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Grace found The VBAC Link Podcast while still in the hospital after her first unexpected C-section. Her recovery was brutal and she knew she never wanted to experience that again. Grace is a labor and delivery nurse located on the Wisconsin/Illinois border. She shares what it was like preparing for her VBAC while working at a hospital that didn't support VBAC. Though she found a supportive practice, Grace faced unexpected pressure for interventions at the end of her pregnancy. Ultimately, she advocated her VBAC wishes and they continued to support her.When she contracted a fever and her baby had prolonged heart decels at 10 centimeters, Grace was prepped and wheeled to the OR. She mentally surrendered to the idea of another C-section. But when baby's heart recovered, she was encouraged to keep pushing! Her baby boy came out in just four pushes and Grace was able to achieve the VBAC she so deeply desired. The VBAC Link Blog: Finding a VBAC-supportive ProviderThe VBAC Link Blog: 10 Signs to Switch Your ProviderThe VBAC Link Blog: VBAC vs Repeat C-sectionHow to VBAC: The Ultimate Prep Course for ParentsFull Transcript under Episode Details Meagan: Women of Strength, we've got a VBAC story coming your way today. We've got our friend, Grace. Where are you? Illinois? Grace: Yep. I'm right in between Milwaukee and Chicago right on the Wisconsin/Illinois border. Meagan: Okay, awesome. Well welcome to the show and she does have a little babe right now with her. How old is your baby?Grace: He just turned a month old yesterday. Meagan: A month old and this is your VBAC baby. Grace: Yep. There he is. The man himself. Meagan: This is so fresh. Oh my gosh. I love when we get fresh stories. I feel like you're probably still even processing as you tell your story. Grace: Yep. I am. I practiced a couple times to make sure I didn't leave out important details. Meagan: Well, we are so excited to have you on the show. We do have a Review of the Week and then we're going to get into your stories and then we're going to talk a little bit about when the odds are stacked against you at the end and then spoiler alert, Grace is a labor and delivery nurse so I'm going to ask her some questions about how it is to be a labor and delivery nurse and supporting VBAC in her community. Okay, so we have this review. Its title is, “Tears plus stories plus hope plus joy equals education.” It says, “I discovered these ladies when I was 9 months postpartum from a very traumatic section and was eagerly beginning to research how to heal and build a new birth team for when my second baby came along. Now just a few months later, I've listened to almost all of the episodes and I hear the joy and the redemption these mamas have when they are in control of their births. It spurs me on towards my goal of one day having a successful VBAC. I cry when they cry. I feel joy when they feel joy. I feel sadness when they feel sadness and encouragement and elation when they succeed. It's been quite the therapeutic discovery and I'm so glad Julie and Meagan created this resource. Each time Meagan or Julie directly addresses the audience as Women of Strength, I get goosebumps and I know in my heart I AM and WILL BE that woman of strength. I hope to one day share my version of success within this community.” That just gave me the chills so I'm just going to add tears plus stories plus hope plus joy plus chills equals education to that one. Thank you so much for your review. If you have not done so, as always, we would love them and you never know, you may just be read on the next podcast. Meagan: Okay, cute Grace. Grace: Hello. Meagan: Welcome, welcome. Let's get going into your stories. Grace: Okay, so first of all, thank you for having me. This is amazing. I'm glad I had a VBAC but it's even cooler that I get to be on the podcast. For my first pregnancy, I had just missed my first period so I took the test and was positive. I called my doctor and scheduled an appointment. I was about 6 weeks. At this appointment,  my doctor started calculating my due date with his little due date calculator and said, “Okay, it's about May 26th. I'm going to induce you May 24th,” right off the bat. He decided we were going to be an induction. He said, “Since you are a first-time mom, it will reduce your risk of having to have a C-section if we schedule an induction.” I later found out he was actually just going to be out of town on Memorial Day weekend so he was pre-planning that for himself. But I didn't know any better. I was like, “Okay, cool. I'll know when I'm having the baby. I won't have to worry about going into labor or anything.” Pregnancy went by with no complications. It was nice and smooth. At 39 weeks, he addressed again that we would be going in for an induction but he would just do the Cervadil. I went in that morning and they placed the Cervadil and told me, “Don't move. Lay as flat as you can. You can only get up to go to the bathroom,” which is not true.Meagan: Hashtag false. Grace: I lay there all day. They take the Cervadil out and it didn't do much for me. I wasn't favorable in the first place. I was closed, thick, high, and then he checked me after the Cervadil and said the same thing. Actually, he told me that he's never done this before but he's just going to discharge me. He didn't want to start anything else or doing anything. I appreciate him not just pushing Pitocin when he didn't think it was going to be a good idea. We left feeling super discouraged because we told everyone we were going to have a baby and then we were going home. He said, “Come in a week later if I don't go into labor naturally. Just come in and we'll try again.” So I didn't. We went in the following week. They put in the Cervadil again. They actually did two rounds of it this time and this time we didn't tell anybody we were going to the hospital. We just didn't want the, “Is the baby here yet?” and all of those questions adding to the anxiety of being in labor. So they took the second round of Cervadil out and still didn't really have any change. I wasn't contracting or cramping or anything but they just let me stay there. I ended up going into labor naturally which I don't have the statistic verified but he told me that only 20% of people will go into labor with Cervadil alone. Most people need Pitocin or something else and some other intervention to actually cause labor. But my labor started. Again, he didn't give me Pitocin which again, I'm grateful for. I was contracting all day. I have a pretty low pain tolerance so I had requested something for pain. They gave me an IV pain medication that I didn't really like. It worked for a little bit but also made me feel a little strange.The nurses were like, “Okay, instead of getting more of the pain medicine, we recommend that you get the epidural.” This was about 12 hours after the contractions started.” I did get the epidural. I was still only a 1 at this point. They checked me after the epidural and he broke my water without really telling me that that's what was happening. It just kind of happened. He broke my water and then I pretty much immediately went to 5 centimeters after he did that within the hour. I was like, “Okay, cool. It's finally happening. I'm at 5 centimeters. I don't feel any pain from the contractions. I have this epidural that's working maybe even too good,” because I couldn't even wiggle my toes but baby's heart rate started dropping. This was a back and forth, “Are we going to have a C-section? No. Just kidding. You're fine. You can push later on. You'll dilate about a centimeter an hour,” is what they told me. But then they also had me come in and sign a consent form for a C-section. They put oxygen on me and repositioned me a little bit then they just called the C-section. We went to the OR that I had not even toured during our hospital tour because I was like, “I don't need to see that. I won't need a C-section so I don't need to see what the OR looks like,” but then I ended up in there. My husband was in the hallway waiting to come in and the anesthesiologist was super supportive. She could tell I was losing it. They brought him in and the procedure itself went fine. There were no complications. Baby came out healthy. She had a cord wrapped around her foot twice which the doctor said he thinks maybe was why she didn't come down, but I'm not sure. They took her over to the warmer and did all of her checks and everything. It felt like she was over there forever. Then they brought her swaddled over to me. We did the little cheek-to-cheek skin-to-skin. We got our classic C-section family photo on the OR table with our scrub hats on and then my husband and daughter left the room and they finished putting me back together. Then they took me to recovery which I was in there by myself. I had really bad shakes from the hormones or epidural. I'm not sure but I was shaking like crazy. That felt like I was in there forever by myself and then they finally brought her to me. She latched right away so at least I got to breastfeed her but we completely missed our golden hour. Meagan: Yeah, and you were let alone. Grace: Yeah, I was alone. Meagan: In a very scary time. Grace: Yes. The nurse wasn't really talking to me. She was charting and stuff which I get that you've got to chart but I felt very alone in this recovery room. All that being said, everything did go okay. It still did not feel great that I had to have a C-section instead of my planned birth. I had my birth plan and everything. The next morning, the doctor did come in and he told me that for my next baby, I would have to have a C-section. He was like, “You can do all of the research that you want and the statistics are small, but I still would not let you have a trial of labor. You would be an automatic C-section.” Meagan: Did he actually say, “The statistics say this but for you, no.” Grace: No, it wasn't just me. That's how he practiced. Meagan: He just doesn't support VBAC. Grace: Yes and he told me that a friend's wife tried to VBAC and had some kind of complications. I don't know how it ended so it also sounded like it was a personal thing. He didn't do them for personal beliefs. Meagan: Yes. Grace: He left the room and that's when I found your page. I started searching VBACs and how I could have one. I was so discouraged not being able to deliver vaginally. I was like, I've got to at least inform myself and see if I can find a way to do it and how to go about it. Knowledge is power so I wanted to know as much as I could going into it. I had my daughter. You're busy with a baby so I didn't do too much research in between. I just saw that it is ideal to wait 9 months before you get pregnant. I did find out I was pregnant at about 13 months postpartum and this was actually two days after I got offered a job as a labor and delivery nurse so I had a little bit of excitement all at once. 13 months postpartum, and the whole time my husband after he saw my recovery was like, “Okay. I will do whatever I can to help you have a VBAC,” because he knew it was very hard on me. I found a doctor. I just was like, I'll just see doctors and feel them out. My first doctor I saw was super VBAC-supportive. He said that they do them all the time. I'm a great candidate so I was like, Okay. I'll stick with these guys.My husband did a bunch of research too. He was looking up why people get induced and why you may or may not want to get induced to avoid a C-section and all of these things. He was my biggest cheerleader and came to appointments with me and was making sure our provider was as supportive as we needed him to be to try and make this happen. I also became obsessive. I was listening to the podcast all of the time on my way to work. If work was slow, I'd throw in an AirPod and do laps around the unit to be moving and hear the podcast. I was listening to it in the shower all the time and I found it really helpful just hearing other women's stories. This pregnancy went by pretty complication-free. I did have some bleeding in the beginning which was just a subchorionic hematoma and they weren't concerned about it. I actually didn't tell people at work that I was going to VBAC because our hospital doesn't allow for VBACs because we don't have in-house anesthesia or OBs. I didn't tell them and I didn't want them to know I was trying. They would even ask me, “Oh, are you scheduling your C-section?” I'm just like, “Oh, I haven't scheduled it yet.” I just kept working. At 37 weeks, I started anything I read online that could make labor happen. I was doing it. I was having the raspberry leaf tea, pineapples, the dates, walking, evening primrose oil. I was doing everything you could do to get my cervix ready to have a baby. At 39 weeks, we went to an appointment. I did start losing my mucus plug which made me very excited that something was happening on its own. At this appointment, I had a different provider. This practice had multiple doctors that could potentially be on when you deliver so you are supposed to see them all. I saw a different provider this time. He checked me. I was just a fingertip. They were going to maybe do a membrane sweep at this appointment, but he was unable to and then he mentioned, “Okay, if you get to 41 weeks, we'll talk about scheduling your induction.” I was like, “Whoa. I thought we weren't doing all that.” They seemed VBAC-supportive during the whole pregnancy and at the end flipped the switch and I felt like I was like, Oh no, I'm stuck. I've been seeing them the whole time. Now he's going to try and push an induction on me. I left that appointment feeling worried. After that, my husband was like, “You should just chill out. Stop obsessing over all the things.” I had a checklist that said, “Eat your dates. Eat your pineapple. Go for a walk.” It was all of the things and it was causing me more stress than actually letting my body do anything on its own. I stopped. I even stopped listening to the podcast. I was just like, Okay. Whatever happens happens. I went on maternity leave too so that no one on work would ask me. I just took my leave early. Then on my due date, I went in. I was dilated to a 1 which was incredible news for me and 50% effaced. I was like, Wow. After all that Cervadil, nothing happened and this time, something is actually happening. He was able to do a sweep at this appointment. We did an NST too. He just said, “It's protocol. Once you hit your due date, they do NSTs.” I felt great. I contracted and cramped all night. I was like, Maybe it's happening, but this was just the start of some prodromal labor that went on and off for a while. I went into an appointment on Monday after that Friday and he said, As long as I agree to just keep coming in for NSTs, he said that he would let me go as long as I need to. They weren't worried about induction. It was a healthy pregnancy. They weren't worried about his size or anything like that. He did another sweep that Monday. That also caused me to cramp and contract. I was hand expressing as well to try and get my milk supply to come in. I was regularly contracting. I shouldn't say regularly but it was happening and so I thought that at my next appointment, I'm going to be really dilated because this is all happening. Everything is really happening now. I went into my next appointment. This was a different provider again, a woman. She checked me and I was a 2 which was exciting as well. She said that she wasn't able to do a sweep because the other doctor already did it and her fingers weren't long enough so it wouldn't be effective. Meagan: What? Grace: I was like, “Okay, whatever you say.” Then she sat down and asked, “If you do have to have a C-section, what is your mental state going to be because it is a possibility?” I knew it was but at this point in my pregnancy, I just didn't want to hear the words “C-section”. I told her I would probably be okay. My eyes are wide open. I know it's a possibility but I would feel pretty discouraged that I wasn't able to have a VBAC. She told me if I did have a VBAC, I wouldn't be able to pick up my daughter for at least two weeks so that really also freaked me out. Meagan: If you did have a VBAC? Grace: Oh no, I'm sorry. If I had the C-section, I would have to wait at least two weeks to pick her up. Meagan: Okay. Like a weight restriction. Grace: I'm sorry, yeah. She was like, “You don't want to pop your incision,” which makes sense but I'm like, “I'm already bringing a new brother into her life and now I'm not going to pick her up.” That really scared me so I wanted to have my VBAC. So after this appointment, I was 41 weeks when I went to this appointment. That night, I had been contracting starting around 8:00 PM pretty regularly but they were spaced apart 5-7 minutes and then around midnight, the contractions became 3-4 minutes apart. They told me I could go to the hospital when they were 5, but I was worried that it would slow down my labor so I waited a little bit longer. I went in and out of the shower. I took a moment to hold my daughter and lay with her for a little bit thinking, Okay, we're going to bring a baby home soon. It's happening.We called my in-laws around 4:00 in the morning to come over because they were regularly 3-4 minutes apart for quite a few hours. They came over at 5:00. We got to the hospital at about 6:00 and it did happen. My labor slowed down. The contractions went to 6 minutes apart. When I got there, I was only 2 centimeters which I was in the office in the morning so I was like, How is this possible? I just contracted for all these hours and nothing happened? I did efface a little bit more. I was 70%. They said, “We're just going to watch you for a little bit. We're not going to send you home.” Of course, it started snowing when it had been 70 degrees all week. That's the midwest. They said, “We'll just wait. We'll watch you. Hang out here. It's snowing. We'll see what happens.” I was just sitting on the yoga ball already pretty exhausted because I had been up all night. Then at 9:00 AM, the doctor came in and she was like, “Okay, I'm going to break your water.” The nurse was like, “Hold on, we don't have an IV. We were just watching her. Let's get some other things in place before you break the water.” Before she did break the water, I was very hesitant about them doing that because I wanted it to happen naturally. I didn't want them to force anything and then be put on a timer because at our hospital, if your water is broken for x amount of hours, then it becomes, “Okay, we've got to get this baby out.” I didn't want that. She said, “No.” They wouldn't be worried. They might start worrying if I developed symptoms of infection but that still wouldn't necessarily mean I would have to have a C-section. They would just treat the infection. I did let her break the water and they checked me six hours later. Again, I didn't make any change but the contractions had been more intense for me so I ended up getting the epidural about a half hour after that at 3:30. Once I got the epidural, I was feeling good. They told me they wanted to start Pitocin. I was hesitant about that as well because it does increase your risk of uterine rupture not that the percent is that high, but I wanted to avoid it if I could but they told me I would be on a different protocol because I'm a TOLAC patient so they would go low and slow. They would start at a 1 and keep it slow. Anytime they did go over 2 though, baby didn't like it. His heart rate would drop a little bit so they did end up turning it on and off all day but the contractions still stayed pretty spaced apart. Around 10:00, they did check me and I was a 4. His head was low. I was having some bloody show. They shut off the Pitocin because the contractions were every minute apart. Meagan: Oh, that's a little close. Grace: Yeah. I don't know. I couldn't tell because I had an epidural but they also placed the IUPC and they did an amnioinfusion which we don't really do much at our hospital so I was pretty unfamiliar with it and she explained that they wanted to just replace my fluid because I had been ruptured for a while and baby needs some fluid to come down and help me dilate so they did that. I feel like I had all of these wires going everywhere. After a little bit, I did end up getting a fever. They gave me some IV antibiotics so with all of these things happening at my hospital, I would have been a C-section for sure. I could tell they were very VBAC-supportive. They came in and repositioned me so frequently because his heart rate would drop. The nurse was in there all night. I was like, This poor nurse is in here every 5 minutes repositioning me or doing something for me. Around 1:00 in the morning, I felt such intense pressure. My epidural had worked really well, but I was feel all that pressure of his head. She didn't want to check me because she said, “We don't want to be in there too much because,” Meagan: You already had a fever, yeah. Grace: They waited, but this pain and pressure was pretty intense for me. I was crying through the contractions. It felt like my body was pushing for me. I was like, “Can you please check me? I know that you don't want to but I'm feeling like something is happening.” I ended up throwing up which could also be baby is getting ready to come out. They did check me at 6:00 in the morning. I was 10 centimeters. She called the doctor to let her know and said– this was also the doctor who I had my last appointment with who didn't sound super on board with me having a VBAC. Meagan: The short-finger one? Grace: Yeah, little fingers. Meagan: Little fingers. Grace: I was like, I really hope she's not on. They were like, “She's on for 24 hours.” I was like, “Okay.” She was the one. She was like, “Let her do a practice push then I'll be in there soon.At this point, I had been in so much pain from the pressure all night that I was like, “I don't even think I can push him out.” I'm a first-time mom basically because it's my first vaginal birth and I could be pushing for 2-3 hours. I was like, “I don't know if I have it in me.” I said that to my husband. I was like, “I don't know if I can push.” He was like, “Don't be discouraged. If you have to have a C-section, you have to have a C-section.” That lit a fire in me. I was like, “No. I did not just go through 31 hours of labor to call it quits. I'm going to at least try to push and see what happens.” I do one practice push and the little guy's heart rate drops and doesn't recover for 6 minutes. Everyone is rushing in– the doctor, the hospitalist doctor, all of the nurses. They were like, “Don't be discouraged. You did everything you could but we're probably going to have to have a C-section.” The doctor goes, “I think your uterus is rupturing.” I'm like, “Okay, that's scary. Don't tell me that.” I'm like, “What is even making you think that?” She's making a little note in the computer. They are putting in all the orders for me to go into the OR. She said, “But if baby's heart rate recovers in the OR, we'll let you push in the OR but we want everyone around to make sure if we do need to have a C-section, we have the whole staff ready to go.” They wheeled me in, were giving me meds in the hallway while I'm on the way in there. The nurses were super comforting though. One of the nurses told me that she tried to TOLAC with her second and ended up having a C-section and that it's nothing to be ashamed of which it's not. I just really wanted to do it. I felt like up until that point, I did everything I could. They wheeled me into the OR and the anesthesiologist said he partially blocked me. He gave me ⅓ of the dose that they would give for a C-section but I felt very numb. I could not feel the contractions. I couldn't feel my legs, nothing. They hooked me up to the monitor and his heart rate recovered miraculously. He was in the 150's. They said they wanted me to push. I also had already thrown in the white flag mentally and said, “I don't know if I can push. I'm scared now.” I froze up. I was like, “I don't want to have a C-section. I don't want to push. I'm just in this limbo right now of I don't know how we're going to get this baby out.” They told me that they wanted to use a vacuum. Initially, I was like, “I don't really want you to use a vacuum,” but the hospitalist said that it would  help us get baby out faster when I'm pushing. I did finally consent to them using the vacuum. So we're in there. They nurses had to tell me when I was contracting because I couldn't tell. They had this audio of my monitor on but they couldn't see the strip for some reason so they were just palpating my belly to tell when I was contracting. They would say, “Okay, push now.” With four contractions and the help of the vacuum, I did push and got baby out successfully. Meagan: Just four? Grace: Just four. I know I kind of cheated with the vacuum. Meagan: That's pretty dang fast though. Grace: 10 minutes of pushing and he came out with copious amounts of the fluid that they had replaced. I had said I wanted him to be skin-to-skin if I could. He came out good so they put him on my chest. They actually let me reach down and feel his head while I was pushing and that really motivated me to get him out. The nurses were so helpful and so was the doctor. I don't think I could have pushed him out as good as I did if they weren't literally rallying around me like, “You've got this. You're doing great pushes. He's almost there.” I got him out and I got to hold him then they said, “Let's just take him to the warmer for a little bit. He swallowed some fluid.” They were reassuring me the whole time then they ended up letting him come back to me. I got to wheel back to the room with him with me which was so exciting for me. I got to breastfeed right away and we went to our postpartum room as a family. I just remember that it was such an emotional rollercoaster at the end. I prepped so much for a VBAC. Okay, just accept the fact that you're having a C-section. Just kidding, you're getting your VBAC. I felt like there were so many junctions where it could have been like, “Okay, we're just giving you a C-section.” We ended up getting lucky and having the baby. I feel like I could not have done it without the nurses and the doctor and all of the information I learned from this podcast so seriously, thank you guys so much for what you do because you make such a big difference in people's lives. That night, I got to pick up my daughter and lift her up and show her her new brother in the hospital. I was so happy. A month out, I'm able to move. I don't feel like myself again, but closer than I did when I had my C-section. This all went so great and I'm so glad I got to do it. Meagan: I am so glad too. I am so grateful to you for being here and sharing your story with us. It's always fun to hear that we were in people's ears along the way. Man, it's what we were talking about in the beginning with the odds stacked against you with this happening and it could also go to this or the baby's heart rate drops and then they do this and then this happens. There are all of the things that could go wrong, but a lot of the way, it seemed like you were making the choices that felt best for you even when it might have been, “Hey, we're going to come break your water,” and it might not have been exactly what you want but you ultimately felt good about it. So let's talk about that. When someone comes in or if VBAC isn't supported in this hospital and maybe that's your only hospital, that's a really hard one. In your hospital you work in now, you said, “If that were my hospital, I would have gone in for a C-section and they don't support it,” so what do people do in your area when your hospital doesn't support it?Grace: They definitely don't support it. They would just automatically schedule you for a repeat Cesarean and if we did get a patient in who was in labor, we would probably transfer them or we would have to make sure that the OB who was on is close enough to get there. In my short amount of time that I've been there so far, I did see one VBAC. They made an exception for her. The OB stayed overnight. Meagan: Wow. Grace: So did the anesthesiologist. She ended up VBACing and having a big baby and everything. I feel like the odds were kind of stacked against her too but other than that, they don't try to do it and since they don't do it, because we don't have the resources, a lot of the staff there just doesn't believe in VBACs and they have a lot of– like I said, I didn't tell anybody I was VBACing but I would hear them talk about VBACs and I'm like, I can't tell you guys that I'm doing this until I succeed at it then I can be like it is possible. Meagan: What did they say?Grace: They were really glad that I got it how I wanted it. They did know that it was a rough recovery for me and I told them the C-section was really hard on me and our family so they were like, “I'm glad you got to do what you wanted.” Meagan: Yeah. Well, when the odds are stacked against you, and the odds are looking different for everybody. Sometimes it's advanced maternal age, big baby measuring, over our due date, special scar, VBAC after multiple Cesareans– I mean, there are all of the things that can be stacked against us, but when you are in an area that isn't supportive, that's good to know that they would even transfer them and be like, “Actually, we're going to transfer you to this hospital.” You can transfer hospitals. Of course, you can decide to explore home birth. You can try to find a different provider within that hospital because if that hospital is supportive but that provider isn't supportive, there are things you can do. I'm going to have a link for a whole bunch of different blogs on ways to find supportive providers, what to do, and also how to decide if a VBAC or a C-section is right for you because I think that can be hard when you find a location that is not supportive. It sometimes is easier to just make the other decision and go along with it. Okay, so labor and delivery nurse. You are relatively new. Grace: Yes. Meagan: But how has it been? How do you feel like birth is in your location?Grace: I feel like it's good. They do a lot of inductions there. A lot of the patients, they'll say, “Let's induce you around 39 weeks.” Initially, my first over a month of orientation, I didn't see a vaginal birth. I only saw C-sections. It was very common. I don't know if I was unlucky. I don't know. Maybe it was the shift I worked because I worked 3:00 in the morning to 3:00 PM. I'm not sure. I was like, “I'd really like to see a vaginal birth because I–”Meagan: Am hoping for one. Grace: Exactly. I was pregnant then and I didn't tell anybody but it was nice working while I was pregnant and being able to actually learn a lot more while I'm working about labor. I could watch my contraction strip and know what it means. It helped me have more knowledge going into my own situation and then I felt like I was pregnant forever so at the end of my pregnancy, I'm like, They were due after me and they had their baby. Everyone was over there having their babies and I was still pregnant. I was like, I'm just going to grow him as long as I can and when he's ready, he will come out. Meagan: Yeah. I love that. I love that you've been able to learn. I think that's one of my favorite things too just being a doula. Obviously, I'm not there actually charting those strips or anything like that but it's been really fun to learn that strip better because we can tell baby's position sometimes based on those charts. We've got coupling contractions sometimes and we know that baby is in a wonky position. Huge congrats to you. Grace: Thank you. Meagan: If you decide to go back to the labor and delivery route, I wish you all of the luck and I'm sure that you'll be cheering people on and supporting and helping them along the way. Grace: Yes and now I can help them better because I went through a C-section and a vaginal and now I can kind of relate to all of the patients in what they might need. Meagan: Absolutely. Absolutely. ClosingWould you like to be a guest on the podcast? Tell us about your experience at thevbaclink.com/share. For more information on all things VBAC including online and in-person VBAC classes, The VBAC Link blog, and Meagan's bio, head over to thevbaclink.com. Congratulations on starting your journey of learning and discovery with The VBAC Link.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vbac-link/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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th yesterday being "Selection Sunday", we talked about the upcoming March Madness tournament and laughed at AJ Storr's attempt to pass himself the ball for a dunk during the Wisconsin/Illinois game. Apparently, people are swooning on the internet about The Rock and Drew Barrymore. Had a couple of nice stories about a 106 year-old woman who celebrated her birthday with a VIP trip to Disney World in Florida, and a dorm at Providence College in Rhode Island that raised a BUNCH of money for the overnight security guard so he could visit his family in Nigeria for the first time in over 10 years! Found out about Voodoo Ranger's new pizza-flavored beer coming out in early April, and Chick-Fil-A testing out new pizzas at their test restaurant in Maryland. During our final three-way this morning, Shaw had a story about some area students who are going to be competing in the State spelling bee, and Brian tried to show off his spelling skills but failed MISERABLY with the word "conscientious". Did you see the George Costanza bobblehead that the Yankees are giving away this season? And in today's "Bad News with Happy Music", we had stories about a woman who drove into the ocean to avoid being arrested, a guy who fell out of a hot air balloon & died, a woman who was trying to sell her baby for $500, a deer in Pennsylvania that had a plastic jug stuck on it's head, a guy who was playing some sweet air guitar, a bunch of expired bread that ended up on a dude's lawn, and a guy who worked at a grocery store that was whacking off on some of the food. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's the podcast many of you have likely been waiting for, the 2023-2024 winter outlook! With fall leaves changing throughout the country and days getting shorter in a hurry, it's time to talk about what winter is looking like. Mostly mild or unusually cold? Mainly dry or extra snowy? And how will it vary across the country? Ken Elliott, Senior Meteorologist at WeatherWorks, Inc in New Jersey, breaks down what to expect in the Northeast (21:28), Southeast (25:23), Midwest (29:55) and West (35:17). Plus, he offers his thoughts on whether parts of the country will see a White Christmas. We want to hear from you! Have a question for the meteorologists? Call 609-272-7099 and leave a message. You might hear your question and get an answer on a future episode! You can also email questions or comments to podcasts@lee.net. About the Across the Sky podcast The weekly weather podcast is hosted on a rotation by the Lee Weather team: Matt Holiner of Lee Enterprises' Midwest group in Chicago, Kirsten Lang of the Tulsa World in Oklahoma, Joe Martucci of the Press of Atlantic City, N.J., and Sean Sublette of the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia. Episode transcript Note: The following transcript was created by Headliner and may contain misspellings and other inaccuracies as it was generated automatically: Winter Weather Outlook Across the Sky podcast features the Elite Enterprises national Weather Podcast Joe Martucci: You welcome everybody, to the across the sky podcast. Elite Enterprises national Weather Podcast. We are talking about a very, we'll say, emotional topic today, the 2023 2024 winter outlook. Lots of people love snow. People hate snow. A couple people are indifferent to snow. But I think, you know, everyone has an opinion on this topic. We're gonna talk about temperatures. We're going to talk about how cold. It's going to get. And we're going to have on Ken Elliott, senior Meteorologist for WeatherWorks, based in New Jersey, to talk about the entire country. We're going to break it down region by region. So let's welcome in my weather team here from across the sky, we have Sean Sublette over in Virginia, Matt Holiner in Chicagoland, and Kirsten Lang in Tulsa, Oklahoma. If you remember, we talked about our seasons when we talked about our ten things to know about fall. And I said fall is my least favorite. But what I failed to mention was if we included non-snowy winters, that would actually be my least favorite season. So it's really just the snow that's holding me to liking winter more than fall. So I'm going to toss it to Sean. Sean, if there was no snow in Virginia, does that change your opinion of winter or is snow? I don't even know. Are you a snow guy? I think you are. Sean Sublette: Yeah. So, like last year, there was no snow. I mean, there was flat up, almost no snow. We had like one hour's worth of snow one morning and that was it. It coated the ground and it didn't even register a trace on the other side of town. But I, like a good snow. And when I say a good snow, I mean, all right, this is at least five or six inches where it matters. And you can do something with the snow. And we haven't had that in a while, a few years, across the entire statewide and that kind of thing. There's certainly little pockets that have done better than others. But I do like a good snow. And, as I think our guest will discuss, there are reasons for optimism for those, who've been aching for a little bit of snow. So that's where I'll kind of leave that. Matt Holiner: Well, my opinion of winter has recently changed. No. When I was in the up, I grew up in San Antonio, but then I spent three years even farther south in the Rio Grande Valley. McAllen Brownsville, Texas. And winter is wonderful there. In fact, people from up north come to Deep South Texas to enjoy the winter. Joe Martucci: Because you can have a lot of. Matt Holiner: Days where it's in the and you, know, when it freezes, it can happen, but it's a big deal. Well, now I live in Chicago and it's a little bit colder. I like to do the comparison. I always tell people winter in Chicago is like summer in Texas. You spend as much time inside as it is. For me, it's more the cold than the snow. Now, my opinion on snow is I don't like too much of it. I like snow. I would like two big snows for the season, and that would be good for me. One early and maybe one I don't like. It too late again. You get tired of the cold once you get into February especially. It gets very old in the Midwest. So I would say, give me a December snow and late, January snow, and then I'm good. But two big snows, like, get it all out. It gets annoying when you have these, like, here's a couple of inches here and an inch there. Here's another three inch snow, another one inch snow. It's like, give me six, seven, eight inches. Dump it all once. Get it, do that twice a year, and then I'm good with snow. So I like some snow, but not too much. And, I'm definitely not as big of a winter fan now, and I would have to say in Chicago, it is now my least favorite season. Kirsten Lang: We sound like Goldilocks and the Three Bears. It's like, I want just right. Not a little bit of this, not too much of that. Just right. The problem with Tulsa, in this part of the country is that, unfortunately, what you get more often during the winter is cold rain. And there's nothing I hate more than cold. Matt Holiner: Rain is the worst. Kirsten Lang: Like, when it's like, 39 degrees and it's just raining. Like, what do you do with that? You can't enjoy it. It's not snowing. You can't go out there and just have a good time. It's not my favorite season, but that's okay. Joe Martucci: Was it your least favorite season? Kirsten Lang: No, I said summer was probably, but that's only recent because I have a bunch of little kids now, and I hate sweating, running around, chasing them. Joe Martucci: Right. Kirsten Lang: So winter would probably come second to least favorite. Joe Martucci: Got it. Interesting. I just want to say for the record, I actually matt, to disagree with you a little bit there. I actually like snow late in the like, give me some March. Like, up until St. Patrick's Day, it can snow all at once. But right. As soon as St. Patrick's Day ends boom. It's got to start warming up, like, immediately. Matt Holiner: See, even by beginning of March, for, like, if it's snowing, that means it's still cold. And I'm just so over the cold at the Midwest. By the time we're done with February, it's like, as soon as we hit March, it's like, all right, it's time to warm up. But unfortunately, March is still unpleasantly cold across much of the Midwest. You don't really break out of it until April. So if we can get lucky and have an above normal March as far as temperatures go and less snow, I'm all about it in the know. Joe Martucci: Let's, give a plug here to what we'll be doing this winter. If you're listening, from your favorite local news website, one of us four will be covering your market when it does snow this winter. Whether you're in Oregon, Illinois, or in New York, New Jersey, wherever, keep throwing out the states, any of our Lee Enterprises properties will be covering when there is some decent snow to kind of give you those weather kind of alerts as we go into this winter here. So we'll call it an intro for now, and we'll get you into the meat and potatoes of the winter forecast. Here we'll talk with Ken Elliott from Weather. And now we are welcoming on for the 2023- 2024 winter outlook. Ken Elliott, he is senior meteorologist for WeatherWorks, friend of mine as well. Ken, thanks for being on the Cross Sky podcast. We appreciate it. Ken Elliott: Always a pleasure. Joe, always happy to talk snow, winter, and, especially with somebody gosh, how far do we go back? Too many years to count. Joe Martucci: Yeah, I think we're on double digits at this point. Or we're getting we're I think we're past double digits. Are we better double digits? Ken Elliott: Yeah, I think so. Joe Martucci: So we go way back. We share love for Jose Tejas, but we won't talk about that, in this podcast. You got to be in New Jersey to know. But we'll talk about the winter, ahead. First, you know, tell everybody what WeatherWorks does, and then my next question is what goes into the winter forecast in terms of, like, man hours and people, not so much the weather ingredients, but just the logistics of it. Ken Elliott: WeatherWorks as a whole. We service all sorts of industries. Basically anyone that has a need for weather, we're always interested in helping somebody out at its core. Way back when, Frank Lombardo, founded, the company in 1986 that was just a couple of contractors and road departments and mostly radio stations. We have since morphed to plenty of road departments, large contractors, some national, and property managers. Still, municipalities are kind of the bread and butter of our tons of people that have needs for weather data. We're happy to provide it because obviously, we all know weather data is everywhere. It's how you present it, how you interpret it, how you communicate it. And that's what we try to do to set us aside, aside from all the other apps and other data availability out there. And that's obviously, always, we were colleagues back in the day. Some of the stuff that we do now is almost unrecognizable in, a good way. I mean, the ideas are the same, but how we go about doing it is different. The volume of clients is greater. And it's cool for me because I've now been here for 17 years, knocking on my door number 18. And, just to see how far we've come, it's truly remarkable. And sometimes I forget that. And then when I talk to people that come on board, they're like, oh yeah, what you used to do. Then I go to talk about the stories and it's like, wow. It's not embarrassing, but it just goes to show you how far, we've come as a company, how far the technologies come. And by the way, that's not just like computer models, that's just everything just big data. It's truly amazing. So we try to put the personal touch on weather data for whoever wants it. And that's the thing, we work with our clients to come up with the solutions. The second part of your question about, what goes in the winter forecast, at some level it's kind of ugly. We have a crack staff, led by Jim Sullivan, kyle Leahy and Kevin Winters. Those guys, they are like the crux of the operation. They know more about all of the alphabet soup of teleconnections, and all of their implications, better than anybody I know. Then we supplement that with data folks who say, okay, once our core of long range forecasters, establish what we think the patterns will be in the analogs and that kind of stuff, then we involve our data team. And our data team was probably, years ago, just like a part time operation, comparatively. Now we've got three or four guys that just, you can ask for anything and they'll get it for you and that's great. So data is at the heart of what we do. That's kind of another one of our mantras, because we can have the best idea of the forecast. But what does that mean in terms of what can actually happen? What are the means? What are the extremes? If it's cold and snowy, well, okay, cold and snowy, that's fine. Does that relate to, in what's actually going to happen? How snowy can it get? Obviously in long range forecasting, forecasting extremes is kind of, questionable and you never feel good about doing it, but you want to know what they are. So again, the data people help out. Then we go back and say, okay, where does this make sense? And then the worst part is then we have to revisit it constantly, right? Because we start this process, at least informally in June, ah, very much internally, kind of talking about what we think is going to happen. Largely very big picture stuff like El Nino and La Nina. Then we keep on refining that. And it's kind of this delicate balance of watching things for change, but not want to deviate too far. So we put out our first initial outlook. I think it was, August 15, give or take. We had our core of what the analogues were. And I forget how many we dropped or added along the way, but that set that we start out with on August 15, is not what we finished with a couple of weeks ago. So it's kind of constantly evaluating it just like any forecast. Just like any forecast. Where do you go from it? And then it's also trying to get that down to how can we help our clients with this information? Just because we're saying cold and snowy, doesn't mean that the entire winter will be colder, snowy, or vice versa. What times are we looking at it's cold. What is cold? Right. On a national level, we're going with sneak preview kind of mild in parts of the north, but in the north it's cold. So even when it's mild, if I'm in the mid twenty, s five degrees above normal is well above normal, but that's still pretty darn cold. So it's kind of taking this scientific humble jumble at some level, the very beginning infancy, creating a forecast and then making that forecast helpful to our clients and the public at large. Matt Holiner: And Ken, I think the public is starting to become more aware of the different computer models out there. And they hear the meteorologists talking about the terms of our short range models and our long range models, but they'll still think there's some conclusion in how long range those models are. Because especially the two long range models the public is probably most familiar with, the American GFS model and the European ECMWF model only go out 14 days. So what information, what data are you looking at when you're putting together a winter outlook for multiple months? Because you're not looking at the GFS, or European model that only go out 14 days. So what data are you looking at to make these forecasts? Ken Elliott: Sure. Well, number one is not even model data. One of them is just straight up, what's El Nino doing now? Because that's the one teleconnection we probably have, the best feel for. It's also the most public visibility. So even people that really aren't hardcore into weather, they've probably heard about El Nino, especially I, forget the skit from SNL back in the 90s. So it's got some public awareness, not to mention the, Euro ensembles forecast El Nino. And there's also the IRI out of Columbia University that also has, their model plumes, for El Nino. So that's kind of where we start. Right. And it's very granular. And then we'll start saying, okay, these models say that El Niño or ENSO will do x, Y or Z. It almost doesn't matter what X, Y or Z is, but, okay, let's see where we've been, where we've come from, what the models thought along the way, and then we'll start, okay, good, that's fine to know. and again, still kind of almost acting in a vacuum of that, we'll start saying, all right, well, these prior years, we think, are kind of similar years is kind of a colloquial term internally. We kind of call them analog years. And those are like the bread and butter of the forecast. And then once we kind of get those, hint of what we think the analogs might be and again, like I mentioned before, that can shift with time. It's not all of a sudden going to be whatever we lock in initially is going to kind of make it. Then we say, okay, well, while the European and GFS models only go out two weeks or so, there also are the Euro weeklies and monthlies that we can look at, the canned sips and models along those lines. Again, they can be questionable at times, but it's part of the picture. And you're not necessarily looking to see, what kind of, temperatures it's forecasting. Any particular, certainly not a particular day, but even on a weaker monthly timescale, looking for trends, is it persistently cold? Has it been warm and turning colder? And then you kind of work from that. It's, almost like sausage making at some level. You don't really necessarily want to know how the pieces go together, but it kind of works in the end. And that's the best answer I can give because, man, it can get ugly. And the other thing, too, that we're very, proud of WeatherWorks. It's not just like a one days approach. We lean more heavily on the analogs, than actual forecast models going out because there's just too much variability there. But it's also a team effort. So we talk about like computer model ensembles of various runs of different models. But we kind of use that at a personal level, too. It's not just one person making forecast. So we'll say, okay, I might think it's cold, somebody might say warm. And then we'll kind of talk it out and see, okay, what's most likely why do you say that? And kind of know human ensembles, which in my view, are probably the best ones. Sean Sublette: Yeah, it's Sean here. And that's one of the things that I remember beating into my head as an undergrad, is that consensus is normally the best forecast. When you get all of your heads together, hopefully you get to something that's going to be the right answer or closest to the right answer. And I dabble in this just a little bit, mostly looking at analogs and looking, as we call the alphabet soups out there, things like the QBO, the PDO, all these things that are kind of beyond the scope of this particular podcast. But do you see, aside from ENSO any other kind of dominant influences? I think we all know the El Nino Southern Oscillation is kind of the big one. But when we look at some of these other recurring oscillations and changes and Indian Ocean dipole, all this stuff, are there any others that more recently the science has kind of suggested. This is one that we look at in addition to ENSO that plays a stronger role in how the winter is going to play out. Ken Elliott: I think that probably depends upon who you talk to. And that's a very good question, by the way, because ENSO is not only the most widely known, it's the one that we've kind of been around the longest, we have the longer data sets. Most meteorologists even we've all heard along the way, we've all had it, even in school. Whereas a, lot of the students going through college now are learning a lot more about the alphabet soup than any of us probably ever did going along the way. And by the way, that's a good thing because, beyond El Nino, I didn't really know much. A little bit of NAO and whatnot. But in terms of which ones, can be more helpful, I think it kind of depends upon what kind of winter you're looking at, or any season for that matter. When, the ENSO signals, be it El Nino or La Nina, are particularly strong, usually it's kind of hard for other things to influence that. But when it might be more moderated, or when you're transitioning from one to the other, then that's when some of the, other you, I think you kind of hit on the two that are probably the most impactful the PDO and the QBO. But again, that's kind of in my view, anyway, and I'm sure there's other valid opinions on this, it's more of in the frame of reference as to what else might be going on. And sometimes we're taking fairly educated guesses at that. There's all kinds of data out there, but especially when it comes to a lot of these, indices and alphabet soups, as we all call them, the really good data only goes back like 50 to 70 years, really. In the grand scheme of things, it's not that many, especially since we're kind of, in general, this kind of like, warming climate. I'll kind of stay out of the political aspects of that. But in general, it's just not as cold as it was ten or 20 years ago, whatever the reasons are, if it's short term, long term, or recurring, or going to go back, whatever. So looking at comparing something from like 1970 isn't even all that helpful in 2023. So I think depends upon where we're going, and what the overall idea is this year particularly. I think ENSO is kind of, the big game. I don't think there's really anything that's going to overcome it, at least on a seasonal scale. Maybe on a couple of weeks here or there. Maybe the PDO does something to over influence it. But overall, I'll put my money in ENSO for the time being. Kirsten Lang: And Ken, could you kind of give us maybe just a little? It's a very broad general question, but just a little recap kind of on what last year's forecast was and then how it actually played out. How things went with that. Ken Elliott: Yeah, sure. Last year's forecast was basically cold north central United States. So we'll say from the northern mountains of like Wyoming and Montana across into the Great Lakes and northernmost New England. A ah, fairly mild southern tier of the United States. Up into the east coast. The idea there was that the warmth would be dominant especially mid and late season. Which by and large was true, especially from an east coast perspective. And that the cold air would kind of spill over at times out of the upper plains and Great Lakes. From the snowfall kind of went in lockstep with that. The areas that were cold would do very well snowfall wise. So basically the Upper Plains, Upper Great Lakes, northern New England and even snow. Again, the forecast was for it to go pretty much down to the I-70 corridor pretty much across the country. But especially say Midwest Ohioish out towards Denver in terms of what actually almost the idea was great, but just a little bit off on the location. We would put like a place like Chicago for example, in the above normal snowfall. Well it didn't quite work out so well. It was further up into Wisconsin and Minnesota. They snowed plenty up there. Maiden was a little further north than we would have anticipated from a more east coast standpoint. We were kind of thinking it would be tough to get a lot of meaningful snow mid late year and that turned out to be true. But we thought December was going to do better than it did and we came pretty close. We got a nice cold shot deep trough just before Christmas. But it was transient. There was really no, I mean there was rain with it and a brief end of snow in places. It ended up being like a very large refreeze in certain cases in the mountains, like a flash freeze. But it didn't really pan out with the snow, especially in that December aspect. So we had the idea pretty good. Just some of the finer details were off by a little bit in terms of their specific location. Joe Martucci: And a lot of the mid Atlantic even saw like near record low snow like here along the Jersey shore. We had near record low, actually record low down towards Cape May. But you're right, as it went later, it definitely was on the milder side here across the area. So good stuff so far. Ken Elliott: Ken. Joe Martucci: We're going to take a brief break and then the other side probably the time everybody listening here has been waiting for what Ken and WeatherWorks is thinking for the winter outlook for 2023 and 2024. You're listening to the across the sky podcast. Welcome back, everybody, to the across the sky podcast. The Enterprises National Weather Podcast. New episodes come out every Monday wherever you get your podcast and on your favorite local news website. We are back again with Ken Elliott, senior meteorologist at WeatherWorks in New Jersey, and we are talking about the winter outlook here and now is the mean, listen me as just a person in the public always gets excited about winter forecasts, let alone as someone as a meteorologist. So it's always a big moment when we get into winter forecast season. And Ken, what we're going to do is we're going to break this down region by region here for our listening audience here. So let's start off with maybe the area of the country that gets most emotional about snow. We'll say the I-95 corridor in the Northeast. I'll let you have at it, Ken. Ken Elliott: Sure. And I say it's also usually the most interesting too, m a lot of variability year to year other parts of the country. A lot of times, especially in areas that snow frequently, the variability is less like in the Midwest and Plains, the snow floor and the snow ceiling are generally fairly accepted and you end up in fairly typical ranges on a lot. From a statistical standpoint, standard deviations of average snowfall are relatively low on the east coast, however, you either get it or you don't. And the extremes can be pretty extreme. This year, I think the folks that you go further south be the most interested because especially, and you alluded to it, know, Atlantic City, Cape May, and even going out towards know, DC, Baltimore. It was a struggle to snow and El Nino years, and I think this will be a good one, will keep a big subtropical jet stream a powerful one and a more important dominant one in play. So even if temperatures aren't all that cold at points, I do think that subtropical jet stream gets us at least a lot of players on the field. Will all those become snowstorms? Probably not, statistics would say otherwise. Even when it snows a lot in Baltimore and DC and Virginia probably have a good number of rain events in there too. But I think that subtropical jet will mean business at points. I think early season M might be a little touch and go, not looking for like a shutout completely, but it'll be tough, especially the further south again, where you'd expect it's just hard for Baltimore to snow in December, no matter how favorable the pattern is. I think you go through the later weeks of January into February. I think that's where the temperatures and the busy jet streaming are most favored to get you bigger storms there. A lot of our analog years had a lot of snow, varying degrees, but I hate to mention this too, but one of the analog was nine in 2010, and that was snowmageddon. So, again, I wouldn't dare forecast that. But I think that kind of gives you an idea that the upper end is in play here. In fact, in the Mid Atlantic, the firmer analogs, there's twice the likelihood of six inch plus events this year, compared to a regular year. So just that doesn't only takes one or two events in the Mid Atlantic to get you up to normal. Further north. Again, it's closer to average. Again, remember, averages get significantly higher once you start getting, up into New York City and beyond. So I think the storm track might end up being a little bit more mid Atlantic based than New England based, but New England will get it on it too. They're even going to try here a little bit in early to mid-November to get a little bit of snow. So we'll see how that goes, especially in the mountains. But again, not a shutout here by any stretch, even early in the season. I do think the best matching for cold and snow still does favor mid and late season, but more in line with what you'd ordinarily expect maybe a little bit below. Again, nothing too crazy, but certainly a lot more snow. What was had last year, because Boston was even below normal last year, i, think just a hair over 20 inches, we'll get a little more better distribution because it was only not too far away from Boston in those hills where there was like 80 plus. So there was really tight gradients up there. Hopefully a lot of that eases out and we'll see a lot more consistent snowfall this season. Joe Martucci: Could we talk about March real quick, too? I think you alluded to it, but we're talking March always that wild card month anyway, right? Just what are your thoughts then? Ken Elliott: Yeah, I think there's a decent chance for a little bit of a hangover early on, but I don't think it's one of these years where winter just refuses to yield. El Ninos, they just don't support a whole lot of, late season snow. So, especially once you start getting into areas that you would expect to have a hard time snowing in March. I think once you get to March 10 to 15th, it'll be tough not to say that it'll be easy in New England either, but it's easier there. But I wouldn't expect to be one of the seasons where we're sitting here March 27, worrying about a coastal snowstorm. Sean Sublette: All right, so let's go down to the Middle Atlantic. And I'm thinking Virginia, and especially because we have ten different, organizations or properties here in Virginia, and I'm looking at moderate to strong and so years. And for most places there's less snow. But you see this little ribbon when you plot up the data of near or above normal snowfall, of all places, Virginia. So when you. Talk about the nine and ten analog. I'm like, yes, I hear exactly what you're talking about. So I'm kind of of that mindset where I've been telling people there'll be more than last year. But are you also of the mindset? And let's talk about the area from Virginia all the way to Texas as the Southeast. Because we know in a positive, so subtropical jet dominates here. So there's the possibility of more than average snow, in Virginia. But then how do you think that plays out in locations farther southward? I'm imagining snow really isn't an issue here, but do you still think it's cooler or wetter in these places from the Carolina down to Florida and westward toward, let's say, Oklahoma and Texas? Ken Elliott: Indeed, cooler and wetter for sure. And that's basically a feedback on each other cooler because of the busier patterns, so it doesn't get to warm up as much. However, I don't dislike snow into places further into the south. I mean, I could see this being a decent year in the interior carolinas, ah, even down in the know, they will snow on occasion. They did a little bit one storm last year. I don't see why they couldn't do that again this year, again, very busy jet stream. It's not going to be a frequent occurrence by any stretch. But if there's a year to go above normal there, I kind of like, know we also kind of forget, that places like Arkansas, upper Mississippi, northern Alabama, they have sneaky elevations there. So it's not just like Gulf Coast Mobile, where maybe if they see a flake, that's like a big deal. But I could see some places that might average five to ten inches in the Deep South meeting or exceeding those numbers this year, just because there's going to be an above normal number of storms. And even if it's not cold, cold below normal in January is pretty cold. And that can get it done on one or two occasions. And I think it can kind of translate that further west too, out, towards Texas, Oklahoma, and even southern Kansas might not be quite as, with quite as much, confidence, I would say, in places like Virginia and maybe western Carolinas, but still, busy jet stream. I'll take the jet stream any day because unlike La Nina, where the northern jet stream is a little more dominant, le Neil is with that subtropical, jet stream, across the southern US. That comes north a little bit. A couple of times. That's all it takes. Especially in January and February. Sean Sublette: Yeah, that's in my mind, too. Before I turn this over to Matt in the Midwest, one other question I've been wanting to ask you. I've been talking to a couple other people out there about this, but the idea that I kind of have in my head is that this is a kind of pattern developing for this winter that lends itself to one or maybe two blockbusters and that's kind of it. I'm not saying that's a done deal by any stretch, but do you think that this pattern also kind of lends itself to that situation, let's say from a Raleigh to a Richmond to a DC and to South Jersey? Do you think a little better than average odds of something like do? Ken Elliott: You know, the analogs are the analogs and there's no perfect one. Obviously a perfect analog doesn't exist. It's the unicorn of the long range forecasting world. But a lot of the analogues did have like one to two. Further north would be more like three. But again, just one or two big storms that produces a snowfall. And especially when you start getting the areas we're talking about, average snowfall is not that high. So one storm can easily get you to normal. And anything above that, all of a sudden you're way above. So that's kind of also why normal snowfall bothers me. Just because in the mid-Atlantic and south it's just exactly just an average of extremes where you have four years out of 20 that it snowed. But you got like a 25 spot in there and all of a sudden it just kind of skews the average a little bit. So yeah, I do like the idea of one or two big storms most favored especially for the south, february is a little bit harder because you got better sun angle starts to warm up a little bit more. But later January 1, half of February, maybe we can go more into later February up into Virginia. But yeah, a lot of signs for one or two bigger storms and maybe more rainier kind of mixy events otherwise. Matt Holiner: And Ken, I want to focus on the Midwest next and just looking back to last winter, it was an interesting winter in the Midwest because boy did we have a lot of systems. I mean there was a period where it was on a weekly basis, we had a low pressure system tracking across the Midwest, but it was also very interesting how these low pressure systems often took a very similar path. And while there were lots of places that definitely got in on the clouds and the wind and the ups and downs and the temperatures because of this similar path, there were places that definitely. Joe Martucci: Got a lot of snow. Matt Holiner: But then there was a sharp cutoff. And if you go from Chicago down to the south, a lot of people were wondering where is the snow? Because being in Chicago, it was not a particularly cold or snowy winter for us. But you go up into Wisconsin, even southern Wisconsin, it got way more snow. Ken Elliott: Really. Matt Holiner: There was almost a cut off on the Wisconsin Illinois border where there was just snow, rain, that good old snow rain line. So tons of snow in Minnesota as well, and Wisconsin, and even northern Iowa and northern Nebraska seeing more snow than southern Nebraska and southern Iowa. Of course, historically, that's the way it works, but it just seemed like it was even exaggerated, more so last year, where these systems kept taking a very similar path. but again, also because there were so many systems, it was also interesting, while there were lots of days with below normal high temperatures because of all the cloud cover at night, there were actually a lot of warm nights. So if you look at just the average temperature of the winter, it wasn't particularly cold in the Midwest because of all the cloud cover, there were a lot of nights that weren't as cold as normal. And above normal low temperatures was pretty common in the Midwest. So with all that said to kind of recap the Midwest, what are we looking at this year? Kind of looking at. We'll include North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, on over across Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Just the Midwest. What are we looking at this one? Ken Elliott: Sure. Overall, I would say temperature wise, normal to slightly above normal. I kind of alluded to that earlier, where normal in some of these places is just darn cold. So it's not to know, even if you're well above normal, you can't snow. You can and you will snow at some point, when your temperatures are that cold. Actually looking, I believe it was, fargo, the average high bottoms out at 23 degrees, in mid to late January. So even being ten above normal for a high still gets you into the low 30s, where obviously it easily can snow. As we found out last year, we snowed a lot above freezing on the east coast. So, with that said, I think that the StormTrack will be different this year. Whereas last year was kind of more one of those cutter kind of situations where it was putting the better snows. Like you said, it kind of happens a lot anyway, but more west based, maybe northern parts of the Rockies on into Minnesota, I think that'll be a little bit more shifted south this time, so the gradient probably reverses. We talked about this a little bit, a second ago with Sean, where it was more like the south that would have the busier subtropical jet, I think southern parts, the Midwest, that's kind of like the wild card area. Anywhere south of I-70, I think you can get in on those bigger storms. And again, might not be a whole heck of a lot of them, because they get a lot of suppression south, but you get these bigger storms and you can quickly add up. So places maybe like, maybe even Tulsa, but I'd feel even better St. Louis, Cincinnati, even if you want to include out into parts of, the, central and eastern great Lakes, like Pittsburgh, places like that. I could see a lot of variability where there's sharp cutoffs between a good amount of snow and more normal snow further north. And you kind of alluded to this last year and I could see this kind of the forecast kind of repeating itself. A lot of systems go by. The polar jet stream is not dominant, but it's not dead. And we looked at the analog years. Almost every one of them had greater than 20 or in most cases even 25 measurable snowfall days, which isn't that far below normal. Anyway, again, a lot, it's not going to be like it's quiet, but a lot of lighter, more nuisance y kind of snows. Snow showers. Maybe you get one or two better clippers in there too. But again, it's not going to be from a lack of frequency that the Midwest, doesn't get above normal snowfall. It'll be basically because lighter systems outnumber the wetter systems that will be more favored towards the south. What does all that mean? I could see a place, know, Chicago having similar to snow to Cincinnati, which ordinarily kind know, wouldn't see. I could see stuff like that happening this year. But again, frequency, I don't think that's going away. I could see this northern jet stream giving plenty of systems, not a lot of moisture with them, granted, but a lot of quarter, half inch, inch type systems instead of like three to sixes and that sort of thing. and to that end, I talked about it earlier, the Midwest snowfall variability is generally less anyway, Chicago getting and I forget what the exact number is, you probably know off the top of your head, but like low twenty s, I think in Chicago that's about as low as it can go. So I think you do better than that. Anyway, this year I think the east coast method applies. I think you get more how much more I think, depends upon can you cash in and get some three to six inch clippers versus the more disorganized snow showery ones. Kirsten Lang: And Ken, can we talk a little too about the West Coast just kind of rounding this all out then and finishing up on that side of the country. What are they looking at this year? Ken Elliott: Sure, West Coast will be a tail, will be a tale of two wests. Basically. This west to east gradient we're kind of looking at across most of the country kind of goes all the way out to the West Coast. So a lot of times we're looking at for the heavier snows to be up in the northwest. Well, since the southern jet stream will be the dominant one this year, I think places like the Southwest four, corners, sierra Nevada, Southern Rockies too, I think Denver, Colorado Springs somewhere. There's going to be a tight gradient between where it snows quite extensively. Then we start going a little bit lighter as we go, further north. And I also wouldn't be surprised if they do better earlier and middle this season. While other parts of the country probably are just starting to cool off a little bit more. And they might make trend a little bit warmer and less snowy with time. So I could see season more kind of front to middle loaded there with still plenty of moisture in that subtropical jet stream. So some of the Sierra Nevadas, which is actually good because they still need to replenish some of the water supplies out there. This will be a very busy jet stream. So plenty of mountain snow places even like Flagstaff, Arizona, could have sneaky high snowfall this year. You think of them as kind of being desertish, but less moisture. It's still cold, it's still a snow, and it can pile up pretty well further north. I think places like Spokane in the Northwest, Idaho. That's kind of the most interesting question to me because you can get snow there in less than ideal ways. And there's many times when that mean northern injection might be even a little bit too far north. So if that's the case, I could see them going, maybe a week or two at a time without a whole heck of a lot of any kind of precipitation. But I still think at times that's going to buckle. And I'd favor more December or January than February. I think it'll buckle at times. And they'll still get some snows as well. Maybe not quite as much as the ski resorts might want. But, I don't think, I think this could apply anywhere. I don't think there's really a shutout there either. Might be a little bit less frequent, might have some longer dry spells. but the Northwest, they'll see their snow either by hook or crook, just when the pattern relaxes a little bit, where that subtropical jet stream maybe goes more, say, in Northern and Central California than say, Southern California and going on in towards, the rest of the south, towards Texas. Matt Holiner: And Ken, looking back again at last winter, and we talked about the epic snow that California got, do you think then there's kind of been a little bit of buz about could that happen again? What are your thoughts about a repeat of the epic snow season that they saw last season happening back to back years? Ken Elliott: It very well could, and I think would be a tight gradient. There'll be some place that might be more very Northern California and Oregon that get into that gradient. But, the Central and Southern California mountains, I think this is a very good year for them, because there's almost no way that it can't snow a lot. You got a subtropical jet stream that's it's going to move at times. Yeah. But it's going to be close enough by for a pretty long stretch. And it's hard for them not to be cold. The temperature anomalies down there. And this goes even all the way on to Texas. A lot of these times, these months were below normal. And all of them like 70, 80% of the time in the analog. So even when it's, quote unquote, mild or seasonable, with that subtropical jet stream not really going anywhere, this could be another battery year for those. Joe Martucci: And Ken, let me ask you guys, do you guys do Alaska and Hawaii winter forecasting? And if you do, I mean, obviously Hawaii is not going to get much, but could you, like, maybe in 30 seconds talk to us about just rounding out the rest of the country there? Ken Elliott: Yeah, we don't really do, Hawaii, but again, usually they'll find a way on those top peaks. They'll get snow at some point that'll. Joe Martucci: Get a little bit. Kirsten Lang: Sure. Ken Elliott: Yep. Now, the subtropical jet stream might end up I didn't look at it closely enough to see how far south of Hawaii, goes at points, but that could be close enough that they do better than you would think. And again, I wouldn't expect, if you're going on a Maui vacation, to have any issues with snow. But I'm sure the peaks will come up up in Alaska, kind of like the northwest, I think it'll be touch and go. They've already had, several events already up in the north. I was just talking to some of our guys doing some snowfall analysis up there a little while ago. But up in Alaska, I could see it being, some longer bouts where that jet stream, is more north and there's too far away from the subtropical jet to get on that. So I could see some longer spells, especially central and southern, Alaska that just kind of struggle for a while. Again, subtropical jet stream not dead, but certainly not as active. So frequency probably goes down a little bit in Alaska. The other thing is, sometimes there's like ridging out there. When we snow on the East Coast, it's hard for the entire country to snow simultaneously, including Alaska at times. So there will likely be times where it's really not doing a whole heck of a lot, especially outside of Barrow or something. When it's warm and dry, it's still 27 degrees. And with light snow, just because it's just getting every condensing, every possible moisture particle, out of the atmosphere. Right. I could see it being kind of like touch and go where there might be some spells where not a whole lot happens. But I never sleep on Alaska because they can just take the quietest time and just all of a sudden, the jet stream departs for a week or two. And while that might be the transition on the southern eastern United States that transitions when they get wrecked for a couple of days. Right. Joe Martucci: Alaska. Ah, it'll always snow in Alaska. Ken Elliott: Exactly. Joe Martucci: And then, a question that I know is always a popular one when it comes to the winter, a white Christmas. Do you guys talk anything about just for fun with your clients about white Christmas? How does it look compared to average? More likely in some spots, less likely in others. Obviously, that would parlay into your December forecast as well. Ken Elliott: Sure. I like it in the interior south. So central and Southern Appalachians, I like it a lot. Central and Southern Rockies? Absolutely. Mountains of California? Absolutely. It's tougher east. I still think there's some mild there that we're going to have to try to get rid of in December. There will be a couple of snow events in December. We'll just have to see how they time out. I do kind of like the idea that and not just climatologically speaking, I could see how it's just more conducive to snow later in December than earlier in December. Just because of some relaxation maybe, and some of that warmth from very late November and early December. So I like the odds of snow at December relative to early the month. But it might be hard on Christmas. If we do have a white Christmas on the 95 Corridor, it will take some very conducive timing and Santa's. Joe Martucci: Little magic twinkle, in his eye to make it happen. Ken Elliott: St. Nick never let you down. Joe Martucci: That is true. I think that's all we have, for the questions here on our part. Is there anything you want to wrap up here when we take a look at the winter outlook? Ken Elliott: No, I really don't think so. I mean, we pretty covered a whole lot of ground here. I think the one thing to take away here is just because the pattern is so different than it was last year, whatever you had last year is unlikely to repeat itself, at least in terms of how you got there. The end result could be kind of similar in terms of snowfall. And again, especially, in the Midwest now, I think that's probably the most likely area that snowfall is kind of, m more touch and go in that. But like, the way we get there is be vastly different. So bigger storms, you can take that to the bank when exactly they are who they hit, certainly that's certainly up in the air at this point. But the pattern is so much different that whatever happened last year, it will be completely different. At least how we got there, storm attack wise types of storms. Even if the end result is kind of similar, if you kind of average out the numbers at the end of the year. Joe Martucci: Got it? Ken Elliott: Yep. Joe Martucci: And that, that's what happens. We have our El Media winter that we are expecting here. Well, Ken, listen, we really appreciate it. And I'm, sure all of our listening audience appreciates all your insight that you have, from WeatherWorks here. We hope you guys have a good winter. And personally, I want some snow. I don't need record breaking, but more than last year, for me, please, where we had next to nothing, I. Ken Elliott: Think that is entirely doable. It's got to snow way more. I mean, the subtropical jet stream by itself gets you ten times what you. Joe Martucci: Got last year, right? We shall see. Well, thanks again, ked. We really appreciate and thanks for coming on the pod. Ken Elliott: Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. Thanks all. Joe Martucci: A, big thank you to Ken for really doing a fantastic job. I hope you all really enjoyed it, because what he did well not only give the forecast right, which is great, but also breaking it down very nicely and very easy to understand way for you, whether you're in the northeast, southeast, great Lakes, west, wherever, even Alaska, he did a really nice job. So what do you guys think? Sean Sublette: His clothes, I think, was very good. It's like whatever you had last year probably is not going to be this year. So the idea of continuity, it's going to be kind of the same, is probably not going to play out the weather pattern and all that stuff. It's fundamentally different going into this winter. So do not expect, the same type of weather pattern that we were locked into for a lot of last winter, no matter where you are. Matt Holiner: And I think the one thing to stress know, sometimes people do get carried away. They talk about a warm winter. It doesn't mean it's going to be warm, it's still going to be cold, especially in the Midwest, when you're talking about above normal temperatures, yes, warmer than normal, but that doesn't mean that it's not going to be cold in the Midwest. Now, I would say that for places like Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, the place that got some really big snows last year because of the combination of it probably being warmer and drier, a repeat of the heavy snow that we saw in those locations that looks like that's going down. But it'll be interesting in the southern part of the Midwest. That's what intrigued me, how he said Cincinnati could end up seeing the same amount of snow as Chicago. And I actually spent a couple years forecasting for Cincinnati, and that would not be normal. Cincinnati is typically a warmer place that sees less snow than Chicago, and it. Seems like there could be a repeat. In some parts of the Midwest, but. The area to watch might be the. Southern tier of the Midwest where they got the systems last year. But many times they were on the. Joe Martucci: Warm side of it. Matt Holiner: It was just, an all rain thing. I think that it's going to be, again, all about the timing. Can we get the moisture to line up with the cold. And I think we're definitely going to have the moisture in the southern part of the Midwest, maybe even more so than last year across the southern tier of the Midwest. Can that cold air reach down there for it to be snow instead of rain? So we'll have to watch for places like St. Louis yeah. The Cincinnati's and then Chicago in the transition zone. We'll have to see if we can get a little bit more snow because last year to Chicago was more on the rain side. But we'll end up being a little bit more on the stow side this year. I think it may end up being a kind of a wash here in Chicago because of the warmer air that's expected. It's probably going to be a little. Bit warmer than normal again. So Chicago may be a repeat, but watch maybe a little bit more snow in the southern part. Kirsten Lang: And if we could just get some snow here in Tulsa too, and not the cold rain that I hate so much, I'll be happy. Matt Holiner: Yeah, no cold rain. Joe Martucci: When I think about Tulsa and Dallas, Wichita, I think about a lot of ice. Would I be true? Kirsten Lang: We had some pretty significant icing events. One of them was back in 2007, I believe. I mean, it shut the city down for like a week or two. It was a big deal. Thankfully, I wasn't living here. But of course there are many, many people that were. So they get real nervous when they hear ice because that was kind of a traumatizing event. Joe Martucci: Yeah, ice is definitely the worst because, it's not fun. It doesn't look nice. It just kind of looks like rain. And it turns everything into an ice rink. Kirsten Lang: You can't do anything. Yeah. Joe Martucci: And you can't do anything. Matt Holiner: Overall, though, my takeaway was though, that we're probably going to be pretty busy as we talked about the beginning of the podcast. Updating everyone. Because though it might be a little bit quieter on the snow side in the northern part of the country, there's going to be an uptick in the southern part of the country with all these systems that are going to go by. And again, it just seems hard for places like the Northeast, like Richmond and New Jersey for y'all to have a repeat of last winter where there was all, the snubby snow. It seems pretty unlikely to happen in back to back years. So I would say overall that as a country, if you look at the big national picture, a busier winter, it was certainly busy for some last winter, but I think it's going to more even out. It might be quieter in some places, but some places gain a boost. And so I think more places are probably going to have a boost in. How active the winter is. So I think there'll be plenty to talk about this winter in various places at various times. Joe Martucci: Absolutely. All right, well, let us know what you guys thought about, the winter forecast episode. You can tell us your thoughts on winter as well. Podcast@lee.net. That's plural. Podcast. Podcasts@lee.net. You can also call our hotline. We have a Lee Weather team across the sky podcast hotline. That number is 609-272-7099. Again, 609-272-7099. And we have to give a shoutout to Teresa Hodges, who asked a question she called in. She asked a question. She wanted to know about the solar, eclipse that we had a couple of Saturdays ago. She wanted to know what would happen if you flew through totality on a plane. What would it look like here? And I actually feel like it would be pretty similar to being on the ground. That was my initial thought. I don't know if you guys have. Anything different to add to that. Definitely be darker, but I think you'd still be able to see kind of maybe the sky around you a little. Matt Holiner: Bit better because you can have a. Joe Martucci: Better field of vision. Sean, looks like you might have something cooking on it. Sean Sublette: There was a picture going round the interwebs after the 2017 eclipse where somebody took a picture of the eclipse from an airplane. And it looked pretty cool. But it kind of looks very similar. Just big black circle up in the sky. Matt Holiner: Yeah. Because in the plane, you are still flying into the shadow. It's being cast on the Earth. So it would be a similar effect. It would get darker. If you're flying, even you're not on the ground, you're going to be flying in the shadow. So it would get darker around. But I think the other key thing that people, I think, got a little Cherried away on with the annular eclipse versus the total eclipse, that 10% 90% of the sun being covered versus 100% makes a big difference. So, again, I think it would have been a little bit underwhelming if you were in the and or if it might gotten a little bit darker. But if you want the dramatic change, it's the total eclipse. And that's why I'm so excited for April. And that's the one to get real excited about, folks, and get in the path of totality. It is so worth it. I saw it in 2017, and I'm doing it again this year. I cannot wait. Joe Martucci: I'm just reading an article by, I believe this is KXAN, that is in Austin, Texas. They actually composed a list of flights that will be in the air in totality on the eclipse day on April. Eigth ah, 2024. So if you're interested, you can buy your Southwest flights now. I won't read them all, but I'll read how about three of them here? There's a Dallas Love to Pittsburgh at 12:45 p.m. Central time. That's when it leaves Dallas. Then we have a St. Louis at. 01:20 p.m. Central time. Going to Houston? Hobby Airport. And then, there's also one from Milwaukee at 100 and 05:00 p.m. Central going to Dallas that afternoon. So book your flights now if you want to hop on. Or you can also go on. In 2017, they had a cruise ship, a boat that went through Totality. And somebody have to remind me who sang Total Eclipse of the Heart. Sean Sublette: It would be Bonnie Tyler. Joe Martucci: Thank you, Sean. I figured Sean would know who it was. Bonnie Tyler. Yeah. So maybe she, I wonder if. Matt Holiner: She's going redo that. Joe Martucci: Hopefully she will redo that. We'll, see. Matt Holiner: Maybe we can get on that one. Joe Martucci: Maybe we'll have her on the podcast. That would be cool. That would be really cool. Actually. Bonnie, if you're listening, let us know. We would love to have you talk about that. Hope you guys have a great week. 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On today's episode, Jake. Marty, and Reags start things with Chris Beard's return to Lubbock. The Beard's Longhorns lost to the Red Raiders in what was one of the craziest atmospheres in college basketball history (05:34). Will we ever see a situation like this again? Texas Tech dominated from start to finish. How dangerous is Mark Adams' squad? Over to the SEC where basketball's Iron Bowl went #1 Auburn's way (17:49). The Tigers took down the Crimson Tide essentially locking up the regular season SEC title. Auburn looked the part of the top team in the country but are the Tigers a lock for the #1 overall seed? And for the Tide, which upcoming game looms larger, Ole Miss on the road or Kentucky at home? We go back to the Big 12 where Kansas picked up a big road win in Ames over Iowa State (33:16). Does this say more about the Jayhawks or Cyclones? Reags thinks Iowa State is regressing after overachieving early on. Before we get to our segments, we hit on the Emoni Bates/Memphis news (37:48) and some of the other early-week action (40:52). The guys also debate whether or not Duke is underrated. Up next is Love/Hate (54:42) and Beating The Buzzer (01:05:02). Jake and Marty are then joined by Big Cat to hit on Wednesday's action including Wisconsin-Illinois and Villanova-Marquette (01:20:33). Plus Big Cat rants about Tuesday's Louisville/UNC referee fiasco. Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show and follow us on Instagram and Twitter @stoolbenchmob.

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Our bets for February 2. Games are Arkansas-Georgia, Purdue-Minnesota and Wisconsin-Illinois. Remember to rate and subscribe to the podcast anywhere you listen to podcast. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/robert-ashe/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/robert-ashe/support

John Fanta, Terrence Oglesby and Kevin Sweeney give an instant reaction to Michigan State's victory over Wisconsin, Illinois falls at Maryland, Penny Hardaway makes an apology and Auburn's Wendell Green Jr. joins the show!!! The FIELD OF 68 AFTER DARK is POWERED by Bet Rivers: BetRivers.com SUBSCRIBE! Our Second Channel: https://bit.ly/3kWahy5 Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2XKlwAh Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3F15GCC FOLLOW Field of 68: https://twitter.com/thefieldof68 Check out https://www.thefieldof68.com/ to see our full roster of podcasts!!!

The Michigan State men's basketball team is coming off a 64-62 loss to Northwestern. And the timing couldn't be worse as the Spartans hit the road for ranked opponents Wisconsin on Friday and Illinois on Tuesday.  Lansing State Journal reporters Graham Couch and Phil Friend, and Detroit Free Press beat writer Chris Solari, discuss the state of the Spartans, those upcoming games, and make their predictions for those contests.  Then they move to football, where freshman Ma'a Gaoteote has entered the transfer portal and Georgia DB Ameer Speed is transferring in. 

Welcome back! In today's episode, Coach Riley touches on the Wisconsin - Illinois game and previews the Wisconsin - Army matchup. Can the Badgers defense contain the Black Knights' triple option? Join the conversation and let us know what you think. Thank you to those who have served. Want to support the show? - Subscribe today, leave a 5-star review, and tell a friend! That is the #1 way to help us grow. Looking for more content? Listen to Season 1 of Badgers & Friends on Spotify and Apple Podcasts featuring Adam Bay, Garrett Groshek, Adam Krumholz, Nick Herbig, Faion Hicks, Keeanu Benton, Joe Schobert, Scott Nelson, Logan Bruss, Jon Chenal, Hayden Rucci, & Collin Larsh. Just search "IKE Badgers Podcast" Season 2 just dropped its first episode with Raiders Captain and Full-back Alec Ingold. Out every Wednesday. Follow IKE Badgers on Twitter: @IKE_Badgers Follow Coach Riley on Twitter: @BadgersRiley The #1 rated Badgers Podcast on the Apple Podcasts Platform. @welcometoike

We return with a full preview of Illinois this week. Orange & Blue News' Alec Busse joins the show to help us look at a variety of topics: What Bret Bielema has done early on in his return to the Big Ten Bielema and facing his former program he coached An offense predicated on the run, but not much luck in its aerial attack A defense that has mostly contained the run but given up a lot through the air One of the nation's best punters Keys for Illinois, and a prediction After paying the bills with some ads, Jake discusses four keys to the game, his players to watch, and more. That includes talking about a certain four-star tailback, and if we potentially see his name called more this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back! In today's episode, Coach Riley touches on the Wisconsin - Michigan game and previews the Wisconsin - Illinois matchup. Can the Badgers beat former head coach Bret Bielema? Join the conversation and let us know what you think. Want to support the show? - Subscribe today, leave a 5-star review, and tell a friend! That is the #1 way to help us grow. Looking for more content? Listen to Season 1 of Badgers & Friends on Spotify and Apple Podcasts featuring Adam Bay, Garrett Groshek, Adam Krumholz, Nick Herbig, Faion Hicks, Keeanu Benton, Joe Schobert, Scott Nelson, Logan Bruss, Jon Chenal, Hayden Rucci, & Collin Larsh. Just search "IKE Badgers Podcast" Season 2 just dropped its first episode with Raiders Captain and Full-back Alec Ingold. Out every Wednesday. Follow IKE Badgers on Twitter: @IKE_Badgers Follow Coach Riley on Twitter: @BadgersRiley The #1 rated Badgers Podcast on the Apple Podcasts Platform. @welcometoike

Brewers-Braves Preview (0:00) Willy Adames Effect (15:02) Wisconsin-Illinois (25:54) Packers-Bengals (35:08) Sports Director Zach Heilprin (46:48) Andrew Wagner of Forbes.com on the Brewers (58:51) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's edition of The Daily Tap, Charlie talks about the wild Wednesday that the Packers had with striking out on Stephon Gilmore, signing Rasul Douglas, and Jaylon Smith. After he talks about Gilmore's potential impact and what happened there, Charlie focuses on the two newest Packers. What they can bring to the table to help this defense (0-15 minutes). Charlie moves on to the betting preview for the weekend. He talks about if the Packers are worth a bet against the Bengals in a ratline (15-22 minutes). He talks about how a tease is how you bet Wisconsin-Illinois (22-30) and lastly some quick thoughts on playoff baseball lines.

The Daily Tap's Friday edition is here. Charlie talks about what he is doing for the Super Bowl from a betting perspective. He explains the angles that he is looking at as well as the process of visualizing what might happen in the game (0-18 mins). He previews Wisconsin Sports Weekend where he previews the weekend's worth of games in the State of Wisconsin. Thoughts on Bucks-Cavs, Wisconsin-Illinois, Marquette-Creighton.

Lead Balloon Season 2 launches on January 5! But in the meantime, we wanted to share some exciting behind-the-scenes updates about our small--but growing--company. Larry Kilgore III starts today as Podcamp Media's Production Services Manager. And with a pandemic raging and all work being conducted virtually for the foreseeable future, Dusty had to meet him at the Wisconsin-Illinois border to hand off the equipment he needs to work from home. So, in the spirit of Lead Balloon, enjoy this quick onboarding interview, conducted in a SOCIALLY DISTANT, pandemic-friendly and unconventional manner--with Dusty and Larry sitting down to talk from their individual cars in a Culver's parking lot, a mic cable strung between their vehicles. 2020 can't end soon enough. See you all in 2021, folks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Josh Fletcher and his girlfriend, Sara, are out on Josh's property looking to get Sara her first deer with a bow. Things happen quick, as they have a nice "forker" pop out and give Sara an opportunity. Then, we head down to West Central Illinois with Matt Miller. He's got a few nice bucks on his cameras over there, and ends up seeing one of his shooters. But will this buck ever give Matt a chance...?

Dillon and Joey talk about two teams near and dear to their heart, the Wisconsin-Illinois football game. Plus, our top 5 bench moments of the week and Dill introduces our second recurring segment. (Note- at about 6:30 there is a 20 second silence, just fast forward to about 6:50 to skip the technical difficulties).

It has been 321 days since we last had Big Ten football in our lives. It has been 37 days since the Big Ten decided to reinstate the college football season. But we have made it! The day is upon us! It is the first Big Ten football gameday of the year. And there is no better person to celebrate this immense occasion than the one, the only: Sir Yacht. We break down the entire weekend slate, starting with the season opener of Wisconsin-Illinois and ending with the Little Brown Jug. Picks, predictions, winners, all of that on a day that will live on for the rest of our days.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you.Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON,” and you'll get 20% off your next order.BuiltGoVisit BuiltGO.com and use promo code “LOCKED,” and you'll get 20% off your next order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The guys give their full previews of both the Wisconsin/Illinois and Green Bay/Houston games along with predictions after the return of Mitch Hedberg Fridays.

Pull out your abacuses because it's time to calculate weekend outcomes with Ari Wasserman! He and Andy cruise through Pittsburgh-Notre Dame and set the stage for the Andy's pushup party (:30). As the upper body workout begins, Ari previews the Big10's opening weekend, starting with Wisconsin-Illinois (8:30). Are the 19.5-points the Badgers are favored by enough? Could Wisconsin blow the doors off this game early? "Mom's spaghetti, knees weak, arms are heavy." Andy's not enjoying his mother's pasta dish, but his arms sure are HEAVY, speaking of which, is there a heavy favorite in Penn State-Indiana (15:00)? Clapping pushups??? Are you kidding us, Andy??? Could Nebraska clap back at Ari for believing Ohio State will dominate this contest (18:00)? On the topic of the Big 10, will Bo Pelini's defense keep South Carolina in check (23:45)? Can we expect the 2-0 Tennessee who started the season off strong, or the 0-2 Tennessee club that's floundered against Georgia and Kentucky this Saturday against 'Bama (26:15)? It is done. Next week's bet is set. Michigan-Minnesota...and a dark beer (36:45). Plus, would P.J. Fleck be more likely to stay at Minnesota where he could, potentially, have a statue of himself outside TCF Bank Stadium, or take over a more prestigious program and earn more dough? Who's most likely to drop their first conference game of the season, Oklahoma State or Iowa State (46:15)? Lastly, Random Rankings! Follow Andy on Twitter: @Andy_Staples Follow Ari on Twitter: @AriWasserman Join The Athletic for just $1 a month! Visit: theathletic.com/andystaples Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It has been 321 days since we last had Big Ten football in our lives. It has been 37 days since the Big Ten decided to reinstate the college football season. But we have made it! The day is upon us! It is the first Big Ten football gameday of the year. And there is no better person to celebrate this immense occasion than the one, the only: Sir Yacht. We break down the entire weekend slate, starting with the season opener of Wisconsin-Illinois and ending with the Little Brown Jug. Picks, predictions, winners, all of that on a day that will live on for the rest of our days. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!  Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON,” and you’ll get 20% off your next order. BuiltGo Visit BuiltGO.com and use promo code “LOCKED,” and you’ll get 20% off your next order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Grant and Hunter fill-in for Dave. Cody Stoots (Texans Reporter) joins them to discuss Packers/Texans. Plus they discuss Wisconsin/Illinois! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Against the spread, over-under and moneyline selections for the college football weekend. Game previews and picks included for Louisiana-UAB (9:00), Wisconsin-Illinois (11:45), Auburn-Ole Miss (17:00), Alabama-Tennessee (18:30), Michigan-Minnesota (21:00), Notre Dame-Pitt (27:00), Clemson-Syracuse (32:50), Liberty-Southern Miss (38:30), Ohio State-Nebraska (50:15), North Carolina-NC State (53:00), Oklahoma-TCU (56:30), Cincinnati-SMU (1:09:00), the moneyline sprinkles for the week (1:15:50) and more. Cover 3' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Follow our hosts on Twitter: @Chip_Patterson, @bartonsimmons, @TomFornelli, @DannyKanell For more college football coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MarkRogersTV, "The Voice of College Football", breaks down Week 1 of Big Ten play including Michigan-Minnesota, Ohio State-Nebraska, Penn State-Indiana, Iowa-Purdue, Wisconsin-Illinois, Michigan State-Rutgers and Northwestern-Maryland. For complete college football coverage go to markrogerstv.com. 

The guys get a little help from Marques Pfaff on Mondays with Marques previewing the Wisconsin/Illinois game Friday night.

Dre Marro aka "Andres A. Gamarro Bran" is an Independent hip hop artist of Guatemalan descent, currently residing in Chicago, IL. Influenced by greats such as, Lupe Fiasco, Eminem, J. Cole, & Big Pun, Dre Marro has played a major role in the Wisconsin hip hop scene as of late. Opening events for hip hop legends such as former Terror Squad member Cuban Link and boasting features with artists the likes of Mickey Factz, Dre Marro has worked with local, national and international indie artists, most notably in New Zealand. Mainly in Illinois and Northern & Southeastern Wisconsin, Dre Marro aka "Mufasa" has established himself as a full-time artist, promoter, event coordinator, graphic designer, video editor and alongside his wife "America Gamarro" is Co-CEO of the independent record label, "DreMerica Entertainment, LLC". Major moments for Dre Marro would include participating in "Dwayne Wade's Chicago's Got Talent" in 2010 & 2012. Assisting Duane Charles in the initial launch of "The 616 Gighive" venue in Kenosha, WI (2014). Hosting & Organizing the "Hip Hop 4 Love" fundraising event for victims of Hurricane Maria in 2017. Performing at the 2018 Puerto Rican Day Parade Festival in Humboldt Park, Chicago, IL (2018). Performing at the 3rd annual Black Las Vegas Food Festival in late 2019, Organizing, "The Midwest Takeover Promo tour" performing all across Wisconsin & Illinois in early 2020. Dre is currently promoting the release of his new project entitled, "Troublesome" and is hoping the latest edition to his catalog can bring some positivity and lyricism to young & seasoned hip hop fans alike.

Regan and Mellie have been married for 17 years. One of my favorite parts of this episode may be that you can hear 4 of their 6 children practicing their violin in the background toward the end, and another favorite moment, at the very end where the Martin's sing a gospel hymn for us. This American family who moved from Wisconsin/Illinois to follow God's call to South Africa. Both had missions on their heart. Regan said he prayed, “Here we are, send us. Where would you have us to be?” Regan visited South Africa with Cape Missions International and after one of those trips, when Mellie picked him up from the airport he said, “I think the Lord is calling us to South Africa”. Mellie shares she was overwhelmed at that, because she had been single handedly parenting as he was away and “was in survival mode. She was pregnant with their fifth child”. Mellie said she just simply listened and thought maybe it was just the jet lag talking, and that she wouldn't bring it up because maybe it would just go away. But it didn't go away and she agreed to go back with Regan a year later and observed what he had experienced on his first trip to South Africa. She couldn't deny that there was a fit, that Regan was in his element. “It hit me on the trip, this is right.” - Mellie Regan and Mellie share they met in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin at their family church. It wasn't until Regan had been in a really serious car accident that he grasped God in a whole new way. “When He was at work at turning my heart after Him, it was in that context with new eyes I saw Mellie and there was an attraction there.” “The work that the Lord was doing in my life was that my heart would be fully after Him, and trusting the Lord in how He might work everything out with Regan. I prayed for him a lot.” - Mellie “God had it all under control” — Mellie Regan says during the dating/engagement period, he had a lot of immaturities surface and saw how marriage was going to mature him and how he needed a better grasp of the gospel, and centering on Christ. “Marriage and fatherhood is how God calls a young man forth in manhood” — Regan “That faithfulness, responsibility, serving, leading, laying down your life…” They share what they've learned of the Father's heart through the role of husband and wife. Mellie said the idyllic idea she may have had about herself thinking she is patient, understanding really has been shifted especially with children and fostering children in the early years of their marriage, seeing that submission and respect is something she really was having a hard time with, in relation to Regan. “I'd ask the kids to respect their father, but am I respecting him? I'm such a hypocrite.” “You see yourself in this mirror of God's Word…and it's so humbling and distressing. I began to understand how much I need the gospel. So seeing the Father's heart in that, I felt like, ‘Lord You're telling me to love, and I am completely incapable of loving… how could You call me to do that?' And I felt Him say, “That's exactly where I want you to be, you need the gospel and that's why Jesus died. Not only to save you from your sins but to empower you to live a righteous way.” - Mellie “Mellie, will you submit to My leadership through your husband? And growing up in my family, which has a lot of strong women, that was so counter cultural, so against my natural way of operating.” FAMILY & homeschooling “From the beginning, God put it in my heart to lead my family in worshipping God. That burden, that desire, a happy burden, a joy.” - Regan “To worship God as a family…what a blessing” “There's a great need for that, where reformation would meet the home” — Regan “And where parents would have that biblical vision for shepherding their children's hearts at home, worshipping the Lord together at home, and especially preaching the gospel. We come back again and again to the gospel in our home because we see our brokenness in close relationship you d --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode, Zach and Emma discuss KU/UT, Wisconsin/Illinois, massive quarterback injuries, and give World Series predictions (spoiler: Emma's going to be right).

BadgerBlitz.com gets you ready for Wisconsin-Illinois with a full preview, plus player interviews. Here's the full rundown: We break down how to watch/listen/stream the game, plus give you the updated injury report released by Wisconsin on Thursday morning. Outside linebacker Noah Burks discusses a couple of pick-sixes by the position group in recent weeks, his progression from spring ball until now, and what he had seen from Illinois' offense on film Orange and Blue News' Doug Bucshon joins the show to help us preview the game from the other side of the beat. Topics include Lovie Smith and if he's on the hot seat, the Illini defense's ability to create turnovers but also give up a lot of yards on the ground, and what to expect from the Illinois offense. Jon and Jake return to give their keys to the game on both sides of the ball for Saturday's divisional matchup. MAILBAG TIME! We answer a couple of subscriber questions from the BadgerBlitz community Jake spoke with right tackle Logan Bruss about his development, the offensive line's play and the "Hippo" package. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SnoTapWI Gambling Hour is live for Week 8 of the college football season and week 7 of the NFL season. Charlie makes his local picks talking about Oakland-Green Bay and Wisconsin-Illinois before diving into the rest of the slate. He explains why he's going against New Orleans again, why the Sunday Night Football over will finally hit and his trust in the Jets. Charlie goes to the dog pound for his top college football picks than the rest of his card for both college and pro. Bonus baseball pick at the end!

2019 College Football Gambling Picks Week 8! Chris and Gary have College Football gambling picks against the spread for Week 8! Gary & Chris are doing a competition this year to pick a minimum of 4 cfb games (totals or against the spread), including putting a dollar amount on it, and we're keeping track on who can profit the most over on the website! If you'd like to see where we stand on the year, visit here: http://bit.ly/2MBSCLf. On this episode, we pick these games:[7:00] UCLA @ Stanford[8:30] Duke @ Virginia[9:15] Wisconsin @ Illinois[11:20] Arizona St @ Utah[12:58] Boise St @ BYU[14:35] Arizona @ USC[16:13] Central Michigan @ Bowling Green[17:37] Baylor @ Oklahoma St[19:26] Iowa St @ Texas Tech[22:16] North Carolina @ Virginia Tech[24:20] Michigan @ Penn St[25:43] Missouri @ Vanderbilt[27:36] Ohio St @ Northwestern (Friday)Then [30:00] TJ Rives from the 3 Dog Thursday podcast joins us for his weekly segment to discuss this week's games!----------► Find out more about Tunica, MS sports books! http://bit.ly/2Ynn56V● WCE Weekly Football Picks Contest! http://bit.ly/2ZnqSkp● Get our gambling picks here: http://bit.ly/2MBSCLf● Subscribe on YouTube! http://bit.ly/2OFfgFaSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/winning-cures-everything9033/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Nick Kostos and Ken Barkley discuss how they're betting Wisconsin-Illinois and Kansas-Texas before conducting another singing contest, as producer Eli Hershkovich cheers on his Nationals' futures. Ken wraps things up with a rapid-fire NFL ATS betting session. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Tap Takeover Podcast has taken another "beer-run" down to the Wisconsin-Illinois border to chat with the owners of R'Noggin Brewery in Kenosha! We sit down with brothers Jeff and Kevin Bridleman to get the inside scoop on the 70 different beers that they've brewed in their 3 years of operation. Ever wanted to know the story behind the little girl and her white rabbit on their artwork? We've got the answers! And we've also got lots of breaking news involving some of R'Noggin's upcoming brewing projects, as well as some collaborations and special releases. Come for the beer news - this week sponsored by Three Cellars Menomonee Falls - and stay for the stories! Grab a bottle of Pre Dawn Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout and join us. Cheers!

An abbreviated edition of the show, but here we go!!! 0:00-7:25 We preview Illinois and what Lovie Smith's squad has done on the field. A lot of not-so-great stats on paper but some that could give Wisconsin some worries. 7:25-13:28 Right tackle David Edwards talks a hint about the Michigan loss and looks ahead to what he'll see against Illinois on Saturday. 13:28-18:40 We bust out some #B5Qrootin news, including who will be at Wisconsin this weekend. 18:40-23:20 Wide receiver A.J. Taylor discusses the Michigan loss and what he sees out of the Illinois secondary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's edition of "The Hoosier Sound," Noah takes this episode by himself to give you some updates on IU sports. He starts by going over how IUFB played against Wisconsin and what the rest of the season might be like. After that, he looks ahead to the game against Illinois and what that game means for the Hoosiers. Lastly, IUBB had their second and final exhibition game this past weekend. Noah dives into that game, and what to look for during the season.

In this week's LGBTQ headlines: • Ireland elected it's first openly gay prime minister • Newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron stands up for gay men in Chechnya • The 7th court of appeals rules in FAVOR of a transgender student in Wisconsin • Illinois is about to ban use of the “gay panic” defense in courtrooms • The Navy and the Pentagon honor Pride Month • LGBT ally Olivia Newton-John on being positive in the face of personal challenges • New queer film, "Handsome Devil," delivers a charming and charismatic coming-of-age story that's reminiscent of Dead Poets Society All that and more in this “good news” episode of The Randy Report

In this week's LGBTQ headlines: • Ireland elected it's first openly gay prime minister • Newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron stands up for gay men in Chechnya • The 7th court of appeals rules in FAVOR of a transgender student in Wisconsin • Illinois is about to ban use of the “gay panic” defense in courtrooms • The Navy and the Pentagon honor Pride Month • LGBT ally Olivia Newton-John on being positive in the face of personal challenges • New queer film, "Handsome Devil," delivers a charming and charismatic coming-of-age story that's reminiscent of Dead Poets Society All that and more in this “good news” episode of The Randy Report

Zach Pereles, Henry Bushnell and Tristan Jung react to Northwestern's heart-jolting win over Wisconsin at Camp Randall Stadium. As Justin Jackson tweeted, "what just happened"? The guys discuss offensive ineptitude and defensive dominance. Plus, as this will be our only podcast of the week, a look ahead to Illinois.