1310 WIBA (WIBA-AM)
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Local advice, one practical conversation at a time.
Ask The Experts is a service-minded interview show built around everyday decisions: fixing a roof, choosing a dog breed, selling a house, or understanding deployment. The pace is relaxed, with banter softening advice from rotating voices.
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Ask The Experts is a practical, interview-driven radio show built around everyday advice from rotating voices. It has a friendly AM-radio texture. The unnamed radio voice keeps the mood casual, often starting with coffee, weather, sports, driving, or a family aside before steering back to the topic at hand. The result is less like a formal business seminar and more like a helpful morning conversation with someone who knows a trade. Recent episodes show the range clearly. Matt Heitman from Rock Realty talks through spring listings, market numbers, pre-owned homes versus new builds, online maps, neighborhood scouting, wet basements, patios, acreage, and the timing of buyers and sellers. Real estate advice is usually tied to concrete situations rather than abstract market theory. The hail episode adds insurance and exterior concerns, with Adam with Performance Exteriors explaining replacement cost, actual cash value, shingle quality, wind ratings, and Class 4 shingles. Home maintenance gets another lane through Andrew Larson from Larson Home Services, who explains roof restoration, roof coatings, granular loss, waterproofing, hail resistance, wind resistance, and when a roof is too far gone to save. The veterinary episodes with Dr. Marty Greer are similarly accessible. They move from pet fitness and spring walks to dog breed popularity, purebred selection, cats, dogs, exotic pets, horses, and a kangaroo news story. The Wisconsin Army National Guard episode shifts the format toward recruitment and deployment questions, with Sergeant Grant Selesky describing how joining, job choice, cycles, and deployment possibilities can vary. Across the show, the radio voice tends to restate a point as a practical takeaway. That habit gives the conversations a useful, homeowner-friendly rhythm. The tradeoff is repetition. Phone numbers, websites, sponsor framing, and business contact details appear often, so the strongest moments are the stretches where people explain real choices in simple terms. Ask The Experts suits listeners who like local advice without a sharp edge, especially when the subject is a home, pet, roof, listing, or family decision.
Made for: For listeners who want plainspoken guidance on homes, pets, real estate, repairs, and local services. It fits people who prefer friendly radio conversation over dense expert lectures.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the mix of everyday banter and specific service advice from rotating voices. Few similar shows move so easily from hail-damaged roofs to dog breeds, wet basements, deployment questions, and spring housing activity.
Ask The Experts is a weekly collection of shows on 1310 WIBA, featuring professionals in different fields offering advice on how to get the job done.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Local professionals make housing costs, insurance choices and property decisions easier to understand through concrete, question-led conversations.
Ask The Experts turns local professional advice into practical radio conversations, with the host pressing guests to explain the decisions behind buying, selling, maintaining and improving a home.
Hail dents the roof; this is where your insurance vocabulary catches up before negotiations do.
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Deployment is framed as a real commitment, shaped by role, timing, and outcome rather than assumption.
The segment treats deployment as a practical matter, not a slogan. The sergeant makes the point that joining the Wisconsin Army National Guard is not casual, and he keeps the focus on time, cost, and the plain need to understand what the process actually asks of someone.
A practical hail and roofing segment with a clear insurance takeaway.
The segment starts with a Janesville listing, then moves into hail damage, roof insurance, and shingle quality. That makes the practical value easy to follow.
A practical roof triage segment that explains when restoration can help and when replacement is the better call.
This Ask The Experts segment turns a roof conversation into a practical guide for homeowners who want to avoid replacing a roof too early. Andrew Larson explains Larson Home Services' roof restore program, what the coating is meant to do, and where the company draws the line…
A rainy-day market check that turns local listings into practical timing advice.
Spring weather does some of the selling here, but the real focus is a local housing market that looks a little looser. Matt Heitman and the host move from the latest Dane and Rock County numbers to the plain question people actually care about: whether more listings and longer…
A practical condo primer for buyers balancing equity, convenience, and lower-maintenance ownership.
The episode treats condo buying as a practical decision, not a lifestyle pitch. It lays out the tradeoffs clearly: how condo ownership compares with a house, why some buyers want the equity without the yard work, and how a flex room or bonus room can make the space fit daily…
Practical pet care advice that turns vague symptoms into something a veterinarian can actually use.
This episode keeps its focus on a familiar worry: how to help a vet understand what a dog is doing when words are not enough. Dr. Marty Greer stays on practical ground, especially around older dogs acting differently at night and the value of a quick phone video over a vague…
Kitchen upgrades lead the way, with practical resale advice and a strong local-home focus.
The segment focuses on renovations that can help a home on the market, with Matt Heitman and Sean spending most of the time on kitchen upgrades.
A grounded real-estate conversation that balances investment logic with lifestyle use and a few hard reality checks.
This episode treats Rock Realty as part of a broader money strategy, moving from second homes to Airbnb-style rentals, land, and the local services that cluster around them.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
Naval Ravikant on epistemology, startups, and crypto, from David Deutsch to Vitalik Buterin.
Alex Theuma interviews SaaS founders and investors on scaling to $10M-plus ARR.
Guy Raz traces founders' origin stories and fields live advice-line calls from entrepreneurs.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Sergeant Grant Soletski of the Wisconsin Army National Guard joins a Wisconsin radio program to explain how military deployment works, countering common misconceptions about its inevitability and combat nature.
Hail is the problem on the table.
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Ask The Experts features Andrew Larson of Larson Home Services discussing roof coating as a way to address roofs that “ain’t in great shape” after the snow comes off.
This episode discusses how online maps and GPS technology impact real estate, particularly in helping buyers explore neighborhoods for pre-owned homes and new builds.
This episode discusses how pets can help keep owners active, focusing on maintaining pet physical fitness for dogs and cats, with insights from a veterinarian.
Better weather has buyers and sellers paying attention again.
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Andrew Larson discusses the scheduling process and what customers can expect when contacting Larson Home Services for home improvement inspections.
A real estate expert discusses market changes and a featured home listing on a St.
A salesperson at Larson Home Services discusses her career path and experiences in the home improvement industry.
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A radio host interviews a National Guard sergeant about the enlistment process and military terminology.
This episode features ads for a casino, a political campaign radio service, and a car dealership, with a focus on political messaging.
A real estate expert discusses market trends and a featured property in Woolworth County.
Condo living gets a relaxed radio walk-through.
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This episode discusses the effectiveness of radio advertising for political campaigns, contrasting it with social media and video ads.
Pet problems rarely perform on command.
Kitchen updates seem to stretch resale dollars the furthest.
Real estate comes across as steady ground.
A real estate expert discusses the benefits of buying a home and shares insights about his company's culture and team retreat.
A veterinary expert answers pet health questions and promotes a stress-free vet clinic experience.
A real estate expert discusses the pros and cons of renting versus buying and highlights a specific home listing in Janesville.
A real estate expert discusses November market statistics and the outlook for 2025.
This episode features advertisements and promotions for various businesses, including iHeartRadio advertising success stories, Lowe's deals, Carrington College, and Checkout Veterinary.
A real estate expert discusses selling homes in winter and a retail property for lease in Stoughton.
A real estate expert discusses technology tools and a featured home listing in Janesville.
A radio show where professionals offer advice on various topics, with sponsor segments for a rug store and a veterinary clinic.
A real estate expert discusses buying a home in Wisconsin during winter and highlights a featured listing.
A veterinary expert discusses the National Dog Show and offers pet health advice.
This episode features Matt Heitman from Rock Realty discussing home buying and selling tips, including the three L's (lot, location, layout), with a focus on a specific listing in Verona, Wisconsin.
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This episode features an interview with Dr.
Matt Heitman of Rock Realty discusses recent real estate market trends in southern Wisconsin, including the impact of Fed interest rate changes and highlights a home listing in Stoughton.