Wisconsin's Coziest Spots And Is A Brownie A Cookie? (Hour 2)

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Dr. Michael McCutchen is here to fix your life.

Dr. Mike is our resident life relationship career coach

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to help improve our relationships,

set and achieve goals and generally improve our lives.

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Good morning, Dr. Mike. How are you doing?

Good morning. I'm great. How are you all doing?

We are well. We are well. Thank you.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Just out of curiosity, Dr. Mike,

because you live in Colorado.

What is your mass transit like in Chicago?

Colorado.

Yeah, in Colorado. Sorry.

Boy, feed also.

I'm going to finish Chicago. Good for him.

It's it's clean,

but not great. I think it's clean because nobody uses it.

And so even it was one,

I think a full month this summer.

See, I don't even know.

I think it was like a full month where they made it free.

So anybody could use it.

So there was like a train system and a bus system.

It's called RTD.

And they made it free for a couple of weeks and to try to.

Yeah.

Hey, guys, it's free.

It's right.

I kind of use it.

I think it only ticked up.

Please don't put me.

I don't have the stats in part of me.

But I think it only ticked up like five or 10% even though it was free.

So people didn't use it.

One thing that I like is that I think they have a lot of bike lanes in here,

which is kind of which is kind of nice.

But yeah, it's it's not.

It's not.

It's just as we're used to doing, right?

We're just not in the habit.

We're just not in the habit of using mass transit.

I used to live and I did my graduate work in New York.

And that has the other problem is that it's everybody uses it.

You know, trains obviously, buses, everything.

Because everybody uses it.

It's it's where you go to get the flu.

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All right.

Dr. Mike here is our issue for today.

Dr. Mike, I'm a 33 year old guy.

No matter what the situation is,

my parents never do or say the right thing to support me.

Recently, I've been miserable for years at a lucrative job that I hate.

But my parents want me to stay because it pays well

and provides high social status.

My wife supports me leaving 100%.

When I told my parents I was going to quit instead of asking

what you want to do next or how are you feeling?

They again said all the wrong things.

Like you're never going to get back into that industry

and I hope he didn't burn any bridges.

When I have mentioned in the past that this lack of support hurts me.

They call me insensitive.

Dr. Mike, do you think I'm being too sensitive?

Should I just start telling my parents fewer things

or should I actually try to work on this relationship?

They're almost 70 years old.

Are they too old to change?

Who is the problem here?

Well, yeah, that's hard.

That does seem like this guy has a few different options here, right?

He threw one out for us, right?

And it sounds like I guess there's a million options

but I guess the three that come to mind first

is the one that he did offer to us is option A being

should I just tell my family fewer things

and in doing so probably have a less close relationship with them?

That is an option.

And some people do that, right?

I'm just going to tell them less things

and then they can, you know, piss me off.

That's often wrong.

That's a totally fine thing.

My hunch is that he didn't bring this up to us

because he wants to have a less close relationship

with his family.

My hunch is that this really bothers him

and he would like to figure something out.

But we'll keep option A in the background

because he did bring it up and it is a fine option.

Sometimes the best thing we can do

is try to mitigate our disappointment

by not giving people opportunities

to repeatedly disappoint us, right?

But I think that's kind of the saddest option, right?

I just am going to give people less material to hurt us.

Option B I think is to sort of say,

I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing.

I'm going to give them opportunities

and that other kind of question,

am I being too sensitive?

Maybe I'm going to try to work on myself.

I'm going to toughen up and just try to, you know,

grin and bear it.

I'm going to try not to be so so much of a softy, you know?

When they say stuff like, you know,

you don't ever get in that industry again.

I should just go, you know,

ah, you know, dad always says these things.

He's not the issue.

It's me and I should just go fine.

You know, I don't know.

I don't really love that one

because, you know, I think that he's right.

They should be a little bit more supportive.

So I think the third option here is, you know,

the question he's asking, they're 70.

Are they ever going to change?

And so third option is sort of maybe getting better at sort of,

um, how you explain your needs to your parents,

A, and then getting a little bit better

at how they receive those requests, right?

And that feedback.

So his question is, are there 70?

Are they can change?

You know,

I don't want to offend any of our listeners at any age bracket here,

but I do think that maybe they're not going to change in their core,

but people can change parts of them, right?

You can, you can change,

we can change parts of ourselves at all ages,

especially when the people who are asking us for these things

mean a lot to us, in this case, our kids, right?

So, you know, I don't know how the panel feels about this,

but I would opt for the, for the last one,

and sort of be really thoughtful about saying,

it's not just about this thing.

What do you say he's 33?

He's 33.

Three decades of feeling that I'm sensitive,

and you all just write me off as being sensitive,

and it doesn't matter to you, you know?

You just keep, you know, saying harsh things to me,

making me feel bad about myself,

and it doesn't matter to you.

And frankly, you know, it should.

You know, Carol, I know you have, you're a parent.

My feeling about this is, and I'll defer to you as being a parent here.

My feeling about this is,

I don't think kids need to be born,

and then look around and say,

what's everybody doing around here?

Do I need to contort to my parents and to the people around me?

I think that a lot of times parents need to sort of, you know,

you know, when the kids say to them,

here's who I am, you know, here's how I feel,

parents, it's, frankly, their job to sort of say,

okay, kid, I hear you.

You know, how can I adjust to you and the needs

that you're communicating to me?

And it seems like this guy has been trying to do that,

and these people are just writing him off

as being quote unquote, too sensitive.

You know, for me, yes, I am a parent,

and I have been as supportive of my children as I possibly can.

I mean, I remember when my daughter wanted to be a marine biologist,

and she had just a breakdown with one of her chemistry classes,

and finally she came to me and she goes,

I think I'm going to be an artist,

and I said, thank God, you finally figured it out.

But I just think, at some point in time,

to Dr. Mike, he's a married 33-year-old man.

Sometimes you have to stand up to your parents and go,

this is it, I am making my own decisions.

And I say that because of the fact

that my mom for years and years would always say to me,

when are you going to get a real job?

I mean, that was just her thing.

She just didn't understand this industry,

and I finally just said to her, this is it, mom,

this is what I'm doing.

You just have to put your foot down and go, enough.

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Dr. Mike, I guess might take away is,

do children exist to satisfy their parents' desires?

No.

Is that the reason for children?

I mean, no.

I can remember this with great clarity telling my father

who was a mortician that I was going to go to college

so I could be an actress.

And he looked at me and he said,

oh, well, okay.

You're probably going to go to New York and be a waitress.

But if that's what you wanted to drive and go for it.

But even still, that's not even like,

there should be like,

but I went ahead and did it.

Exactly.

Because that's what I wanted to do.

And I took to Carol's point.

He's not 20.

He's not 19.

Right.

He's 33 years old.

And if, and he's married and he's got his wife's support.

Right.

Then I, again, I understand wanting to get along

and please your parents and have that good kind of relationship.

But ultimately, you need to do what's going to make you happy.

Exactly.

If you have the support of your partner,

that's all you need.

You can walk in and be like,

I quit my job and your parents were like,

why would you do that?

Because I'm not happy.

And they can have all the questions.

You can answer them.

Honestly, they may be like,

I don't think you should have done that.

Well, ultimately, it's not up to you.

Because this is not your life.

It's my life.

And if you want,

if I am your child and you love me,

your ultimate want desire is for me to be happy.

And if I'm not happy,

there's the problem.

So, you know, it's,

it's, maybe it's a little,

maybe the only thing I would suggest,

like I said,

you got the support of your,

your partner, awesome.

Then do what you need to do.

The only thing you need to toughen up is walking in the door.

I mean, like, I'm quit my job.

Or I quit my job two weeks ago.

What?

I brought, I brought,

I brought some pizza.

Let's have dinner.

It sounds like we're taking a little bit of column B

and a little bit of column C, right?

You know, you,

you can say,

hey, parents,

you know,

I don't,

I don't exist just to please you, right?

You know,

stop talking to me like this.

And you need to start treating me differently.

I think we all can agree they need to start treating me

a little bit differently.

And also,

to, you know, to your point,

to your point,

he needs to start, you know,

you know, remembering that

if they don't approve of everything in his life,

that,

you know,

okay.

That's part of life.

That's part of life.

I could tell you 10 things my mom doesn't like about my life.

Mostly I said,

do they hear my beard?

My God.

It's amazing.

Good for you.

You know,

right, you know,

I thought,

I am when I,

when I told my mom,

I wasn't going to be a baseball player.

She didn't talk to me for two weeks,

but we were on time for that.

Dr. Mike joins us every Friday to fix your life.

You can find him at thedoctormicle.com.

Good to see you,

Dr. Mike.

We will see you next week.

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And find out.

This is pretty good news, actually.

According to New York travel guides.

Okay.

They're latest list of the 110

coziest winter towns in America

for a magical getaway.

That's quite a claim.

That just seems like they couldn't really knock it down

out to like top 50 even.

Like this is to a hundred.

Like they were going to be a top 25.

Like there's a lot.

But a hundred and ten.

Why won't you just stop at a hundred?

A hundred or you know.

Oh, let's do 110.

Okay.

Yeah.

I know.

So the writers researched over 500

American small towns.

Oh.

And then evaluated them based on popularity

for online searches,

photographs in the winter

and their cozy winter weather.

Oh, I think I know who's going to be on this list.

Okay.

The average high temperature,

the total winter snowfall,

and the frequency of snow.

They were also evaluated based on their

cozy activities in the atmosphere.

This was a meeting.

They had a meeting to decide,

what are we going to base this on?

The cozy activities in atmosphere.

Let's go with that metric.

You seem very perturbed.

But it was a bit.

It's not like a meeting.

There was all ASMRs.

Like we're going to be talking about the cozyness

of all these places.

Right.

Exactly.

We're going to be talking about the cocoa,

the temperatures.

We're just.

We're just tapping things like.

Exactly.

But three Wisconsin towns have made the list.

So if you're thinking of traveling,

you may want to check these out.

And I can absolutely agree with all of these.

We're going to start first with one.

Another one of my favorite places,

which is near Amory.

It's Bayfield.

Near the Apostle Islands.

I've heard of Bayfield.

It's about five hour drive.

It's up there.

It's up there.

It's right on.

It's right on Lake Superior.

It's beautiful.

No, it's absolutely is beautiful.

I'm.

Lizzie had a craft fair up there.

And we drove all the way up there.

And I helped her with it.

The only thing about Bayfield.

And like picturesque.

Absolutely.

But every restaurant serves the same thing.

What was that?

Pizza burgers and fish balls.

And that's what they call them.

Oh, yes.

They're.

Is it testicles?

Fish testicles.

There is something specific.

Whitefish.

Right.

There is something specific to that area.

It's yeah.

And it's.

It's on every restaurant menu.

Yeah.

Every single one.

That's what they call them.

Oh, yes.

They're.

Is it testicles?

Fish testicles.

No.

There is something specific.

Whitefish.

Right.

There is something specific to that area.

It's a restaurant menu.

Yeah.

Every single one.

But it is beautiful.

Noted.

There you go.

Right.

The historic town of Bayfield.

Just a theory right away from Madeleine Island.

It gets thousands of visitors a year.

It is a magical getaway according to travel guides.

And their annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony in downtown Bayfield is a pretty big deal.

It's.

It's an adorable place.

My sister and I stayed there for a week a couple of summers ago and little shops and wonderful

little bookstore.

Yeah.

That little downtown area is really cute.

It's very artistic.

Right.

And if you like apples, they're apples.

They they have like an apple festival that that gets 50,000 people.

And Bayfield is tiny.

Yeah.

That's a small town.

So another place.

Love Cedarburg.

Love Cedarburg.

North of Milwaukee.

I feel like it's a it's a hidden treasure.

People sleep on Cedarburg.

They do.

Yeah.

It's almost like a place where like, oh, we want to go away for a night.

Let's go to Cedarburg.

Let's get a hotel room.

And there's like little shops and I think there's a farmer's market.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, it's.

You've got the Washington Inn, which is right on the main drive.

Very famous place.

Really, really nice.

And actually at this particular time of the year, the Rivoli, which is kind of the old theater,

is showing like they have like holiday movies and the best popcorn ever.

The Rivoli has the best popcorn.

You hear that, Rivoli?

But they have like their winter festival.

And they have the bed races.

And I mean, I know all about Cedarburg because I just live a few miles down the road.

But it is charming without a doubt.

You've got Amy's candies.

You've got all these little shop Tiki shop.

There's the pink.

The pink pant.

Whatever it is.

The pink.

It's a clothing store.

Listen to me.

So suddenly porky pig.

I know.

A clothing store.

And it's a clothing store.

They have one of the greatest cake shops up there.

And they custom make these cakes.

And I think there's a raspberry one with a raspberry filling and a raspberry chocolate coating.

I mean, it's really, really lovely.

That's I love a raspberry filling.

And Cedarburg is one of those downtowns that looks like something from a Norman Rockwell.

Exactly.

It just lends itself to that.

And when it's decorated for Christmas, I can only imagine how gorgeous it is.

It's charming.

If you're in South Eastern Wisconsin, you're going to be anywhere from 15 minutes to maybe an hour away

from there.

It's not far.

It's very.

I mean, it's a day trip.

It's a great day trip.

Oh, yeah.

And if you're looking for, you know, some a little more unique Christmas gifts and stuff.

Yeah.

Again, they have a whole bunch of little shop Hayes and boutiques and stuff.

It's a great place to take those.

Yeah, old shop Hayes.

Yeah, old shop Hayes.

And then coming in on the 39th as the 39th coziest American small town, Lake Geneva.

Oh, no.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

That was when Brisbane and I were looking for a house.

We wanted to live close to a lake and we went there and we like, we kind of like drove in,

looked at like two houses price wise and just drove out like, no, that's not going to work

for us.

It would be nice if we could, but it seems unlikely.

Yeah.

Uh, Lake Geneva has their big winter fest.

Yeah.

They have the snow sculpting championships.

And I know the, they have this ice castles.

Yes.

They have the ice castles and they have igles that you can go inside and they're heated.

And at this particular juncture, the boats, they use the Santa boat.

You can get on the boat and scoot around and go around the lake.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And if you've never seen the male delivery, oh, that's something in itself.

It's fantastic.

They deliver the male by boat during the summer.

And there are tryouts.

There are tryouts to become one of these male carriers and those, and they're, they're

younger kids.

They're probably, you know, high school and, and into early college challenge accepted.

Well, it's, it's a really physical, it is a very, very challenging, denied.

I watched Donald driver do it as their YouTube someplace.

And Donald driver did it.

I've never seen anybody race down the pier to put the male as fast as Donald driver.

It was just fantastic.

It's a pretty high standard running faster than Donald driver.

Did, I mean, are there any more from Wisconsin on there?

No, there are those are the three from Wisconsin.

Door County didn't get on there.

That was really some, I felt door counties like is, is, is kind of like, you know, the

hall of fame cozy place in Wisconsin.

They need a better lobbyist apparently.

Oh, you hear that door county.

You've been called out.

We will have all of the details.

If you want to check out the cozyest places in our show notes after, after we wrap things

up here.

So you can always check that out, find it at civicmedia.us.

When we return, Pete Schwabba, civic media's own with his new show called Nightlight.

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New show hitting the civic media network all across the network.

It's called Nightlight and the host of that fabulous program is joining us now.

Good morning, Pete Schwabba, how are you?

Good morning, Jane.

How are you?

Excellent.

Thank you.

You're really happy to have a chance to talk to you.

We don't know much about you, Mr. Schwabba.

So tell us a little bit about your background and and night light.

Wow.

How much time do we have to go back to the womb if you want me to?

That might be a little further than we need.

A little farther?

Okay.

My show is Nightlight.

I got...

So here's what happened.

Like I was in the 90s, I was a stand-up comedian and toured all over and was on TV and all

that fun stuff.

And then I moved to LA and I started writing and sold some screenplays and only one of

which got made, which is disheartening.

Which one?

Which one?

Which one?

It's called The Guy Thing from MGM.

Starring Jason Lee, right?

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah.

Very nice.

How about that?

So...

No, it did okay.

It was fine.

It was Jason Lee and Julia Stiles.

In the writing years were great.

I did some acting while I was out there too and then we decided to come back to Wisconsin.

My wife and I, we've been here about 10 years and I've been hosting a show on PBS about

movie making.

So, I've kind of written, performed, acted and I have all this crazy background.

So I thought, well, how can I capitalize on that?

I thought, why don't I host a show where I talk about show business and fun with Wisconsin

stuff and pitch that to civic media and now we have Nightlife with Peach Wowas.

So it's fun to have my friends on some film critics.

I like to find out what people are watching on TV and binge watching.

All that kind of stuff.

We had Matt Miller on last night, Rob Thomas the night before I have a writing partner

named Greg Leanna who started the Meet the Parents franchise.

I talked to him the other night.

Unlighthearted showbiz talk.

Nice.

Well, and you've got, you've got the connections it sounds like you certainly have better connections

than we do.

Well, sometimes people don't take my calls, but I try not to take my calls.

Are you going to be highlighting any local entertainment venues?

Yeah, for sure.

I'm, what I'm trying to do, this is my first week on the air.

I'm trying to find out as much as I can about, you know, the arts and culture all around

the state.

I've reached out to people in cities and counties and would love to have them on and talk

about film festivals and independent film and Wisconsin.

So it's a process.

You know, I remember I've done a little bit of radio before a few years ago.

You call up and people would be like, yeah, I'd love to be on the radio now.

It's like, what are you trying to do here?

Yeah.

I'm like, yeah, I'm actually going to criminate you.

I just want to talk about your town, you know, right?

So it's kind of, it's been a little bit of a challenge finding guests.

If you could believe that.

I don't, you know, have a lot of cash in radio yet, but we'll get there.

Well, and where would, if someone is listening, P2 lives in, you know, Hayward or Rice Lake

and there's, or, or, or, or, and they were like, we have this great thing coming up.

And how do we get in touch with Pete Schwabba?

How would people do that?

You know, I suppose you could probably email me through the civicmedia.us website or

the app.

How about the civic media app?

It is so easy to use.

I haven't sworn once yet since using that app.

And usually it's terror, you know, it's horrible, but it's very user friendly.

So they could probably find me through the app.

I would say that's a great question, actually.

I should probably make that more accessible.

Well, and you can, you can find the app at any app store.

It's civicmedia.us and you can call and text directly from the app.

And you can also, and it's free.

And you can also listen to all the shows across the civic media radio network if you have the app.

Text the show and be like, Hey, Pete Schwabba, here's I live in Bayfield.

And we have a wonderful Apple festival, you know, like, like you can just do it for the texting.

So that's the exact kind of stuff I'm looking for, whether it's the arts or fun was

constant events.

And we've had a few people on to talk about them so far last night, actually, it was like

a little civic media Christmas party because I had Kristen Elfheim on who hosts a weekend

show, Don Brown, John Mino, who hosts the.

Mino in the mayor, yeah, he lives really close.

So he came in and hung out with me for like 45 minutes, last night, Jim Schmidt, the other

half of that duo stopped in, it was just, it was like a revolving door.

So it was kind of on a little civic media virtual party.

Well, and you also have multiple social platforms that people can kind of check you out on.

Why don't you visit which ones you're on?

I'm on Facebook and Twitter.

I don't really do Instagram.

I just, I'll go on Instagram to look at Reels and then realize nine hours of past.

Yeah.

And I have to be gone with my life.

Yeah, so pretty much Facebook, Peach Waba and Twitter at Peach Waba, they can find me

there.

I do post every night about what's on the show and what's coming up.

And I've got an opera singer in the studio for tonight's show.

That'll be fun.

And Terry Barr from civic media is going to come on tonight to talk about the last kiss

concert.

And she was there.

So that'll be a fun kind of rock and roll.

Is it really going to be the last one?

I mean, right.

Exactly.

No.

Terry is wonderful.

Terry is absolutely wonderful.

You're going to have a great time.

Our guest is Peach Waba, the host of civic media's newest show called Night Light.

And you can catch it across the entire network Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 10

p.m.

You and your wife decided to move back to Wisconsin.

I'm just curious what your friends who lived in LA were they like, oh, I got really you're

moving back there really?

Yeah, it's funny.

You say that, Jane, because on the night before we moved, there was a gun situation at

the local high school.

And all my neighbors came over.

They were kind of stopping by to say goodbye and they were like, hey, this isn't where

you're moving.

Is it?

I can actually, yeah, that's exactly where we're moving.

So they, I think they thought I needed my head examined and I did commute quite a while

to go back and forth, but we live in a town where my parents live and my wife's parents

live.

Oh, wow.

So it kind of made it easy.

We visited here all the time.

It's right by the water.

It's very beautiful.

Yeah.

So it was kind of an easy decision, but it made life difficult work wise for sure.

Yeah.

But was it like a hard transition?

Because my son lives in Long Beach.

And every time he comes home, like I'm thinking for Christmas, he's going to have some shock

when it comes to weather, because it's going to be cold, you know?

So I mean, and there's that whole idea of having to get all that gear again, you know?

Yeah.

I mean, God.

That's a great point.

I mean, it's, it really wasn't like we were gone for 14 years and you become a whimp

pretty fast about winter.

Like my first Christmas in LA, I was like, this isn't Christmas.

This is ridiculous.

And by, you know, that year we were at the park on Christmas day and it was 72 and I'm

like, yeah, okay, this isn't so bad.

But I will say this when we got back here, the week before a couple of weeks before we

moved, my son was walking to school with his friend and they were shivering because it

was like 48 and they were still wearing shorts and I'm like, oh, this poor kid.

You have yet to meet February saw it there is there is something I find very off putting

now and I think I can't, this was a long time ago when I was in Florida around Christmas

time.

There is just something wrong with seeing Santa riding on a dolphin.

I just can't make peace with that.

I'm telling you right now, if you have the chance and I did this once in 2014, I spent Christmas

in Los Angeles and it was amazing.

Really?

It was so much fun.

We had such a good time.

Yeah.

Because you, I got up on December 23rd and I walked out on my sister and I was balcony.

I looked outside.

It was 73 degrees.

I love this.

This is great.

We should do this all the time and the way we're going actually might be so.

But yeah, because as Midwestern as we're glass half full type people, so we go outside

and it's like one degree and it's like, oh, but it's a winter wonderland.

It's look at the snow.

It's beautiful.

We're always seeing we're being optimists, whereas, you know, what you just said Greg was

like, okay, yeah, that's not so bad either.

We have to be optimist, Pete.

Otherwise we will all die.

Right.

Which was the most optimistic, pessimistic thing I've ever heard someone say, we have

to be optimist or we will die, yes, exactly.

Were there any other cultural surprises when you came back to Wisconsin?

What about the food?

Well, where I live, I wouldn't say is a restaurant mecca.

You know, I remember here in the Marinette area when we got a culverse, it was a big

deal.

Oh, the Kurt Burger.

And there was, I was at a bar one night with a buddy.

We were kind of sitting there belly up and there was a woman next to us and this is 20 years

ago.

And there was rumblings that there was a new fast food chain coming to town.

And this woman kept saying over and over, oh, I hope it's an Arby's, I hope it's an

Arby.

I mean, you got to have dreams, Pete, you got to have a dream big.

They're all great, but you get after two weeks, it's just a restaurant.

You know what I mean?

That was kind of a shift with food, but I was just trying to work from here.

It was difficult to with the travel and everything.

Sure.

Whatever you make it work and you figure it out, right?

I just always think of hot dish, you know, casseroles are so Wisconsin.

And it's just such a midwestern thing.

And actually Milwaukee record has their casserole contest in Milwaukee on Sunday.

Oh, I just wanted to be a judge.

Oh, yeah, I have to talk to, I have to have someone on my show.

I can, I'll send you their contact information.

Please.

Thank you, Greg.

I have a funny hot dish story when I moved here.

I lived, I grew up in the city of Chicago just off Irving Park Road in the Kennedy, moved

here in junior high.

And the first time my parents went out of town, we had a babysitter who was this older woman

and I said, what's for dinner tonight?

And she said, hot dish.

Oh, boy.

What?

I didn't even know what she was talking about.

Like, I knew what a casserole was.

I never heard of her hot dish.

So that was kind of like, all right, let's see what happens here.

What are we eating?

Tensil or what's happening?

What do we have in hot dish?

That's not an answer.

Well, yeah, right.

You know what?

When you come back into Wisconsin too, what you're going to find here outside of any place

or anything in LA is the churches that serve the ludifisc and loves the dinners right

in the middle of like the fall.

And you can't imagine how packed these things are because we do have a huge Norwegian contingency

here.

Absolutely.

And I mean, in LA, people would smell it and just go and barf in the ocean.

You know what I mean?

Well, okay.

So I'll ask you guys something.

How do you feel about eating?

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

Do they have pets?

Do they wash their hands after using the rest?

I have no idea.

I'm surprised in Los Angeles.

They allowed that.

Like you couldn't because I know some like some places you can't bring in anything that's

homemade.

That's be pre-made packaged.

You have to see ingredients, allergens.

That might be the case now.

Yeah.

You might be right about that.

I'll go to I'll go to someone's house and eat a stranger's casserole.

I don't care.

We're so trusty.

Pete, we're so trusting here.

You were to Midwest is such a different mindset over any other place in the nation and Wisconsin

in particular.

You know, I mean, seriously, I did work with someone though who said the same thing in our

next segment.

We're going to be talking.

We're going to do a Christmas cookie exchange next week.

And I worked with a guy who was like, I'm not taking cookies from anybody else.

I don't know if they wipe off their countertops.

I don't know if they let the cat on the counter.

And I'm like, it'll be fine.

You have it in view.

What is your immune system for my love for sweets or a dish that has a pasta basin

it supersedes my concerns about health, okay?

Or what you do at home, okay, if it's a lovely like a spinach dip, I'm eating it.

Oh, spinach did.

Wow.

See, that's okay.

That's the if it's free.

It's me mentality.

I respect it, but I found, you know, one too many scabs in my food.

So I'll pass.

But I appreciate that.

Thanks, Pete trauma.

Thanks, Pete trauma.

Awesome.

Check out his new show across the civic media radio network.

It is called night light with Pete Schwabba 8 to 10 Monday through Friday, opera singer

tonight, delightful to talk to you, Pete.

Keep us posted on how the show is going.

And if you can never join us again, we will get that set up.

Would love to and come on my show.

This is a lot of fun.

That'd be awesome.

Thank you.

Hello.

Chris Miss Cookie, exchange.

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we're going to talk Christmas cookies.

We're going to have a Christmas cookie exchange next Friday.

But before that, Carol, we have a question from a texture in the 608, Carol, how is your

dog?

Oh, Sydney, she's fine, Sydney's fine.

She, I'm still sleeping on the couch.

How long have you been sleeping on the couch?

I want to say about three months.

No, that's love.

That is love.

But yes, she's, she's live in large, but it is, it is getting more difficult.

The one thing that, and I don't mean to be a Debbie Downer, but when Alex comes into

town, I already have made the pronouncement to my daughter and my husband.

I said, he's really going to have to spend some time with her because I don't, she was

his dog.

So I don't know if she'll be around the next visit because she is 13 and she's a big girl.

She's a big girl, but that's very nice.

And Beauregard's Beauregard, you know, half the day I spent yelling at him going, shot

up because he howls and he, and you know what happened yesterday?

Here's what happened yesterday because he's a hound and it was dark.

And I have him on a tether and I put him on his tether.

He had to go outside and by God, if the minute I opened the door, I looked out and under

my cramp apple trees, there's three doves.

I thought he was going to lose his mind.

Imagine, oh my gosh, I'm like, I can run it out and I grabbed him by the collar and

I'm like, oh, no, you don't, but thank you very much for asking, she's doing fine.

It is being a pet owner is one of the most rewarding things.

It is also one of the most painful things because you are responsible and you ultimately

have to make the decision.

Exactly.

It's so, so hard.

Yeah.

And anyone who has ever had a pet knows that my sister, unfortunately, is going through

that right now with her little Nina, who's a little, she's a little purse puppy.

But no, it's tough.

It's a quality of life issue and you want them to have a good life.

Right.

You want them to have life.

Carol from Madison, apparently, has a dog tip.

Come on, Carol.

Thank you for joining the show.

What's up?

Hi.

Well, Carol, I was just wondering if you had checked with veterinarians about using acupuncture

and or laser therapy with your Sydney because my dog has periodic back problems and those

two things have been really, really helpful.

You know what, Carol?

I have not.

I didn't even know to tell you the truth that that was an option.

So I appreciate the information that's very nice of you to tell me that because I really

had no idea.

Well, we will look into dog acupuncture.

Yeah.

That's really interesting.