MADISON, Wis. — The long hours many Wisconsinites may have spent in the car recently during holiday travels could have passed quicker with the right road trip soundtrack.
Those travel times (and then some) are what many politicians faced this past November as they tried to make their case to as many voters as possible. So what did they listen to along the way, and who would you trust to be stuck in a car with?
Listening for any taste — Robin Vos
If you give the state’s Assembly speaker control over the radio, he could probably find something that you would like — his music tastes spanning decades across the XM dial.
“The stations I listen to mostly for fun: 70s on 7, the blend, I like 40s on 4, classic rewind,” Vos said. “I do a lot of Sirius Radio.”
If music is not your cup of tea, Vos said he also has a trove of podcasts ready-to-go. Just don’t expect anything dealing with current politics.
“I’m listening to one right now that’s on medieval history,” he said. “So I try to focus mostly on things that are that are not current because I want my mind to wander.”
Play-by-play — Tony Evers
If your October was spent furiously checking to see if the Brewers might pull off a playoff berth, then you might want to hitch a ride in the governor’s car.
“I hate to say this, I love music, but I was more concerned about how the Brewers were doing than anything else,” the governor said.
Time well spent — Greta Neubauer
The notion that any time in the car is wasted is not something that you will hear from the Assembly Democratic leader. Neubauer said she liked to use that time to do things she might not otherwise have been able to do during a busy campaign season.
“I would often call people to catch up in the car when I was on my drive,” she said. “Call friends or family members, you know, find the time that you can in between campaigning to catch up with folks.”
If she needed to jam out though, Neubauer said she was up for listening to something new.
“I like to listen to the radio sometimes to get some new music in my life, and often when I’m in southeastern Wisconsin that is at 88.9 Radio Milwaukee,” she said.
A ‘Smooth Ride’ — News 3 Now political reporter Will Kenneally
If reporters are more your speed, you may be lucky enough to find yourself sharing a car ride with News 3 Now’s political reporter. If so, you can expect it to be a soulful ride — dabbling in songs from the Motown era through Neo-Soul and into the 2000s.
In southcentral Wisconsin, he is also a devoted WSUM listener, where he previously hosted a music program “Smooth Ride.”
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