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I'm Tom Alba, along there, producer and engineer, Mr. Aaron Zommers on the board.
It is six past the hour of one o'clock.
Welcome to hour number two of the big program on this Monday, March 17th, 2025.
It is St.
Patrick's Day.
Thus, dressed in the old green plaid today, our friend, colleague, ongoing contributor, two-time chair of the Democratic Party, also an attorney.
veteran and author, we'll talk about that in just a minute.
Matt Flynn sticking around for a little bit of hour number two.
We always appreciate that.
And a full bird Irishman,
good.
We're...
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
We didn't plan this out better because and we're going to talk about a couple of serious things in the Attorney General's race or the Supreme Court race in a minute.
But just kick off this hour because later on the bottom of the hour, the wonderful and talented Terry Barr from Civic Media is going to be here and bring us a Wisconsin St.
Patrick's Day story.
So looking forward to talking more about St.
Patrick's Day.
But here, Matt, we have Azamaris and I. I picked this up.
I saw this over the weekend.
This is
called Green River, Zesty Lime Soda, and it comes to us from the great Wisconsin company of Spreckers in Glendale, Wisconsin.
Now, we have not tried this.
All is dangerous trying things on the air, but here we go.
And remember, whenever you see
Me, your radio and streaming host, have a beverage.
It's a great opportunity for you, the home listening audience, to have a beverage as well.
So here we go, Zomers.
Here is what's called Green River Zesty Lime Soda from Speckers.
Here we go.
like lime soda.
As my old football coach, the late grape of Vitus Rip was fond of saying, not bad.
It's
tasty.
It is.
Maybe enjoy some alcoholic green beverages after the show, of course.
We'll see.
More on St.
Patrick's Day at the bottom of the hour, but Matt, I appreciate you sticking around.
Because I wanted to get into this Supreme Court raise a little bit before we do our what's worse and Over the weekend I was up seeing my dad and stepmom up in Seanal just west of Green Bay a very red county area of the state
And somebody from the Brad Schimmel, the conservative candidate, came to the door.
They had a computer.
It was obviously, you know, it was not just random.
They had one of these computers, so they had a list.
They had a list, which is funny because neither my dad nor my stepmom are Republican voters, but still they came to the door and they had a big oversize, we call them door hangers, because there's a loop for it to hang on the door, although they get stuffed in doors usually.
But on one side, it had a big picture, a flattering picture of Donald Trump, and it went on to list how Donald Trump is helping Wisconsin and helping America, and he needs help from Brad Schimmel.
And on the other side, it was an attack on the great Judge Crawford, Susan Crawford, who is running against Schimmel, and a bunch of exaggerations and mistruses against her.
Here's my question to you, Matt, as a former chairman two times on the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.
It seems like the Democrat, at least some, not all.
It seems some Democrats want this race to be a referendum on Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
And they say, this will be great because they messed things up so badly.
Let's make it, you know, certainly people are sick and tired of these people already.
Let's make it a referendum on them.
I think the Republicans, of course, we can't talk about this anymore, really, because
It's not politically correct, but you know exactly what I mean about the old Uncle Rima story of Brer Rabbit.
And it seems like to me that this is the Republicans saying, you know, oh, don't talk about Donald.
This is I think they want it to be about Trump.
I think they want it to be a referendum because they need to.
There was a great piece by Joe Hendrick, former Republicans, an assembly person over the weekend, saying that in order for Schimel to win.
They need to get Trump voters that came out in November that aren't normally spring voters out, particularly in western Wisconsin.
I think they want this to be about Trump to turn out their base.
Let me tell you what I think.
Shimmel has already said publicly that he will be a support network for Trump.
He said that in a big conference call to conservatives.
And he has made it clear that
He asked Elon Musk, Trump's guy, to open his wallet.
Now, I agree with the sentiment that the Democrats aren't just anti-Trump.
We stand for something.
But that said, I don't think you run away from it.
If a guy says, I want Elon Musk's money, open your wallet, and I'll be a support network for Trump, that's a valid point to make.
Beyond that, Susan Crawford is really a highly independent individual with a superb reputation as a judge, and Schimel is essentially an apparatchik.
He's a troll.
He's a Republican troll.
When I was in law school, afterwards I clerked for Tom Fairchild, one of the great judges in Wisconsin history on the Seven Circuit Court of Appeals.
No judge back then of either party would have been partisan.
Now it's ultra-partisan.
You can't run away from it.
But what I think is going to turn it around is what Trump is doing, not just on foreign policy, but domestic policy, and especially social security.
He has this guy must saying it's a Ponzi scheme and firing everybody at social security to slow it down, make mistakes, and then ultimately privatize it.
So the guy that came to your door, your father's door, up in Shawnau, not right now, but at some point when he doesn't get a social security check, at some point,
He's not going to vote for Trump, and therefore, he's not going to vote for Brad Schimmel.
I don't
disagree with that, but don't you think—oh, I shouldn't say it that way.
I'll give you my opinion until you think.
I've been saying this since day one, that I think it would behoove supporters of Susan Crawford and the Democratic Party to spend money and make this about promoting the fact that Brad Schimmel
supports Donald Trump's pardoning of the January 6 insurrectionists, including those who attacked law enforcement officers, including this guy from Pulaski who used bear spray on law enforcement and admitted it.
because I think that the Evers Johnson voters, the Trump Baldwin voters, I think that that goes against what they believe, attacking law enforcement.
And I wish that there'd be more emphasis put on, look, you might have voted for Trump in November, but do you really want the guy who supports attacking law enforcement officers to be on the Wisconsin State Supreme Court?
I think a lot of people would say, no, that's not for me.
Maybe they wouldn't vote for Crawford, but maybe they'd stay home and not vote for Brad Schimel.
And look, I'm a guy who, you know, I want everybody to participate.
democracy and vote, but if I'm back in my role when I used to be a partisan operative, you want your people to turn out and the other people not to.
That's just about winning, baby, as Al Davis said.
In other words, don't just say Elon Musk and Trump or the people supporting Schimel.
Get down where the chickens can get.
As you once said and say.
Do you want somebody and you can say that Brad Schimmel supports anything you want that Trump did because he can't come out and say he doesn't.
He can't diss Trump.
So you say, yeah, he supports the people who beat Michael Fanone almost to death.
He supports people who bear sprayed people.
He supports people who went through to hang Mike Pence.
Is that who you want?
A guy that supports that?
And then what is Schimmel going to do?
No, no, I don't support any of that.
But I support Trump.
I like it.
I like exactly your strategy.
Quick call, Ollie from the Northwoods, 855-752-4842.
If it could be quick, Ollie, please go ahead.
I just would like to comment, make a comment about an email that I received from Jen from Principal Pact.
And I first off would like to thank her for the
wonderful laugh I had reading her email.
She said that we shouldn't support Crawford because she was a far-left lunatic, basically, and that you should vote for Brad Schimmel.
And I'm thinking I would have loved to just say, hey, Jen, Brad Schimmel has no principles.
How can you're packed?
support
him.
Right.
Appreciate it, Ollie.
Matt, we see a lot of this, of course, these PACs who would try to distort things.
And you really hit the nail in the head.
This kind of stuff is going on all over the place.
The people behind those emails are not just average people.
The people behind those emails have financial interests.
They have their hooks and Brad Schimmel.
Period, end of story.
They're trying to make it look like the average person.
They're not the average person.
Right.
Elon Musk doesn't give a damn about the average person.
8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2.
Let's go to Milwaukee, W-A-U-K, quickly.
Charles, you can make it quick, please.
30 seconds or less.
Let's go ahead.
Yep, Todd, I'm upset like you.
I watched that debate, and I was waiting, except for my wife.
I wish she would bring up about Brad Schimel.
saying that the January 6th rioters were treated bad.
I'm like you, that needs to be right at the top of her going after him.
You can't claim you backed the blue, but then you support these people that beat cops and tried to kill them
that day.
100% appreciated, Matt.
Yeah.
Minute left, Matt Flynn.
What's worse today, we're going to give you the first crack at it.
What's worse, morning people or night people.
I'm a morning person, by the way.
Remember, I used to do the morning show at Civic Media from six to eight.
I'd get up at 430.
With Zombers.
Yeah, with Mrs. Zombers.
Absolutely.
Those were the days, my friend.
I thought they'd never end.
However, having said that, the fact of the matter is, there's nothing like a sunrise.
Nothing like a sunrise.
Speaking of that, we'll go ahead, Zombers.
What are you going to
Yeah, agreed.
I mean, ironically, we were talking about El Salvador earlier because one of my favorite things in life to do is there's a little place on the Pacific coast in El Salvador called Costa del Sol and I went to a little place there and I make sure I get up before sunrise and I walk along the Pacific coastline and watch the sun come up and it's beautiful.
You see fishermen out there casting their nets.
I've run across sea turtles and and it's just it's magical.
And really in the sunrises are absolutely.
magical.
Matt Flynn quickly got a minute left.
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Where can people find it?
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It's gotten a lot of talk.
Bernie Weber, a math genius, breaks the Chinese code.
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We're eyes up to defend Bernie Weber.
You gotta read it.
It's great vacation reading.
China Code, get it wherever books are sold.
Matthew J. Flynn, always a pleasure.
Thanks, Matt.
We'll talk to you soon.
Good to talk to you.
Good to be here.
Back after this.
Hey, take a read.
for St.
Patrick's Day on the Pacific media radio, title of all along, Mr. Aaron Zommer is 21 past the hour of one o'clock.
You can, this music were playing this off of my one of my favorite Irish albums, direct from, these are real Irish guys called The High Kings.
This album is a self titled album.
The High Kings, The High Kings, they performed in Wisconsin and the last, they actually performed at the Barrymore in Madison a couple of years back.
And I kicked myself because I found out the day after the performance.
So hopefully the next time it's unfortunate.
I know I can I can go and see him there It's really a great album will play more of that as the as the day continues buddy.
Thanks to Matt Flynn For being on the program.
We always appreciate his perspective Jeff watching on YouTube my story earlier about watching the sunrise over the Pacific in El Salvador He says wait the sunrise is in the east over the Atlantic.
All right, you got me there All right, why Jeff you got me a
I guess if I'm accurate because El Salvador's coastline is you know curved it's not it's not straight and so as you walk down the coastline yes the sun is I guess coming up over the land but it looks like because of the curvature of the earth and the shoreline it appears there's coming up basically along the beach but yes you're technically correct last time I checked yes the sun rises in the east but
You know, you can't see the Atlantic side from El Salvador because they're the only country in Central America that does not have a Gulf Coast in the Gulf of Mexico, by the way, a Gulf Coast line or the Caribbean, depending upon where you're at.
I did not know that.
Now you do.
All right, 23 minutes past the hour.
What a clock time for a quick round of what's worse.
Let's
go.
It's again for a speed round of what's worse, nothing to give away, no prizes involved, but it is your chance to be heard across all 11 stations in the Civic Media radio network.
Coming up at the bottom of the hour, just after Terry Barr on St.
Patrick's Day, but right now what's worse, and this is timely, as we said, timely indeed, according to Mike Lucas, as he likes to say, because a lot of people on St.
Patrick's Domers will be out partying tonight, or they will not necessarily be.
Morning people.
But today's what's worse.
Morning people or night people.
Morning people or night people.
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It's free is what gale king at CBS calls a deal the civic media app was worse morning people or night people 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 Dave listening in New Berlin says I'm a morning person Although I must say night people get the best because if they are quote unquote super hard core night people
You get to see the sunset in the evening and the sunrise when the party is over.
That's a great point, Dave.
I did not think about
Right.
That
Yeah, pretty much, right?
8557524842.
What's worse, morning people or night people?
eight five five seven five two four eight four two.
I like for those watching on the stream on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, a lovely picture that CP has put for the morning person, an Irish looking man, kind of an Auburn beard with blue eyes.
And very relaxed fair skinned.
Yeah.
Looks like he could be a photograph for a like a beard oil.
That is what it looks like, isn't it?
And then the person that he says, a woman just looking completely disheveled and not happy as a night person.
I mean, I
here.
Maybe.
8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2.
Sherry, listening in beautiful Huracan, went to buy Huracan over the weekend.
Sherry, thanks for calling morning people or night people.
What's worse?
Good job.
Hi, Todd Merrin.
How are you guys doing?
Doing
great.
I love
your show.
Well, thank you.
I'm right now making shepherd's pie for St.
Paddington.
Excellent.
That's
awesome.
It's baking right now.
So I am definitely a morning person.
I wake up at like 6, 5, 4, 30.
Wow.
But I like, I rearrange my rooms so I can watch.
the moon and the stars at night through my window.
So I really like nighttime better than morning.
But I, unfortunately, you know, after years, you're getting up so early, your body just knows it's
trying to get
off.
And it's like, no, I want to think like three more hours, please.
I feel
that.
Which one I am.
I
feel that.
Well, thank you, Sherry.
Enjoy the jumpers pie and happy St.
Patrick's Day.
Appreciate your listenership.
All right.
Happy St.
Patrick's Day.
Bye-bye.
And to you as well.
Thank you so much.
855-752-4842-855-752-4842.
What's worse, morning people or night people?
We have Jane Inoclair saying, this is Jane Inoclair on WCFW.
The tap, I think that night people are worse, especially after drinking is involved.
Well, yes, late at night, those were five, absolutely.
Tyler listening in on Columbia County says, morning, people are worse, unless you're a wonderful snowplow driver.
If your vehicle makes loud noises at four a.m., it is the worst alarm clock.
Yeah, I had an apartment one time that my apartment was right below the underground parking garage door.
And so like the trash pickup people were not supposed to come until after eight.
But they would regularly come at like six o'clock in the morning and you hear the beep, beep, beep, you're backing up.
That is unfortunate.
Just like, well, eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two, eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two.
Do a little what's worse for you.
We'll see if we get one more call in here before the before the top of the hour.
Or probably the bottom of the hour eight five five seven five two four eight four two We have Sean listening in Watertown Sean morning people or night people what's worse?
Morning any particular reason?
Grumpy.
Grumpy.
I like that.
All right.
Very good.
Thank you, Sean, for listening.
Thanks for calling in.
Uh, I would say, uh, I would say more.
I don't know.
We'll ask Terry Barr.
We'll come back.
Talk about that with Terry Barr.
Also, St.
Patrick's Day after a quick news and sports update.
Don't go anywhere.
We're going to do some more celebrating St.
Patty's Day on the other side.
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Patrick's Day 34 minutes now
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More from the High Kings.
Well done, Mr. Zahmers.
You can find all this music at The High Kings on their album, self-entitled album, The High Kings.
Time now to turn our attention to the festive day.
You hear her every, at the top of every hour on this program.
You know her, you love her.
She is the voiceover artist extraordinaire, but she's so much more than that.
She is also the co-host of the great program, Max Inc Radio.
Every Saturday night here on the Civic Media Radio Network, an accomplished journalist and Emmy Award winner, the wonderful, the talented Terry Barr.
Terry, how the heck are you?
It's fantastic to have you here.
Before we get into Patrick's Day, I want to just put a button that we're doing on what's worse there before the break.
Today's what's worse, morning people or night people.
In your long and storied journalistic career, I know you've done both nights and mornings, but so in your opinion, what's worse, morning people or night people?
it
bed.
No, I think I agree with you.
I mean, I didn't do it regularly like you did, but back at WRCO on the weekends, I would sign on.
And, you know, back in those days, you know, you were actually off the air overnight.
And so you had to restart the transmitter and take the readings and get everything going and then sign on to the Star Spangled Banner at two minutes before five o'clock.
And then you were on CBS News anyway.
And I'm like, I mean, that's why I started drinking coffee.
back in high school when I was doing this shift, because you'd get there at four o'clock in the morning.
Because back in those days, Zomer's, we didn't have something called the Internet.
And so there was, I just missed the teletype machine, but there was the dot matrix printers, and it would print off rolls of the editing.
You actually have to tear your stories.
And it took me a while to read.
So I would, I would agree with you, morning people at worst.
Yeah.
All right.
And Zomer's, quickly, your vote on that.
Both morning and night people can be annoying if loud vehicles versus loud parties.
But for me, it's the condescending, the way they condescend.
For night people, the way they condescend is like, oh, you old man, you got to go to bed early.
And I'm like, OK, I'm going to sleep.
I don't have to worry about it.
For morning people, it's like, oh, you can't get up and be happy in the morning.
It's like, shut up.
I'm so tired.
Wow.
Yeah.
He's picking up on Matt Flynn.
It'll be Aaron Zombers direct.
No filter.
Terry, you do these great slice of Wisconsin stories that get broadcast on civic media.
I love each and every one of them, and you're bringing us today a great story, because I love taking national or international days and giving it a Wisconsin perspective.
Tell us what you found out in Wisconsin about St.
Patrick's Day.
And this is in northeast Wisconsin.
And then I found out they have a group there called the Shamrock Club.
Well, they do some shenanigans on St.
Patrick's Day.
And not just the day, the entire week is now considered an Irish festival celebration in New London.
But it all begins with something the group does.
on this day.
And I talked to Ryan Lanning.
He is the lead leprechaun of the Shamrock Club.
And here's what he tells me about what is happening there.
It started over 40 years ago and it's just been a tradition ever since that on the Monday of our St.
Patrick's week is we always have leprechaun day and the leprechauns are responsible for changing the population signs symbolically from New London to New Dublin and then they visit various schools and nursing homes and.
basically everywhere they can go, they go and visit everybody, get them excited and pumped up for the week and start getting things ready.
that.
Extremely excited.
You know, we bring smiles more than anything and we like to enlighten our community.
That's part of what we're about.
And truthfully, I think everybody looks forward to seeing us, seeing the green suits and all.
mischief and shenanigans that we like to pull.
There will be plenty of them to be had on Monday.
That's for sure.
It's just a great time for everybody.
sign off on
Solancia.
Solancia and that's Gaelic for health.
Usually if you're in an Irish pub and you order a drink, the bartender, you could you could toast your neighbor to say the word Solancia and that's how you would toast your your drink.
Just means to health.
Solancia.
All you ever wanted to know about New London becoming New Dublin and not just for today, but for the entire week.
Every single day, they have some different kind of Irish thing happening, whether it's today with the leprechauns changing the sign and wearing green, then they've got some other, you know, they play games, they have Celtic music, they teach dance lessons during this week.
So you can learn to do an Irish type of jig.
That's amazing.
I love it so much.
I've
learned so much of that piece, not least of which is Salon Chah, because I went to Irish pubs, I thought they were saying Salon Tro, and I'm like, well, not everybody is into that.
But
That was super cool.
And I think it's the stories you bring us around Wisconsin like this because...
And you've never been to New London.
It's a wonderful little place.
But they've done something creative that includes everybody and brings people together.
I love that.
They have a huge parade.
They are certain it is the biggest St.
Patrick's Day Irish parade in the state, even bigger than Milwaukee.
is big.
And that is how this whole week ends on Saturday afternoon down the middle of New London.
They've got close to 200 units.
And that does not even include all the Irish bands and types of music that will be in this parade.
And it just gets bigger every single year.
And as you heard them say, they've been doing this 40 years.
So they have definitely put New London, New Dublin on the map when it comes to this holiday.
That's what happens all week.
of the parade culminates on this coming Saturday then?
Yes.
That's awesome.
So people that listening around the state, hey, if you want a little weekend and get away, get in the vehicle and head over to New London or this week, New Dublin and and check it out, right?
What I also learned from Ryan, and I didn't realize this, you know, when you go to New London, if you don't on purpose drive into the city, the way they have the highway routed now, you go around.
They have had road construction for a really long time downtown.
So it's done now and they are thrilled because the parade is back on the main street, the regular route that it's been on all these other years, except for in the
the last year because of all the road construction.
So their theme for St.
Patrick's Day is All Roads Open to New Dublin.
I love that.
That's awesome.
That's great.
Yeah.
Now, when we have breaking news here, Terry Barr, John or probably Robert watching on YouTube says, I love Terry.
She is an amazing person who grew up in Sean O County.
Now, I'm not sure that I've no, I just spent the weekend in Seanal because that's where my dad and stepmom live.
I'm not sure I knew that about you.
I've heard of it, yes, yes.
Yes, it's right off of Highway 29 between Green Bay and Wasaw, basically in the middle.
I went to high school in Marion, which is outside of Plutonville.
And my mom actually grew up in Shawno.
So we still have a lot of relatives and friends that live in the Shawno area.
And so did you have you been to this parade, having family and stuff from there?
Have you spent time in New London, that new Dublin at this event before?
In fact, back in the day when I was working in Green Bay, in television at Green Bay, we covered this parade because it was part of our viewing area.
And then even longer ago than that, when I was a little kid, we would go for fun because my mom loves a good parade.
And I can vouch for this one.
It's fun.
It's big.
That's so, I mean, how cool is it a place that, you know, an area that you grew up in and now you can, you covered it in your journalistic career?
because there's
always... It's so much fun to talk to these people too when you find out, oh, you know, he was dressed as a leprechaun when I interviewed him for this story.
And he had a little green tie on, but he's not Irish.
But again, as he said, for something like this, everybody's Irish for the week, not just for the day.
Right?
I mean, everybody, I mean, you know, kiss me if I'm Irish, just kiss people.
I mean, get permission first, but I mean, you know.
We don't want to
promote an
assault, but if you say, hey, can I kiss you?
Am I rich?
I mean, hey, what is that?
And if you have a little, you know, this is the non-alcoholic green beverage.
If you have a couple of beverages in, I'm sure there's green beer in your dumpling this week, isn't there?
Oh,
Well, and you did a slice of Wisconsin on the American Birkabiner.
Hey word, we've been there last couple of years covering that.
And what I'm struck by because they had actual legitimate snow this year, they could have the finish line
downtown.
It's a completely different vibe versus the year before they had to do it up on cable around the little loop in the woods.
But I mean, I'm just struck by how many small downtown businesses and Hey word.
I mean, this is a make or break week for them during the Birkenbeiner.
Is it similar with with the new new London slash new Dublin Irish Fest?
I mean, do these small businesses and organizations have a lot of fundraisers?
This is the big one for the year.
And if you consider also that they had all that road construction that really messed up the last year, they are counting on success this year.
And I think they've gone out of their way to make.
each and every day extra special.
So people will find a reason to come out and spend their money and hang out in the town and go to some of the local bars and the restaurants.
And, you know, even the shops on the main drag are super cool.
What a great way to just go and find maybe some treasures or something new that you have not seen or been a part of before.
A
couple of minutes left before we have to say goodbye, Terry.
In all of your travels and your great career,
covering stories like this, what are one or two of the takeaways that you find this common amongst Wisconsin with all these great festivals?
And even Ryan talking to him about New London and New Dublin, he's been part of this particular festival for 10 years.
And when he spoke with me about it, we did the interview by Zoom so I could see him.
You could just see the pride when he talked about what this does to bring not just the people in that city together, but to bring others in to show off their city, to show off their community.
And I feel I see that in so many of the places or the people we talk to about their festivals or about what makes their area special.
We all have our own little hometown pride.
And I know when you were in Hayward, I was watching you on YouTube.
And during your show, everybody you talk to, again, there's that pride.
And they are so thrilled to be able to tell others about it.
Yeah, I couldn't agree more.
And in a time of divisiveness and our politics and other things, I think it makes these festivals even more important because it brings people together.
And we don't ask people who they voted for during at least for a couple of hours while we watch a parade and have a corned beef sandwich, right?
All right.
Just vote for happiness in Wisconsin, right?
Anything I didn't ask a Terry that people should know?
If you need more information, all you have to do is look up the shamrockclub.com in New London.
They have all the schedules laid out.
They have a map for where the parade will be going because they don't want people to go to what happened last year.
They're back on the main drag.
Just come and have fun.
That's all they want everyone to do.
She's always fun, wonderful.
Terry Barr, thank you so very much for bringing us a slice of Wisconsin.
Happy St.
friend.
Thank you.
All right, thank you.
Back after this.
Let's talk a little NCAA tournament, wrap things up on Civic Media.
Of all the money that I had, I spent it in good company.
And all the harm I've ever done.
Alas, it was to none but
me.
It is now nine before the hour of one o'clock.
Aaron Zommer is on the St.
Patrick's Day along with you as well.
That is, the High Kings will play most of that song on the way out today.
Kind of becoming a St.
Patrick's Day tradition, I guess, after three years.
So two years of St.
Patrick's Day, three years.
It's gonna be three years in November.
Yes, that's right.
So yeah, we'll play that.
It's a great song.
I know my former boss, Dale Schultz, is one of his favorite songs.
So we'll play that on the way out.
Many thanks to Terry for coming on, and Terry Barr for coming on the show, talking about this great festival in New London, New Dublin.
Kimber, listening on WRCE in Richland Center.
Kimber for Muscatty says, fabulous, this new Dublin festival is now on my bucket list.
Excellent.
Yeah.
And of course there's a great Morale festival, Morale Mushroom Festival in Muscatty.
So you can, you know, people in New London, you go to Muscatty and people in Muscatty go to New London or New Dublin.
DJ in Wausau, listening on WXCO says, I feel like there hasn't been enough discussion about corn, beef and cabbage today.
The cabbage is the gift that keeps on giving all night long.
DJ in the saw, the saw.
That's a great point.
DJ I think it has to do with the amount of fermentation because you're right.
I mean if I if you have cabbage like that I It we had this is our what's worse last week the the gassy part but or the burping part But like we also talked last week about cortido, which is a Salvadoran Fermented cabbage that goes with a papusa.
I think that the fermentation with vinegar basically is vinegar and hot water and you let that sit for
For me, that takes out the problem with the gas on the cabbage.
And I think that with corned beef and cabbage, I don't think there's a lot of fermentation there.
So, but you're right.
You're right.
Hopefully everybody is enjoying their their corned beef and cabbage today.
I want to clean up the show here at the end with a couple of things we talked about on the front end.
The Wisconsin Badgers came up four points short.
yesterday afternoon in Indianapolis in the championship game of the Big 10 Men's Basketball Tournament, losing to Michigan.
They had a great run, a great week.
They had four games in four days.
They knocked off number one seated Michigan State on Saturday.
And I think that game just took so much out of them.
Both teams were gassed.
Not the burpee kind of gas, but just like energy-wise.
It was like 28 to 25 or something like that at halftime.
But at the end of the day, I think Wisconsin missed their last eight or nine shots in the last couple of minutes, and Michigan State, or pardon me, Michigan went on to win that.
The Badgers then later on, about an hour later in the selection show on CBS, felt a lot different, by the way, without Greg Gumbel on this year's show.
Wisconsin is a three seed in the NCAA tournament.
A lot of people thought, including me, they would end up in Milwaukee, one of the regional host sites.
But no, Iowa State got that.
Iowa State.
You know anybody who went to Iowa State summers?
I feel like you're about to tell me that I do.
They have a great architectural program from what I know.
But how Iowa State, they didn't even make it to the championship game in the big 12 tournament.
And yet they get the better
a place to play in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has to get out of the plane and fly out to Denver, where they will take on on Thursday afternoon.
That's another thing where the selection committee kind of snubbed Wisconsin instead of giving them a Friday game.
Badgers have a quick turnaround, have to play on Thursday afternoon starting at 12 30.
You can hear the pregame show generally is the hour before.
It may be a half an hour for a tournament game.
I'm not sure we'll wait to hear about that tomorrow.
But in any case, our show will be preempted on Thursday on select stations in Richland Center, Avery and Wisconsin Rapids.
If you'd rather listen to the game on Thursday, no offense taken.
Believe me, I'll we'll give you updates on this side of the dial.
Wisconsin taking on the Grizzlies of Montana at 12 30.
I believe the game is televised on TNT.
and broadcast for free right here on the Civic Media Ready Network, also available on the Civic Media app, so please be listening to that.
Should be a great game.
In today's BadgerExtra.com, Greg Gard had said, quote, Greg Gard had no noticeable steam coming out of his ears.
In fact, the UW men's basketball coach was a picture of positivity.
As he addressed reporters on Sunday night in the hallways of the bowels of Game Bridge Fieldhouse, Guard could have come out guns blazing after the Badger's path the NCAA tournament was revealed instead he took a pragmatic approach.
Those who follow these types of things inside the Wisconsin program were supremely confident the Badger would be given the three seed and the spot in Milwaukee.
Well, Wisconsin got the three, but the Badgers 26 and nine on the year so far ended up below Iowa State and Kentucky on the overall seed list and were sent instead to Denver.
Guard said, quote, you just go wherever they send you.
I don't know what goes on in those rooms and their logic or reasoning.
There's a lot of other moving parts to it.
So obviously a really good seed is a three and that's a credit to our guys.
and the 26 wins that they put together.
And obviously, as I've always said, the bad teams are all on spring break.
That's pretty good.
So we'll see.
We'll see what happens at the end there for Wisconsin.
But again, that's coming up on Thursday.
We're going to go out just a little bit early here.
as we do on St.
Patrick's Day.
This is the High Kings.
Todd Albaul saying whatever you're fighting for, whatever you believe in, keep banging your drum.
But today we defer a little Irish goodbye for you on the Todd Albaul show on Civic Media.
Maggie Dawn is next.
Have a great St.
Patrick's Day.