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Hello and welcome to the first hour of the Civic Media Spotlight.
Brian and Jamie talked to Steve Farr and Michael Vollman, the makers of the upcoming documentary, You, a film that follows legendary brewers, broadcaster Bob Uker through the final years of his life.
Local voices statewide impact.
It's Daybreak with Brian and Jamie.
Good morning.
Welcome back to Daybreak.
I am Brian Noon and Jamie's on vacation.
Well, it's baseball season and for the last couple years it's been a little sad when you go to Ampham Field or if you're listening to the game and you don't hear Bob Buker's voice because for over a more than 60 year career
Bob Uker was not only Mr. Baseball for his legendary work in the Brewers broadcast booth, but he was also a national star.
He used his quick wit and humor to go from major league backup catcher to become an actor, a talk show fixture, and now the subject of a brand new documentary called Uke.
It made its world premiere last Thursday at the Milwaukee Film Festival, and I am joined by the men behind that film, Steve Farr and Michael Volman.
They are the directors, the filmmakers,
that brought this film to life.
They're also Milwaukee residents and grew up rooting for the Brewers and they joined me now.
Guys, first of all, congratulations on the film and the world premiere last week.
And thanks for joining me this morning.
I appreciate
it.
Thanks, Brian.
Thanks for having us.
Thank you so much for having us.
You're very welcome.
And either one of you feel free to jump in on this one because unlike some documentaries that are made after the subject has passed on,
You guys had the privilege of being with Bob Yooker for the last three years of his life.
So was it hard to convince Yook to let you follow him around with a camera and be the subject of a film or did it come easy for him and for you guys?
You know, it was easier, I think, than we thought it was going to be.
I had worked on it.
September Club, our production company had had a development meeting and that was probably in the fall of 2022.
We were trying to come up with some
local subject to do a documentary about because it would be relatively easy to do it because we live in Milwaukee.
And we wanted to do something maybe that kind of showed the community and its best light and that type of thing.
And Bob Uker came up as an option.
We just jumped at it because we thought this would be great.
I think Michael originally didn't think it was going to be possible or might be difficult, but we did have a connection with him because I worked on an ALS PSA with him during COVID.
So anyway, we got through to him.
And he said, let's get together in Scottsdale.
And so we did that in December of 22.
Had a lunch that lasted, we thought it'd be an hour, hour and a half.
It ended up being, I think, four and a half hours, something like that.
And it turned out he had already done his homework on us.
He had vetted us.
And so I think his mind was as long as he didn't
you know, that hate us.
I think he had already decided that we were probably the right people to work with.
So that was great.
It was a terrific lunch
from there.
It was tough
shooting.
It was a great, amazing experience because it was a documentary that a lot of people had talked about making, but it seemed like a dream project that maybe we would never be able to do.
And then suddenly we're on an airplane flying down Arizona and meeting with them.
And it happened really fast.
We got ahold of them, and suddenly we're shooting this documentary.
Wow.
Now, Bob Uker,
obviously in Wisconsin, legendary.
And he's known nationwide, worldwide.
What is it about his story that made him such a fascinating subject for a documentary?
Michael, you could start with this one.
Yeah.
I mean, his, first of all, as we started doing a research and we knew a lot about him, but realizing how many lifetimes he lived in his, his career.
I mean, being a professional baseball player and then doing standup comedy and ending up on the Johnny Carson show.
I mean, that, that itself is kind of amazing.
And the fact that he, he was on that show more than almost anybody.
in in the history of the tonight show.
And then to kind of become part of the zeitgeist and his some of his catchphrases and things like
from the
Miller light commercials, I must be in the front row and just a bit outside from major league.
I mean, some of his his catchphrases became part of the zeitgeist.
So we knew all those things and but
but wanted to connect all the dots and then also introduce the audience to a more personal side of you, which, you know, get to know him a little bit more.
Well, the really personal side came because you were you were filming the documentary when Bob got his cancer diagnosis.
How did that change if it did at all the direction of the film?
You guys had a plan when you went in, but how did this
make you have to adjust and how did he adjust to now all of a sudden dealing with this news and also having a camera crew following him around.
Right.
Well, yeah, it was relatively early.
I can't remember exactly, but I imagine it was, you know, early in the 2023 season, you know, maybe in May or something that Bob gave me a call and told me what was up.
And, you know, and I just kind of said, well, you know, what does that mean for the documentary?
We'll do whatever you feel is right.
And he said, well, I may not have as much time to spend with you guys, but we had a shared list of different scenarios and things that we were going to try to do with him.
And it was probably 10, 12 items long.
And he just said, we're not going to be able to do everything right away, but I'm going to try to knock everything off the list.
You know, we didn't do everything, but we did enough, and the time that we had with him was amazing.
And Michael, you chose 2024 that season to make it kind of the backbone of the film.
How did that work to lay the rest of the narrative around?
Why the 2024 season?
Well, I think for a couple of reasons.
Number one, I mean, the Brewers have been very good.
You know, the last...
over the course of the last decade, I'd say, and that's amazing.
And there was, I think in the back of a lot of people's minds was the thought, will Bobby Garcia a World Series?
Everybody was hoping that that could happen.
So that was one of the reasons.
The other reason was just because to see Bob do what he does and to see
him fighting through this cancer diagnosis.
I mean, the fact that he went to the ballpark is often as he did and called so many games.
I mean, it's phenomenal.
I think letting fans sort of see how dedicated, how much he enjoyed the ballpark, how much it was a refuge from other personal things in his life.
Those are all important in that that kind of made it obvious to sort of make the 2024 season part of that narrative.
Steve Farr and Michael Volman are my guests.
They are the filmmakers behind Uke, the new documentary about Bob Uker.
You can go to ukemovie.com.
So you guys interviewed for the film a lot of really high profile baseball folks.
And they all had glowing things, obviously, to say about Bob Uker.
Were any of their stories a surprise to you where you went, oh, we didn't think you were going to say something like that.
Did anything jump out?
Oh, I stumped the band.
Yeah, you may have stumped the band.
They haven't heard that one yet.
Thank you.
Wait, we didn't rehearse for this one.
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know if there's anything super surprising.
I think, I think, and, you know, one of the nice things with it is that it was more, it confirmed a lot of our thoughts about Bob.
And sometimes they say you don't want to meet your heroes, right?
And in this case,
You know, Bob was kind of everything we hoped he would be.
And in the interviews, the people, a lot of people just got emotional.
I mean, when we would kind of always ask the question, you know, you know, Bob's 90s, you know, he's not going to do this forever.
You know, what's what's like day going to be like?
And everybody would pause.
And I kind of have a hard time answering that question.
You'll
see a
little bit of
that
question.
Yeah.
So I mentioned that the film had its world premiere last Thursday at the Milwaukee Film Festival.
You also showed a 20-minute preview on opening day at Amphan Field for Lifelong Brewers fans and Milwaukee guys.
Tell me about that experience, both of those experiences, and what it meant to you to see this work and tribute to Bob Euker come to life.
I mean, to be on the field, to show that preview was pretty cool.
I mean...
We were literally standing on the field.
And so, you know, we've had the opportunity to go on the field a little bit shooting and stuff like that.
So it's always an amazing moment.
It's sacred ground.
It kind of feels like, but to see the reaction of people in a 20 minute excerpt to see how, you know, how much laughter there was.
And then there was tears and laughter and just people really seeming to enjoy themselves and glowing.
I mean,
That was amazing.
And then to have the premiere at the Milwaukee Film Festival, those two great institutions of Brewer's Baseball and in Milwaukee Film Festival has become such a great institution in Milwaukee and see the two loves, my two loves of baseball and film coming together was just an amazing night.
How about for you, Steve?
Yeah, I mean certainly a night to remember.
I mean, this is something I've been I've had a production company purple onion in Milwaukee for 39 years, you know doing mostly marketing work and So, you know, I didn't I didn't anticipate doing this at this point in my life And so it was it was kind of great to be around friends and and family and and you know Just seeing how well the film went over it kind of like, you know, it hit in all the right spots everything we kind of hope it would do it did do and
And then to share that evening with the Yooker family and members of the Milwaukee Brewers and to see how moved they were by the film.
And I think sometimes we've been talking about the tears and the sadness, but there's so much laughter.
And so it was just really gratifying to be around 1,000 people.
There was two theaters that were packed that night.
So we had to do multiple.
introductions and the Q&A went great with Josh Maurer.
So I don't know, it was just kind of a perfect evening.
It sounds terrific.
Now, when somebody is in our homes as much as Bob Uker was, you know, 60 years, whether it's listening to Brewer's games or seeing them on TV, we feel like we know them.
Is there one thing that you think viewers of Uke, the documentary, are going to be surprised by?
Because we all think we know Bob Uker's story, but there's got to be something, right?
I
think that one thing that
We always, we always heard the story about when Bob was in the 1964 World Series with the St.
Louis Cardinals and there was an incident where he had picked up a tuba and picked, you know, some, so the band was on the field.
He's picked up the tuba and he started trying to shake fly ball, fly balls with, you know, with the tuba and, you know, kind of put some dents in it.
And it was a great.
Gets a lot of laughs and there's some amazing pictures and everything But as we did interviews we kind of realized that actually that was something that he regretted because his the manager didn't like that too much and Basically decided he would be playing he wouldn't be playing the World Series Yikes, so that was something that surprised us, you know He does play a lot of things as laughs, but that was a regret.
I think he had that He picked up the tuba
Well, that makes sense.
Before we let you guys go, any plans for distribution?
Where, if people miss the world premiere at the Milwaukee Film Festival, where can they see you?
Well, right now, we've got a deal with Marcus Theaters to do a statewide exclusive release.
It should be in most theaters, Marcus Theaters in July.
Nice.
Probably late in July.
And, you know, we'll see what happens after that.
Certainly we're, you know, open to a streaming deal.
And, you know, maybe there's some film festivals down the road.
But right now, I mean, the easiest way will be to wait until July and check it out at one of your Marcus theaters.
Well, it sounds great.
And I saw the teaser and the, everything looks terrific.
Congratulations on a wonderful project and a very fantastic tribute to a legend here.
Steve Farr and Michael Volman are the men behind Uke Movie.
Uke's, it's just called Uke, but go to UkeMovie.com and you can learn all about it and find out.
Gentlemen, thanks for being here today.
Congratulations again and continued success with the film.
Our pleasure.
Thank you.
Thanks for
having us, Brian.
You are very welcome.
All right, well, listen.
Wait till July.
Make your plans now.
I'm sure you'll be able to, uh, I'm sure you'll be able to buy your tickets in advance because if based on the film festival, the showings will sell out.
So get there.
Uh, big meteor shower.
We're going to talk about that.
And so much more when we come back on the other side again, ukemovie.com is where you can find all the information about the documentary.
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Back to Daybreak with Brian and JB.
Good morning glad you're with us everywhere along the network and if you are listening on WMDX like Tom is in Jackson
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You listen I never thought of it that way
Well imagine Parker if you're you know getting out of the shower listening to the app and there I am You're you're taking your kids to school there.
I am you're soothing voice narrating the day my dulcet tones getting you ready for another fantastic Tuesday you're in the Dairyland of America whisco Still I still don't call it whisco.
No one never call it whisco.
Nope
We were talking about the Bob Uker documentary, ukemovie.com is where you can go to find out.
And again, it'll be at Marcus Cinemas throughout the state in July.
So keep your eye open if you want to see that.
right now that is you know the obviously with any film they're working on other things but at least you know that you can see it in July at the theater with like-minded folks that'll be a lot of fun and Tom who I mentioned was listening on WMDX says summer's just not the same without hearing you call the Brewers games and Tom you are not alone in that feeling.
We were all fascinated by space a couple weeks ago with Artemis 2.
Remember that?
Oh, man, we sent people up past the moon the farthest they've that a human being has ever gone around the moon.
I'm still all Twitter about it.
I loved it.
Well, now this is another celestial event that you can be part of the Lyrdis Lyrid's Meteor Shower.
Coming and you'll be able to watch it from Wisconsin But my question to you is whether it's the northern lights whether it's a meteor shower all of these things What is your favorite place to stargaze?
Maybe you have a dark a dark place near you You might want to keep it a secret, but we'd love it if you shared it with us 8 5 5 7 5 civic 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 because we're all going to be looking skyward
starting tomorrow on Earth Day.
Wisconsin Sky Watchers will have their best chance to see the annual Lyridus media shower on Earth Day, which is tomorrow, and the forecast could set up for an especially striking display this year.
Now, the meteor showers, the Lyridus showers, usually last from April 15th to the 29th, but they're gonna peak on April 21st and 22nd this year.
That's today and tomorrow.
Tomorrow is Earth Day under ideal
conditions.
The latest shower rains down 10 to 15 meteors per hour.
I have never seen a meteor shower, but I want to.
I will be out tomorrow night.
Uh, the latest fall on a waxing crescent moon just before midnight on April 21st into 22nd.
But when the moon sets before morning and the sky will be the least obscured, according to the Milwaukee clear sky chart.
Wednesday, April 22nd, we'll have almost zero cloud cover all day and night, setting up a great view for those who can get away from light pollution.
That's always the tricky part.
Now, the good news is in Wisconsin, especially for the northern lights, there were a lot of places just outside any city or town where it gets really dark really fast.
So everybody, we all should be able to get a good look if we can.
So the learners are remnants of Comet C1861G1.
That's your favorite comet, isn't it, Parker?
That is.
It's the only one I can remember the name of.
Sure.
The Comet C1861G1 Thatcher.
When Earth comes into contact with the comet's debris stream every April, the debris creates a meteor shower in the atmosphere.
I did not know any of that.
So, how should you watch it here in Wisconsin?
It will start to become visible once the Vega constellation rises.
Of course.
There's like three people go, all right?
Check.
And everybody else is like, huh?
Well, the Vega constellation will rise above the northeast horizon, usually between 9 and 10 o'clock.
That makes it easier for 90% of us or more.
Oh, nine to 10 o'clock, I understand that part.
The best viewing period will be right before dawn, so when we're coming to work.
Perfect.
Yeah, when we're coming to work.
There we go.
The moon is going to be hidden and the Vegas star radiant point is bright overhead.
Meteors may be visible all night, but will be most frequent when the radiant point is highest in the sky.
If you are an astronomy or a...
Buff, please let us know what any of that means.
I will be, because knowing me, I'll be looking to the north.
I know where the northeast is.
So that I get.
I know nine and 10 o'clock and just before dawn, I understand that.
I probably see this is where Jamie would have done.
Jamie would have had a five minute dissertation on the Vega Star Radiant.
Oh, I'm sure.
Me, I'd just like to admit that I have no idea what it is.
And because quite frankly,
I'm a man of the people, Parker.
And a lot of, I think most of the people that I am a man of also don't know what the Vegas star radiant is.
My people just say, look up.
There's stuff moving up there.
And
then I get that.
That is the, that is the most comprehensive instruction list I have ever heard.
And I like it because it's clear.
It tells me exactly where I have it.
Like I'm looking down.
Is that right?
No.
I said, look up and turn a little bit to your right.
Okay.
Now keep looking up.
All right, what am I looking for stuff that's moving?
Okay, cool.
Yeah, and I say if you can't find it Take out the variable of like standing and looking in one direction.
Just lay down look straight up.
Yeah, that's easiest Wow, I really thought this out Brian.
You're like you're painting a wake-and-bake dream Dude, just go out in the lawn go out to the woods lay down Look up at the sky man.
Yeah swirling about you.
Yeah, it's a celestial bodies bra
Be
cool, man.
Just let
one become one with nature.
That's how we do.
All right, so that's tomorrow night.
Good luck.
And here's the other thing.
You can say you see it even if you didn't because nobody can fat check you.
Oh, so I do not, I do not promote lying, but whatever.
Good luck.
All right.
When we come back, there's headlines.
There's stuff you need to know.
And there's the big third hour of the broadcast.
WMDX will talk to you tomorrow, but you can always listen on the app.
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I'm Brian Noonan.
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It's Daybreak with Brian Noonan and Jamie Martinson.
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I'm Brian noon and Jamie will rejoin us next week after a restful vacation Frank our executive producer and park our technical producer are here with me as always good to see you boys and if you want to get involved especially now because Frank has another beef Franky this week Frank has been unleashed and likes to likes to get his grievances aired eight five five seven five civic eight five five seven five two
four eight four two morning boys.
How are we today?
Okay.
Let's move
on.
Hey, just answered.
All right.
Everybody's doing me a slight delay.
We're all great.
Yeah.
Good.
What's your show?
Uh, we're
I am coming off a day.
I'm not going to get into all the details because it's very early in the morning.
Let's just say I had an invasive medical test yesterday that left me feeling violated and made me very much more sympathetic to ladies and stirrups at their, at their, yes.
So we'll leave it at that.
But I am here and I am ready to go.
But yesterday, and I don't know why this came up.
But Frank, you brought something up and it seemed like you got your little revved up.
So I had a new coffee mug yesterday.
We were talking
about it.
Right.
Right.
It's very
fancy.
You might have heard us in between breaks if you're on the live stream.
And Brian said, well, Frank, that's a fancy coffee mug you got there.
And I said, well, Brian, thanks for noticing.
We just went to my parents' house and we got the rest of our.
Would you call it China?
Yes.
Our
tableware?
I don't know.
Yes, China.
That looked like China to me.
That was not a, you know, Denmark coffee mug.
It
was from Creighton Barrel.
It's nice.
Okay, it's very nice.
Yes, your table, your, yeah.
When you, here's the deal.
When you go and get married and you put stuff on your wedding registry, everything comes in like sets of eight.
Yes.
So I don't need 90% of that as I'm in my 20s living in an apartment.
This is fair.
You're not having giant dinner parties?
I'm not having- We're having three quarters of that coffee service.
You're not
having giant dinner parties.
So there's like two or three boxes of stuff in my parents' basement for years.
Going on four years now of stuff that I just don't need right now.
And
as
I'm going through it this past weekend, I'm like, what is this?
As my wife's next to me, she goes, oh, don't you remember?
So-and-so got that for us.
I was like, no, this is ours.
Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine.
Some stuff I was
like, why is this even down here?
Why don't we have it in our place?
And then some stuff, as I'm pulling out plate after plate after plate, I'm like, why the hell do we need all this?
Well, obviously you're going to have the whole show over for dinner.
Which I will now you have I like you guys, but most people I want out of my house.
No, I don't blame you Yeah, it's it's a mate now.
How long have you been married three years go down for all right very recent Registries have changed so much Saturday.
I will have been married 34 years Which is amazing because the old joke is I could have killed her and been out of jail by now
34 years ago when you registered for and and it's always been that way you go and if you're not clear on what that is when a couple is getting married they go around to certain stores and they
make a list of things that they would like because people are always like, what do you want for a gift?
Well, here's a list and it makes it easy.
And there's usually a wide range of prices because some people maybe want to go a lot of times people will go in with other couples or other family members and they'll get something a little bigger and all of that.
But when I registered, my wife and I, it was a lot of China and crystal.
So we have a 12 piece
We have service for 12 in Waterford Crystal in three different size glasses.
12?
Many, many, yes.
That's way too many people.
You had to have 12, gentlemen.
Do you, here, let me ask you this question.
We had, because you always thought you were gonna have a big dining room, which we did for a while and we used it, I don't know, a couple times.
I was gonna ask you, do you even own a table to seat 12?
Not anymore, no, not anymore.
At one point we did.
And like I said, I think we used it twice for a big giant holiday.
Dinner no now.
We're lucky that you know We do occasionally bring out like here's here's the waterford we use so far on We have a couple rocks glasses that we use a couple Irish coffee glasses and some whiskey sniffers or whiskey taster glasses Yeah, that we use on on the reg everything else is in boxes downstairs We have a 12-piece place setting of beautiful Noritake China that we I don't think have ever used
Or maybe we've used once or twice in 34 years.
We also now downstairs have my aunt's China and Crystal, which was supposed to go to Molly, which Molly does not want.
We have some of them.
I think either we have it or somebody else took it.
My mom's China and Crystal.
And here's the problem.
You can't resell it because young people don't want all that stuff.
Molly is starting to get the gifts for her showers.
It's it's none.
It's no crystal.
It's no China.
You know, there's all kind of crap I told you guys yesterday She got a you came to the house a towel warmer which made Parker insane dude that is Insane I cannot believe how I why
softest what do you mean
why
you don't
need a
warm towel?
You don't need it Parker, but what hold on?
I used to have it.
I don't know.
I don't know
hold on
Don't think Brian's daughter is worried about someone calling her soft And I would
imagine my future son-in-law likes a nice cozy towel, but of course he does to Parker's point I had the same reaction it's very unnecessary because the gift was sent here not not unnecessary because I
My first reaction was, oh my god, she forgot where she came from.
And my wife was like, yeah, have you met her?
And so we were joking about her being a bougie.
And then my wife said, well, we register for some just fun stuff.
And I'm thinking back, I go, what?
What fun?
You didn't register for fun stuff 34 years ago.
I think the most outrageous was a little Cuisinart food processor.
that we still have and I still use 34 years later.
There you go.
Shout out, Cuisinart.
Wow.
You're bringing the, you are, you're making a quality product.
Back in the day.
Yeah, that stuff lasted.
But yes, I mean, so it came and I, I immediately was like, oh, it's for robes and towels and they could be nice and toasty warm.
But I'm like, okay.
Here's what's going to
happen.
You're going to be over there and you're going to use it
once and you're going to have
access to.
You're going to use it one time.
And you're gonna love it.
Yeah, you are.
I'm sure it's lovely I have see I'm not as I'm to the point now where I'm very laissez-faire in a lot of things Somebody wants a warm towel good for you.
I'm glad you registered for it Somebody saw it.
You didn't put a gun to anybody's head to make them buy it.
They went oh
This sounds like a fun gift.
This is what I want to give them for the shower.
And now they have it.
It's white ceramic, sits on a nice beechwood base, and it'll, you know, and all their towels.
But here's the problem.
You can only use a towel once then.
I use my towel, and I probably shouldn't leave it this long, but like, you know, a few days, maybe a week, use the towel.
That's healthy.
I would agree.
Yeah.
So what am I going to put a damp towel in there and then started steaming.
Now I'm making soup out of my gunk that's on the towel.
That doesn't make, that sounds awful.
That's a, that's a pretty sight there.
Well, good morning.
Enjoy your coffee.
Eight,
five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two.
What's the cra, is it crazy or is it the dumbest item that you put on your wedding
registry?
Or maybe just the most luxurious, the, the one that was.
Yeah, I'll outside the lines could be considered crazy could be considered dumb could be considered bougie I'm trying to think what else because I saw on there.
I saw the registry, but I don't get involved in all that
You don't oh, I'm nosy I love to see what people put on I'm looking for a
right now because I just RSVP'd for a wedding over the weekend.
Oh, give it to us Yeah,
they
got anything good
I mean, it's all kitchen stuff.
There is a cozy table lamp.
Sustainable mood is what this
says.
A
cozy table lamp?
Yes.
Like for your dinner table?
A mood lamp?
No, it's a mood lamp.
Yes.
Here, I'll get up in here and... That's not helping us.
Oh, okay.
The accent
lighting.
Yeah,
it sets the mood.
Kind of like a lava lamp.
Yeah, a little bit like that.
Yeah.
Waste of a wedding registry item continue.
Well, yeah, but what if somebody only wants I don't know how much what's that run parker 48 88 all right if somebody wants to give it as a shower gift 49 dollars is not a bad It's not but I feel
like you're running out of ideas.
Oh certainly.
Well judging by how many cups are in here.
Yes
That's okay.
Thank you.
That's another thing.
I want to get to my advice if there are any young people
Or
if you know any young people
in the morning listening
to the
show
or your children are about to get engaged.
This could just
be for Parker.
Give it to me.
You're going to feel the need to put on every type of cocktail glass on your wedding registry.
Rocks glasses, Collins glasses, red wine glasses, white wine glasses.
You do not need all of them.
And if you do put them on your list, you only need up max of four each.
Right.
But they all come in sets of eight.
So I don't need eight Collins glasses.
The rocks glasses we'll get to.
Rocks glasses you use.
I would say rocks glasses and just a generic wine glass.
Unless you're a sommelier.
What's the difference between a white wine and a red wine glass?
White wine is smaller.
Red one's like a deeper bowl.
So you're getting more of the aroma?
I don't know,
dude.
You
did wine
tasting.
You went once in Paris, though.
Yeah.
I've been to wine tastings.
I don't know.
I don't know what the glassware.
And I made this joke yesterday.
Talk to me about beer glasses.
I know
beer glasses.
Oh, you do know that.
See, there you go.
And I made this joke yesterday while driving cars because I was driving a car that was 10 years older than the one I currently drive.
And I said, this is like going to wine tasting for the first time where they give you a glass of wine.
You're not used to drinking it.
And they go, and how do you like this $100 glass of wine?
You go, it's good.
They go, what about that one?
And it's like barefoot.
And you go, that one's good, too.
Exactly.
I don't
know.
It's
good.
It does the trick.
It is what it is.
Yeah, I can't remember.
There's some glassware on her registry.
There were some, I think some dishes, but maybe eight was the top.
or four, I don't know.
There's, you know, she did take one set of, for some reason, well, I know the reason.
My mom gave it to us because she had always wanted it.
There's a Thanksgiving China.
And last year, since Molly hosted, she said, can I have this China?
And we're like, yes, please take it.
And it's
all yours.
Because that means we're coming to your place for Thanksgiving.
That'll be lovely.
So go ahead.
All right, when we come back.
You know, data centers.
Oh man, everybody's worried about data centers.
It's on every ballot.
People are debating it.
What if there was an option for a data center that was clean, didn't take up all the land near you, and you didn't have to worry about it?
It was somewhere else.
Somewhere else that wouldn't bother anybody.
Parker showed me this story.
I think it's a great one.
We're going to get to that on the other side.
And we want, I want your answer to
With the option of having data centers in the ocean, make them more attractive to you.
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With the option of having data centers in the ocean, make them more attractive to you because you know, there are so many things to debate when it comes to data centers and we hear about it all the time.
It seems like it's monopolizing the news.
It's either the
current administration or data centers.
That's what that's what people are talking about, especially here in Wisconsin, where you've got, you know, cities voting on these and public hearings and are their secret deals.
We're always hearing about it.
And then we hear about mostly how much power they need, how much carbon pollution they create, how much energy water they're going to use, what they're going to do with all the waste, all of this.
Okay.
So Parker, who is young and idealistic and cares about the planet and the people on it, sends me this yesterday and I found it fascinating.
So there is a new company that wants to, the company is Panthalasa and they are out of Vancouver, Washington.
Garth Sheldon Coulson, Coulson is the CEO.
He wants to address
the problems of data centers, the land, the energy, the carbon footprint, with a new source of energy, wave energy.
You know, I know, I know the president doesn't like wind energy.
We haven't heard him weigh in on wave energy, which is the ocean.
That's it.
It's basically they're going to put these things in the ocean.
Now I'll explain how they're going to do it because I think it is fascinating.
And from what I read yesterday,
I don't really see a problem with it, but I want I want to hear from you too.
Listen to some of this and then let me know if this is more attractive to you for data centers.
So he said, this Garth Sheldon Coulson, the ocean is really unlimited in terms of how much energy is available.
It will really be the cheapest energy on the planet.
So he compared Panthalosa's test model, the Ocean 2, to a floating hydroelectric dam.
He says as it goes up and down with the waves It causes the water that's in the tube to be forced up to the top once it's in the ball now this is you have to picture it's kind of like I don't know like an upside it looks almost like an upside-down bowl with a tube coming out of the top of it The water is forced through a turbine the turbine spins and that's what makes the electricity So using a model of the latest design the ocean three he explained the most surprising part
There is no anchor and no cables, so it is a self-propelled system that is not tethered to the ocean floor.
It's like a little Roomba, except it's enormous.
So I don't have a Roomba, but I know what a Roomba is.
They just zip around.
Now, I can already hear critics going, well, are they going to get in the way of shipping lanes and blah, blah, blah?
Maybe.
But we'll it could be figured out that that doesn't seem like the most pressing question because quite frankly the oceans are ginormous There's there's them.
There's the biggest obvious understatement of I think the week so far.
Oh, do you hear what Brian said hot take?
He said the oceans are enormous that guy he goes out on a limb He's not afraid of what people think he'll say he'll say what we're all thinking.
Yeah, so
Just think, there's no cable to bring power back to the shore either.
So in essence, these are floating data centers.
They generate power from the waves, process AI computing tasks on the spot, and send the answers by satellite.
When you deploy many of our systems, he said they work together basically as a data center.
So we think of it as a really good alternative to data centers on land.
I, now again, I'm not an engineer.
I'm not an environmental scientist.
I don't see a difference because the land mass is limited, especially when you go into some of these smaller communities.
So if you are able to offshore these, you're still, you're not gonna lose all the jobs.
You will lose some, but these things still have to be manufactured and maintained and they have to, you know, somebody has to.
Be monitoring the programs and all of that stuff.
So there still will be jobs created.
It's just not taking up farmland.
It's not causing your power costs to skyrocket, which is the.
one of the biggest concerns.
So he says, Panthalasa has all of the private funding it needs because it offers AI companies a quicker, cleaner way to get power than building data centers on land.
Construction of the Ocean 3 is already underway.
Sheldon Coulson expects them to be operating offshore by around August of this year.
These are the advantages.
Clean, no fuel, no land use, no getting in the way of other activities on land, very fast to scale.
Now that sounds pretty good.
So it means somebody's gonna try to squash this because any good revolutionary idea That is going to cut into somebody else's money gets squashed.
I hope this does not I would I would like to do a little more like to see a couple in action So they can so they can say yes that now we've gone from the models and the testing and the theories to actually having if by August we start seeing them and they work
What's the drawback?
Now, I'm sure ocean activists would say, well, we know what the drawback is.
The drawback is that we're, you know, you're taking a valuable ocean space.
And I would say, well, yes, which is more impactful to people on a daily basis.
Is it that we have floating data centers in the ocean or that we take up hundreds of acres of land in your county that then is going to
Be an eyesore gonna raise everybody's energy rates We don't know the long-term effects of what a data center in your town will have whether it's environmental health anything else So why not try something new?
That's where you young people come in Parker I am counting on the young generation to get these kind of things done my generation We're out where you want to put us out to pasture anyway
So you guys are in charge.
Get this done.
Get things taken care of.
All right.
Our shorter lines at the airport.
Worth more funding for ICE.
That is your question.
We will talk about that and so much more when we return on daybreak.
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