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A Deal Is A Deal! And What Is Your Favorite Christmas Present? (Hour 2)

As Goes Wisconsin · Tue Dec 12, 2023

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This is As Goes Wisconsin with Kristen Brott.

Now, filling in for the new mom, here's Jane Mattenair.

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Coming up at 1133, we're going to talk about Christmas presents that last forever.

I questioned some of these selections.

We will kick that around.

And take your calls about the singular best Christmas present you have ever, ever, ever.

Oh, God.

Why didn't you tell me it's like three days ago?

I'd start thinking.

Well, it starts thinking about it now.

Great. No pressure.

We got time.

We've got time.

We're going to start this hour off.

So all kinds of action over the weekend with the board of regents.

And the deal that was presented essentially by assembly speaker Robin Voss.

To pay the raises that were already promised to 34,000 UW employees.

And the board of regents rejected the deal because it required some major reductions in staff positions for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Assembly speaker Robin Voss who reached the deal with UW president J Rothman said Monday on another radio station.

The regents he hopes will consider reconsider and that he is not open to making any changes.

Quote, the deal was negotiated in good faith.

We're not changing one thing in this deal.

We are not going backwards.

If anything, I prefer to go forward, but a deal is a deal.

You've got to keep your word.

This is not forever.

If they want to walk away, they can walk away.

Unquote.

Man, I've just never heard so many threats.

Is a deal a deal?

Didn't they already have a deal with governor Evers to implement these raises?

Wasn't that a deal?

There is one legislature, one legislator standing in the way.

Robin Voss releasing these raises and it's Robin Voss.

So he's like our Tommy Tuberville.

He's our Tommy Tuberville.

Yeah.

Of course, there are other components of this deal.

But he is the only one standing in the way of these raises they were already passed in the state budget.

There's legal mechanisms happening alongside of this.

But I think one thing that's pretty interesting about Voss saying this, saying he's done negotiating.

Well, he says this kind of thing all the time.

Yes.

So you look back to the shared revenue deal earlier this year.

We can't be goldfish and have these goldfish memories about how things happen in the Wisconsin state legislature.

In May, Robin Voss said they're done negotiating on the shared revenue deal.

Not going to happen.

We're done negotiating.

We passed what we're going to pass and we're done negotiating.

Well, guess what happened?

They negotiated.

No.

And they passed something different a month later.

So I think we, you know, members of the Wisconsin media have to recognize that this is just your typical Voss.

Your typical Voss tantrum.

He governs by tantrum.

And he's going to throw his tantrum about this on right wing radio as he did yesterday.

And say he's done negotiating and get every, you know, every reporter in the state to pick it up.

But he just says this kind of thing all the time about stuff.

So I think, you know, you got to take it with more than just a grain of salt.

You got to take it with the entire salt shaker.

And give that context.

Give that context.

Exactly.

And give that context that he says this kind of nonsense all the time.

And he just has tantrums all the time.

And so whether this is done and done negotiation and I don't know, remains to be seen.

I think the Regents are meeting today for further, you know, discussion over what could come next after the vote on Saturday failed.

It doesn't seem like it's done though.

It just seems like Robin Voss, the one person standing in the way of these raises is just having a tantrum.

I mean, it also just goes in like the budget thing.

This is just kind of going into the pile now that has become a terrible 2023 for Robin Voss.

I mean, calling for the impeachment of Janet Proce, which and going at it with all guns blazing,

then really pulling it back to the point where even we were saying on the show, what's going on with this?

Like it was, it was a thing a week ago.

Now it's not then calling for what was the other thing he wanted to do?

Now there's all the call for the impeachment.

Then he then he wanted to fire Megan Wolf.

And that thing that was like going hard in the paint.

And then all of a sudden that sort of pulled back way.

So it's not a good year for Robin Voss.

And I think the main problem is that he's trying to appease too many masters now.

Before this all before 2020, even when when Trump was in whatever, after the election of 2020,

it became very clear that there was a growing population of his own base who disliked him.

But then he was still beholden to these center sort of right individuals who counted on him to do their deeds.

And he was fine to do that.

But then it's like impeached Janet Proce, which the far right,

yeah, and he's like, doesn't do anything.

You're a rhino.

Let's primary primary you.

So it's just like this whole thing of like Robin Voss is just, he's, I won't say I feel bad for him.

But there is a certain amount where I do feel for the fact that he just can't win right now.

Because no matter what he does, he's running into a wall back and forth.

And it's almost like Star Wars that compactors just closing on him.

And he can't go anywhere.

And it's.

Yeah, I made Star Wars reference.

Which is fine.

It's, it's, you know, we talk so often about approval ratings when we talk about politicians.

Yes.

Right.

And, you know, every time Joe Biden's brought up, his approval rating is brought up.

Well, maybe we should start doing that with Robin Voss, because Robin Voss has a 16% favorability rating on the state of Wisconsin.

I wrote about this in the latest Marquette poll.

There is nothing.

So I break down every single iteration of the Marquette University Law School poll at the recombibulation area.

It's one of those things that I've come since I start.

Dot news, actually.

Sorry.

And it's one of those things that I've been doing since the very beginning of the recombibulation area is breaking down every last Marquette poll.

So I have, I feel like pretty close to expert knowledge on these questions.

And on the numbers, there is nothing like Robin Voss's approval rating.

There's nothing else in that poll that resembles it at all, because he has a 16% favorable.

And then it's like 36, I think, percent unfavorable.

And then there's like, you know, normal people who are out living their lives who don't live and die on the political news cycle every single day who just don't have an opinion of Robin Voss.

And so there's about 45% of the state that falls into that, falls into that, which is crazy to me.

But you know, that's a really, that's a really high number, which makes, but also the fact that he is that, you know, relatively not as well known and still has a negative 20.

And so like, you know, like Joe Biden or Donald Trump or Ron Johnson or Tammy Baldwin, they're, you know, they're the only like maybe 15% of the people will not have an opinion of Tammy Baldwin or 5% of the people will not have an opinion of Joe Biden.

You're not getting net minus 20 in any of these Robin Voss has a net minus 20 and it is the most recent poll that I broke down.

It was his worst net favorability rating in the history of the Marquette University lost.

Wow.

So I think the more people get to know Robin Voss, the less they seem to like him and the more they view him unfavorably.

And I think, you know, you mentioned the impeachment thing.

All these different things.

He's just, it's just been a very ridiculous year.

It's not a Wisconsin assembly speaker.

It's going to be very confusing for him.

It does because he has been able to do whatever for at least the last 12 years, if not longer as the de facto ruler in Wisconsin.

And much of it in the shadows.

Yes.

He was very much in the shadows of of of Madison.

Like he was the assembly speaker and he has power, but no one really knew who he was.

You see a picture of him.

He looks like a stock photo image.

So like he's, he's like, he's not, he doesn't look like Mitch McConnell.

We like that guy is either the sweetest man or evil.

So like, and that's my also explain why Devon Lemme, he was being so vocal on disagreeing with him because like,

I lost his self.

I don't want your stink on me.

Well, I think they, I think they just don't like each other, which, which I was very surprised by that, that Voss and,

and Lemme, he, I just don't know.

Like, Voss and Fitzgerald like each other that much either.

Like, I don't mean, Voss is a hard person to like, I'm sorry.

I'd like, I know this is, this is very subjective.

And I know this from people I know who know him.

He's a hard man to like because he's never there.

He's never like totally there.

You're getting some manufactured version of him.

How he's trying to please you to get his way.

So you don't go to, like, like, and you said, like, people don't go to, to a bar with him to grab a beer.

They go to work and five, they clock out.

They're like, boom, boom, boom.

And then they go home.

He's just a hard man.

I know. And he's done this to himself.

And he's the longest serving assembly speaker ever.

Ever Wisconsin's history.

Yeah.

And at a certain point, it's just time for new voices.

Right?

It's, it's not even that like, okay, let's say next year's election happens and Republicans win a majority in assembly,

which I think they probably would not to the certain extent, not to the extent where they are controlling close to two-thirds of it.

But I think, you know, that stands to reason that they could win a slight majority.

Oh, yeah.

Can it maybe be time for somebody else to be in charge of the assembly?

Like, he's been doing this for so long.

People are so tired of his act.

He's run into so many walls in this year.

And he's just like made an absolute fool out of himself on the impeachment thing in particular.

Yes.

Like, is it, when, when is it going to be time for a new assembly speaker?

Should we introduce legislation that term limits the, the role of assembly speaker or something like that?

We don't, we don't make laws.

We can't do that.

I'm sorry.

Tony Zimmerman is, Tony Zimmerman checking in on the live stream.

I wonder if boss is doing a Trump thing.

Trump says so many awful things.

You can't even focus on just one.

Boss is calling for so many things.

People forget that none of them actually can happen.

I, I think there's a difference there.

Trump is a guy who just needs attention all the time and we'll do whatever he can to get that attention.

Whereas I think, I think if you asked Robin Voss right now, he would wave a magic wand to go back to where he was in like 2018, 2016,

where he's just like I said, in the shadows, not as known.

And if he could go back in time to just even 2020, he'd have a ramp down where he say, all right, I'm going to step down as assembly speaker.

And then the term after that's going to be my last term.

He can borrow gracefully.

Now no matter what he does, he's going to look like a dodo bird.

It's going to be a messy end, right?

Yeah, it's going to be, he's not going to have a gracious walk away.

I mean, his pals will all be like Robin Voss, one of the greatest Tommy Thompson.

Rob put him on the Mount Rushmore, Wisconsin, GOP politics.

But the rest of us can be like, he's kind of a bumbling idiot.

Oh, I don't think he's an idiot.

Well, I don't think he's an idiot by any stretch.

Okay.

Idiot's the wrong word.

But he definitely does not handle this last year with the greatest amount of political strategy.

Yeah.

Maybe lacking in a little study.

All right.

Stay close.

That was quick.

This was a real quick reversal that happened in the city of Milwaukee.

Lots of people were upset.

All the details coming up.

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And I couldn't do it if I stood where you stood.

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You say that you need me.

I don't deserve the love that you love me.

I don't make it easy.

Well, I couldn't do it if I stood where you stood.

Good morning.

Welcome to Asgos, Wisconsin.

Jay Matt there.

And for Kristen Brie, Greg Bock, Dan Schaefer with me in studio.

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Thank you, Greg.

Party.

It's actually that sound like party.

Party.

Party, P-E-R-T-Y.

This came up and I just had to laugh because my sister was concerned about this.

The city of Milwaukee announced it wasn't last week down because you're also a resident of the city.

Yeah, it was just last week.

That they were no longer the department of what?

Public works was no longer going to pick up Christmas trees from the curb to have them composted.

Right.

So instead, people were going to be expected to take their Christmas tree to a drop off site.

At which point then they would be composted, I assume.

Or mulch or whatever they end up doing.

People were not happy about that.

No.

At all.

Milwaukee Sanitation Services Manager Rick Myers told Milwaukee's public works committee

and a special meeting yesterday will back off this drop off only.

We hear you loud and clear.

Yikes.

Our long national nightmare is over Jane.

There's been a lot of discussion about this though.

Treegate.

Yes.

December 1st to December 11th or whatever.

Is it something that Tommy Cutlet does?

Treegate.

It's treegate.

You're just looking for excuses to bring back that voice.

Absolutely.

But I guess what I don't understand is so the DNR let the city know a year ago,

almost a year ago that they were not in compliance with whatever regulations the DNR has

is ordered in order to do this.

Or in a certain yard waste pickup that a Christmas tree would technically fall into the umbrella

of.

So it was a state change by the DNR that, you know, it's so often the case that the state will

do something and required of Milwaukee and the Milwaukee gets blamed for it.

But at this time, it does, it seems like they maybe could have been a little bit more proactive

about getting the word out to people about how things were going to happen.

And then that's one of the reasons why, why at least some of the council members were pretty upset

because they knew for months that this change was in the works.

And then they didn't bring it up even when they had hearings in fall on the 2024 budget.

So it might have been a good idea to have mentioned that.

Yeah, probably should have mentioned that before.

Seems like that should have come up.

I thought I said something last time.

Oh, man, my bad.

Well, I'm off for Christmas break forever.

Just think of what a mess that would have been not everyone was going to hear this message.

Right.

And so people are going to be throwing their trees out on the curb and they're going to be there in June.

Yeah, there were going to have been a lot of Christmas trees and various alleys around Milwaukee.

And if that were not to be the case, actually, it was kind of interesting to see some of the reaction to it.

So I live in the Washington Heights neighborhood on the west side of Milwaukee.

I saw our neighborhood association posted something briefly after this.

They're like, hey, we're going to organize a mulch fest to bring all your trees to this one park.

And we can get together and have hot chocolate and throw them through the mulch.

I was like, okay, that's a pretty good response.

So maybe it sounds like this is the type of thing that maybe next year they won't be able to do this.

This might be just like a little bit of a stopgap measure for the city of Milwaukee

till like not spring it on people who may have already purchased their new and new, you know, trees and all that.

And so, you know, maybe next year we'll get the, I'll get to go to the Washington Heights mulch fest

and throw a tree into the mulch here with my name.

Or maybe December 12, 2024.

They're going to say, so people are really upset about the fact that trees aren't going to get picked up again this year.

A bunch of the alderman alderman Lamont Westmoreland said he had gotten a ton of emails from angry residents.

I'm hearing from a bunch of excuses as to why the people have been failed when this didn't have to happen.

Again, it just seems like it was mishandled and somebody really dropped the ball

and making sure that they were going to be in compliance with these DNR changes

or to give people a larger heads up about it.

My big question though is, and I don't, we don't do real trees anymore,

but for people who do, they're such a mess at the end.

And so, you're either going to have to bag it in a sheet or you're going to have to bag it in a bag

before you throw it in your car to take it to a place to have it mulched.

Otherwise, you're going to have little fur needles all over your vehicle.

Yeah, we have a real tree at our house and it is indeed a mess.

And once you, you know, take it out and put it on the curb and get those pine needles everywhere in my house

and you can follow the path. For us, we put it in the alley because that's where our trash pickup is.

So we bring it back there and there's like, you know, it's like watching the Grinch walk all the way to the alley.

How'd you find Dan Schaefer? I follow the needles.

When does your family take the tree down average wise?

I mean, it's like the day after Christmas almost.

My sister, I told Jane, I told Jane this a while ago,

my sister on Christmas and day, once food is done, presents her open,

she undoes all the ornaments, packs them all away.

The tree is on the front stew of that night.

That's too soon.

That's one day later.

One day later.

Yeah, the holiday isn't even officially over yet.

Isn't her mind?

It's cold.

I'm saying nothing at this point.

You're a lovely woman.

What's her name? Amy.

Amy, Amy, you're a lovely woman.

No worries.

No, yeah.

She doesn't mess around.

And I love it because every year she posts it on Facebook says, and that's done.

That burdens off my plates.

I mean, for some people, the holidays are stressful.

There's, I mean, getting lists, buying stuff, getting decorating food and all the organizing.

I can understand it.

I mean, I don't do it this year because we have a dog.

That's our excuse.

We never host my sister always host, but we don't even have decorations up because I didn't want

maybe I'll to get into anything because she's getting excited and curious.

Oh, that's wonderful.

Now the challenges are going to start.

I know.

I can't wait.

If she starts exploring greatest dog on earth, of course she has Greg Bach.

All right.

Stay with us.

23 Christmas gifts that will last forever.

Not 25.

No, I think it's 24 24 Christmas gifts that are going to last you forever.

What is the greatest singular gift you have ever gotten for Christmas?

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You're going to switch gears a little bit.

And talk, according to WireCutter,

the 24 gifts that will last forever or extremely close.

And I'd also like to know what was the best Christmas gift

you ever got, one that really sticks out over the years.

Nothing.

Well, I know it was kind of a last minute.

Yeah, right.

I mean, there's now one thing that jumps.

Okay, okay, I'm sorry, but let's go with the phrasing of the statement.

You said the greatest.

Now you said one thing.

What do you want from me, lady?

What do you want?

You want the greatest or you want the year that I got Hot Torpedo?

Hot Torpedo was a great game as a kid.

You put a little disc on the other side.

It was amazing.

I got it.

I was so excited.

So excited.

Okay.

I'll, I'll, one that does stand out to me.

And this is just sound like millennial nostalgia.

I think this matches anything.

No judgment.

Nintendo 64 when I was a kid.

Getting, getting the Nintendo 64, the new Nintendo 64

and going downstairs and playing Mario Kart on it.

You know, that was, that was my jam back in the day.

I believe it.

Calvin, are you ready and waiting?

So I have a couple and they're all pretty different.

The most recent one that stood out to me is going to sound kind of weird,

but a cast iron skillet.

Oh, that's great.

It was a, it was a good present.

I really liked that.

It was a surprise.

It was a Christmas ride.

I didn't really ask for anything.

So my parents were kind of scrambling.

And my dad just happened to hear me say it one time

and guessed it right that I wanted one.

So what, what have you done with your cast iron skillet?

No, all sorts of things.

Mostly cheeseburgers and grilled cheese.

Nice.

Lots of other stuff too.

Did you properly season it?

Oh, yeah.

It's my mom's when using it and she doesn't take care of it the best.

So I kind of need to give it another go with the seasoning.

Well, you just forced a conversation out by saying it on radio.

She knows I talked to her about that.

Respect the cast iron still at this, the seasoning of the cast iron skillet

is very important.

It's like a walk.

Right.

You never watch your walk.

You never want to wash it.

You never watch it.

You can't put it in the dishwasher.

Oh, gosh.

There are memes about this.

There are.

There are memes about the,

putting the cast iron in the dishwasher and ruining it.

Does it make people scream?

Yeah.

You're also supposed to not like the pizza stone either.

You're not, but you can, you can rinse it off and like wipe it,

but you're never supposed to like wash it with soap and put it in the dishwasher.

You know, yeah.

I never put this cast iron in the dishwasher.

I would never go that far.

But the idea that you can't use soap on it is actually a misconception.

Are we talking cast iron or like a pizza stone?

Pizza stone.

I have no idea.

A stone I think you don't want to use soap because it will absorb.

Yeah.

But a cast iron you can use soap on as long as you put a little oil on.

Yeah, you want to wash it.

Yeah, you still want to wash it.

It has to be clean.

Just can't put it in the dishwasher for all your cast iron questions.

Calvin is available at eight four four seven two seven eight nine.

He is the wizard of cast iron skillets.

All right.

This wire cutter article on the 24 gifts that will last forever extremely closely.

The first one is coasters.

Classy.

Coasters.

That depends on what they're made of.

Will felt coasters absorb condensation.

Don't stick to damp glasses.

They come in a pleasing array of colors in sets of four and or six already dollars.

For for coasters.

A lot for coasters.

That seems really pricey to me.

But if they're going to last forever.

Well, that's according to wire cutter.

Well, and these things that could I'm looking through this list of things that could last forever

and and having knowledge of my almost three year old daughter who is an expert at breaking things

that will that will typically, you know, maybe thought of this lasting forever.

Could they make it past my two year old daughter?

That should be the real test of this wire cutter article.

Give it, give it to me and see if they last a month.

Give it to my girl.

Yeah.

Your love for me has to last forever father.

But these coasters don't want.

Well, I would think too.

If you're going to give somebody a thing of coasters, then I want them to know how much they cost.

If I'm jelling out for $40.

Because otherwise they're going to look at you like you got me a box like four coasters

for Christmas.

Like if you get your secret Santa's like the budget is $40 and somebody comes with coasters

and you'd be like, are you sure?

Are you sure you spent up to $40?

Did you get my wish list on elfster.com?

I would I wouldn't come with them at the price.

I wouldn't be that gauche.

I would simply go their coasters made of and then you say the materials and what they'll do

when really you're just describing a coaster.

That's one way to sell it.

Yeah, exactly.

But I guess I would want some racing.

I would.

If you put it to recognize that these are highly special.

Call them cruelty free cruelty free coasters.

That will work.

Yeah.

Also suggested the Vermont bowl company colonial hardwood bowl.

And this just sounds like advertised $209 for an eight inch bowl.

Get out of my house.

That's a pricey bowl.

And it there would and it looks lovely.

But don't most bowls last forever.

Well, depending on what they're made of.

I mean, I have bowls that I've had for 30 years.

Are they still good looking?

Or are they still like, are they okay?

Then there you go.

I have bowls.

I inherited from my mother.

Those are probably 60 years old.

We have some antique bowls that have had passed down.

And then they were fine.

They still function as a whole.

They still hold food.

They do.

The coasters are the kind of thing you're saying.

You have to tell.

You wanted to tell them how much they were.

That's the kind of bowl that the person who gets it tells you how much it is.

So they know because the only thing they have on it is it is a $200 bowl.

You know what I mean?

Like at the end of the day, it's still just a bowl.

And it looks like every other bowl.

But that person would be like, this is a $200 bowl because it's made of.

It's made of finely harvested coa.

See, this would never happen in the Midwest because if you're in the Midwest,

you have to tell people of the deal that you got this particular gift for.

It was $200.

That you got it for a discount.

I got it.

It was $200.

I got it on Black Friday for $42.

Yes.

High five me.

It's a victory.

Yeah.

Indestructible.

Well, should last forever.

Christmas suggestions from Wirecutter magazine.

It's a raincoat.

The Holly, Haley Hansen Moss raincoat for 120 bucks.

Nope.

Not into the raincoats.

No, $120.

I'll buy an umbrella or just get wet.

But it's a flattering below the hip length with a pleasing, rubberized polyurethane coat.

I want people to see me below the hips.

It's flattering enough.

See, I used to live in Seattle and this would be the type of coat that every single person in the Seattle has.

Oh, I believe it.

But here in Wisconsin, maybe not so much.

Now it gets a little bit rare.

Need a little bit more, a little more to it.

It's got to be all weather, snow, rain, sleet, sideways rain, freezing rain, slush, falling from the sky.

Rain, rain, you know, rain.

Not like the mist in Seattle.

I went to Seattle in December in 2017.

It was 49 degrees out.

I was walking around the hoodie and shorts.

Everyone was in parkas.

Yeah.

If it snowed like an inch there, the city shuts down.

Awesome.

Tony checking in on the stream.

My dad made me a functional mini brass cannon.

It didn't have a fuse that you lit by the cap that you hit with a hammer.

A complete surprise and utterly amazing.

Oh, wow.

You really.

That could go wrong in so many different ways.

Do you have all your thumbs?

Is there a background check you have to pass before you use the cannon?

Not by America.

Yeah.

A functional mini brass cannon.

That is really funny.

Yeah.

Going back to this list of the Christmas gifts that should last forever.

Fiberament D home oven baking stone for $137.

You just made all this works up.

I did not.

Fiberment D home oven baking stone.

So it's a piece of stone that you put in an oven.

Pretty much.

This is no longer the.

This isn't see.

This is the thing is this is no longer the list of stuff that will last forever.

It's incredulous Midwesterners judge a Christmas list from a website.

Because everything is like, I got a stone at home.

I got a stone in my backyard.

I'll put in the oven.

I'm paying $100 for it.

We are.

It's a Charlie Barron's bit here.

Right.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

I like the whole idea of Midwestern Midwesterners denigrate other people's Christmas gifts.

Absolutely.

Because we can find it on sale.

Yeah.

What's wrong with you?

Or my backyard.

844-967-2789 if you want to share the greatest Christmas gift you ever, ever received.

Popcorn maker.

I thought we were done with popcorn makers.

The copper plated stainless steel.

Worthy pop popcorn.

Popper $65 from Amazon.

Don't we just make popcorn in a pan or in the microwave?

Right.

We need a special magical popcorn.

Popper.

We all have that friend who can't just say no to the gadget.

Yeah.

That's true.

I mean, we had this conversation.

What was the gadget you wanted?

The wonder oven.

How much was that?

It was $200.

And did you buy it?

I didn't.

Good.

You're welcome.

And I looked at it.

And I think what really changed my mind was we had a chef from Madison who called in.

Yeah.

And he said, Jane, you're just duplicating functions that your oven and your boiler already

do.

I said that before the chef said that.

Well, the chef carried a little more weight.

I'm sorry.

And now you call me them.

Thank you.

All right.

I understand the draw.

I understand the draw to these to these small appliances.

And I really, really wanted a wonder oven.

But as I looked at it more and I measured it and it was much bigger than I thought and takes

up a whole lot more space.

I'd have to move the air fryer.

I never use in order to fit in the wonder oven that I also likely would not use.

I just used my air fryer today.

Or not.

Yesterday.

Sorry.

This one walking up to the window and I got distracted with flowers.

844-967-2789.

PD is on the line from Florida.

Good morning, PD.

Thank you for joining the show.

What do you want to say?

Hey.

Yeah.

I had several special guests from the time I was pretty much like four years old

on through grade school.

My parents would give me a box of junk.

And I have home movies of them giving me like a talk a steam shovel or whatever.

And I play with it for like a minute.

And then I would go to the box of junk, which was great because it taught me how to

put things together and use my imagination, use my hands and all that.

So that was my favorite thing I looked forward to for a number of years through my

grade school.

And then when I was about 12, the greatest thing that I got to change my life,

they gave me my first silk silver town guitar.

And it was a guitar that was in like a case that had a little amplifier to

amplifier and speaker inside the case.

It was built into the case very, very unusual setup.

But they gave me my first silver town guitar, which appeared in one of my videos.

I became a professional singer, songwriter, one man band because of it.

And changed my entire life that one year.

That is really cool, PD.

And I love the box of junk.

I think for for the right kid, that could be a great, great, great gift, right?

Oh, it was because I turned into because of that.

I really became like a Mr. fix it.

I mean, I have worked on.

There's nothing I haven't done on a car.

I mean, I'm not a professional mechanic, but I've rebuilt motors and engines and transmission clutch.

I had nothing I haven't done on a car.

I've remodel houses.

I've made all kinds of things silver, jewelry, a riot, tobacco pipes.

I mean, all kinds of things that I've done in my life that I owe all to going back to this.

Putting together things out of junk.

It would be anything that buttons to magnets to a little rubber piece.

My dad worked in rubber factory for a while.

Just all kinds of things they would gather up through the year.

And I would make things, little sculptures or just things that my mom gave me a big button one years and string.

And I made this thing where you put the string through the button and you pull on it with your hands back and forth.

And it makes the button spin real fast.

Yes.

And yeah, just all kinds of really cool stuff, which kids today would never run on.

Well, it just look at how that unlocked your imagination.

That's really remarkable.

We don't have a lot of time left.

PD, how did you find us while you're listening in Florida?

I listened to talk left has a number of stations on it.

So I listened to the one of Madison considerably quite a bit.

I love the station.

I went to Madison.

The year that I went to college in Texas, actually, but went on a road trip and went to Madison to.

And heard Bob Seeger play for the first time.

And some little joint.

Before he was big.

And Madison was awesome.

I've never forgotten that.

That's really cool, PD.

Thank you so very much for listening.

And thank you so very much for sharing your story.

844-967-2789.

The singular greatest Christmas gift or most memorable that you ever received.

You're listening to Asgos Wisconsin.

We're on the Civic Media Radio Network.

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Good morning, welcome to Asgos Wisconsin, Jane McNair.

In for Kristen Bry, joint in studio by Dan Schafer and Greg Bach and Calvin.

Is on the board you can call in at 844-967-2789-844-967.

Partying!

Talking about best Christmas gifts.

This is from a wire carder article on the 24 Christmas gifts that will last forever.

And we're just taking your calls as well.

What was your favorite Christmas gift that you've gotten over the years?

This is a great one, texture from the 414.

My KitchenAid mixer.

At first, I was disappointed about getting a kitchen appliance from my husband.

But that thing is the best.

And actually, that's on this list.

That thing is on wedding lists and a grocery list.

I got one for Christmas.

That's what I asked for for our wedding.

Yeah, every wedding registry I think is required by law to have one of those on there.

But it really is the most useful thing.

It's very versatile.

They're not cheap. They're like 350 bucks, 400 bucks.

But that's something that is going to last you a really, really, really long time.

I'm still trying to think of what of a modern present I got in the past few years.

That really made me go, oh my god.

I don't know.

I just like getting presents.

But I never asked for the big present, I think.

When you're younger, you get the big present or the present from Santa.

Now, if a lot of the things I asked for, they're very functional.

So if I get them, I'm excited.

You know, last year, Bridget asked my brother-in-law, asked my brother-in-law and my sister for the stuff we need to change our own oil.

And a lesson on how to change our own oil.

And that's what my brother did.

He came over with all, he bought us all this stuff.

He came over and he showed us.

And now we can change our own oil, which saves you quite a bit of money.

Yeah, I'm sure it does.

844-967-2789, your favorite Christmas gift.

And I think too, for a lot of us, it's something that sticks out from childhood.

Yeah, that was my initial thought.

It's just like, okay, what's the childhood one?

What's the one that I remember?

Set me over the moon.

Texture from the 414.

I'm sorry, that's the wrong one.

Text from the 262.

Says my air fryer.

It makes all kinds of stuff.

I love the wings the best.

I was really excited when we got ours.

And I used it all the time.

It's been six months, which is another reason why I talked myself out of the wonder of it.

I know that when you say the wonder of it, you always say like the wonder of it.

It makes me sad.

Yeah, that's the one that got away.

Great thing too about my family.

We exchange lists.

And so like, my wife's birthday is in April.

So what I do is I look at the list she gives out.

And anything that's on her Christmas list that wasn't given to her.

I'll usually buy a couple things off of there.

I don't need stuff that I'll make her excited.

And she's very much can be very much entrenched in gift cards.

She loves gifts cards because then she controls what she gets.

But as we all know, it is you want to be able to, you want to be tangible.

Be like, here's the thing.

Here's a shirt.

Here's a whatever.

Here's a wonder of it.

Just buy the stupid thing.

All right, my God.

I'm on board now.

If he'll get you a shot up about the wonder of it.

Low. Thank you for the flowers.

Yes, it's Greg's birthday and Pat sent them on bouquet.

It's really, really beautiful.

And a texture from the w a from listening on w a u k from the 608.

Happy birthday, Greg.

I hope all your birthday wishes come true.

They already are. I'm surrounded by friends.

Rico from Rock County said a great call from PD you call from Florida

and talked about how he made a pipe.

And Rico just wants to know if it was really a tobacco pipe PD.

Or is there something you're not telling us?

No texture from the 920 listening on WM DX in Madison.

I got a bonsai tree.

That's cool.

I got a bonsai Lego set.

That's cool.

It's very cool.

I think that's kind of cool.

Yeah.

Also from the 920 tools in a book.

And from the 414 listening on w a u k divorce papers.

Oh, you got served on.

That changed the tone just slightly.

We did get a little bit.

You know, opposite of that, I suppose.

I should say that the best guess I've ever given.

And during Christmas was I proposed my wife right before Christmas.

Oh, yeah.

The engagement ring there.

So that's probably the most nice, most most memorable Christmas of my life.

Oh, yeah.

Was that engagement there?

We got a live stream comment from Jim.

My fave lord ring to the character Greg Bach.

I think he's talking about what I look like.

Because I look like I could storm a mountain.

But also, I guess you know what?

Probably the greatest Christmas present I ever got was the fact that I'm born on December 12th.

Then came Christmas.

I was given life.

Ha ha.

Beat that everyone in the room.

Okay, then I'm not going to bring up my snoopy soap dish, which changed my life when I was six.

Really?

I love that. Thanks so much.

I said, you two guys don't remember Avon.

Avon calling.

My mother was an Avon lady.

She was an Avon lady.

And they would actually come to your house and they would bring the catalog.

Yeah.

You could look through the catalog.

And I wanted that snoopy soap dish with every fiber of my being.

And I got it.

You know what I love is that you think I'm so much younger than you.

Because you always do that.

You won't remember this.

And then you'll say something like, you know, I don't know, mash.

I'm like, of course, I remember mash.

Maybe I don't maybe the snoopy snow cone maker.

It was like his house.

And you put ice in the top of the house.

And then we'll come out the front.

It would come out the front as like a snow cone.

I remember that one.

I never got that one.

I never got a light bright.

Really?

On my 40th birthday, I got a light bright.

Because I had been whining about it for so long.

Like a wonder oven.

I'm going to get you a wonder oven.

Is this turning into the gifts that got away here?

Not the best gift.

Is there a gift that got away for you, Dan?

Not that I can think of.

No, okay.

Also on this list of gifts that will last forever.

A Pujo Paris, who select pepper mill for $44.

If you have one pepper mill,

doesn't that last you a lifetime?

Doesn't don't most pepper mills last forever.

I'm not going to lie.

I hate this list so much.

It's just not a list that Midwesterners can appreciate.

No, no.

Because it's a lot of overpriced due dads.

Ours would be like a sturdy shovel.

Where can you get it?

Probably your dad's house.

You know, a good coat.

Burlington code factory.

Come on.

Don't pay full price.

Yeah, don't pay full price.

The one thing on here on the wire cutter is a good knife.

It's critically important.

All right.

News is coming up next followed by the wonderful Todd

all about show from noon until 2 p.m.

Thank you so very much for joining us today.

Thank you, Dan Schaefer for coming all the way out and joining us in studio.

Thanks for having me.

Thank you, Greg Bach, Calvin.

As always, thank you for producing this program.

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