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Good afternoon everybody town Alma along mr. Aaron Zomers on the board It is six minutes past the hour of two o'clock on this Monday back to work and back to school September 29th 2025 It is a great day to be a Wisconsinite glad to have you along for the old world headquarters downtown Madison the intersection of state and Fairchild Zomers beautiful day out there absolutely
God leaves turning a little warm.
I know a little warm for people like you other folks.
But, but believe me, come February, people will be saying, oh, if I could only go back to that really warm day back in late September.
So get out there, enjoy a pretty low stay in the warm weather is going to last through the week.
Then come this weekend, maybe some rain and cooler temp or just seasonal, I guess is what you say fall like maybe by by the weekend, but get out and enjoy the week.
Be happy about it.
Spend some time.
Get some vitamin D. Absolutely.
Get some vitamin D. Big show for you today.
Glad you are along here at the start of this work week because at the bottom of the hour, I'm very excited about this, our friend, our colleague.
And I do not use the word legend lightly or often, but.
Wisconsin Broadcasting Legend, Jane McNair, is going to be here at the bottom of the hour.
Of course, she hosts her own program, McNair on air with her friend Greg Bach.
So Jane McNair, who you can hear every day from 9 until 11 across most of these news channels.
Sadly, not here in Madison, but that's the great thing about having Jane on today is we get to have her on here in Madison and you can download the Civic Media app and you could always listen to Jane on the old
Yeah, so if you want if you like your news straight and God knows you're not gonna get that for me No, if you want I love a lot of things about Jane, but one of the things I like is she's been around long enough where she just doesn't
care what anybody thinks of her and she's gonna give it to you straight, she's gonna give it to you honestly and she's probably gonna make us laugh along the way.
And I love that about her.
She's seen some stuff.
And no one's worked with more people and broadcasting.
No one's interviewed bigger names in this state over the years than Jay and Matt Nair.
And we thought, well, this'll be great.
This fall, we'll bring her on for a recurring segment on Mondays.
We're calling, at least for now, the working title is Mondays with Matt Nair.
Maybe it works.
Maybe it works.
If she's got something else, we'll...
But she, uh, she went over to Europe for a couple of weeks as she does every year.
And so I thought it'd be fun to talk with someone who I've never been to Europe.
Have you been to Europe?
I have.
I went to England once.
Yeah.
Once.
All right.
Very good.
I have never been.
And so there was something, the Writers' Cup, a big golf thing, which, you know, whatever.
It's a contest between
European players and United States players, and it was in the U.S.
over this weekend.
And the European beat the Americans.
The most interesting part about this was not the golf, but how the fans treated the European players.
And so I thought, well, let's check in with our friend Jane McNair, somebody who spends, you know, at least regular time in Europe.
What do Europeans think of us Americans these days?
not sure
We'll talk about that with Jay.
Also, if you listen, if you didn't listen to the program, go back and listen on the old podcast.
But it's National Coffee Day today.
And they had a great conversation.
It was a little talk coffee with Jay as well.
I got my brand new Wonder State t-shirt today.
Whatever.
I got a little coffee before the show got here early.
And so I got, I like this shirt.
is very nice.
Thank
have a pocket.
So anyway, Jane coming up at the bottom of the hour, and then hour number two, another edition of What's Worse, Glasses or Contacts.
We'll talk to you about that.
Take your calls as well.
And it's our final week of the Civic Media's Green and Gold.
Text to win multi-state contest will give you the word in our number two our number two So so stay tuned for that.
All right.
There's news to get to there's gubernatorial news got a new candidate in Missy Hughes gonna talk about her listen to her first minute of her campaign ad here in a minute, but the big news People are talking about today.
Did you watch did you stay up for the Packer game last night?
did I
was something
So the Micah Parsons the great defensive player as Mike Clemens has been on this show talking about Jerry Jones the owner of the Cowboys Traded him away to Green Bay.
We sent Kenny Clark down there And the thought was the Packers really go in there and clean house Packers have never lost
To the Cowboys in their new Jerry world AT&T stadium,
true They won the one that won the Super Bowl that they're over over Pittsburgh and they've beaten Dallas every game and as armor said they still have not lost Yeah to Dallas But now we have tied and this is this is a be in my bonnet on on this stuff because it's one of the reasons that I
I've come around on soccer or as I say football I Understand a beautiful game takes a lot of skill notice beat about that, but one of the things I hate about soccer is ties because I if If I'm going to play anything and you know, I'm not I'm not a huge athlete But I'm gonna play you know you want to try your best or at the end somebody's gonna win somebody's gonna lose that's why life is
If I'm going to invest time in something, you know what?
Either my team's going to win or we're going to lose.
But you get to the end of that thing.
It's a 40-40 tie.
As the old saying goes, it's like kissing your sister.
Not because you're going to, like, mouth kiss your sister.
The same comes from, you know, if you have a sister like I do, you see her, you give her a hug, maybe a kiss on the cheek or the forehead.
You know, and you don't get the same satisfaction as they say from a romantic partner because it's your sister, right?
So you kiss, but you know, it doesn't really do it.
It doesn't really do anything as hopefully it shouldn't for you romantically.
And so that's the phrase comes from, you know, Ty, it's like kissing.
It doesn't really do anything for you.
You invest all that time, doesn't do anything.
You want some kind of conclusive result.
That's a good way to put it more succinctly.
And there was none of that last night.
The Green Bay defense, it was like a, a greater or something.
I don't know, at holds and he just, just couldn't stop Dallas.
Micah Parsons did save a touchdown.
Dak Prescott in one of the over, in the overtime almost got into the end zone.
Micah Parsons got credited for the sack and Dallas had to kick the field goal, which they did.
the Packers had time went down bad time management in my opinion and Then the Packers try to win it as the clock expires Jerry Jones is gonna fire the clock operator in Dallas because they left it second on Which allowed the Packers to save face kick the field goal and get the tie on ESPN, Wisconsin last night Mark Tauser former Badger player former Packer player now the
color analyst on the Badger football radio network with Matt LePay.
Here's what Mark Tauger said as a former player on ESPN Wisconsin last night.
I told you last weekend after the Cleveland game, no sweat, not worried a bit.
I'm worried more than a bit.
This defense that I thought was going to lead the team and be a cause of problems, I did not.
For any time think that the Dallas Cowboys would score 40 and by the way if the clock would have been another 10 minutes They just scored 48 It's a hundred
percent right Mark Taussier on ESPN, Wisconsin He's absolutely right.
You could not stop the Cowboys last night and Look, I love my Packers But as a fan, I'll be interested to talk to my Clemens a great sports reporter who was there
who follows this team like nobody else and get his take on this because boy, uh, special teams look terrible last night for the Packers.
Uh, defense look bad.
Apparently reports are today that, uh, Micah Parsons apologized to quarterback love last night.
Uh, say that the defense didn't do their job.
I
It was a, I mean, if you're just, if you didn't care who won, I mean, uh, it was on NBC last night and Mike Tarrico and Chris Collins were like, and they're doing the Super Bowl this year.
They're like, we hope we get a Super Bowl like this.
Cause it was, you know, lots of, lots of scoring back and forth, tight game over time.
And if you're wondering why it went to a tie, they changed it this year.
Cause it used to be in the NFL.
If the regular game ended in a tie,
You went to sudden death overtime and the first team to score wins.
Well, okay, that's not particularly right.
And so now they went to this where it's a 10 minute overtime in the NFL.
Both teams are assured of getting a possession, but then if it ends in a tie at the end of 10 minutes, it's just a tie.
What why not do with the college basket or college football does now?
Which is you go into a second overtime both teams get possessions if it's still a tie Then you go into another overtime where on if you score a touchdown You have to go for the two-point conversion And you go and you just keep going until somebody doesn't get that there's been four or five over times in college football But you have a winner at the end
I I think it's weird, but Anyway, hope the pack.
I'm not saying the season's over.
I'm not one of those people I think the Packers can still salvage the season, but as just as Tauger said as a guy who played the game at College and pro it for the Packers if Tauger is worried I'm worried on a better note
How about the Brewers?
Tough few days, but came back.
You got a win.
Final game of the season.
97 wins.
A record-setting win for the regular season.
Best team in franchise history for the regular season.
Here's what coach Pat Manager Pat Murphy had to say after the game.
You know, I'm glad that this team gets to be remembered differently.
You know, I'm not into records necessarily, but it's a way for the 2025 to be recognized differently.
Trevor McGill, back after injury, got a couple of innings of the mound as well to tune up for the postseason.
Here's McGill after the game.
I mean, that's just huge being in a game and just kind of feeling what it feels like to be out there and eventually also having some success too.
So.
Great feeling.
Trevor McGill, after the Brewers victory on Sunday yesterday, they're off now until Saturday.
The first game of the National League Divisional Series will be an AMFAM field on Saturday.
Home field advantage for the crew throughout the playoffs.
They will face the winner of the San Diego Cubs wild card series.
Wow.
That's going to be interesting.
Well, we'll come back.
Maybe who do you want to face?
I'm not sure.
I'm not either.
And also talk about a new gubernatorial candidate on the Democratic side.
We will hear from her campaign video after this.
Don't go anywhere.
Jane McNair will be here to save the show at the bottom of the hour.
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Welcome back to the title ball show on the civic media ready to work.
Twenty two now past the hour of two o'clock this Monday, September 29th, hours on the board.
Glad to have you along.
Jane McNair is going to join us at the bottom just after the bottom of the hour.
Mondays with Matt and air.
Our new segment could not be happier about that breaking news just in since we are talking to talking about sports here.
Wisconsin football has.
Just put out the game.
I'm going to a trig v. Olson Badger football game on October 11th against Iowa Night game 6 p.m.
So that'll be a lady.
I will also be there.
Are you going to that's right?
Yeah, he invited me as well.
Well, make sure you get a nap in summer 6 p.m.
It's night game on FS one or across many of our stations on the Badger
radio football network.
Cleaning up a little bit, just final thoughts of the Packers here.
Let's go to the phone lines, 855-752-4842.
Dick, listening on WMDX in Madison.
Dick, did you watch the game last night?
What are your thoughts?
I kind of had the same feelings, but here's what I always put in perspective with the NFL now.
17 game season, right?
Right.
Return with me now.
I don't think you get any trends until about halfway.
to win Mike Holmgren left for Seattle.
You know how he started out the first season in Seattle?
Not well, but it refreshes.
No, ain't no.
Oh, did he really?
He
missed the playoffs.
Really?
I forgot
that.
And he lost out and didn't make the playoffs.
Yeah.
So you can be hotter in a firecracker to start the season then.
That's a great
point.
I said, I'm proud of the box eight and all in a
16
game schedule and didn't make the playoffs or crying out loud.
No, I appreciate that reality check.
That's a really good one, Dick.
And what year was it?
The Packers start, what was it?
Oh, and two or Oh, and three when, when Roger's head is relaxed, Ari
Elliott.
Yeah.
Correct.
I mean, it's so many things can happen.
And the other thing that I don't like about this real long season is in some ways, I think that basically.
The team that stumbles to the finish with the most healthy players, not necessarily the best team wins the thing.
I think that's fair, too.
I think that's really fair.
Quickly, agree or disagree.
I think, again, not so much the loss last night, but similar to the Badgers, right?
Like, it was how the, the fact that the defense couldn't stop Dallas to Taujer's point.
If there had been another overtime, Dallas probably wouldn't have scored another touchdown.
The special teams play.
That's the stuff that bothers me about the Packers.
Yeah, it's a big fall off.
And especially the way they start the season, you know, after the first two games, right?
It was all the talk.
We're going to we're in the Super Bowl.
And all of a sudden it's this, but just remember that eight and I'll start from great.
Yeah.
Great reality check, Dick.
Really appreciate that.
Thank you so much.
See, that's why you got to have listeners like Dick who say, don't don't overreact, Todd.
It's early.
It's early.
I could be a little emotional.
I'll admit that.
8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2, if you want to check in quickly here.
We have Charles, our great listener, Charles down in Milwaukee, NWA UK.
Quickly, Charles, what do you got for us?
I think the defense was too hype.
I think they were too hyped.
I
think they probably figured there was going to be a cake walk.
They saw what Chicago did to Dallas, and they figured, well, we're better than Chicago.
Right.
So I do, I think the whole hype
around Parsons going back to play against the Cowboys.
And I just think they were overly high.
I think sometimes you can be too prepared.
And I just think they were too prepared and too hyped.
I think it's a great point, Charles, because I think they wanted to win this so badly for Micah Parsons.
They played head games.
That's a great perspective.
Appreciate it, Charles.
Up against the clock.
Want to get this in before we go to the farm news.
A new candidate for governor, former Wiedic secretary and CEO, Missy Hughes, today formally launched her campaign for governor, billing herself as a Democrat who understands the economy, quote unquote.
As we have done with everyone else who's released it, here is the first minute or so of the campaign launch video for Missy Hughes.
I'm Missy Hughes.
There are a few things you need to know about me.
Missy's a Democrat who understands the economy.
She spent years growing Wisconsin businesses.
And worked to strengthen main streets across Wisconsin.
The biggest thing?
I'm running for governor.
Let me tell you why.
I spent 17 years as a dairy industry executive growing Organic Valley to a billion dollars in sales and keeping Wisconsin family farmers on their land.
Then Governor Evers appointed me to lead our state's Economic Development Agency, where I worked with major companies to create thousands of jobs here and helped over 9,500 Wisconsinites start small businesses on Main Street in every single county.
Wisconsin's magic is its people.
But right now, even with hard work, it's hard to get ahead.
As governor, I'll create a Main Street economy that includes you and works for you.
where we strengthen our main streets.
Make sure Wisconsinites have higher wages and housing they can afford.
Our families have childcare and health care that doesn't break the bank.
And our public schools prepare our kids for the future.
That is the first minute or so of the campaign launch video of Missy Hughes, former Wienic Secretary and CEO who launched her bid on the Democratic side for governor's day.
Interesting, very hard-hitting rock.
driving music in that and wearing a black leather jacket.
here.
That's a good point.
It does.
It does get it done today at home.
It does have that vibe, doesn't it?
Just as close to it.
Very close to it.
That's a really, that's a really interesting take.
Look, I certainly qualified.
I had no idea that she had been that involved with one of my favorite Wisconsin companies, Organic Valley.
And maybe that's the biggest obstacle right when Luke Mathers told me last week Missy Hughes is probably gonna get in I said who I really did and I'm somebody who follows this stuff I think that this is a great example.
I think Democrats tend to not Toot their own horn so to speak well enough
and they haven't gotten any successes out there.
We'd love to have Missy Hughes on like we have other candidates.
Every candidate for governor, welcome to come on this program, give you 15 minutes like we've given everybody else, but if she can raise the money and get the message out, I think she could be a formidable candidate.
A formidable broadcaster, the one, the only, Jane McNair here, live with us on Mondays with McNair next on the Civic Media, ready to go.
Welcome back to the time of all show on the civic media radio network 35 an hour past the hour of two o'clock on a Monday September 29th, 2025 I've been looking forward to this for a long time and because of my inability to organize it has taken this long to get it done I could say it's to promote my friend and colleague, but if I'm really honest
It's just selfish because I feel better when I get time with her.
She is on the air every morning from 9 until 11 across the civic media radio network.
And I do not use this word lightly.
She is a legend in Wisconsin, broadcasting the one, the only host of Matt Nair on air.
Jane Matt Nair joins us from her lovely dining room.
Jane, how are you?
I am great, my friend and colleague and traveling companion.
How are you?
Thank you for that lovely intro.
I owe you money.
No,
not at all.
No, it's... Checks in the mail.
Checks in the
mail.
We've been talking about doing this for a while, and I just finally said, we said, well, Mondays are good because I like alliteration.
And so, unless you... Somebody, Luke, said maybe Matt...
Matinee with Matt Nair, I don't know, but whatever.
Monday matinee.
I
like that.
All right.
We'll figure it out.
We'll set a lot in actual
time.
Yeah, actually, just matinee works.
That's good.
Monday matinee.
Monday matinee.
How you been, Jen, Jane?
Good.
Busy.
While the weather has been good, I have been doing a lot of work outside.
So yesterday, my neighbor loaned me what I call the clippers of power.
and they have this, they're extendable, and super sharp, and great big clippers, and so I attacked some things in my yard yesterday.
They weren't expecting that they didn't see it coming, it ended up being kind of ugly, but it had to be done.
And I tell you Todd, I went to bed early, but I usually do, I read for about an hour before I go to sleep.
And I got up at 10 o'clock, Paul was still watching the game.
Tragically, yeah, and I had to get some I took some of his bear aspirin I was so sore Everywhere I laid down.
It's like my shoulder hurts my back hurts and my god I'm gonna get cramp on my foot.
Just kill me now, you know So it's it I love working in my garden There releases energy right
in a healthy way that's
yes
Because we had talked about doing today's show from your lovely gardens in your backyard Jane called me up last week and she said honey, this isn't gonna work.
Everything's dead
Well, and I have some friends I went to a girlfriend's on Saturday and her backyard looks so beautiful in my own defense I will say that we were gone for two and a half weeks We just got back from our trip about two weeks ago.
So My plants had not been
lovingly cared for and sung to as I would normally do.
That's a lie.
I don't
know.
I've seen your
gardens.
They are beautiful.
Thank you.
One of those weird years where maybe, well, it wasn't too dry in your neck of the woods, but maybe overwatered was part of it.
Well,
and also part of it is deadheading and being able to keep up with other things.
So anyway.
Yeah, it just was not looking pretty for you.
And I wanted, you know, if we're gonna go to a garden somewhere, it should at least look nice.
And we've been to some beautiful places around the state, as you said before, traveling, and that's always a lot of fun.
We're talking with Jane McNair, a co-host of McNair, an era every morning from nine into 11 with our friend Greg Bach.
The professional that you are, you give me a great segue there.
You've traveled a lot.
You travel every year over to Europe.
You've been there for a couple of weeks here recently.
And here's the, because I've never been, I've spent a lot of time in Central America.
I've never been to Europe.
over the weekend, the Ryder Cup.
And I'm not a big Ryder Cup follower, but professional golf, European golfers versus American golfers.
It was held this year in the United States.
And to me, the biggest story, the whole thing was how obnoxiously rude and jerks a lot of the American fans were Jerry McElroy.
And and then saying terrible things about his family to the point where Roy McElroy at one point refused that I'm not gonna putt until they shut up Yep.
Yep.
So so my question to you Jane McNair is someone who is a person of the world and spends time in Europe what?
When you've traveled there most recently a month or so ago What do Europeans?
I know you can't judge an entire continent on 10 or 12 20 people sure but in general
What are Europeans thinking these days of America
and Americans?
Well, I'm gonna have to give you some broad generals generalizations Todd because quite honestly at least where we were we were in London for about four days and then we were on the southern coast of Portugal and People don't want to ask about politics and people don't at least in my experience
You know, waiters and waitresses certainly don't want to get into that with their customers.
And I did have a couple of exchanges.
There was one exchange I had with a couple in London while I was waiting outside.
And they were from the Liverpool area, I believe.
And their daughter is about 15.
And she really, really wants to move to America.
And she wants to move to New York City.
And they said, we're terrified to let her come because of the guns.
Wow.
And even, I would say, 15 years.
And I know we're not talking about the Ryder Cup, but I'll get there.
Even 15 years ago, or even a little longer, we were in Amsterdam.
And we had gone into a shop in a touristy area.
And that one clerk did ask where we were from because, again, my husband and I have different accents.
He's English.
And when I told her America, she said, I've always wanted to go to cut you to your country, but I'm afraid to go now because of the guns.
Wow.
And I think that tragically, after what we saw happen again this past weekend, there's justification for that fear.
Yeah.
There was a drive by shooting with a boat for goodness sake.
With a boat.
And it was like the ninth story this morning on different morning newscasts.
We were talking about this off the air before we came back on.
There is so much to go through on a daily basis.
There is such an avalanche of stories and it's really trying to prioritize because when with our show and as with your show too.
I wanted to speak to people who live in Wisconsin and what this means for us in Wisconsin and then broader and then out from there.
But all of these things that seem so far away like the Ryder Cup do have an effect here and do affect all of us.
So but it's a constant juggling act, don't you think?
And now we're getting to the reason I really wanted
to do this segment for
group therapy.
And I'm only half joking.
I'm only half joking because I feel exactly the same way that the focus of our show is like yours.
We want to try to be Wisconsin centric, talk about Wisconsin politics, things.
We both try to do things that are good news and and pay attention
to the
good things happening.
But when it's a constant barrage of just backcrab crazy stuff, it's like.
You can't ignore that.
And I want to get your take on this.
Jane McNair, co-host of Matt Nair and air every morning from nine until 11.
Have you found I found this particularly more difficult the last two months?
It has come to the point, in my opinion, where I don't want to say everything, but many of the things that I'm preparing for our show, I feel I have to fact check myself.
even if it comes from a quote-unquote government agency, or a quote-unquote reliable news source, because the truth is so hard to find.
Well, and again, there is so much that is constantly happening, and there have been times, even going further back, and I would say going six or seven months back, where I saw something on social media that was inflammatory to, and it met my biases.
And I was going to jump on it and I thought, yeah, you know what?
I'm going to wait four hours and see what else I can find out about this thing that I saw that seems so legitimate.
And it turned out to be a hoax.
And now with AI getting so good and frighteningly good, like the med bed ad, that's another thing in the whole list of crazy things that's happening.
That we're gonna get to hopefully
yeah, let's you brought up Jane.
Let's get to the jay matt air of matt naren air every morning from 9 to 11 This Jake tapper put this out.
I believe on sunday on on his insta and twitter accounts and I'm just gonna play this or discuss it with Jane and I am not found anywhere.
I watched the morning news shows No one covered this this morning
that I saw.
Here's Jake Tapper's post from early yesterday.
I know we've gotten all kind of numb to the odd and misinforming and strange stuff that politicians these days post on social media, including our president.
But last night at 10, 19 p.m.
Eastern, President Trump posted
this.
Breaking now, President Donald J. Trump has announced a historic new health care system, the launch of America's first Med Bed Hospitals and a national Med Bed Card for every citizen.
Every American will soon receive their own Med Bed Card.
With it, you'll have guaranteed access to our new hospitals led by the top doctors in the nation.
I'm interrupting just a second.
Apologies to make sure you understand that none of this report is real.
It is AI doing a fake Lara Trump Fox report.
None of this is real.
MedBeds are not real.
I'll tell you more about them in a second, but I just wanted to make sure you got that.
Anyway, here's the rest of this bogus news report that President Trump shared for some reason.
Equipped with the most advanced technology in the world, these facilities are safe, modern, and designed to restore every citizen to full health and strength.
Again,
This is not a real video, and now this is President Trump re-truthing, if that's what you call it on truth social, his social media thing, re-truthing a post that is AI of his daughter-in-law, AI of his favorite channel, Fox, and AI of him talking about med-beds, which if you are saying you don't know that med-beds are a conspiracy theory popular with QAnon people,
in which there exists these magic beds that restore limbs and reverse aging and cure anything that befalls the human body, but they're only available to the rich and elite, and this of course is President Trump offering med beds to everyone.
But it's a conspiracy theory and the whole thing's not true.
What?
There we go.
I asked the White House what was the deal with the president posting this, and then deleting it, he did delete it.
Yeah, he deleted it and no
response.
So, Jane McNair, what do you
make of that?
Well, I'm going to confess something.
When I was away, I actually tried a med bed, and as you can see, it didn't work.
So not only is that a hoax, it's not effective.
So I'm sorry to crush so many bubbles.
It's no in and in all seriousness though Todd when he was reelected and I was trying because Again, I called them squirrels originally because I do believe that all political parties do things as a distraction
And he wants to distract from the Epstein files.
He's trying to distract the economy.
There were so many crazy things, but these things are dangerous now.
This is dangerous.
This is feeding QAnon people who also believe that there's a blood drinking cabal led by Hollywood going back to the pizza shooting in D.C.
And this is the president of the United States putting this on his social media channel.
This is not normal.
Not at all.
And we'll discuss more of it on the other side.
Jane McNair hosts a McNair on air every morning from 9 until 11.
We'll ask Jane in her time in Madison and Milwaukee in statewide media.
What's changed?
We need another hour.
Well, come on back.
We'll finish up with Jane after this.
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Well, Jane Matt Nair joins us live.
Jane is so lovely to have you here.
It is so good to see you and spend some time with you, my friend.
We really do have great fun together and great conversations together, actually.
And that's the vibe I wanted to bring to this segment, I think so far it's going pretty well, where, you know, it's not so much an agenda, it's just like, let's talk and let people listen.
Yeah, I apologize if I'm kind of springing all over the place, but it's, you know...
This is when we take road trips together and we're on the road for three hours.
That's what you end up doing.
You cover lots of things.
And that's how you get to know one another too.
100% and sing musical numbers together.
Well, yes, everyone should sing in the car and car dance.
Jane how long This is serious.
I one of the cool things I said this to you privately and I think I mentioned before the air What are the cool parts about this opportunity to come to work for civic media is getting to meet you and and and spend time with you and having your mentorship and your friendship How many years have you actually worked in in the business as they say I have been in radio for 44 years.
It's incredible and and Please don't take this the wrong way as a woman
who, especially when you started out, that
was not the norm.
No, it wasn't actually.
In my broadcasting class, there were three women and there were 24 guys.
Wow.
And so, yeah, it was unusual.
And the woman who inspired me and thought made me think I could do it, her name was Bobbin.
And she was an early rock, you know, DJ in Milwaukee.
And I think W, oh, ZMF, no, I'm gonna, people will scold me who know this, but so yes, Bobbin was the first woman I heard when I was growing up and it's like, that might be a fun job.
And I wanted to be an actress originally, but I didn't want to go, I didn't want to have to move all the time and I didn't want to be on the road all the time.
And so radio to me was a mind theater.
I could be anybody.
Yeah.
And people could imagine it.
And now we have cameras everywhere.
But now they can see your lovely face and act.
But I think it's so important what you just said, because as you well know better than anybody else.
good radio is theater of the mind.
You create as they listen, and that's why when people meet us, right, they say, especially me, they look at me and they say, well, that's not how you, I
didn't think you
looked like
that.
Oh, exactly.
Yeah, no, exactly.
But that's the great thing about it, because it's like reading a book.
Instead of the movie, is your mind gets to fill in lots of details.
And I think that's part of the genuine experience of radio.
Agreed.
I don't
want to run out of time.
I want to make sure you get this in.
What is coming up today or today?
Later on this week on Matt and air on air that you want to make sure people tune in for.
Well, tomorrow you are joining our show at nine thirty five.
There's your reminder.
We
may we may have to talk
after my dad's having a thing tomorrow.
Oh, that's
right.
Don't worry about it.
I'm sorry.
I never mind.
Yeah.
Never mind.
Maybe
maybe we'll put we'll punch.
Don't worry about it.
Um, that's funny.
Uh, uh, we're talking to state Senator Kelly Royce in our number two.
That's
great.
She made her announcement on your program, uh, that she is running for governor.
So, uh, Senator Royce is going to join us on Wednesday.
Uh, Darren Van Ruden, who is the, uh, president of the Wisconsin Farmers Association is going to join us.
He joins us once a month now.
Not that there's anything going on with tariffs.
I
think that's what I listen when I tend to you guys and and I think that's a segment stands out for me and because it really he has a great way of telling things that everyone could understand whether you're a rural or urban person of why these things are important to all Wisconsinites.
Absolutely it is we're all in this together man and and if we lose
All of our family farms to large corporate farms, that is not going to benefit any of us.
No, no, not at
all.
At all.
One of the other things I love what you and Greg do, the last half hour, your audio sorbet, as you call it.
And today, near and dear to my heart, National Coffee Day, I thought that was fantastic.
Yeah, I thought about you immediately, and I was listening to the Tip Hats show on the way into work.
And he said it was National Coffee Day.
And
so
how much coffee do you drink a day?
How many cups
of coffee do you drink?
Not as much as you might think.
Maybe on average, 16, maybe 216-ounce cups more or less.
Maybe not quite that much some days.
Zommer, is that true?
Coffee behind doors.
No one knows.
But you're a coffee drinker.
I am.
And actually, I've been drinking more coffee in the last couple of years.
I didn't for a long time.
Really?
But then when you get up in the middle of the night, I got up at three o'clock in the morning for most of my career.
You need coffee or a slap across the face or something.
And then you end the show with, this shouldn't be a thing, which is a fantastic way to laugh at the
end of the program.
It's tis bat for short.
Yes, this shouldn't be a thing.
Just silly stories today.
They arrested two guys.
They stole 91 manhole covers.
Who does that?
I want to know why.
You know what?
You end it there and are you making jewelry?
Is it a sculpture?
Is it like cellinoids?
What's the market for manhole covers?
I'm curious, Todd.
I
have
questions.
Be
informed, be entertained, and get answers to your questions every morning from 9 until 11.
Jane Mattenair, thanks, my friend.
Stay tuned for hour two straight
ahead.
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