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We're going to start though.
We are buzzing all across the civic media radio network because President Biden is coming
to town.
He is going to be in Milwaukee.
Oh, this was a very, actually, if I'm not mistaken, it was a very quick thing.
Like he's coming.
We're like, Oh, crap.
Yeah.
He's going to be here today.
And civic media is there to cover this.
And our news director, Terry Bell will be joining us to give us an updates and take us
through that.
But yes, President Biden is going to stop at the Wisconsin black chamber of commerce,
which is located in Milwaukee.
And he's going to be highlighting initiatives that his administration has put into place
to support, to support rather small businesses and talk about the American rescue plan.
And the bipartisan infrastructure law, trying to highlight the accomplishments of his
administration.
As he should be doing and touting it every single day with 200 press releases.
Well, and it's just interesting and we've talked about this before.
But the reality is when you look at the numbers economically and then what people's lived
reality is.
Exactly.
And you just ran into this when you were talking to a friend last night.
Yes, I was talking to a friend last night and he said just offhandedly because the place
where he works there, there are sales of suffered a little this year.
Okay.
And he just started and said, well, well, you know, the economy is bad.
And I go, no, it's not.
It's not bad.
And I said, if you look at the jobs number, if you look at the inflation numbers, if
you look at the growth, if you look at everything, the economy is doing really good.
It's just how the economy affects you personally.
And if they're spending money at your business and great, if they're not, then not, but it's
we just are.
I've, I've, this has become my bell that I ring all the time, which is we've just become
so conditioned to say, will the economy suck?
It's bad.
It's bad.
It's not.
Well, but again, I think people who lived reality is slightly different, especially there
are certain things that just are not within any presidential administration's control,
right?
Like the price of housing or gas or gas and the price of food.
And we've talked about this before.
It's about greed.
Yeah.
Unfortunately.
Most of it is.
Well, and the other thing too is, you know, I'm, I'm on the, the, the, the, the Twitter
and I see Republican GOP leaders tweeting all the time, saying, gases at all time.
Hi, this is because of binomics.
Okay.
Well, guess what?
I paid 244 for gas this week.
244 in Milwaukee.
Well, I paid 259 not too long ago.
And I thought I was, I thought that was a victory.
So here's my thought is if you are so quick to say, the gas is so high because of
Joe Biden.
If the gas is so low, where's this congratulate, congratulatory ham?
Like why that just goes to show at the end of the day, this has nothing to do with who's
sitting in the seat.
I never blamed Donald Trump for high gas prices.
I never blamed George Bush.
I never congratulated Barack Obama for low gas prices.
This has nothing to do with them.
Like you said, the housing, I mean, I got my tax assessments this year and it told me
how much the house was worth.
And then I have real estate agents who now still call me saying, do you want to sell
your house?
Oh, I'm sure we can get X amount.
It's all, it's all made up.
It's all like how you, how you're feeling, I base it on my feelings.
Yeah.
So.
But again, when, when again, I think that the lived reality is people are still struggling
to pay rent.
I agree with you.
People are still struggling to pay for groceries.
I agree with you.
But at the end of the day, I don't know if you can blame, quote unquote, the economy for
that.
Because when I told this gentleman about those numbers, he literally went, oh, okay.
That makes sense.
So.
Yeah.
Is it just that there are too many numbers and talking about too many numbers just makes
it boring and people tune out?
Absolutely.
I mean, if you just, I mean, honestly, if you could, you could explain the numbers to
somebody in probably about five minutes in a very simple way.
I mean, we've done it here on this show and it made me, it made me and I'm stupid.
You are not stupid.
I'm a dodo bird.
You are not.
But I just feel like if people just took the time, but that's not what we do anymore.
And this goes to cry.
I don't care what you believe in and who you vote for.
It's a lot easier for us to listen to an influencer, say something on a, on a social
media website.
It's easier to read a headline than read the whole story.
Absolutely.
And so when we hear the economy sucks from the person that you like, you're like, well,
they must be, they must be right.
They know, they know.
They have followers.
Yeah.
He sucks.
Article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel voters in Wisconsin have a largely pessimistic
view of the current state of the US economy.
There was a market law poll released last month, only 27% of respondents described the
economy as excellent or good.
36% described it as not so good and 37% labeled it as poor.
So the question I would have for those individuals that I would ask those who think it's poor
or not so good, tell me why you think that.
And not in a way of being like, yeah, prove it.
It's just like, I want you to tell me what you understand of the numbers that leads
you to that place.
But also, it's a follow-up question and I think I said this to you off air is, what could
the economy be doing to make your life better?
Because at the end of the day is, you know, you're not making enough money.
Okay.
Well, maybe it's time to find a new job or ask your boss for a race.
That has nothing to do with who's sitting in the seat of power.
It has to do with your boss.
So that's what I want.
What can the economy be doing to make you feel better or more confident about it?
That's a great question.
It's both personal.
It's a macro and a micro look at the entire situation.
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If you want to call and or text talking about President Biden's visits to Milwaukee today
to talk about the economic policies of his administration and what that has accomplished,
text around the 541 says capitalism is expensive.
Costs go up, but causing costs to rise.
Also can anyone point to any specific presidential policy that affects gas prices?
And there, no, because there is no presidential policy that affects gas prices.
And I think one thing that people tend to forget is one of the reasons why gas was so inexpensive
under Donald Trump was we had the COVID pandemic.
No one was traveling.
And they had to cut the price of oil dramatically, like I think it was like 25, 30 bucks a barrel
at that point.
Yeah.
Oil hadn't been that low in decades.
I paid my lowest, I paid 88 cents.
Oh God.
Yeah.
But again, that wasn't a policy or administration move.
That was a move by the oil cartels to cut production because people weren't driving it.
In an extraordinary time.
Yeah.
Exactly.
This is nothing to do with the president.
This has to do with the people who control the oil.
And the circumstances that the world was going through at that time.
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We have Cindy from Appleton on the line.
Good morning, Cindy.
Thanks for joining us, goes Wisconsin.
Hello.
Well, I want to go to your economy poll because personally, my economy isn't doing very
good.
I go out quite a bit to the grocery stores and the gas station and restaurants.
And I'm telling you, if people don't understand the economy right now is humming, when you
go to a restaurant any given night of the week and they're packed, gas stations, I can't
even highly get into them to get gas.
Go to the grocery stores, it's bumper to bumper carts.
So if people are not understanding that the economy is booming right now, then they must
be sitting home with their heads in the sand because the economy is humming.
I don't disagree with you, Cindy, but I do think again for some folks, it's the high price
of groceries.
It's the high price of housing, rents are up, mortgages are way up and I think that's
what people take away.
And like Greg said, too, it's very much a personal thing on what is happening in your
specific life, right?
Well, I get that, but you know, the mortgages and all that stuff really honestly still,
if you think about it, who is bringing that on?
We are because we continue to pay for houses that are so overpriced.
If people stop buying houses, guess what would happen?
If people stop buying plain tickets, guess what would happen?
This is the problem.
We are feeding it to ourselves.
Thank you so much for the call Cindy always appreciated, 844-967-2789 price from Texas.
Good morning, price.
Good morning, everybody.
It's a lot to cover.
So just a quick day.
Just like Dan Shaker talked about all the time, the price of housing, got to build more
housing, right?
People want to buy a house and they can't.
So I think that's a huge thing when they say the economy is bad, they can't afford a house.
Going to the price of gas, I remember during the pandemic, but before, the soundings flooded
the market with cheap oil, that kind of killed oil and gas in West Texas for a while.
So those people were stopped bringing in gas to cheap, but gas is a little more expensive.
The tax of the economy is bad.
Sure.
And then just as far as going out, I was just, I just, I got to say, I came home with
stocks the last week, went to my mom, went to the U.P. up by where she lived and, man,
I went bowling and I played five games, drank four beers, rented shoes, or on a 30-box.
So people moved to Wisconsin, if you watch, if you watch, you're wanting to go far.
Oh my gosh.
I had a flooding area, my friend's barn, I had a beer chaser, it was, I had, I went to,
I went to an arcade box, and I bought an old bucket tokens and two beers, it was $120.
So I'm like, I want to stay.
We would love to have you stay, Price.
And as always, thank you so very much for calling Bob from Milwaukee.
I see you.
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Right now, we're talking about President Biden's stop at the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce
today to tout his administration's successes as far as small businesses and the economy.
And we're taking your calls in your text at 844-967-2789, Bob from Milwaukee.
Thank you for your patience, Bob.
Good morning.
Good morning.
I just wanted to share my thoughts and disagreements to what you hosts are telling people with regards
to the economy.
Sure.
If I may, if I may just give you some examples of what I'm talking about.
First of all, with President Trump, we had the highest production of oil that we
ever had as a country where the number one producer of oil.
And at that time, also, we were purchasing about 30 percent of our oil from Russia.
When Biden came in the office, he did two things.
He stopped production and initiated this war with Ukraine.
And when I say, he, I mean the United States in NATO, okay, let me just explain that.
By imposing those sanctions on Russia, we stopped buying oil from Russia and that affected
and exacerbated the problem that we are, that he already created by stopping production
in the US.
So when you do that, you think about that 80 percent of our products are delivered through
the truck, the trucking industry.
They purchase majority of our fuel.
So when you decrease production and limit your, where you're buying your oil from, your
prices are going to increase and what caused inflation, one of the causes for inflation was
that increase in fuel prices, you may remember, we're at $5 plus a gallon, okay.
So that increases our food costs, it increases everything that's delivered by a truck.
And that, that initiated inflation, then he tried to stimulate the economy by injecting
trillions of dollars and entice people not to work, they stayed at home.
And what they, what that did is you don't have to be a Nobel Prize winning economist to
figure out that when you print money and inject that much cash into the economy, that that's
going to cause inflation, which it did.
But the inflation has gone down, Bob.
And Bob, the inflation has come down considerably.
After four here, after four years, it's gone down.
But this was a global, but, but inflation has been a global, inflation has been a global
issue.
Thank you for your call, Bob.
Really appreciate it.
I just did pull this up, by the way, in 2019, the US produced an average of 12.3 million
barrels per day, according to the US energy information administration with the country
accounting for nearly 15% of the world's total oil production in 2020, turning out close
to 13 million barrels of crude of oil per day, more than Russia or Saudi Arabia, US oil
production forecast to average an all time high of 12.8 million barrels a day this year
and keep growing to 13.1 million in 2024.
And the other thing too is we did, we had inflation.
Yes, we get inflation there at times that happens.
And we staved it off.
We didn't hit a recession.
We're not near recession right now.
And once again, that is just what I'm talking about is like the shovel blame and blame
and blame.
But the fact that is the economy is doing better and prices do rise year by year because that's
how prices work.
Well, and it correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the first stimulus checks happen under
the Trump administration because he was insistent that he signed them.
Yeah, the first, the first wave, the first wave of aid that went out that should have
gone out that went out to help people not stay home and not work, which by the way is
we were in the midst of a global pandemic is an ancient excuse has been used for decades.
People say those people don't want to work.
That's just not true.
I'm true.
Uh, this happened under a Republican leadership under Republican control.
And I think the Republicans for taking fast action on it too, eight, four, four, nine,
six, seven, two, seven, eight, nine, Beverly checking in on a live stream.
Good our feelings about the economy be as simple as I see something in the store that I would
like, but I realize I can't afford it.
Therefore the economy sucks.
And that kind of goes with a text we got from the 608 says some poor guy didn't get his
dollar, now a raise at the factory.
So therefore the economy sucks.
We have Tim from Polaski Tim.
We got just a couple of minutes left.
Thank you for joining as goes Wisconsin.
What's what's your view on this?
Uh, yes, good morning.
So anyhow, I agree with you that the economy is humming right along.
There are some things so that would affect many people.
And you know, for instance, my wife and I stopped at a red robin last night and had some
burgers and a couple of beers and it was $75.
Wow.
Wow.
That seems like a lot of money for a couple of beers and a couple of burgers.
The burger?
Sure.
So, but to some people that that becomes cost prohibitive, you know, I think a lot of
it in my mind has to do with the housing.
And if we look to the north of us in Canada, their housing has been screwed up for years.
And they're finally taking some action on it as in the housing is being bought up by
foreign investors who now control the price of the housing.
They control the rent pricing and it and it all flipped through the hands of the average
working Canadian who now can't afford to buy a house anymore has to struggle so much
more of their percentage of their wage in rent or whatever.
And I think that that is beginning to happen here in the US.
Oh, for sure, Tim, and we've seen it, yeah, when we've seen that now with big hedge
funds coming in and I think we saw that in during the pandemic, when people lost their homes
and these big hedge funds were coming into communities and buying up all these properties
and jacking up the rents.
And so I think you make a very good point.
Thank you, Tim.
Very much for calling it for for nine six, seven, two, seven, eight, nine.
When we return, Kristen, Bri, the one and only creator of this fine program will be joining
us from a home checking in on her maternity leave and we're going to do a round of the
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Well, we would eat craft and we'd just eat more and buy really expensive catch-ups
with it.
It's right.
All the fanciers, D-Sean catch-up, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, if I had a million
dollars, if I had a million dollars, well, I'd buy you a green dress, what not a real
green dress.
Good morning and welcome to Asgos, Wisconsin, Jane McNair, in for Kristen, Bri, Greg Bach.
As on the board, you can always join us call or text at 844-967-2789, joining us for
a round of the good, the bad and you found what it could well, the one, the only, the founder
of this fine program, Kristen, Bri, good morning, my friend and mama, how are you?
I'm good.
I walked for two and a half miles this morning on a treadmill.
Good for you.
That's right and so I've been done a little yoga, but I actually had time to go to the
real gym and work out before I got on this fine program this morning and so I'm feeling
good about that.
We bought a walking pad to get us through the winter, so it's like basically a walking
pad is, it's the treadmill without doing like an incline.
Okay.
Good.
You can fit in your bed so it doesn't have the full like stand part where that's it's
but it's like foldable or not foldable, but you can like just pads, you can fit in on
things.
Oh, I like that.
It's it's less capabilities in a full treadmill, but you can still just walk on it at leisurely
pace instead of just sitting on your butt.
So I'm getting my Netflix and chill while I walk at like a three point miles per hour
pace.
So it actually gets to move it over the winter.
That's really cool.
You're breaking up a little bit.
Your stream is a little bit sticky just so you know, I would actually love to look into
one of those a walking pad.
I didn't.
We don't have enough room in our house for a treadmill.
There's just no possible way.
There's nowhere to put it.
So how is Frankie?
Frankie Lou is good.
We may be it may be time to size up in diapers.
She's been having about one blow out a day of into her outfits.
And so I think that may be a sign that it's time for size two diapers.
She looked very cute on Friday.
She was Saturday.
She made it to the Mike's first to her first bar crawl of Mike's for 12 months.
She's officially Wisconsinite.
Yep.
She's you know, she's gone to all of them whether it was in my stomach or in person this
year.
But she was dressed as a little elf and she was great for usual as far as her temperament.
And then she totally blew out her outfit and mom did not have a backup.
Oh, that was a sign that it was time to go home.
Yeah, that'll do it.
I was talking to Mike about that.
He said he was.
He said, so I never heard the term blow out before.
And I go, is that about poop?
And he goes, yeah.
And then he sends me a picture.
And I'm like, the yes would have suffice.
I mean, that would have been fine.
I didn't need the details.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, that happened at I was at the Madison studio yesterday filming recording something
with law forward, which will be coming out next week.
And she was wearing a onesie that says, you ain't cool if you don't pee your pants, which
is a line from Billy Madison.
Okay.
And then she proceeded to poop her pants and it got all over that onesie.
So I was like, I don't know if it's the same.
I don't know if it goes the same way.
Feet in your pants is maybe a little bit different than pooping your pants.
Yeah, probably.
All right.
Well, we are going to move on and go into the good, the bad and you found what at good
will.
Of course, this is the season of giving and a psychologist who teaches at Harvard Business
School researcher Michael Norton says the act of giving actually does improve your happiness.
It actually makes a difference.
They had one experiment covering about 700 people.
They were randomly assigned these people to either buy something for themselves or to
buy something for a stranger.
And then after they did that, they had to report on how they felt.
It turned out that giving to others led to a significant happiness boost, whereas spending
on yourself didn't even move the needle.
So if you take five bucks out of your pockets and go buy, I don't know, nail polish or something,
it's not going to feel as good as you doing donating that $5 or doing something else with
your $5.
That's, I saw something recently as far as instead of asking children, what do you want
for Christmas, starting to ask them what do you want to give for Christmas?
Interesting.
And such a subtle difference of how they think about the holiday, and because I think about
it, and like, I think my dad would take us shopping for my mom.
And you know, this was before the the internet.
So it was kind of, and of course, we went shopping on Christmas Eve morning.
Oh, I'm going to go to Westtown Mall in Madison.
And there was a little about like, all right, what's left to buy mom?
And so, but it was still, you know, I think about that of like the early days of being
a kid and thinking about what you want to give versus what you want to get.
That's a wonderful.
That's that really is wonderful.
And I can imagine there's all kinds of mom, Facebook groups are going to have big arguments
about, are you, now you're robbing your child of the joy of wanting a toy?
I think you still want a toy.
The comment section on mommy videos is truly the worst.
It's got to be an, I can't really, really awful.
I cannot imagine having 4,000 strangers weighing in with their particular expertise on all
things.
Mommy.
Yeah.
It's, it's pretty bad to watch.
I was like, people who just cannot take a joke.
I'm like, it's supposed to be a relatable humor.
They're not serious.
Okay.
All right.
Well, give something.
Give it as good for you.
It makes you feel better.
It will make your life better.
Take a scarf.
If you buy one for yourself, it's just another scarf you don't really need.
But if you, if you, if you buy a scarf for someone else, you've shown them they are important
to you.
My mom, mama, mama, mama box.
She for years wouldn't make during the year she'd make boxes of hats for the Milwaukee
mission.
Oh, how lovely.
And then one year she was in the hospital and she found out that premiums needed hats
for their head because they get cold and what.
So she made like literally imagine a coaster smaller than a coaster.
Just tiny little hats for premium heads.
She just made them and she'd make like 15 a day.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
And she and she knitted them.
She knitted them herself.
Oh, that's a, that's a skill.
Yeah.
Knitting is a skill.
I went with crocheting because crocheting is much more forgiving with knitting.
You have to be really, really crocheted either way.
She made hats for babies.
Okay.
That's fine.
But with a one needle or two, that's the only thing I know is the difference between
the two of them.
It's, it was two needles.
Then it's knitting.
That's knitting.
That would be knitting.
My mom's awesome.
She is awesome.
The good, the bad and you found what at Goodwill moving on from the good we're giving
is good for you.
The bad.
Unfortunately, Walgreens is going to be closing.
It's third store in Milwaukee in as many months Walgreens closed at Forest Home and Lincoln
avenues in October.
They shut down the location at Fondelac in Hampton in November.
And now they are closing the store at Tetonia and capital drive on January 15th over the
summer.
The company announced they were going to close 150 stores across the country to save money.
They are you, I mean, Walgreens became at one point almost as ubiquitous as Starbucks,
right?
I mean, they were everywhere everywhere.
So is it simply to, they, they expanded too fast and had went to too many locations?
I think
it also would be going to be interesting to see because I feel like CVS is strategy was
just to open a CVS next to a successful Walgreens like I feel like you see the two of them together
a lot.
And I wonder in those locations how close the nearest CVS is and if that has anything
to do with it.
But I think about it.
I think about how many times you see Walgreens and a CVS really close.
And now you days you can go to pick and save Target, Costco, Walmart, you can go to all
these places now and get your pharmacy needs and it's not just a Walgreens or a CVS everywhere
has a pharmacy in it.
Yeah, but I think and especially in some areas in Milwaukee's north side, even pharmacies
are getting really independent pharmacies are getting a few in far between and tough
to find.
That's not for Walgreens to care about it.
Apparently.
Yeah.
They decided to close over 100 stores nationwide.
This is according to Milwaukee Mayor Cavaliere Johnson.
The decisions to close are made at a corporate level.
And so the city of Milwaukee never even had the chance to talk about about this decision
because the decision had already been decided.
So and I just from personal experience, we have Walgreens just a couple of blocks away
from the house.
I know they're having big staffing issues.
It's tough.
I mean, and even even when you mentioned CVS, I've gone into CVS is now where there is
one person in the entire store and it's all self checkout.
It's all self checkout.
There's not even a human checkout person.
Interesting.
Yeah, I went to, there's a CVS right by our house and I went to buy some cold medicine
for Bridget.
I think because the cold medicine had something in it, I had to be, it had to be checked
out by a person.
I waited because that person was in the back helping another person.
And I wasn't mad.
It's like, this is the situation.
I could get mad at this human.
But yeah, I mean, one, two, if not one person are just are doing all the work.
Walgreens, I think it's like three people there at one time.
And those are big stores.
Yeah, those are big stores.
I know Greg, our friend Greg from walk a shot has been waiting on the line.
We're going to take Greg real quickly.
Good morning, Greg.
Thanks for joining us.
Go to Wisconsin.
Good morning.
And I agree with the gift giving thing.
It's better to give them to receive.
But I just wanted to you, Kristen props, Kristen, Kristen with the treadmill thing.
That's awesome.
I just wanted to congratulate you on the new baby because I haven't done that yet.
And also, one, two and a half miles on the treadmill that inspires me.
That inspires me.
Good.
Yeah.
So we should do like a as goes Wisconsin like treadmill challenge or something, you know?
That would be fun.
We could do that for the winter, the winter doldrums of keeping people active during the cold
months.
That'd be fun.
That's a good idea.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So definitely, definitely appreciate you checking in Greg anything else you want to share?
I just wanted to say Merry Christmas to all of you and happy holidays, definitely Merry
Christmas.
And how happy holidays to you, Greg, friend.
Okay.
Sounds good.
Bye.
Take care.
Thanks a lot, Greg.
I just can't get over that Christmas is on Monday.
Like I, I feel like I do this kind of every year, but this year felt even more so because
you'd think I'd have the time because, you know, not that maternity leave is a vacation.
Right.
Right.
I started the month thinking I was going to start making videos again.
I was going to start ramping up to come back next month.
I was going to get all my Christmas shopping done.
And then all of a sudden this week was like on Monday morning, the thought of, oh, Christmas
is in a week.
And it's already as I'm checking things I wanted to buy online.
They're gone.
They're not going to show up in time.
Well, no, they're not going to, they're shipping like they're not going to show up in time.
And so it was like, well, I think maybe I will revert back to shopping in person this
year because, because you know, I waited too long, oh, no.
So I mean, do you haven't, you haven't started any of your gift shopping?
No, a lot of it's done.
There's a couple things, mostly something for my husband, the, the thing that I wanted
to get was not going to get here in time.
Just your love is a gift.
It should.
That works.
That works.
You tell him that.
Right.
You, you text Mike and you like, Kristen is a niche.
Kristen gave you a child here.
Yeah.
The tax break alone.
Oh, that's the reason to have a baby.
I know some people who've done that, I have three things left.
I'm very proud of myself.
And I'm going to knock him out tomorrow.
Can not wait.
Well, my husband waited until yesterday to give me his list.
Ugh.
Oh, gosh.
Yes.
He waited until yesterday.
And then he just says, a cardigan sweater, well, what size cardigan sweater, what color
would you like?
I need car mats.
Well, what kind of card do you want magical car mats or regular car mats?
So wait, what are magical car mats?
Yeah.
We're magic magic.
You can't just say magical car mats and move on.
Well, because they cost like a hundred and forty dollars, those should be pretty magical
car mats, at least as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah.
I think you're going to be saddened.
Water proof and stain proof and weather proof and all the proofs.
All the proofs.
They're all the proofs.
So yes, I actually ordered last night and everything, but the car mats will be here in
time.
So that's not too bad.
All right.
That's not too bad.
All right.
Stay close.
When we return, the good, the bad, and you found what a good will.
You may want to do a stop at Goodwill this afternoon, Kristen, this kind of harkens back,
this kind of harkens back to our discussion with our friends at Habitat for Humanity not
too long ago.
Okay.
I have to drop off stuff at Goodwill.
So maybe I'll Peru.
I guarantee it's going to be jam-packed today.
Stay close.
You're listening to Asgos Wisconsin.
We're on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Good morning and welcome, welcome, welcome to Asgos, Wisconsin.
Jane McNair in her Kristen Bri, Kristen is here joining us from home while she's on her
maternity leave.
Greg Bach is on the board and you can always call and there were texts at 844-967-2789.
I want to share this text with you, Kristen, from our friend at the 541.
Did anyone else just wave at Jane and Kristen right now when you joined the show when we
were all waving at each other at the very beginning, that's so sweet.
We are waving back at all of you as well.
And yeah, if you're watching on a live stream, you can leave a comment there as well.
On Facebook, YouTube and or Twitter, we are doing the good, the bad and you found what
at Goodwill.
So Jessica Vincent lives in Virginia and in June, she was going through a good will.
She likes to search for deals and things like that and nothing really grabbed her until
she saw this glass vase.
So she went around the store, nothing else appealed to her.
She went back to this little vase that has red and green swirls on it.
There was a little M on the bottom of the vase that she thought stood for Marano because
that's a famous glassware company in Italy, Marano Glassware.
So she bought it $3.99, not too bad.
She thought I thought it might be worth $1,000 or $2,000, but I had no clue about what
it actually was until I little did a little research on it.
So $3.99, she paid for it, then she looked it up.
She went to an auction house, sent them photos almost immediately.
The president of this auction house called her immediately on Wednesday.
The vase was auctioned off for $107,000, $100.
What was it?
Was it a dead artist or something that like it's never going to be able to replicate it?
It is part of a series by Carlos Scarpa, a renowned Italian architect.
He was part of a series that Mr. Scarpa designed in the 1940s, unknown how many of these
vases were made, but apparently it was in perfect, perfect condition.
The auctioneer said if it had even a tiny, tiny chip, it probably would have sold for
under $10,000, but because it wasn't such perfect condition, it sold for $107,100, not
bad for a purchase of $3.99.
This is why I tolerate Mike every time he wants to go to some kind of goodwill or antique
shop to look for sports carts.
Because truly, a lot, there is many times that people don't know what they have, and if
you know what you're looking for, or sometimes even when you don't know what you're looking
for, you can find it.
And you can find something that is very valuable.
There's been multiple times I've fallen asleep in the car, and I wake up in the cars parked
and we're parked outside of a car shop.
And I always make fun of them for it, but it's also like, well, if you sometimes stumble
across like a $100,000 car, I can't really begrudge you for that.
Now it's going to be tough to complain about that, absolutely.
It just reminded me so much of the triptics that were donated to Habitat for Humanity.
Remember that?
Yeah, totally.
It was a series of three different triptics that had been donated, and one of the people
going through it had the sense to say we should have somebody look at this, because you
and I saw pictures of them, Kristen, and I didn't think they were particularly attractive.
It's not something that would have spoken to me, but what, it went on to get auctioned
off for like $87,000.
Yeah, it was something similar to what this vase was.
Some crazy, yeah, some, some crazy, crazy amount.
And obviously Habitat for Humanity overjoyed about that donation, because again, they did
track down the people and they said, go ahead, auction it off and take the money, we're
going to let you keep it.
So that, that was pretty terrific.
We have Tom from Grafton, who is on the line.
Good morning, Tom.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Go to Wisconsin.
What's up?
I just want to say Merry Christmas, and I'm sure I've enjoyed the every Wednesday with
the baby stuff on the whole night.
It's just so sweet and uplifting.
Well, thank you, Tom.
We really appreciate it.
And thank you very much for listening and for chiming in and calling and texting and
all that stuff.
Have a wonderful holiday.
What do you have planned?
Actually, nothing yet.
I'm waiting for people to get back to me.
But all your shopping is done, unlike Kristen Brunt.
Oh, you don't sound very convincing there, Tom, but that's all right.
We'll let you off the hook.
Thank you, Tom.
I have a Merry Christmas.
Thanks, Tom.
So are you going to be going to Rapids to see your family this weekend or not?
On Friday.
You're going up Friday.
Debbie is very excited.
Yep.
So we leave.
We have tomorrow and then basically wake up Friday morning and head up to the Rapids.
And then we'll be there until Christmas morning.
And then we drive from on Christmas morning after we do breakfast with my family.
We drive to Muskego to do the rest of Christmas day and night with Mike's family.
Oh, fun.
And so it's pretty pretty good system.
It makes me it's one of those things where it's it's worked out very well.
There's been no drama as far as like splitting holidays and stuff.
So it's fun to be able to see everyone with just a two and a half hour drive.
Definitely.
Most definitely.
Um, I.
It is Chris.
Is your mom just like over the moon with presents?
Is she just do you know what she's Mike asked because she's over the moon with presents
when it's just even before she had a grandchild, like even as adult children, she really goes
above and beyond when she really gets into the spirit of giving to pull to bring it
full circle.
A lot of joy out of finding the perfect gifts for people.
And Mike asked her the other day, he's we worked face timing with her so she could see
Frankie.
And he goes, Debbie, do I have to rent a U-Haul and she was maybe don't bring a lot of
stuff.
Well, so we'll see.
I tried to remind her, I was like, Mom, our house is not that big and she's not mobile
yet.
Right.
So there's only so many things that she can use.
So I will, I will report back as far as how much stuff Frankie will be the new owner
of after Monday.
And have you, I mean, have you felt compelled to buy her a whole bunch of stuff or not necessarily?
No, not at all because I think I, there's a couple like, I, there's a couple of things
as far as for memories of like your first Christmas, like here's an ornament for your
first Christmas to look back at.
But every time she needs something, I just buy it right now, right?
It's like, oh, you blew out this outfit.
Like we're going to get like, we got to get new new things.
And so it's not, it's not like I'm like, oh, this will be a great present for her this
year.
Well, I have a wonderful, wonderful Mary Christmas to you and Mike and baby Frankie and
give your love to my, my love to your parents, safe journey, and we'll talk to you next Wednesday,
right?
Talk to you next Wednesday.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
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