big fan of not knowing what's gonna happen next.

So there's no better business to be in when it comes to weather.

And then talking about the climate too, because there's always some aspect of not really knowing what your day is gonna look like.

So it's just kind of embracing the

uncertainty.

Climate versus weather and talking about like one of its climate change was never the easiest topic to discuss But I feel like in the past couple years, it's been even more difficult.

How do you approach?

shifting attitudes or like maybe The questions you get as far as like explain explain this to me and like, you know As you say make it bite-size make it understandable while not trying to change people's minds But like under making them understand this is the world we live in and then and no matter

who you vote for or what you believe, the weather is weather, climate is climate, and this is how we need to approach the topic.

Yeah, for sure.

Well, first thing I always say is I would be very happy if people put me out of a job and stop climate change, by all means.

That's cool, whatever.

I'll take one for the global team if that's the situation.

You're a sport.

Yeah, I'm a good sport, you know?

And like the one thing I always, you know, as someone who's managed

at times government climate accounts like social media accounts for the government and have had to deal with people yelling me.

One thing I learned early on and statistics have been the surveys have proven this that the people who are truly dismissive of climate change is like nine or 10% and that's held steady for like over a decade now.

The thing is that nine or 10% they're so loud.

They're so unbelievably loud.

So I try not to like overly worry that like I'm gonna get.

That I'm gonna convince their mind like change their mind and the one thing I usually go into at the end of this conversation I hope the person whether they agree with me or not sees me as a human being And could imagine themselves talking with me about some other topic besides climate change like we could talk about literally anything they want and like that's a success for me and Because in the end, you know, I can only do so much it's of the people themselves to be able to change their own views but

I'm always very clear like I'm not in this for I always joke I'm really good at math if I wanted to make more money I would do something besides this um so it's you know it's purely out of a love of the atmosphere and just being

Scared of what the outcomes are that I'm just trying to say this if there's no ulterior motives here.

I'm not making any extra money off

of it Right.

Oh, that's a great answer

Wait, you're not being paid by the but you're not being paid by the intelligentsia billions of dollars to tell us about climate change.

What oh if I am they're putting up a direct deposit

in an account I

don't We have about a minute and a half to where we have to do a very short break, but I wanted to get this question when it comes to climate change

or weather, what do you make of this idea or prediction that states like Minnesota or Michigan and Wisconsin are going to become destinations in the next 20 or 30 years because of our water and maybe some global warming, hopefully?

Will we be able to shake that rust belt

rep?

some truth to that so like if you take a look at the United States as a whole and you say okay what states are probably going to see the biggest impacts that's going to make it really really hard to live you say like where are the warmest places and the places that have difficulty accessing water which also tend to be a lot of those places this may be really really hard to live and they say like well the uh the further north you go that's the fastest warming place on the planet so you go too far north it's it's

too much of a shock.

So there's like this sweet spot in the middle where the effects will still be but not as bad if you have access to it.

So a place that always gets brought up is right.

It was constant Minnesota, sometimes upstate New York kind of gets brought up.

Places that get a lot of water regardless.

They might get more of it so there might be issues there.

There might be more invasive species but

they'll still be water.

Um, and it won't be a bajillion degrees every summer, making it impossible to go outside.

All right.

Let's pick up there.

I'm unbelievably hot as Southeast and Southwest.

Let's pick up right there.

When we come back after the short break, our guest is Tom DiLiberto.

He is a weather.

I'm just going to call you a weather expert, especially compared to me and Greg.

We're coming right back.

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Welcome back tonight, light folks.

I am Pete Schwabba, sitting just upstate along the lake as it were from Greg Bach, who is in Racine at Radio Park.

Our guest is

Tom DeLiberto.

He is a very decorated weatherologist.

I'm making up words now, Tom.

He's a climatologist and award-winning science communicator who also used to work for, he did in the Office of Communication at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Tom, I have kind of a, I just want to say I was looking up your profile on LinkedIn earlier and this kind of cracked me up.

I was reading your titles.

host of NOAA's Climate Alive program, winner of the National Science Communication Competition, declared America's first scientist idol.

And then it was improv comedian.

What?

I was like, what on earth is that?

Please tell us, where did you study?

How does it become part of your job?

And maybe you could segue into this cool thing, the show you have.

Yeah, sure.

Yeah, I've always wanted to do improv comedy and I, you know, was getting older and I found myself giving lots of talks on climate change and these sorts of things and I live in Washington DC and I

now perform with the Washington improv theater here.

I'm on a couple of house teams there, including one team I created, which is a, I feel like this might be only true in Washington DC.

And if not, that's cool.

I'm still going to pretend like it's the only one.

I have a science-based comedy improv team called the Hypothesis made up of just scientists and people who work in the science field.

And we just kind of like invite scientists and people to give talks on science.

and then we make comedy out of it.

And like, yeah, and I found it being, it's incredibly helpful to me because it makes me much more of an active listener when I'm like trying to come up with an idea.

It

makes

me work better with teams and brainstorming things.

Also, it makes it so I don't take myself too seriously.

And I feel like that also helps to when trying to come up with ideas and ways of communicating things, but also makes me quite a weird person in the science.

It's probably not that many of

me

that have that sort of background.

There should be

more.

I think there are more.

They just need to trust themselves and get out

there.

I think that I'm personally I feel like everyone everyone regardless you should everyone should take an improv class I think it helps you with personal confidence.

I think it helps you with interaction I think helps with a lot of things and I know a lot of individuals who've taken improv classes to help with their Non-comedy jobs, and it's it's great and plus it lets you reach out to a community a lot Let's you find found family.

I think that's I think that's absolutely wonderful and another thing that you did that you know brought

you know, an explanation to very complex topics is you made a cartoon regarding climatology and climate and the weather and whatnot.

Tell us more about Tik and Tom.

Yeah, I somehow convinced Noah where I used to work.

This isn't the previous administration.

Yeah.

I convinced them to let me make a cartoon.

It's for fourth to sixth graders about how basically the weather and climate happens on planet Earth and why we should care about it.

It's called Teek and Tom.

I'm the Tom.

Teek is basically an alien student who comes to Earth on a school assignment about learning about the atmosphere of a planet.

And Teek chose Earth.

and then obviously when you come to earth you have to talk to somebody about from know about the atmosphere and I'm the person

um

so it's

It's it's probably the most rewarding experience of my life and I now it's great because now there's a cartoon version of me that will never age And it's also been a lot of fun like playing it for kids I have myself so watching them enjoy seeing their dad Turn into a cartoon character and get slimed in one of the episodes, but no more spoilers

Well,

now I'm not watching it.

No, that's

fantastic.

I love that.

I

love that

so much.

Um, one of the things that's said in your bio too, is that you tell people how to stay optimistic about unpredictable forecasts and seasons.

Uh, this particular winter here in Wisconsin, I found a little depressing because we would have snow all the time that wasn't forecasted.

And even if it's just an inch or two, it felt like I was wiping my car off in the morning, three weeks in a row.

How do you tell people to stay optimistic about weather?

And I love that that that's part of how you describe yourself Knowing that

yeah, I think there is There's a lot of

Beauty in just like how complicated the world can be Outside and just like to witness it.

I feel like sometimes we get caught within ourselves a lot and like there's a lot going on and I've always found incredibly calming to sometimes just be outside just watch the clouds roll in and The other thing I always say that makes me like super optimistic about like

even when times are tough is that in my career, especially in the weather world, even when there's really horrible disasters or really depressing weather, it's amazing how people in communities pick each other up.

during those times, whether it's after like a tornado outbreak or after a snowstorm helping people shuffle.

And I always like that community aspect of weather.

So it's interesting how weather tends to bring people together.

And I feel like optimism is born out of that, that kind of feeling of community and bringing people together.

And weather is always one of those things.

If you don't know what to talk about with someone, you can always talk about the weather.

And that's one topic that's true no matter.

where you grew up, where you live, or anything like that.

Great.

I mean, yeah, if you want to kill...

15 minutes to like three hours in Wisconsin.

You can always talk about the weather and we'll, we'll, we'll fancy ourselves, you know, meteorologists and our own.

It's like, well, you know, it's, it's rainy today, but I hear it's supposed to be doing this.

And then, but you never know, cause it can be snowing and make, cause that's just how it works in Wisconsin.

It just seems like the old adages, if you don't like the weather, wait 15 minutes, it'll change.

But, uh, we definitely would love to have you back, Tom, to have, and have further conversations about this.

It was a lot we weren't able to get to today, but please come back.

Our guest this evening has been climatologists and science communicator as well.

the media director of Climate Central.

That will all be in our show notes so people can check it out.

Tom DeLiberto is our guest this evening.

Thank you so much, Tom, for being here.

We appreciate your time.

Thanks for having me.

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I say the question of the night is what is your favorite TV theme song?

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A lot of responses to this one, my friends.

Oh my goodness gracious.

The

people love their color TV, Greg, and they love their theme songs as do I. Mine was, do you remember the show?

It was a Norman Lear show called Good Times.

It was on the

70s.

Set at the Cabrini Green Housing Project in Chicago, and it was launched the career of Jimmy Walker, John Amos was on it, Esther Roll, and Thelma was the sister who I always had a crush on, but great

music.

And a very, very

young Janet Jackson.

Yes, great point.

Yes, Janet Jackson.

And do we have a do we have a couple a few seconds of that we can hear Dom the back end when the credits are playing is my favorite

part of the

song.

Let's do it.

Yeah.

All right.

I think that was the song here it is here it is right here.

Oh, yeah, it's right.

I forgot We're going to church

Just

love it.

Thank you for indulging me down So that's mine Greg.

I know you have a great one too that was probably in my top ten as well

Uh, yeah, for me, I mean, there are a lot of great theme songs and I saw them coming through, uh, through the text line and through the, the social media and we will get to all of those in just a moment.

But for me, there is no greater theme song than to the TV show taxi.

Uh, at one, because it's, it's real funky, but it's also incredibly mellow because when you, I remember as a kid, and this, this is a very weird thought for me to have as a kid, but like.

It was a comedy.

It was a three-camera comedy on network television.

It was wildly popular It had a lot of laughs had some drama and they had some feelings of course But the theme song for a three-camera comedy on network television I don't know if I've ever heard a more depressing theme song because and people will say what about match I have I love mash and I love the theme song, but I think

for what they discussed and the music that goes hand in hand.

But the theme song to taxi just always seems so dour versus what

the

show is actually about.

Dom, can you play that intro, please?

I get goosebumps to this day when I hear it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because listen to that.

Come on now.

Wow.

It's so complimentary

though, I hear you saying, but it works.

Cause like to me, and it's weird, again, as a kid, I'm like, oh, well, this is how they feel when they're driving taxis in New York.

They're like, you know, they're being funny on the air, but man, the taxi, the life of a taxi driver in New York has to be hard.

And to me, that song perfectly encapsulates their feelings.

Very

weird, very weird thoughts to be having as like a nine year old.

So, Dom, what about you?

Ooh, I gotta go with... I gotta go with friends.

I watched a lot of friends with my mom, and it was the, yeah, I'll be there for you.

I also have that as well.

Rembrandt's.

There you go.

Let's hear it.

The thing that's interesting about the Friends theme song and...

And cheers has the same thing too is these are songs that you could hear on the radio and it was always kind of off putting to hear them go into the sections they didn't play.

So like when you listen to the cheers themes, the cheers theme song is dark.

Like it's not the most uplifting music to listen to.

But also it's just that thing of like, oh, this is actually a single.

This is a tune you could buy on like you could buy a record for this song versus like, you know that.

the taxi themes.

No one was really playing on the radio back in the seventies.

We had a guest, Rob Paravoni, a very funny comedian who broke down the friends theme and did a parody of it.

And the first

Uh, what do you call it, the verse of the

song?

It says, nobody, well no one told you there'd be days like this.

In the second verse, it's, your mother warned you there'd be days like this.

And he just wrote a funny, but it's, it's, it's true.

You don't ever hear the second verse.

Cause I love the Cheers theme song too.

And it's like, yeah, it is kind of down, but it's like, well, at least I can go here.

Everybody loves

me.

And people definitely spoke out on the Facebook page.

They spoke out on, you know, I post this on my personal page too.

And people really, they have, they have thoughts.

Nikki listening said cheers.

And Futurama is great.

Mary went on to say Threes Company or

or the A team.

And she says, come at me, bro.

I'm not trying to challenge you.

It's just fine.

It's your opinion.

But yeah, threes company, the A team, the A team is great when you're like 12 years old and a little, like a little kid, you're like, yeah, I'm going to go like storm the castle or something like that.

But, um, friend of friend of civic media, Joe McLeer says, uh, perfect strangers or Baywatch.

Okay.

Perfect strangers.

Nice poll.

Jeremy says airwolf theme.

I remember as a kid that that theme song just like lit me up because it's so like intense and like, oh, I wish I could fly a helicopter.

I know Billy Dave armchair says Scooby-Doo Trent says Moesha.

Yes.

Moesha.

Definitely a very, very good theme song.

What do you got over there?

Let's start with the text line that I'll move to our own personal Facebook comments.

We'll do our best to get some through it.

through some of these, but Brett in Brown Deer says, love the bass rift in the theme song from Barney Miller.

That's

that one is in that song is in top five for me for theme songs as well.

That like, you know, if you can find Barney Miller and you got to play from the beginning because again, it's another one of those 70s shows where it's just real funky, real

funky.

Chris from Sun Prairie says, cheers by far, where everybody knows your name, makes me want to belly up to the bar every time.

No argument there.

Monica from Mount Horrib says, I say Scooby-Doo, my sister says Green Acres.

Okay, those are both great.

Those are great.

Those are wonderful.

Tyler from Wisconsin Rapid says, on a day like today, do boldly go where no man has gone before.

You know what that is, right?

Of course a Star Trek.

If I didn't

know that my mother would disown me.

One of our favorite and most frequent texters Tony the trucker says gentlemen the theme song from law and order That

guitar It sounds like that's that just that just that little Bend on pitch on that string sounds like the streets of New York like yeah, yeah, it's been a hard day

But