Oh, I have a boss. Yeah, the guy who's a hellhead of a county board. Oh, well, different,
you know, responsibilities. Yeah, different responsibilities. My constituents are my boss.
Oh, that's right. You're absolutely right. Yeah, the voters are the bosses. Yeah, that's right.
I think a lot of politicians forget that every once in a while. I think they better write that
down on a piece of paper. I agree with you, Dan. That's a very powerful. We should remind them
on the radio. Yeah. Yeah. So by the way, go ahead and get me some breakfast as long as you.
Oh, I'm not in your district. I'm sorry. You are my name, brain district. And you know what,
this is my community. Okay, fourth district, county board supervising, Melissa Cabrillian's here.
We're going to talk about some of the county boards, some of the county stuff going on,
but you just spend three weeks in Europe. I did.
Or flopping all over Europe. That's pretty nice. You know, I'd love to travel, but Dan,
if you remember, we had one of my foreign, oh, actually, you had both my foreign exchange students
in here. I had two foreign exchange students, one for six months, one for close to a year,
this day for school year, so 10 months. And we also had his dad in here. And one was from Madrid,
one was from Belgium. And so I really, the point of it really was not only to go out and travel,
but my youngest of four is 12. And I really believe in expanding my children's mind out of their
space, expand their bubble. You know, the culture here is a lot different than it is around the
world. And I don't want them to get stuck in my way is the only way. And so I think it's a good
impressionable age to start traveling across the globe and immerse him in different cultures.
And so we flew into Belgium and the ventures began, but we did go to other places around Europe as
well. We have friends who are missionaries. Okay. And they went off to Papua New Guinea. You know
where that is? I don't think of New Zealand Australia down in that area, Papua New Guinea.
And I took their four boys with them. And they're all little kids toddlers. And so I said,
if those people lost their mind going to Papua New Guinea, I saw pictures of it. It's like a
paradise down there, but their missionaries and that's going to be their life work. And then I
was thinking, these kids are exposed to things that I wouldn't, I was never exposed to. And my
daughter was never exposed to. I don't, and so they are now going to be world travelers.
I love that. And they'll be able to share that with them. And first I thought, you know,
what are you crazy to slip in some toddlers through the other side of the world and Papua New
Guinea? I mean, where's that? Well done. There's something very powerful about brain development.
When there is that high level exposure, you know, there's a lot of research in around those who
speak multiple languages and then how they're quick comprehension and, you know, it's how they
can take in things or recall data and also absorb differences. What's the same thing if you
expose yourself to differences? A lot of times it's what you don't know that scares you and
you tend to be against what you don't know. So if you can keep exposing yourself to diversity,
exposing yourself to environments that may make you feel uncomfortable. So I mean, we can bring
this home and, you know, all the way on this city council floor, all the way on the county board
floor, but in work environments and our neighborhoods and decisions that we make. But, you know,
get these young ones around different diverse cultures and it's, it could change the world down.
Well, I moved to the Midwest. So that's pretty diverse for me. My parents moved here, my brother
moved here. This was, yeah, you were East Coasters, right? This is a future shock. Yeah.
Actually, I moved to the South. Oh, that was future shock in the 1970s. We're in the South
town. Atlanta. Okay. So when I went there, it's back in the mid 70s. I remember the program
director of the radio station took me over a drive. Then he pulled into a parking lot.
They looked at me and he said, you're a long way from home. I just want you to know that.
And this is going to be a different world view down here. Yeah. And I just want you to know,
it's things again. You're going to see things. You're going to feel things and people are going to
talk to you in a different way. I just want you to know that before you make the commitment to
move down here. Wow. So now I'm frightened to death. Yes. I think I would have some sex.
So tell me where you went all over Europe. Yeah. We started out. We landed in Brussels in
Belgium, being that my foreign exchange student was from Belgium. Stayed there just for a couple
days. And then we headed off our destination was Germany. And we took a train. We were in
Cologne and then we're in Berlin for quite some time. And from there, we took a flight to Scotland
and went to Edinburgh. Tell me you didn't look for the Loch Ness monster. Oh, I wanted to so bad.
We wanted to go to the Highlands. I guess there was a fringe festival. And I'm going to tell you
done. Not many people might they might feel a little uncomfortable doing it this way, but it was
a lot of last minute planning. While we were there, we were planning our next step. So
unfortunately for us, it's considered like their high season very populated with tourists and
people coming in, especially in Scotland. We didn't know this. We just were going at a certain
period of time because it fit in our schedules. And so it made for where we were staying difficult
or trying to find. So we just kept just looking for it. We were we could have flown into Spain.
Did you have reservations at hotels and stuff? No, I was getting them as we were going.
Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. I mean, it's not I mean, I go either way. Sometimes, you know,
down I think I've told you I've woken up in the morning and I'm like, Hey, where's there a flight
to today? And I've headed, you know, woke up 10 minutes later. I'm out the door driving to Midway
or Ohio or somewhere and, you know, flying off to different locations because sometimes I don't
know my schedule till very last minute because very compact and all of a sudden when there's some
opening, I'm like, what am I doing? You know, I did something very similar to that. The other day,
I got into the car from the park and I went to pick and save didn't plan on going to pick and save.
I just decided, you know, I'll go do something different today. I'm going to go to pick
it. Now I'm like, now, when you say Scotland, the first thing I think about is Brigaduin. Okay.
The movie, but you ever see the movie? No. Oh, you never said the movie Broadway show. Oh,
great, great musical with them. Sounds like I have. Gene Kelly and he just it's who was in
that van? Van Johnson and there are two New Yorkers that go hunting in Scotland and they wind up
by some circumstance of going back to a village that only awakens every 100 years. Oh my goodness.
And of course, Gene Kelly falls in love with the woman, but he's going to go back to sleep for
another 100 years. So they go back to New York and then he says, I gotta go back and he goes back
finds the village and stays there forever and he goes to sleep for 100 years and wakes up again.
Oh, what a story. It is called Brigaduin. Great music in that. There's a lot of legends and stuff
if you when you're around, you kind of hear them as you're going through Scotland and you got
these old streets and anywhere in Europe, you know, it's just a different flavor than here.
And what was really good about Scotland is that they spoke English and I'm not bilingual. So
it was difficult when we were in Belgium, you know, there's a lot there was not only Dutch, but
French. So where we first were in Brussels, it was French and then when we went to Antwerp,
which was on our last leg of our trip, they spoke Dutch. So yeah, Dutch, Dutch and Antwerp.
And so my foreign exchange student did meet us at the airport. So we got to see him for just a
little tiny bit and then we were kind of off on our own and then when we flew back to Belgium at
the end of our trip, he met us there again. So and then now schools back in session and that's
why he had come to America. So I'm sitting outside waiting for my young son and I'm missing the boys.
So it's hard, you know, getting back into the groove and context matters all the time. And so
here he is, you know, here I'm sitting outside the school. I'm like, where are my older boys?
So we'll just, we stay connected through social media. So that's real nice. We just talked
on the phone. He's not, he's meeting girls. He met a girl. He went to Greece and met somebody. So
you know, following that journey of young adulthood. So that's neat. It is.
Now, do you expect going to Scotland? You're going to see the Highlands there with Scottish
bagpipers all over the place. Would you just see a metropolitan city? No. No, it's hard for me to put
the metropolitan city in with Scotland. I just feel like it doesn't fit well because you got
the old cobblestones and just the architecture, the hills and it just doesn't fit. Even though you
do see a little bit more bustling and plus I was there for the fringe festival. Last the whole
bunch of month of August. But no, I did expect to see, you know, the, the kilts and the bagpipes.
We did actually because it's a festival. So it's a bit of an entertainment fail. You do it.
But you know, it gives you a different perspective. So I do encourage all those who can and are
physically able to travel to definitely do it because when you come back home, you, you look
at home differently. You do, you do. I've been on cruises. I've been to other countries.
And you do look at your home differently. Yeah. There's some truth. And so what are,
what are the grounds? It's really was that bad. No, no, it was fun. But you know what,
Dorothy said it best. There's no plays like home. Sure. I'll click my heels three times.
That's right. You know, I, I was in, when I was in the Netherlands, which is Holland,
or people, I had an allergy to cats really bad, but I didn't know it at the time. I knew I had
an allergy, but not as bad as, and I stayed with relatives of my fiance at the time. And she had
a cat. And I was miserable. My eyes were watery, all puffy. I couldn't, I was sneezing. So
they went out touring and everything. They left me along with the two kids who did not speak
a word of English. And all of a sudden, I heard crying. And I said, I said to the older girl,
who was about like four or five years old, what's the matter? I didn't know what you were saying.
So I said, oh, what's going on here? So I run to a neighbor knock on the door. And I said,
you gotta help me. I can understand what she's saying. And I said, oh, my God,
I get a screaming baby. I don't know. Can't speak to the daughter. The other door is trying to
translate for me. She can speak English. The neighbor didn't speak English.
It almost sounded like a comedy skip, but I can tell in the moment it probably didn't feel
like a comedy. So we go out again. And they were taking a bus. And again, the allergies were
driving me nuts. So they said, okay, get off the bus here, walk two blocks, three blocks,
that way, four blocks, that way, pick that, that bus. I got lost. I was in the Utrecht,
and I didn't know where I was coming from. Nobody spoke English. It does make it challenging,
right? It really does. But I'm going to tell you what was a saving grace for us is that our phones.
Now that we have our phones, they translate. And so it was translating signs. It was translating
if we needed to communicate. And so, I mean, there's no excuse. Why not?
Well, this was 1975. Cell phones didn't exist. That's true. Well, this sounds like a wonderful trip.
Yeah. It was an experience. And you know, your story kind of sparked something in my mind where
my daughter, she went to China. And she was doing a study abroad there. She was at a university.
And their toilet system is a little different. They're bathrooms. So they're just holes in the
ground. And they tend to have lots of like bugs that fly around. And I'm kind of jumping to the
end of the story. But her roommate and her were at the store and they wanted like a body spray.
And so for about a week or so, a week or two, they were using this body spray. And they had
met some friends there that were local. And while they were in one of the convenience stores,
they's like, oh, look at there's our body spray. And the guy had said, what are you using that for?
And they said body spray. We put it on our body. And he just just bent over rolling laughing.
And when he came to, he said, that's bug spray. And so I think I guess they were serving a couple
purposes. And they did say it kind of smelled awful, but it smelled better than all the other ones.
They were smelling. Destination of my life. No. So they're, it was quite comical. It's
cute. The things we do when we don't know, right? So I'm in Israel with my fiance. She speaks
the language. I didn't speak the language. So we're walking around, I think Jerusalem.
And this young man comes up to us. He's in the military. And he says, now we're not speaking
English. And he says, would you like me to show you around? It's my day off. Okay. And so we're
walking around. And I was like 20 something. So I was kind of stupid. And he was showing
stuff and he's talking to my fiance, talking to her and everything. And I can see she doesn't
like where the conversation's going. I can see it in her face. And as she says, no, Kapal.
I said, what is he saying? What is he saying? Just you and Colin calm down. I said,
what is he saying? So he walked away. He was saying, get your boyfriend and meet me here.
And I'll take out tonight. And she said, no, my boyfriend Kapal. You're like, I'm going to
beat up a guy in the Israeli military. What a story. Didn't you share a story on the radio
that didn't you get held or something at an airport? Or I thought you had some type of
security for you. We were going leaving Israel. And we were going to Germany to get onto
the Netherlands. And I say, well, let's get the bus. Well, we missed the bus. This is like
three o'clock in the morning. We missed the bus. So we walked for three miles, holding her
guitar and a suitcase. All our other stuff was shipped. And we're getting there. And we get
into the airport. It was raining. I'm soaking wet. I'm ticked off. And they say, you missed the
plane. And I throw my bag across the thing. And I'm screaming because I have temper and all these
guys with red jacket. Oh, boy, that can we help? Can we help? Can we help? And I tell them the
story. They said, we'll get you another flight. Don't worry. We'll get you another flight. So
we're standing online going through security. Now this is 1975. They didn't have security
there, ports in this country. There was there was nothing. You can walk on the plane with somebody
if you wanted to. So we're sending it security. And I'm going to miss the flight. The next flight.
It's just I'm getting aggravated. So the guy in front of me says, once you cut in front of me,
he says, it's going to take a while. And he said, we do this security here. You people aren't ready
for it yet in America. You will be someday, but you're not ready for it now. And they made me
take my clothes off right down the way underwear. I guess that looks suspicious. I look like a
hippie. Wow. And so we got on that plane. We just made it. But there was no one to pick us up
in the Netherlands because we missed the first flight. And her aunt didn't know what happened.
I couldn't call anybody because I don't speak English. So anyway, so that was my big.
Wow. You are a collection. I'm not a good I'm not a good traveler. I don't go with the flow
like you do. Oh, but you know what it it all the adventures await, you know, if you're willing
to be open to them. So and I'll tell you the rail system there makes you when you come back home,
you know, was I happened to go to a city council meeting recently. I was going to the executive
meeting. And I happened to sit and listen to the public comment of the council meeting that
followed in the topic of the majority of the speakers were about bringing rail in and be
an open to that. And when you travel and even here nationally, but internationally, especially,
it just makes commuting so much easier. And you can just see that people are just getting connected
to spaces. And you know, sometimes, you know, we're seeing we talk about the city of
Racine because we're surrounded by municipalities. And if we just don't have that access to that
to the interstate, you know, like Mount Pleasant does. And it's about easier access. Get that rail
in there more people start filling up and, you know, choosing to live and work and play here. So
when I moved here in 1980, the lead story they were talking about was the Racine Kenosha rail.
Yes, I was 1980. They're still talking about the Racine Kenosha rail. And rightfully so,
they should be, but they're not only should they talk about. There you go. Yeah, it can be
frustrated, but look at you know, there's always a change of people and decision makers. So
what's holding it up? Well, it's not only does Racine, you have to partner with the neighboring
municipalities. So you need to kind of have this coalition. It can't just be one, right? You're
going to have a very short rail going back and forth just in Racine. So you really got to get
your neighbors on board, but you know, getting people that are motivated, you know, you get the right
leaders and make if that's the topic, if that's their focus, because there's a lot of issues going
on. So can't really always blame the leaders, but there's a lot of issues you're juggling when
you're sitting in those seats. So, but hopefully the leaders in, you know, are neighboring
municipalities and districts or cities and then ours will get together and make this a priority.
So, and there's always dollar issues as well. So let's not forget about that.
I want to hold you over a few more minutes. Just talk about the county boards stuff. So we know
what's going on. Great things to talk. So how many people did you schlep over to Europe?
There was four of us total. Yeah, there was four of us total, but you know, there was a lot
and we met up with family. They heard so many kids, family. Well, to find a child,
and I'm just kidding. My, my daughter who's 31 should be 32 or couple. So, but it's my kid.
No, little kids are my 12 year old. My youngest is 12. That's okay. Yeah.
I couldn't topplers and I wouldn't do that. My plane ride wasn't that bad. We didn't have that
many crying babies. I mean, every once in a while, but not the whole flight with some people's
nightmare having here a baby the whole way, but you got a fear for, you know, you got to feel
for those kids who are trapped in this space. What's that is going on? So. I feel for myself
trapped in that space. You know, I don't mind screaming babies. What I mind is the person who
wants to put their seat back. Now, I'm 63 and my legs are big. And on a, on a great day,
there's no room for my legs. And they decide to put the seat, or am I supposed to do with my feet?
Take them off and put them back on when I'm done. So I kick the back of the seat and they get
aggravated. Oh, what am I going to do with my feet? Yeah, there's no, you're pushing me back.
I can't move back anymore. And you haven't flown recently and actually,
I, you know, because I fly a lot, the seats are getting smaller. The space is getting smaller.
It's no issue for me. I'm only five, two almost, right? So, and I'm a foot taller than you.
Yeah, right. And my knees have nowhere to go. It used to be at that movie theaters,
but now they got those bark-alongers. You know, you don't have to worry about that.
Well, I know. And if I see you're my passenger next to me that you're appreciating, I'm next to you,
but I'm thinking, uh, his legs are going to be over by my side. And as I was going to be,
if you get one of those emergency exit rows, those are always bigger. True. But now they want
to charge for it. Yes. Before, you know, they would ask you, would you be willing to help people
and the guy would say, no, that I'd move into his seat. I'll help. Right. You know, what's going to
happen? I know. And if I don't help, what are you going to do? How are you going to know? I'll
be first out on the on the shoes. Oh, no, I wouldn't do that. Okay. So, uh, we're going to talk
you your fourth district. That's right. Not all there, but fourth district County Board Supervisor.
Yes. How often do you have meetings? Well, uh, we're coming up to budget. So we're going to have
a lot more, but twice a month is for the county board, but we're on standing committees. I'm on
two standing committees. So I have three meetings a month. Hold on. We'll talk about the
your standing committee. Yeah. So anything important, by the way. Yeah. Anything as we can say,
who's on the pothole committee? And Don, that's the city. Okay. I'm stepping away from that one.
I mean, there are county roads too. So I liked it. Let's just push, you know, push it off to
somebody else. Listen, a brilliant fourth district County Board Supervisor visiting today,
we talked about a trip to Europe. We're going to talk about county board stuff, but I got to
mention today is 9-11. And it's hard to believe how many years have passed by because I remember
when that happened. And I tried to get a hold of a good friend of mine from high school, Gary Guja,
his twin brother Jeff Guja was a lieutenant in the New York City Fire Department and the building
collapsed on him. And so he was gone. I didn't even know if they ever found him. I didn't,
when I talked to Gary a couple of years back, I didn't even ask him that. I don't want to know.
So I talked to him and, you know, it's we bring it up. He gets very sad. It was just twin.
And I think twins have a special bond that other siblings don't have. And I asked him to come
on this morning. I left him a message. He didn't see the message or whatever. So I wanted to talk
to him this morning on the anniversary of 9-11. But, you know, you go to high school with these
people. And then all of a sudden, you know, he's got a plaque at the World Trade Center
by the pond in Lieutenant Jeffrey Guja. And wow, that's something.
It is hard to believe that that many years has passed.
25, 24 years, 24.
And, you know, I used to travel quite a bit. I know that's closer to your hometown over there
on that side. He's close. But I used to go to New York quite a bit. And shortly thereafter,
I traveled there. And I normally stay in Jersey City. And there's a train that takes you right
where the twin towers were. And you can see that the deconstruction, as they were trying to rebuild
it up. But there was a church real nearby that was still standing. And that's where a lot of,
they got a lot of respite care during the efforts right shortly thereafter. And I'm telling you
the gloom. And if you've gone to, they have the memorial, the 9-11 memorial. It is powerful.
Don't plan anything else for your day because you can't function normally after you go through.
That whoever curated it was just genius. And, but it is extremely powerful. I highly recommend if
you travel to Manhattan that you definitely go to the memorial. And it's part of our history,
but it is powerful there. And just like you, just like all of us who were old enough,
we do remember where we were at that exact moment we found about. I was dropping my kids off
at school. And you're listening to the radio. And a lot of us parents went and retrieved our
children. You know, like what's, you know, what are we going to do? But it's just like you're just
in a state of shock. And you don't know what's to come. And you just want your loved ones close to
you because there is just that much grief and unknown. And so I went and turned around and
after I went and picked up my kids. So I was here on the radio. I was on our WZY was our FM
at the time. And we were doing a traffic report. And it was with Metro traffic. And he
were in pause as it was the matter. He said, just an accident. Plane went into the World Trade
Center. Oh, I can't believe the plane just there was a terrible accident. So we did another
traffic report a few minutes later. And he said, I can't believe it. A second plane went in.
And at that point, we knew there was this was no accident. And so that's where I was. I was in
that room right in back of you. And I heard that then it went outside. And I couldn't believe how
beautiful a day it was here. And there was that chaos going on all over Pennsylvania,
the Pentagon. And in New York, I remember them building the World Trade Center when I was a kid.
Wow. I remember that we did. We did a radio promotion when they were filming the movie King Kong
in 1970. They filmed it in 75. They had to get thousands of people as many as I could to the
base of the World Trade Center in the middle of the night so they can film the scene when King Kong
falls off the World Trade Center. So we ran promotions and we got a rock concert prizes just to
get the people out there at one o'clock in the morning because you got to film movies when
no one's around. And you can't do it in this traffic all over Lower Manhattan. So in the movie
King Kong at the end when you see his arm laying there. And the people gathering around that
that was that night. They at one o'clock in the morning when they did that. That's a horrible day.
He had truly I had some friends stuck in the subway system during that time. So
Well, that's a normal thing. Yeah. Well, true. That's an everyday thing stuck in the side. That's
that's nothing special. That happens all the time. A little different reason why, but
there is a compilation online where people compiled movies that the Twin Towers were in. So
you know, the World Trade Center they were in. And so you can go online, Google it and
yes, and you're right. There are a lot of movies with that. And they asked one of the movies was
released after right after 9, 11, but they filmed it, you know, the year before. And they said,
why didn't you take the World Trade Center's out? They said, we're not going to erase history.
Right. We're not going to erase the memories of the city. They're there. Good. And that's
what it was. Yeah. I think of what the movie was. I think it was a romantic comedy and they
actually showed it. And you see at that time you saw it on screen to oh no. And it really brought
that horrible feeling. Yeah. But yeah. Yeah. Well, if moving to a little bit of a lighter note,
you know, we have some things going on here. Yeah. And we're seeing counties. So a lot of great
things. Things that we're doing definitely to honor those who have dedicated themselves and
serve. So kind of on the same theme. But the veteran stand down is happening Saturday.
Festival Park. I've been hearing it promoted here on the radio here with you.
It is from 10 to 2. So today, I'm going to be over at Festival Hall today and tomorrow,
helping out get to get prepared for that. And this is really it's a focus on homeless veterans
or veterans in need and veterans in general. So please, if you're a veteran and, you know, come
down to festival, no part, you don't have to pay for parking meters. That was something that
don't have parking meters anymore. Well, you should still be paying, right? You have to do it
on your phone. I'm not the biggest fan. I know. But that was part of the reason why I got behind
asking the city to wave the fees indefinitely. So hope the future. Yeah. Hopefully the future
city council keeps it that way. But so come on down and, you know, there'll be services there
provided. There'll be lots of goodies. A lot of people have worked real hard on getting some
supplies for the veterans that are in need. So 10 to 2. And today, which is a little late,
but here, you know, you know, starps some interest. Maybe they'll do it again, but there's a field day
out at Case Eagle Park. And lots of different agencies that are involved in this. But it is to
talk about different. There's a agricultural scientist out there. And they're testing the soil.
I was out there on a combine. It was so awesome. Done, you know, riding there, doing different
planting practices. And this is really farmers are a farmer is was one who I was on his combine.
And trying to be the spokesperson to help other farmers trying to change their practices of
planting and, you know, with erosion and water quality, you know, we do need to find different
measures practices. And so you can get out there. You can learn a lot more. I'm not doing justice
on all the great things that they're doing environmentally. But, you know, if it is of
something of interest for watershed protection or even soil health, that these are interests to
you, you know, reach out to Racine County, reach out to your supervisors, reach out to whoever
you have access to. And, you know, we can spread the word and tell you more about what we're doing
at the county or what we're supporting at the county. Any big projects other than those going on
with the county we should know about? You know, you must deal with county roads, though.
Yes, yes. And I, you know, you see my shoulders are going up. I'm like, okay,
we're going to talk about the orange barrels. I love orange barrels. I love orange barrels.
That way I don't wind up in a hole. Yes, he is. I just want to know what's going on out there.
That's sometimes I see these holes in the ground and see anybody fixing them.
And that's just that's what I just tell me some of the projects other than these nice,
you know, projects that are helping people. Yeah. Well, you should be paying attention to over
on the Taylor Avenue, the mental health facility that's going up. That's major. That's major.
That is big. That is big, yeah. For our community. I mean, we have a little bit of, you know,
readjustments to do just because we can't control the, you know, we make these decisions early,
but then the prices that come in when it comes time changes, right? So we have that. And, you know,
more construction that's going to be coming. And, you know, sometimes a frustration,
they don't know where to point it, but you go from like, let's say spring street and, you know,
you're turning on to Green Bay Road or one of your side streets. And you have city projects.
You have state projects. You have Cody projects. I was told that bridge, the state street bridge.
Yeah. That's a federal thing. Yeah. That's not a city state. It's federal. I didn't realize that.
Right. And so sometimes you get so mad. You know, people, you know, the city, the county, and
what do I strangle? Give me the list of people. Oh, let me give you my list and tell you that's
who's behind it. Hold on a second. We're talking to Melissa Caprillian. She is the fourth district
county board supervisor. What's the difference between an Alderman and a county board supervisor?
Yeah. The responsibilities are greatly different. I want you to think of the county as just an
arm of the state. So a lot of what the county is doing are mandated services that are,
you know, put upon us by the state. So city's a little bit different. So if you want to complain
about your garbage pickup and, you know, make sure you talk to your Alderman about that. But,
you know, mental health and child's birth, the court system, the jail and things a lot.
There's a lot more than that. I'm really simplifying it, but that is the difference. But you know,
when you're talking about what's going on and we're talking about the orange barrels, things
like that, the one thing that, you know, when you come back from travel and, you know, we talked
about how you just look at your home differently. So I've been utilizing the bike trails. I've been
going riding my bike along the lake. And so it's just really a reminder, you know, our space around
here, especially in Racine County, there is a lot of great things to see and explore. I came back
and I did drive around Wisconsin, looked at the great sites in Wisconsin. But here, riding our
back yards in our hometown, you know, get out there. You know, make a point. You know, life is
short. And, you know, we only have, you know, so many days and put in those factors too of good
weather. And, you know, get outside, talk to your community, get, you know, get acquainted to
the beautiful spaces here. When I leave here, I'm going to go help at the veterans outreach or help
them with the stand down preparation. And then I'm going to hop on the bike trail. And I'm going to
go check out. I have a friend who's going to show me some new spaces I haven't been before,
different part of the bike trail. You know, when I hate the words homeless veterans, I hate that
that's fair. Somebody shouldn't belong together. Yeah. You think about somebody who was dodging bullets,
fighting for their lives, they come over here and they don't have a home. I mean, that's just
something wrong with that. Those two things shouldn't go along. And because, you know, I really
have been quite mindful. I worked in at Halo from 2006, 2018, off and on in various capacities.
And the one thing I learned with language is you say those who experience in homelessness. But
when you do think of veterans, there should be no connection between the two. So there shouldn't
be a veteran that exists experiencing homelessness. Yeah. I would agree with you on that one.
Let's keep it light here for a few minutes. I get some fun facts. I'll go ahead here.
The first webcam invented in 1991 by the computer science researchers at the University of Cambridge.
What do you think they did with it? I don't know. They kept it in the kitchen to see how low the coffee
was going. So they have to make new coffee. I never would have kept it. That's why they invented it to
keep their eye on the coffee maker. They want to see if they have any coffee or not.
There's a typo with a Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Is there now? That's right. Most people,
they don't catch it. The word is future. It was engraved as EU T-U-R-E.
Officials believe that the artist Ernest C. Barstow or Bearstow grabbed an East pencil by accident.
Now they tried to fill it in. But you can still see it doesn't say future. It still said that
E is still there where they tried to make it. Nobody caught that. But it's right there at the
Lincoln Memorial. That's kind of interesting. We talked about off the year about Zoom meetings
and Google meets. These were the top phrases we're sick of hearing on Zoom and Google Meet.
Can you all hear me? Oh, yes. Oops. Lost you there for a second. You're on mute. Done.
Sorry. My connection sucks. And finally, please mute yourself if you're not speaking.
Oh, goodness. A lot of us who have to take part in a lot of online meetings would agree with every
single one of those. But we were talking down about how many people when we first started getting
used to it during COVID, how we captured things in their homes that were quite embarrassing.
More people forgot their cameras were on and there were, you know, may not have been fully
dressed or still in bed. When I worked in Atlanta, we had a TV station channel too,
with our TV station there. And the anchors wore sport jackets, ties, nice, nice blouses for the
women underneath. They were blue jeans, but you couldn't see because they were sitting at the
desk. They never got up. And that's what they, if you they stood up, it would look, they were
in shorts in the summer, but you could notice it. Here's something else. All right, what's your
biggest letdown when you became an adult? What's your biggest letdown? I have some of them here.
What did they say? Okay, you have to pay for everything. Even the stuff you didn't know about,
like insurance. And I was a kid. I want that, that, that, that, that, mom, dad, see the gas register guy.
That's why more kids are staying at home longer. I'm telling you, they're not leaving the house
as quickly. You miss having an entire summer vacation. The first time you got to get a job,
you say, okay, we can we get off with June, what? And we come back September? No. You worked
through this. I remember the first time I had to work during the summer. I was a janitor at a
radio station. Okay. That was the oddest thing to have to work during the summer. Just because
you have a salary, doesn't mean you have a ton of money to spare. You can't just throw a thousand
dollars here, a hundred dollars there without thinking about it. When you're a kid, buy this, buy
that. You don't have to worry about it. You don't automatically become wise, mature or rational
have to work at it. Goodness, isn't that the truth? Having your own house isn't as cool as it sounds.
The buying process is horrible. Things are constantly breaking. The whole thing becomes a money pit.
That's the truth, especially when you live in a 1906 house. Yeah, I live in an old house,
somebody early 1900s. The house next to me is from the 1800s. Oh, wow. Here about the
Jane school. I was surprised. I had the manor in here. They closed down the Jane school.
I didn't know that. Yeah. And I felt bad because it's an old school from the 1800s.
And I saw all the I live right down the block from it. And I saw all the trailers and whatever,
like cutting it. Isn't that so sad? All these kids going to play in the playground with all
these trailers there. And my wife said, they're closed down the school in the trailer.
Kids are going to play on the playground on the workman there. That was my kindergarten.
I went to school in kindergarten and part of first grade there. You live right across the street
from me. Yeah, I did. I mean, I wasn't there when you lived there. But Jane school is really old
inside, isn't it? Yeah. I mean, it's part of my memories. But I mean, yeah, at the time,
I didn't feel it was old. But if fireplaces in there, no, no, no, don't. Well, where I grew up,
we had five elementary schools. Yeah. And one was fair field school and each room had a fireplace
in it. Really? Well, they can built in the 18 from the, you know, 18 80s. All right. And they had
fireplaces and didn't use them. But they they were in there in the classrooms. I've seen them.
Well, that's interesting. No. There's another one before me. Even though you can buy and eat anything
you want, you feel sick and get chubby when you start eating a whole box of cinnamon toast crunch
every day. I know. Where is the fairness in that? My child can consume way too much and not
even nothing fluctuates on his body. And here's my favorite one. You realize how much your
parents did for you and what an ingrate you really were. And no matter what you do now,
you can't make up for it. Isn't that right? Isn't that the truth one? That is such the truth.
I was deteriorating my thing. I lived in a lever to be your household. My parents, I never knew
what their money problems were. I never knew anything because it was none of my business.
You just be a kid. Yeah. We'll worry about the big stuff. Us parents do shield our children from
quite a bit. But maybe we should enter the full extent. But we do. And because I don't want my
kid worrying. He's not the cheaper business. There'd be a kid. We do have to raise self-sufficient
adults, but they can come in different forms. We definitely don't want to put that burden on a
child. I'm glad you came back safely from Europe. Thank you, Don. Now get to work.
I, yes, I know. Well, let me go play a little bit first. So, but I will. It's always a pleasure.
Well, it's a brilliant R4th District County Board supervisor. It just came back from Europe.
Nice talking to you. It's exact.
