Listen: Guest hosting on Civic Media, with Angela Lang, Phil Rocco and more
A whole lotta recombobulating on the radio during the holidays, discussing everything from shared revenue to breweries to the Bucks to where we all go from here in a Trump second term.
The Recombobulation Area is a thirteen-time Milwaukee Press Club award-winning weekly opinion column and online publication founded by longtime Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. The Recombobulation Area is now part of Civic Media.
Happy New Year, let’s recombobulate!
It’s been a busy few weeks during the holidays, and that includes some guest hosting some Civic Media radio shows. We’re rounding those up for you to listen to here.
On Thursday (Jan. 2) and Friday (Jan. 3), I guest hosted “The Maggie Daun Show,” which airs every weekday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on the Civic Media network.
For Thursday’s show, I was joined in studio at Radio Park in Racine by Angela Lang, executive director of Black Leaders Organizing for Communities (BLOC), as my co-host for the full show.
You can listen to this one on The Recombobulation Area’s podcast feed here, via Apple Podcasts…
… or Spotify:
You can also livestream every show on Civic Media’s YouTube channel, and you can watch Thursday’s show here.
Among other topics, we talked to Angela about her latest piece, “Where do we go from here?” which you can read here.
We were also joined by Jeff Mandell of Law Forward to talk about his latest guest column on the overturn of Act 10. You can read that piece here.
On Friday, I was joined by guest co-host Phil Rocco, another of The Recombobulation Area’s award-winning contributors, to talk about his latest piece on Waukesha County and its funding challenges, even after an influx of cash from the 2023 shared revenue bill.
You can read that piece here.
You can listen to the full show on “The Maggie Daun Show” here on Civic Media, or embedded below to listen to or watch as a podcast or video.
During the first hour of the show, we were also joined by Chris Drosner, editor of Milwaukee Magazine and the writer of the Wisconsin Beer Baron column, to talk about the big shakeup in the local craft brewery scene in Milwaukee.
Hour 2 of the show takes a deeper dive into Phil’s piece and the challenges local communities are facing despite the shared revenue overhaul.
You can watch the full show here.
Along with guest-hosting this week, I also filled in as the guest host for “Matenaer On Air” on Dec. 26.
During the first hour of the show, I was joined by guest Alice Herman of the Guardian to talk about her piece on the Uline company, owned by the Trump-backing Uihlein family, allegedly breaking immigration law. Read that piece here and listen to the show below.
In Hour 2, Civic Media’s Luke Mathers joined the show to talk about our beloved Milwaukee Bucks and more.
Watch the show on YouTube here.
Thanks for listening! We’ll see ya next week.
Dan Shafer is a journalist from Milwaukee who writes and publishes The Recombobulation Area. In 2024, he became the Political Editor of Civic Media. He’s also written for The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Heartland Signal, Belt Magazine, WisPolitics, and Milwaukee Record. He previously worked at Seattle Magazine, Seattle Business Magazine, the Milwaukee Business Journal, Milwaukee Magazine, and BizTimes Milwaukee. He’s won 18 Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism Awards. He’s on Twitter at @DanRShafer.
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