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WKOW 27's Wake Up Wisconsin Team Checks in with Madison in the Morning · Ask The Experts

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  Speaker 1: Thirteen ten WIBA Madison in the morning, Sean prayable with
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  Speaker 1: you and we have got a full studio this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good friends from Wake Up Wisconsin WKW Channel twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: in studio with us, Dana. I'll start with you first.
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  Speaker 1: How you do one today? Oh wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: It's nice to actually see you in person, Sean.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, this.
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  Speaker 2: Feels real, and I do have two really good friends
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  Speaker 2: with me here this morning. We'll start with Jake, our
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  Speaker 2: newest edition to the team.
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  Speaker 1: Jake, we're becoming good friends.
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  Speaker 2: We're getting there, We're getting there, all right, all right,
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  Speaker 2: so we're coworking. We're going to bounce over to Emma then,
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  Speaker 2: because I.
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  Speaker 3: Think I think we've already crossed that line.
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  Speaker 1: We're on the friends level. I would definitely say, yeah, Emma,
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  Speaker 1: Hippis and Emma just real quick, recent meteorological degree graduate.
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  Speaker 1: How exciting is that for you to go right from
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  Speaker 1: college to do in the morning show.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, super exciting. I mean starting in my home market
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  Speaker 4: as well. I'm from Verona, twenty miles outside of Madison.
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  Speaker 4: I grew up watching Channel twenty seven, So yeah, definitely
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  Speaker 4: kind of a dream come true for first job.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know you were a local.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I grew up listening to this station,
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  Speaker 4: so it's.
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  Speaker 1: Great to see you and Jake you came from. You've
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  Speaker 1: got a little different story, certainly. I've bounced around a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot. I've been in Wisconsin just about a month.
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  Speaker 1: I grew up in Los Angeles, I worked in Texas,
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  Speaker 1: where I also went to school. I went to SMU,
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  Speaker 1: and then moved my way to North Carolina, where I've
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  Speaker 1: been for the last four years. Jake, iikes did with
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven you've been on now? Has it been a month?
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  Speaker 1: Almost a month? Yeah? Pretty much.
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  Speaker 5: I think this week is a full month hitting employment,
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  Speaker 5: so we're getting close to my benefits and all of
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  Speaker 5: the other things that'll ha waries.
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  Speaker 1: You've got healthy in exactly exactly, Dana. What's that like
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  Speaker 1: when you welcome a new co anchor to the to
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  Speaker 1: the morning shows that what's that experience been like for you?
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  Speaker 2: It's been fantastic, you know, I understand. I've been here
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  Speaker 2: for almost a decade now, so I am so sold
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  Speaker 2: on Wisconsin as a whole, specifically southern Wisconsin. So when
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  Speaker 2: I get to bring other people in and share that
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  Speaker 2: excitement and say you're here, with us.
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  Speaker 3: Now, let's do this, Let's go forward. It's been good.
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  Speaker 1: I've loved also following you guys on social media, all
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  Speaker 1: three of you, and you guys always are very fun
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  Speaker 1: and having new things. Have you had a chance to
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  Speaker 1: take them out and show them around town? And we did.
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  Speaker 3: We did a Mallard's game which was a ton of fun.
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  Speaker 2: And then we're trying to kick Jake out this weekend
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  Speaker 2: doing the Square of course, are fare on the Squares
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  Speaker 2: this weekend and then Feta Marquette.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what had you been your favorite Jake so far?
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  Speaker 1: As far as just a venter experience here in Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 5: You know, one of my favorites at least every Saturday
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  Speaker 5: the Farmers Market downtown.
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  Speaker 1: I live really close there.
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  Speaker 5: Just getting to walk through and see all the people
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  Speaker 5: who come down there for it, and get to see
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  Speaker 5: all the local produce and see all the local businesses.
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  Speaker 5: It's been kind of cool to meet and greet a
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  Speaker 5: bunch of people down there. And honestly, I would love
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  Speaker 5: to say that my favorite thing so far has been
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  Speaker 5: just kayaking. Oh yeah, Nonona, I could spend hours and
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  Speaker 5: hours and hours on there. I've never done anything like
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  Speaker 5: that before. I've been on boats, and I've been to
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  Speaker 5: the beach before, being from LA. But just sitting out
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  Speaker 5: there in a kayak, you know you can you can
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  Speaker 5: go as far as you want, you can go as
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  Speaker 5: long as you want, or you can just kick your
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  Speaker 5: feet up and relax.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been It's been great for this summer. A
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  Speaker 1: lot to explore and a lot to see in Emma.
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  Speaker 1: Having your background here a Dane County lifelong resident, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to be a great influence as well, kind
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  Speaker 1: of showing all the little tricks and secrets around the area, right,
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  Speaker 1: I like to think.
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  Speaker 4: So I need to get him to a uw football game.
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  Speaker 4: That's my goal for this do a few of those. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: I will be jumping around.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I can't wait to see. That's what we need.
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  Speaker 4: That's in the future though, when I get there with that.
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  Speaker 1: And is We talked this morning with the of course
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  Speaker 1: Wake Up Wisconsin crew. We've got Dana Fulton, We've got
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  Speaker 1: Jake Iixtend, and of course we've got Emma Hippis here
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  Speaker 1: in studio with us this morning. Voices that you hear
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  Speaker 1: each and every morning right here on thirteen ten WIBA
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  Speaker 1: and throughout the day the morning show is and obviously
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  Speaker 1: an important part for a lot of folks. That's kind
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  Speaker 1: of how they start the day. And Dana, I'll ask
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  Speaker 1: you a little bit about this, about kind of that
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  Speaker 1: important role that you're playing for people. You're really setting
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  Speaker 1: the mood for the entire day, aren't you.
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  Speaker 2: One percent people get a routine, they want to wake
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  Speaker 2: up and see a familiar face, they want to hear
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  Speaker 2: a familiar and there's a comfort to that, and there's
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  Speaker 2: a trust and authenticity that comes to that too. We're
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  Speaker 2: especially in a time right now where there's an ai
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  Speaker 2: revolution where you can pull any voice or any image
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  Speaker 2: that you want and to be able to say no.
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  Speaker 2: The three of us live here, we are with you.
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  Speaker 2: We're starting our day with you too. These are stories
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  Speaker 2: that matter to all three of us because we're in
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  Speaker 2: this community. So that's why we're going to start and
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  Speaker 2: share that information.
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  Speaker 1: What time, And I guarantee you this is not the
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  Speaker 1: first time it's beIN asked, probably not even the first time.
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  Speaker 1: Today time you guys get started in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: So the show starts.
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  Speaker 2: At four thirty, but please know that we are in
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  Speaker 2: the studio well before the three of us. I guess
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  Speaker 2: we can all share our alarm situation. My alarm goes
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  Speaker 2: off at about one thirty, and I'm one of those
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  Speaker 2: people that only needs one alarm.
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  Speaker 1: I'm with you, yeah, that early though.
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  Speaker 4: My alarm goes off at twelve thirty, and then it
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  Speaker 4: goes off every five minutes until two o'clock. My poor
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  Speaker 4: roommates and I get in around two thirty in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, j has makes me feel like a loser.
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  Speaker 5: I have a two to five alarm and then a
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  Speaker 5: two ten emergency alarm that usually goes off once I'm
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  Speaker 5: already up. But yeah, I'm two zero five right now
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  Speaker 5: pretty much every day, and I try to be in
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  Speaker 5: my chair just before three.
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  Speaker 1: And Jake, is this your first morning show? It is?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So I started in Texas my news career. I was
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  Speaker 5: a reporter and did auxiliary sports, and that was in
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  Speaker 5: West Texas where Friday Night Lights is king. The high
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  Speaker 5: school football out there is the biggest thing anybody can
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  Speaker 5: talk about, except for obviously the oil that comes from
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  Speaker 5: the Permian Basin.
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  Speaker 1: That's obviously really important too.
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  Speaker 5: The energy infrastructure across America comes from West Texas, but
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  Speaker 5: so does the love of the Great Iron. I would
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  Speaker 5: say and that really helps spur my next job choice,
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  Speaker 5: which was being the sports director in Wilmington, North Carolina.
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  Speaker 5: I really hammered home our football coverage. Basketball is also
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  Speaker 5: really big in North Carolina. But I think that sports
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  Speaker 5: background has really helped me transition into the morning role.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of like we're talking about, like there's a community
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  Speaker 5: trust there. It's more than just information dissemination. There's a
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  Speaker 5: relationship built of waying up with somebody and getting to
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  Speaker 5: know who they are. They're quirks and you know what
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  Speaker 5: they laugh at and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Are you gonna be working with Kylie when when football
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  Speaker 1: high school football starts?
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  Speaker 5: I would be honored and blessed to do anything in
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  Speaker 5: any and everything that they asked me for you, and
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  Speaker 5: every once fall rolls around, I will be working some
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  Speaker 5: of those Friday nights and hopefully I can even get
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  Speaker 5: involved in some Saturday stuff at Camp Randall.
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  Speaker 2: I just got all the morning so do not take them,
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  Speaker 2: but I do. I want to double down on that though,
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  Speaker 2: because Jake and I share We both started in news,
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  Speaker 2: and of course we found our niche He loves sports
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  Speaker 2: and I love weather, but that combination in the morning
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  Speaker 2: to know that, hey, we understand all the avenues of
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  Speaker 2: local news and how we can start your date with that.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's something that really attracted us to bringing
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  Speaker 2: Jake onto this team.
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  Speaker 1: What's it like? Obviously most folks remember you started as
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  Speaker 1: here in Madison as a meteorologists. Now that now the anchor.
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  Speaker 1: How does that for you? That's got to be it's
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  Speaker 1: got It's a cool journey, and it's obviously your heart's
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  Speaker 1: probably always in as much as you know you love
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  Speaker 1: sharing the news. That stuff there is such an exciting
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  Speaker 1: it is.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, when is weather or not news?
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  Speaker 2: I exactly absolutely a part of our structure when I'm
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  Speaker 2: producing the show, not just anchoring it, but how does
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  Speaker 2: it fit in all together? And whether we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: all of the events happening all the weekend, if we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about voting and what people need to wear to
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  Speaker 2: go out the forecast, that part of my brain doesn't
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  Speaker 2: shut down.
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  Speaker 1: Talk this Morning with Dana Fulton and of course we've
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  Speaker 1: also got Emma Hippus along with us and Jake. Iikes
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  Speaker 1: had the newest member of Wake Up Wisconsin on WKOW
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  Speaker 1: Channel twenty seven, talking a little bit about their day
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  Speaker 1: and a little bit about a little bit about them
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  Speaker 1: getting to know them a little bit more. And Jake,
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  Speaker 1: you're a softball guy too, Am I right on there?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so I've I am a two time intermural softball
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  Speaker 5: champion from SMU. We actually beat the baseball team our
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  Speaker 5: senior year of one of my great athletic feats. I
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  Speaker 5: played a couple other adult sports along the way, love
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  Speaker 5: like rec league basketball. I haven't done that in a
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  Speaker 5: few years though, so it might take me a little
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  Speaker 5: bit to actually move up and down the court at
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  Speaker 5: this point of my life. But yeah, i'd say baseball, softball.
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  Speaker 5: I'm a big golfer whenever I can get out. I know,
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  Speaker 5: Wisconsin's got so many amazing public golf courses for me
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  Speaker 5: to explore, especially while I can during the summer. But yeah,
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  Speaker 5: those those kind of recreational sports are are big in
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  Speaker 5: my life now that I've turned thirty, and I kind
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  Speaker 5: of need to slow down from some of the other.
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  Speaker 5: Like I said, you were talking about playing basketball. There's
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  Speaker 5: zero football going on in my life now. The only
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  Speaker 5: football going on is through the television.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, am I gotta ask you. You mentioned, of course, love
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  Speaker 1: and get into the Badger games. What about free What
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  Speaker 1: are some of your recreations. What do you do for
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  Speaker 1: fun around town?
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  Speaker 4: I'm a big reader. I also love exploring local coffee shops.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like we've got a lot of really good ones,
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  Speaker 4: like on Regent Street or on State Street. So I
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  Speaker 4: love just getting around to like local businesses and just
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  Speaker 4: you know, walks, especially right now, I love just kind
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  Speaker 4: of getting around downtown, going to the terrace. I love
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  Speaker 4: the lakes. Yeah, just stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: Dana on it, and I feel like you bring like
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  Speaker 1: ever so often you'll have a little graphic. Those are
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  Speaker 1: your dogs right on your head?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, if there are two little dogs and anyone
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  Speaker 2: at home nodding along right now would know that. I
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  Speaker 2: call them the sweet potatoes because they are. They're kind
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  Speaker 2: of potato weep but also sweet. So if I'm out side,
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  Speaker 2: they're usually involved in that.
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  Speaker 1: That is fantastic talk this morning, of course with the
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  Speaker 1: Wake Up Wisconsin team. Of course you can hear them
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  Speaker 1: right at WKWCHANNL twenty seven. They go on there four
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  Speaker 1: thirty AM, four thirty to seven, and then back at eleven.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about that eleven o'clock newscast and what goes
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  Speaker 1: into that. I obviously we talked about, you know, getting
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  Speaker 1: everything set for the day with Wake Up Wisconsin the
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  Speaker 1: eleven o'clock that's become a really important thing for folks
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  Speaker 1: as well. Let's talk Dan. I know you obviously are
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  Speaker 1: very much involved in, not just on camera, but behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes as well. Let's talk about what goes into
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  Speaker 1: putting that all together.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, our eleven o'clock show is now a statewide show.
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  Speaker 2: And while that may sound very daunting and big, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's I think, this great opportunity to share Wisconsin stories
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  Speaker 2: for everybody. Because people in southern Wisconsin still vacation up north,
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  Speaker 2: people up north still follow the Badgers, they still follow
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  Speaker 2: what's happening in the capital city. So there's this wonderful
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  Speaker 2: blend and it's a great thirty minute opportunity to say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: just to recap everything. If you missed it, here are
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  Speaker 2: the highlights. Here are the things that we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: today across the state. It's also going to include national news,
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  Speaker 2: but it's it's going to be the headlines for everybody
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  Speaker 2: in Wisconsin. And that's the show that Jake is actually
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  Speaker 2: going to be at the head of.
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  Speaker 1: Now, oh, that's going to be yours. That's good now
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  Speaker 1: I apologize because I'm typically sitting in a studio somewhere
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  Speaker 1: at eleven. Now I do put you guys, I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you guys are on right now. Yeah, good job. Yes
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  Speaker 1: that was completely coincidential, but darn good reason why it
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  Speaker 1: is so for you? Jake, when when that kind of
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  Speaker 1: starts going, what's for you? What's what are you looking
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  Speaker 1: forward most with that?
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  Speaker 5: With that eleven o'clock, Yeah, Dana kind of dove into
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  Speaker 5: the philosophy of it. One of the biggest things, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I recognize news as news and there is a need
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  Speaker 5: to tell stories. But one of my biggest priorities is
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  Speaker 5: making the show into something along the lines of like.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me something good that I didn't know.
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  Speaker 5: And that is I don't want to say easy to
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  Speaker 5: do with the you know, the stories you can get
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  Speaker 5: from across the state, but our affiliates also do a
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  Speaker 5: great job of finding those kinds of stories. I love
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  Speaker 5: any kind of just something that will leave you with
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  Speaker 5: the smile. Again, like, I recognize not all news is
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  Speaker 5: good news, and a lot of that is important. But
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  Speaker 5: if there is a little way that I can tweak
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  Speaker 5: something or add something in a little bit to add
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  Speaker 5: a positive light and shine an element on those communities,
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  Speaker 5: on the people in those communities, on a organization, a
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  Speaker 5: nonprofit that is doing good. I'm most certainly going to
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  Speaker 5: take that chance to do it.
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  Speaker 1: That is great to hear as we talked this morning
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  Speaker 1: with Jake Eichstad, of course, Dana Fulton and Emma Hippos
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  Speaker 1: w kW Wake Up Wisconsin. H Dana, and this is
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  Speaker 1: something I've got a chance over the years to watch
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  Speaker 1: watch you on television and see a lot of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of your work. It's an important balance and this
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  Speaker 1: is something that I don't know that everyone fully appreciates.
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  Speaker 1: Is obviously there's serious news. There's really you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: things happen. Speaking of Texas, what's been going on there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is stuff that that that
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  Speaker 1: makes your heartache and and having that balance between that's
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  Speaker 1: the serious news, but also there's a you guys have fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's it's and that is uh And maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: somebody that works in media that maybe can appreciate a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more. That is a real talent. That's a
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  Speaker 1: real skill that you guys do. At twenty seven, it is.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot.
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  Speaker 2: You're very right, I won't downplay that at all. But
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  Speaker 2: like Jake said, these are stories that impact our community,
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  Speaker 2: and there are stories that when I go home, I
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  Speaker 2: still have to talk about my taxes and.
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  Speaker 3: What I'm voting for in my community.
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  Speaker 2: When we had tornadoes come down through cross Plains a
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  Speaker 2: few years ago, my home was impacted to so those
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  Speaker 2: little things that people are talking about at home, when
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  Speaker 2: you're at the dinner table and you're laughing about what
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  Speaker 2: happened at school, but also looking at school referendum choices,
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  Speaker 2: all of that is in the table, and all the
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  Speaker 2: newscasts it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great day if you got one of those DVRs.
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  Speaker 1: I have a little thing I record every morning, and
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  Speaker 1: I want to get home first and I just catch
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  Speaker 1: up on news, great data, set that up and again
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  Speaker 1: Wake Up Wisconsin on Wkwchannel twenty seven. Kicks off four
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  Speaker 1: thirty am, goes until seven, of course at eleven am
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  Speaker 1: with the Wisconsin News. Now got the whole crew here
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Guys. Thank you so much for joining us,
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  Speaker 1: and have a great day. John, thank you, Yeah, Sean,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. Take care. Guys. News comes your way next
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  Speaker 1: right here on thirteen ten. Doub ib A