Live from the Civic Media World Headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, it's the Todd Alba Show.
And now, pursuing truth wherever it may lead, here's your host, Todd Alba.
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Good afternoon, everybody.
Todd Alba, along with Mr. Aaron Zommers, our producer and engineer on the board.
It is six past the hour of three o'clock.
Welcome into hour number two of the big program.
It is Wednesday, May 7th, 2025.
It's a great day to be in Wisconsinite, and it is pump day.
There you go.
Made it to the middle of the week.
The camel is still with us, even in the new time slot.
Glad to have you along.
Many thanks to Pat Crite Low for being here in hour number one along with Trig V. Olson.
And Mr. Olson, Senior Advisor of the Lincoln Project, has agreed to stick around for a little fun and games here in hour two.
A little bit later, I want to bring you an update on the old Trump meme coin.
Remember the Trump meme coin that launched in January?
Well, unfortunately, yes.
Yes, we have an update on that.
We'll talk about that a little bit later on.
And what's worse, regarding mammals and reptiles.
So we'll talk about that in a minute.
But Trigvie joined us for hour two here for a little while.
We appreciate you sticking around.
I did want to get to it all seriousness because, you know, for those that don't know, not only is Trigvie a native of Wisconsin, like myself, not only is a former Republican,
like myself.
He is now the senior advisor at the Lincoln Project after leaving said party.
But more importantly, he is an owner of the Green Bay Packers.
So what do you think of the draft?
Wisconsin.
What do you think of the draft by all accounts locally?
It went well, big, big crowds like.
depending upon who you listen to, either the second or third largest since they started taking the draft on the road.
But we can talk about that for a second, reflections on that, but also the actual picks by Green Bay.
who the
the advertising
all
Wow.
Think
That's really cool.
It was cool.
Um, yeah, I mean, the draft, if you're asking me about what the Packers did in the draft, honestly, like, here's the thing.
I don't quite understand what Gudekunst was doing to receivers.
Like, huh?
But I trust the guys.
So clearly after he duped, honestly, after he duped those New York City slickers on the Aaron Rogers thing and kind of the Oakland, those Vegas people over Devonte Adams, like.
Who am I to suggest that he doesn't know what he's doing?
But I didn't really get it.
And then the offensive tackle.
I don't like some defense, but whatever.
I
mean,
I'm not going to be like Peter Underscore Bukowski or one of these talking heads.
I like Peter Underscore Bukowski.
So I shouldn't be bagging on him.
But Locked On Packers, good listen as a podcast.
But yeah, I don't know.
I mean, this receiver they got.
Some people say he's good, some people say he doesn't.
This is the thing that drives me nuts about the NFL draft though, Todd.
Have you ever noticed if you're listening to Mel Kuiper or these guys, every guy who gets drafted, they should just put a bust of them in the hall of fame.
Well, that's the perfect pick for, you know, the thing is everybody knows it's bunk because half of these guys don't pan out.
Right.
I could only take Mel for a while.
I switched it over and listened to the college game day guys on ABC's feed.
And they had Nick Saban on.
And what I like about Nick Saban is he still keeps it pretty real.
And he was basically calling out his own network, Disney, ABC, ESPN.
Like, why are we making such a big deal out of Shakur Sanders?
The guy's going to get picked.
He'll get picked.
What he needs to be quit making this about him.
And I love that about him.
to
I'm going to give the Bears a little bit of love here, which I can't believe I'm going to do.
It had what the Bears got in return.
It was like six guys, Caleb Williams, another first round pick.
like the bears absolutely fleeced them.
But if you'd have listened to that draft and I remember doing it, Mel Kuiper and everybody's like, oh, Bryce Young's gonna be, this is a brilliant move, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
The truth of the matter is I read this study one time, because sometimes I delve into like academic.
stuff.
Some academics published a paper about draft picks.
Do you know what the best strategy is for the NFL draft?
Trade down and get as many picks as possible,
because
more
I just kept thinking about if you're Brett Farr of down to retirement, Mississippi, or if you're Aaron Rodgers, Ohio OASCA ceremony in South America, you're thinking, why didn't they pick receivers when I was the quarterback?
Yes, in the dark.
Yeah,
No, I did not kill.
Did you go see farf?
Yes, we did.
Oh my
but
It killed Mississippi.
It's like going to Beldenville Seriously, it's Beldenville on the on the Delta, you know, Beldenville.
You ever been to Beldenville?
I don't think I have no.
No, have you ever been to Beldenville?
Beldenville.
It's just it's between Ellsworth and.
No.
Yeah, Beldenville.
It's between Ellsworth and Prescott.
It's like, yeah.
I mean, the
they
No big deal.
All right.
It's 13 past the hour of three o'clock.
Time once again for what's worse.
Let's go.
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All right, Trigby, timely, timely indeed.
on what's worse today because this is the time of year where people are getting their gardens, they're back outside, and you have things coming out of hibernation.
They're slithering, they're walking around, and I mean, my grandparents were dairy farmers, spent a lot of time in the country growing up.
The category today, what's worse?
Snakes or skunks.
Snakes or skunks.
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Trig V. Olsen, I ask you, snakes or skunks, what's worse?
Very
one.
It's our own show.
There's no civic department involved.
It's just well
or
That is very broad.
A rattlesnake, a
or rats.
Why do they have to be snakes?
Zombers is on that.
Zombers.
Really?
And
So what's worse?
I'm going to go with snakes.
Snakes or rats, eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two.
Eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two.
Let's go to the phone lines.
Tom in beautiful McFarland, listening on WMDX.
Tom, snakes or skunks?
What's worse?
Oh, this is a no-brainer for me skunks.
We have two hunting dogs.
One is older and the other one was still not a puppy anymore.
Well, the oldest, they learn really quick about how bad skunks are.
They learn the hard way.
That is just a pain for a dog owner.
That is just a pain.
The youngest puppy though, they're out in the field and doing their thing.
And the puppy runs into a skunk.
And the older dog, he just hightails it out of there.
And the skunk and the other puppy is wondering, I wonder why my brother left, and then bam, that dang.
Definitely
skunk, wingward.
I feel that, Tom.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate it.
Yeah, I've known a couple of dogs that got sprayed.
My grandma always said tomato juice.
Yeah, I've heard
dog the bath double the tomato juice helps take it out What's worse snakes or skunks 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 Tony on YouTube says skunks Every time I see a snake it slithers away when I see a skunk it sprained my dog So see Tony had the same problem.
That's you ever have a dog
my
You
We could go in the
How long did you get to smell out of
I mean, you're going to church and you're in your Sunday go to meet and close and you smell like skunk when you walk in church.
Yeah, I can't but wow that I mean I can one of us.
Wow, that's bad Brian in Milwaukee listening on the UK says snakes are worse the Skunks you can easily see the snakes can hide in the grass and scare the daylights out of you and strike bite in the butt
Alright, thank you Brian Matt
what
right Matt Middleton on WMDX says snakes are much worse as snakes don't want to be bothered by you or be near you as skunks don't seem to care if they smell awful running a
Uh, into their funk clouds, driving, drives you yuck.
All right, very good.
Cary and Tosa listening on WMDXS skunks are worse.
I was sprayed as a kid.
It was awful.
Oh, all we had was ketchup and it worked.
Kind of.
Oh, that's no fun at all.
Disgusting.
All right.
Are you out of here trick me or?
and she's staying for the other side.
I want to go
All right, come on back we'll finish up what's worse and truck talk Trump meme coins after this
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Civic media radio network 22 past the hour of three o'clock here on a Wednesday, May 7th.
Nicely done, Zombers.
Well, who is it?
Where is that from?
A cab Callaway.
Wow, oldie, but a goodie there.
Pretty old one.
We're doing right in the middle.
What's worse today?
Today's category as spring is on us, things are coming out of hibernation.
Snakes or skunks?
Snakes or skunks 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8.
4-2, Zomers, Cam and Appleton.
What do you got?
That's pretty good.
That's pretty good.
I enjoy that.
That was good.
Well done, Cam.
Well done.
Tony says, I guess we already did that on YouTube there.
We're caught
We're caught up.
All right, if you have another Entry you'd like to put in sorry I got tongue time for a second what's worse snakes or skunks 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 or give us a text for me.
I think that I Think I gotta say snakes because I agree with some of the other people that said he usually you can see a skunk
quick enough to get out of his way and whatever where you could kind of come upon the snake.
And most of them, Wisconsin are not poisonous, but to Trigvie's point, if you're a long water or whatever, it might be a rattler.
But I would say I, I like, I mean skunks are kind of fun to watch from afar.
And I always take a peppy of the pew when I see a skunk, the skunk of an ove.
Love is
Zara skunks or snakes what's worse?
I'm gonna have to say skunks because I I feel like like you mentioned in Wisconsin There are not a lot of snakes that'll do anything, but put a couple of little nubs in you give you a little bite and Skunks I've never been sprayed by a skunk and I hope to keep it that way because just driving past one is more than enough for me
And I feel like snakes are easy enough to deal with if you just leave them alone.
Yeah.
Now, let's go out with a little dead skunk in the middle of the road.
What are the great songs of all time at the end of this segment?
Because that's one of the worst things.
By the way, Ann, in Chippewa Falls, listening to WCFW, the tap of a beautiful Chippewa Falls, not too far from where Trigby grew up, he went to school in Eau Claire, of course, says skunks are worse.
Well, it says skinks are worse.
I don't know if that's a typo or not.
That is
Skinks are a lizard?
Yeah.
Like your one nut a gecko?
Trigby, you know that story, don't you?
No.
Domers is a one nut a gecko.
And his name is Simon.
And...
They did not take very good care of him.
And they let his poop in his cage.
And eventually I noticed that he didn't seem to be doing too hot.
And it looked like a turd dangling out.
Long story short, turns out it was a hemipene, which is a lizard equivalent of a nut that got cut off and necrotic tissue.
So it turns out.
It was actually pretty cheap to bring him to the vet and get that amputated.
So he's fine and nice and healthy and a little more relaxed now.
I can't believe I brought that up again.
But I every he's been a long time since he told that again.
That's one of the best stories ever in the in the nearly three years now of this program.
Still this day, the first time you told that, I literally had tears.
Yes,
Isn't that great drink God?
Because most people just throw him in the trash or something like that, but no yeah Zomers took him and got him properly Spaded
Fixed fixed.
Yeah Let's see Al Al in Madison listening on WM DX says back in my younger days at Devils Lake beautiful park by the way where our state parks there was a rattlesnake
Hiding in a pile of rocks that I came upon.
I've never heard the warning in real life I was wondering what that noise was.
I looked down and there was a kind of camouflaged and I backed up pretty fast.
I bet you did out.
Yeah, that's nothing to uh Rattle snakes, you know, I don't you don't want to get too close to those.
That's for sure.
he just stay away.
All right.
The kind
So have we all given our what's worse?
Yes.
I think we've got around the horn.
All right.
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